Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1906 — ANOTHER INSANITY CASE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER INSANITY CASE.

Walter W. Reynolds, aged 57 years, was declared insane Wednesday and application has been made for sending him to the asylum at Long Cliff. The unfortunate man resides in Rensselaer and has been acting strangely at times for some days. At an early hour Wednesday morning be got op out of bed and went down the railroad track, with only his night clothes on, and near the grove just east of towD, laid down or sat down on th£ track, refusing to move when the morning trains came along, and it was necessary for them to stop and the crews get him off the track to keep from running over him. Night-watch Zea was at the depot when the first train came along and was notified by the crew of the man’s presence on the track. He started out that way but before he reached the scene the other train came along and had a like experience with him. Lyman gathered him in and took him home, his family not yet having missed him from the house. Mr. Reynolds fell and fractured his hip some two years ago and has since been crippled, getting about some with the aid of crutches. He has a wife and three children, the youngest but three years of age.