Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1909 — CHRIS. WEURTHNER ADJUDGED INSANE. [ARTICLE]

CHRIS. WEURTHNER ADJUDGED INSANE.

Drs. Washburn, Merrill, Gwin and Justice S. C. Irwin, as a sanity commission, held an Inquest on Chris. Weurthner of Newton township Monday afternoon and adjudged him insane because he refused to allow his aged mother, who is seriously sick, medical aid, giving as his reason that she can be cured by faith, fresh air and cold water, which neighbors allege he pumped on her In large quantites. Monday morning he refused to allow Dr. Washburn to prescribe when the latter was called and his actions aroused Washburn’s suspicions, who immediately asked that his sanity be Inquired Into. After considerable haggling the board arrived at their decision and application was made for his admittance to the asylum at Longcliff. For a number of years Weurthner has been a member of the “Live Close to Nature Cult,” going around In a linen suit and hatless In the coldest winter weather, and claims that such a life cured him of tuberculosis.