Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — Professor Is In an Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Professor Is In an Asylum.

Des Moines, la., dispatch: Albert S. Russell, once professor of languages in a Minnesota college, has been arrested and taken before the commissioners of insanity because he refused to allow his children to attend the public schools and failed to provide for their necessities. After the hearing Russell was sent to the Asylum for the Insane at Mount Pleasant. Russell knows seven languages, English, German, French, Russian, Sanscrit, Greek and Latin. The complaint against his sanity was lodged by neighbors, who discovered the destitution in which he and his three little children were living. The wife and mother has been dead for three or four years.