Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — EDITORIAL REMARKS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL REMARKS

< . The anonymous article referred Io by the author of the above was not a communication but. an editorial, and the statements made were just as spoken to us by Mr. Littlefield. He said substantially this: “My wife became deranged in mind. Very reluctantly I had her placed at the Asylum at Indianapolis, to be cured. Her sister at Chicago, who has been twice treated for insanity, got my wife out of tho Asylum and took her to Chicago wilhoutmj knowledgeor consent. Learn ing she was there and. that her friends charged me with conspiring to get rid of my wife, I had a statement written up affirming that Mrs. Littlefield was insane at the .time she was conveyed to the asylum,and this document was signed by A’ large number of the best citizens of Remington and Carpenter township acquainted with thefacts. [Acopy of the statement with signatures was exhibited at this office. lie said he had left the orginal at Chicago with his wife’s friends.] Armed with this positive evidence I went to Chicago and was refused an interview with my wife, and she refusing to again live with me I have concluded to publish a notice of abandonment.”

Mr. Littlefield appeared to be a very devout man and excceedingly sorrowful that such dire misfortune had overtaken him. .Now this is all we know “about the fight/”. We had reason to accept what Mr. L. s»id as truth, and notwithstanding the statements in the forgoing letter, we have not sufficient evidence yet to cause us to change our mind, and yet Littlefield may be the inhuman monster he is represented by his Chicago sister-in-law. We will be pleased to hear further from Mary, for our readers are anxious to arrive at the facts. i