Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — Another Mind Crown Dark. [ARTICLE]

Another Mind Crown Dark.

Willis A. Gordon, of Wheatfield township, has been adjudged insane ancl the authorities at the insane asylum have agreed to receive him at that institution. Justices Stimson and Brey held the inquirendo de lumtico last Thursday. The man is 30 years old, has wife and three children and is very poor in this world’s goods. His insanity was shown to have developed under excitement during"TKe attendance of protracted meetings in Whfntfield. He is violent, requires distraint, thinks he is about to be hung, imitates the sounds of birds and animals, sings, prays, dances idkl at times thTeatens~llkr family with violence.