Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — AN INSANE MAN'S FREAK. [ARTICLE]

AN INSANE MAN'S FREAK.

He Tries to Sacrifice His Grandchild as a Burnt Offering. Ex-Governor Jessup, one of the most prominent citizens of Bridgewater, Conn.. has gone insane. He wis taken violent!} ill a few days ago, but refused to allow a doctor to come to the house, and livec solely on the faith cure. Jessup at leugtt conceived the idea that he was a second Abraham and that the Lord required s human sacrifice. Thursday, being left alone for a few minutes, he prepared foi the terrible affair by constructing an al tain his tied room, around which he piled t heap of combustibles. Then he cauglr his little grandchild, a year old, am placed her on the altar and prepared t< ignite it. The child's cries attracted t member of the family, and the old mar was nearly killed in the struggle to re'i strain him.