Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — Sad Case of Insanity. [ARTICLE]

Sad Case of Insanity.

Mrs- Mary Ligget, wife of John G. Ligget, a prominent resident of FanOaks, and herself a lady of evidently more than ordinary intelligence and attractiveness, was examined Tuesday, at the Makeever House, by Justices Burnham and Morgan and Or. M. B. Alter, on the question of ler sanity. She was found insane, and application is made for her reception at the Logansport asylum. The most marked symptom is a strong disposition to commit suicide. During the ten days of her insanity she has made three attempts upon ler own life. Once by drowning, once by hanging and once with poison. She is 36 years old; has been married only 17 months and has no children. She was an attendant at an insane asylum at Kalamazoo, Mich., for seven years. An injury she sustained, at that time, from lifting a heavy trunk is thought to be partly responsible for her present condition. She has to be watched constantly; is melancholy, sleepless, dec.