Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1900 — A Sad Case of Insanity. [ARTICLE]

A Sad Case of Insanity.

Mrs. Johh Schofield, of Brook, wife of a prominent resident of that town, and a brother of Joe and Jerry Schofield, of our city, is now detained in our county jail, suffering from what is probably an incurable case of insanity. The affliction has slowly coming upon her for several years, and having lately been showing dangerous tendencies, she wasexamined and adjudged insane, two or three weeks ago. The application for her reception to the asylum met with the usual rejection on account of want of room, dust before she was found insane she made an attack upon her husband with a butcher-knife. Her two little children were brought here and left in Joseph’s Schofield’s care. Late Saturday night she slipped away, hitched up their horse and started for Rensselaer. Mr. Schofield telephoned over to 'his brothers, and when sha arrived after 11 o’clock at night, she. was taken in charge by Night Watch Childers, and taken to the jail for safe keeping. Her father, a Mr. Porter, lives at Monon, and she said here that she wanted to go over to visit him. She will*be detained here until more urgent applications are made for her reception at the asylum. She has a brother in that institution now, and it is considered that a tendency to insanity is hereditary in the family.