Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1901 — Thomas Price Found Insane. [ARTICLE]

Thomas Price Found Insane.

The trial of Thomas Price, of near Blackford, for insanity was held Thursday evening before Squire Buruham and a jury. Drs. Wf W. Hartsell and I. M. Washburn were the consulting physicians. Price is 60 years old and unmarried, making his home with his brother, Samuel Price. He was a soldier in the civil war and draws a pension. His age is 60 years. He is given to wandering about alone, talking and muttering to himself, and other peculiarities. One of these is his habit of hiding bis money about in hollow logs and other like places, and it is believed that he has a good deal thus concealed. At the trial he was asked if he did not have some SSOO stolen from him once, from one of his hiding places. He said he did but the fools missed a whole lot more ; which was buried near the same spot. Much of his talk indicates some mental brightness but on the whole he is evidently very deficient mentally. Hie moral habits are the most objectionable form his dementia shows itself in. At the trial be made no denial of his acts. The jury found he was insane and unsafe to be at large. When this verdict was read Price gave the jurors a sounding round of profanity. Applicationjwas at once be made for his reception at Long Cliff asylum. The jurors who tried the case were R. B. Harris, C. A. Dean, Wm. Smith, Ed. Duvall, Walter White and Joseph La tab.