Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1904 — Case Of Insanity [ARTICLE]

Case Of Insanity

Squire S. G. Irwin went up into Gillam Tp., last Saturday, to hold an inquiry into the mental condition of Mrs. Laura B. Waggoner, a well-tn-d , and well know farmer of that township. Mrs. Waggoner, is 42 years old, and the mother of six children, the youngest a baby eight months old. She began to show signs of insanity in March, but did not become violent until the 3 d of May,

_ She has several spells every day, lasting from a half hour to two hours, during which she is very violent. She imagines someone is trying to injure her, that she is being burned by fire and other like distressing vagariee; and pulls out her own hair, bites herself, screams, struggles etc. She is ordinarily an intelligent and very quiet woman. She had a somewhat similar attack in the fall of 1901 and spent several months at College Hill sanitarium at Cincinnati, and was entirely cured. Sickness from a uterine trouble seems to be the cause of her insanity. She was pronounced insane,'and application has been made for her reception at Long Cliff asylum; where it is believed a cure can be effected.