Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1906 — The Immortal J. N. Didn’t Make Good. [ARTICLE]

The Immortal J. N. Didn’t Make Good.

J. N. Free, Itnown all over the country for the past 40 years, as “The Immortal J. N.” being what he called himself, and also what he professed to be, has failed to make good on his claims to being immortal, and he died Wednesday at the Ohio insane hospital, at Toledo, where he. was sent a few months ago. He formerly put in most of his time traveling back and forth from Ohio through Indiana and Illinois, and was never known to pay any railroad fare nor hotel bills. On most of the railroads he had passes reading “Pass the Immortal J. N. till Doomsday.” Wherever he went he would try to get into a hall or court house and lecture on what he called “Lifting the Pressure.” Rensselaer was not on his regular lines of travel, and we can recall but one visit here, when he spoke in the court house, 10 or 12 years ago. He had a mild form of insanity, but possessed lots of good sense on many subjects-