Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — Anot her Insanity Case. [ARTICLE]

Anot her Insanity Case.

Another unfortunate woman is the subject of an inSanity inquest in town soon. The subject is Mrs. Mildred Mikels, who lives with her brother-in law, S. B. Marlin, in a small house on River street. She is the wife of Ney Mikels, a sort of lawyer and realestate agent at South Bend. It seems that quite a number of months ago he went east on some kind of a trip, and during his absence she became insane.. She was taken to her former ho he in Kentucky, and sent to an asylum at Lexington, where she bad a severe attack of sickness. Some of the Marlins, who then lived at Fair Oaks, went and took her from the asylum after her physical sickness was over, but not her mental, on the request of her husband who promised to send SSO to help pay the expense, but which promise he failed to keep. The Marlins have since moved to Rensselaer and Marlin and some of his grown sbns had work on the stone roads, until it shut down for winter. There are eight or nine children in the family, besides Mr. and Mrs. Marlin, the insane sister and also her mother, and to add to their troubles another visit of the overworked stork has been momentarily expected. Thus it will be easily seen that the family is in distressful circumstances financially and the pressing necessity that existed that they be relieved from the care of the insane woman. She is 27 years old, and fortunately has no children. 't*