Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — An Aged Woman Insane. [ARTICLE]

An Aged Woman Insane.

An insanity inquest was neld Thursday, by S. C. Irwin, J. P., and Doctors Merrill and Miller, with Dr. English as attending physician, on Mrs. Ruth H. Groom, wife of John Groom, who lives at the corner of Weston and Rutsen streets. She has shown some symptoms of approaching insanity for ten years, and for three years, the development has been more decided and pronounced. She is excitable, abusive and destructive, and thinks some persons are trying to get her property away from her. She burns her dresses in the stove, throws pillows at the lamps and threatens to kill her husband, and and is entirely unmanageable generally. For a month past she has been confined to her bed from a slight stroke of paralysis. She was found insane and application has beea made for her reception at Longcliff asylum. She_is77 years ©ld. ‘