Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1909 — Nora Casey Reported Insane. [ARTICLE]

Nora Casey Reported Insane.

Word reaches Rensselaer that Ml— Nora Casey, & graduate of the Rensselaer high school, and a very popular young lady, had become insane while working over the body of n corpse that was being dissected In the St. Mary’s hospital in where she was a senior in the school for nurses. It is related that she fainted at the sight of the corpse and when restored to consciousness she was demented and unable to recognize any of her former acquaintances. She has been removed to the insane hospital at Kankakee, 111,, and It In thought quite probable that she will recover under treatment and with perfect rest When Miss Casey was In school In Rensselaer she made her home with Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall. She baa relatives in Carpenter towns! ip.