Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1909 — Walker Township Resident Found Insane at Inquest [ARTICLE]

Walker Township Resident Found Insane at Inquest

An Inquest was conducted before Squire VanDoozer, of Wheatfield, last Thursday to determine the mental, condition of August Woolbrandt, otV Walker township. He has been laboring under the delusion for some time that he was being pursued by enemies and lately he has thought that the state militia was after him. Whenever he would hear a gun crack or even hear distant blasting he imagined that the soldiers were coming after him. He is a married man and has a wife and two children. He owns a2O acre farm not far from Wheatfield. The examining board found him insane and recommended that he be taken to Longcliffs .asylum tor treatment; An applicationis now On file for" his admission to that institution.