Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1909 — L. J. Lane Says That He’s Not Insane. [ARTICLE]

L. J. Lane Says That He’s Not Insane.

Sheriff Shirer and Marshal Parks went to the home of L. J. Lane, south of town this afternoon to bring Mr. Lane to this city where a commission will inquire into his sanity. It Is reported that he has lately Shown signs of insanity and that yesterday he whipped a four-year-old child so severely that neighbors had to intercede to prevent film killing the child. Lane’s wife has been in very poor health for some time and was in a Chicago hospital for several weeks where she underwent an operation. Since her return home she had been Improving but it Is alleged that one of his Insane hobbies is to deny her any medical treatment It was feared that he would make an effort to resist the officers, he having stated to others that he would not be taken alive. The sheriff and marshal did not have any trouble with Mr. Lane. They found him at his home and he quietly submitted to them and accompanied them to town. Before reaching here he rather convinced the officers that he was not insane and that the cause that led up to his daughter filing an affidavit alleging Insanity were family troubles. Lane realizes that his family want him to leave them and he proposed to the officers that if they will let him go he will cause them no trouble but will leave whatever property he has with them and go to Arkansas where hf formerly lived. It is quite probable, that no inquest will be held, and that the Officers will encourage his departure. The farm on which they live belongs to his wife but Lane claims to have an Interest in some of the Improvements, but this, he says, he is willing to sacrifice for the sake of peace, and he is very anxious to shake Indiana dust from his shoes and try the exuberant Arkansaw climate again.