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Articles & Local History > YOUNG MAN DECLARED INSANE 1917

TAMPICO TORNADO July 12, 1917

YOUNG MAN DECLARED INSANE

Roy MATHEWS of Hahnaman, who has been employed by Harry DAWSON as a farm hand went insane Monday and his employer was obliged totake him to Sterling and give h im intothe care ofthe police. MATHEWS was brought to Morrison Tuesday morning and given a hearing before the county judge and a commision of physicians to determine his mental conditon. The testimony showed that the young man, who is 28 years of age, has been afflicted with a religious mania for several months

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