The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-29
STRICKEN WITH INSANITY.
YALE, HAN NoW zN-
 STRUCToR AT LAKEVILLE,
Becomes Violently Insane In North Carolina While En Route to This City Had Been at His oid Home in Ten ne.see to Recover from Nervous strain Produced ,, overwork-Hts Family in This City.

Produced by overwork-Tifs Family
 in This City.
 The following special dispatch was received by the Journal and Courier late last evening from Greensboro. N. e.:
 Professor Joseph G. Estill, of the chair of chemistry of Yale college, is violently insane here, confined in cell at county jail His physician hopes to be able to leave with him for New Haven on morning train. He had been to Springfield, Tenn, for recreation. Re turning with physician last night, be- came so violent he was taken off train here at midnight. He escaped from keeper twice during night, going two miles in country last time before he was caught It became necessary to confine him, requiring four policemen to hold him.
 The dispatch was in error in locating MT. Estill as connected with Yale's corps Of instructors. MT. Estill is a. Yale man, however, and was very prominent man in his class when in col- lege. He was a hard student and one of the leaders of his class. He was also a member of the Skull and Bones so- ciety.
 With the establishment of the Hotch- kiss school at Lakeville in 1892 he re- ceived an appointment there as instruc- tor in mathematics and science. For the last three years, owing to the ill- ness of E. G. Coy, the principal of the
 school, MT. Estill had to not only do his own work, but that of MT. Coy. The nervous strain was too much for him. and about six weeks ago, as he was threatened with an attack of nervous prostration, he was advised by his phy- sician to go for visit to his old home in Winchester, Tenn. MT. Estill, acting on this advice, left Lakeville about six weeks ago.
 MT. Estills wife, who is a daughter
 of Mrs. 0. B. North, of this city, and the children, who were with him all the fall in Lakeville, came to this city when
 he went south, and Mrs. Estill and her
 children are now here with Mrs Estilrs mother.
 l MT. Coy's residence in Lakeville was called on the telephone last evening
 and as MT. Coy is away the call was
 answered by Sherman L. Coy, the old
 Yale football player. MT. Coy said that word had indirectly reached there in
 reference to MT. Estill's condition He said that MT. Estill had been very
 hard worker, and that this was prob-'
 ably what was the matter with him. ! Relatives in this city received word l yesterday morning relative to MT. Es-s tills condition, and that he would be brought here as soon as possible. A later dispatch stated that he was on his way here.
 MT. Estill left Winchester last Satur-
 day evening for New Haven and it was
 while en route that he was taken ill It
 is thought that it is only a temporary
 attack, which will yield to period of rest and sanitary treatment. MT. Estill is one of the best known
 and most popular Yale men in the coun- l try. He is a personal friend of Major Tilson, of this city, coming from the
 same town in Tennessee from which the major does. His large circle of friends 1 here and Yale classmates will ardently hope for his complete restoration and \ recovery