The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-09
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bonds to get witnesses. 1t makes my heart
ache when I remember that my daughter Jo-
sephine, who is court reporter begged the
court not to let me out on bonds Here l re-
allied for the first time that had enemy In
my own home 1t nearly broke my heart to be
sent back to Jail by my own flesh and blood
My wife and my son also came to see me
in the Jail before being sent to the insane aSy-
lum There my darling wife put her
around my neck and asked me to pardon her,
but she refused to State what she wanted par
don for. So could not forgive her. My son
asked to forgive him for cursing his father.
which I freely and gladly did. My Youngest
daughter escorted me, the sherih's prisoner, to
the Kankakee asylum.
When we arrived at the receiving office my
daughter, after testifying in the trial that was
insane told the physician in charge that was
not insane, but only a little nervous
Then came the saddest hour of my life when
was locked Up with the hundreds OF insane
men, of them raving maniacs. IT was
simply wonderful that didn't go rav.1g mad.
Solomon, in the Proverbs, says that opD 'essofi
0Iiveth mad. Just think for moment
VI hat 1t meant to me, sane man, to De ABRUPT
ly locked up with iron bars over the doors and
the windows and separated from the fam
lily loved with all my soul, never having been
separated from them until I was committed
TO that horrid place. / had never been from
hume night since married until that
line. imagine now desperate ana hedftrendtng
Was the separation from my loved ones 1t
, crushing blow to be taken from my own
and from my friends without moments warn
ing. 1t almost ended my days God says:
Vengeance is mine" I'll repay every one that
/ come in contact with who says that I'm not
entitled to any sympathy because still love my
family that horribly served me- 1 am sorry in
my soul that I'm driven to relate my familys
desperate act towards me. but 1 compelled
through my age and weakness to do something
in my desperation.
My attorney while was in Jail waiting to be
sent to the asylum offered to appeal my case,
yet the public never knew of this offer to
He assured me that should be restored to citi
zenship If l had a trial and had time to
get more witnesses. But God knows that in my
heart 1 could not bear the thought to again
have my dear family in their ignorance dragged
before the public again. Some Of the simplest
Of occurrences in my home were told by mem
bers of my family in tears to impress the jury.
So preferred to accept the decree of the court
and be sent to Kankakee. 1 preferred to go and
run the chances Of being discharged after be-
coming an inmate there.
I am sorry to say that my family was not-
fed after 1 had been there ninety days that I
was sane and would be discharged.
When L heard the news thought that had
been born again. and impatiently waiting
to be sent home the next day.
But behold you, my youngest daughter came
to the asylum the next day with message to
forever keep me there My daughter came and
made a visit, she called it, never intimat-
ing the object Of her presence.
Just imagine for one moment I, her father,
down on my knees and begging my daughter to
take her father home, and 1 crying my eyes
out. o Cod may He forgive her for refusing
entirely to be moved by my importuning.
So I was a prisoner at the Kankakee Insane
acyJr wear a
done in my behalf.
The Rev. w. R. Andereck then of Kankakee,