The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-30
VINCENT PRAYING
FOR AID IN TRIAL
Man Held for Safe Keeping,
And His Wife, Hold Ser
vices at the Jail.
WRITES TO THE PALLADIUM
WOMAN TELLS A PlTIFOL SIOhr
OF THE WRONGS SHE HAS suF-
EERED BUT SHE is STILL
FAITHFUL.

John Vincent. who is alleged to be
insane. and who was arrested on
charge OF having written love letter
to a prominent young lady of this city,
will probably be brought before an IN
quest board the first of this week. Mrs.
Vincent is anxious to have him sent TO
a sanatarium at Oxford, o. Sunday
Mrs. Vincent and her two little daugh-
ters visited the city Jail and she and
Vincent held a religious service. Mrs.
Vincent sang from a hymn book while
her husband prayed. He imagines that
he is to be tried. and since his confine-
ment in the city Jail he has spent most
of his time in prayer, imploring assist
ance at his trial"
Mrs. Vincent is of deeply religious
nature. and the actions of her husband
due to his weak mentality, in seeking
his souls affinity, have brought to her
much misery. She has sent to the
Palladium a sketch of her life, which
is a spiritual account of the sufferings
she has undergone. This communica-
ton, in part, reads as follows:
Sorrows of the Wife.
"Out Of my sorrow and grief God will
deliver me, because He is faithful and
true. I write for your paper a true
story of a misguided life and the
wrongs committed by an insane man.
After telling how she had met and
married Vincent in 1897. and how hap
py she was to have, as she thought,
won his love. Mrs. Vincent continues;
"One day I was rudely awakened to the
truth of the scriptures, which says
vain is the love of man. / discover
ed that my husbands love was grow,
/ ing cold My heart was broken and
one day / prayed that I might die. In
1901 Mr.. Vincent's mind left him and
/ he wrote letter to an innocent sister
of mine He told her that she must
marry him as was unworthy to be his
wife. He told her that / would be
kept to do the housework and take care
of the children while he and my sister
were to live a happy life together
Mrs. Vincent states that her father
had Vincent arrested in Cincinnati fol
this and that Vincent was sent TO the
Longview insane hospital. She die
not desert him because. to quote her
II believe true marriage VOW is made
before God, and when you say you wed
a man for better or for worse. in sick
ness and in health and until death dc
us part you take an oath which car
not be put aside in the sight of God"
| Children Are Grievina.
| Mrs. Vincent states that after hel
husband was confined in Longview
sickness and poverty came to her and
that she also learned for the firs'
time he was fugitive from Wes'
Virginia insane hospital. Continuing
with her communication. she says: "As
to Mr.. vincent's past life / am not
sure of it. He may have another wife
in Kentucky. but If he has | don''
think she has any right to his name al
she had living husband when she
married Mr. Vincent. About this
want the police to learn something def
mite for the sake of my dear little girls
who love their father above everything
else. They have refused to eat unit
the police bring their papa back tc
them. They said they wished the city
/ jail would burn up SO their papa could
get out. Poor little tots, their tears
and cries nearly kill me-"