The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-08
.BELLO is INSANE.
Russian Who "Shot Up" Rock
Island Train Crazy.
Application Made for Admission
to Asylum.
HE is NOT A KANSAN.
Consequently There Is No Place
for Him Here,
May Be Sent Back to Massachu-
setts Institution.

John Bello, the Italian who "shot up
| the Rock Island train between Dresden
and Selden on June 81, killing one pas
senger and, wounding two others, has
again gone to the bad, and is a raw
ing maniac in the county Jail at Ober-
| lin, guarded by day and night shifts OF
| two men each
After his gun play on the Rock Island
train Bello apparently recovered from
| his insanity. He was first taken to
Goodland, Kan, and held there some
time, and then transferred to Decatur
county, in which the shooting occurred.
AT the Oberlin Jail he constantly i'm
proved, and his preliminary hearing for
his sanity was postponed from time to
time, at his own consent, to see how
his mental condition continued. Appar-
entity Bello was entirely sane again, and
within short time, he probably would
have either been given his hearing be-
fore the probate judge or released.
About ten days ago, however, Bello
was taken sick. The county physician
attended him, and he seemed to be get
ting along all right, until he suddenly
went crazy again, and is now raving in
his cell, manifeSting the same homici-
dal and suicidal tendencies which char
acterized his exploit on the Rock Is
land train.
The probate court of Decatur county
at once dQJuQS0Q b6llO insane, ana sent
the necessary papers to the state board
of control. for the purpose of arranging
for the admission to one of the state
asylums of the celebrated prisoner.
The board of control is not inclined to
accept the charge. In a letter to the
probate judge of Decatur county, the
board of control says:
IF Bello's residence is Boston, Mass,
as appears from the papers in the
case, it then becomes the duty of your
county to transfer him to that place
and deliver him to the proper authori-
ties. This should be done upon an or
der from your courts. If he is not a
resident of Boston, or has just landed
in this country, then another question
becomes involved. Under the rules of
the immigration bureau, any alien per-
in three years from date of landing.
from a cause contracted prior to this
landing, is subject to deportation, and
the agent of the immigration bureau
shall go and get him and deport him
without expense to your county"
The board of control offers to place
Bello temporarily in one of the state
asylums provided he can be deported
to Italy under the immigration laws.
He would be held in the state asylum
until the necessary arrangements can
be made for transferring him to the
custody of a government agen of the
immigration bureau.
1t seems likely, however, that De-
catur county will have to pay the ex-
pense of sending Bello back to East
Boston, Mass, which he claims as his
home. Be1lo was on the way to San
Francisco when he ran amuck on the
Rock Island train. He is 81 years of
age, is married and has five children.
His wife, he says, lives at Milford,
Mass.
Bellos family is evidently not very
solicftious about him, for they pay no
attention. to letters written in his be-
half Possibly they are too ignorant
To-7 ar n ICfO 1f h.
country to understand the misfortune
that has befallen their kinsman.