The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-08-06
HANS ALBERT'S CASE
PUBLISHES STATEMENT WHICH
SHOWS HIM SANE.
People Of Victor and Goldfeld Are
Said to Side With the Professor,
Who Has Been Attending taf
to Business.

The friends throughout southeastern
Iowa, and especially in Oskaloosa
where he lived number of months
have been Interested in the story o
Prof Hans Albert's latest matrimon
ial venture and have been asking
whether q man can be clapped into 8
madhouse simply because he gets
married TO a handsome woman. Il
appears that Hans has been a free
man for four months and has beer
| hard at work, giving lessons and con
certs, and he seems to have recovered
his former health. Inc Cripple Greek
correspondent of the Denver Times
has the following details of the ro
mantle story under date of July rs:
With the aid of complaisant min
lister OF the gospel, Rev. Clyde lnman
| of Goldfeld, a woman friend, a dry
goods box or two and a dark night
Miss Grace Hadsall, daughter of ex
United States Marshal Frank A. Had
sell, OF Iowa, but now of Colorado
and Wyoming, and Prof. Hans Albert
the violin virtuoso, were clandestinely
married through the bar of the win
dow of the cell in which the musician
is confined on the charge of insanity.
Professor Albert pushed his hand
through the bar and grasped the ele-
waited right hand of Miss Hadsell while
Rev. Mr.. Jnman pronounced the words
hnf NuiFn Gfnr
better or for worse" etc.
When the brief ceremony was over
Miss Hadsell raised herself on her
toes and kissed Albert's hand, while
he murmured: You are mine now
forever, dear"
Father is Enraged.
Frank Hadsell, father of the bride,
If she Is a bride in the eyes of the
law, was furious when told of the
manner in which he had been out
witted. Mr.. Hadsell arrived here two
days ago to stop the proposed mar
rage of mis- daughter, who had run
away from Iowa to come to Cripple
Clgek to wed Albert. At HadselPs in
sligation. Albert, who was recently
paroled from the insane asylum at Pu-
.'eblo, was re-arrested and yesterday he
was ordered recommitted to that in
( Hadsell declares he will at once
take the necessary steps to have the
marriage formally declared Illegal
and void, while Deputy District At
torney Gillett says no such step is ne
cessary, as the general statutes hold
that no person declared insane can en-
ter into any legal and binding con
tract
This morning Rev. Mr.. Inman added
more complications to the situation by
returning the marriage license and the
certificate of marriage without having
filled either of them in, as required by
plaw. The papers were handed to
Deputy District Attorney Gillett as a
part of Inc record in the case The
failure to fill in the certificate or Ii
cense, it is declared, invalidates the
ceremony, but 1t is doubtful If any
court would take such view, as any
officiating clergyman might refuse for
one reason or another, after he had
performed a ceremony in the presence
of witnesses, to acknowledge in writ
ing that he has done so.
In the meantime Miss Hadsell is in.
sisting that she is really and truly q
bride, and that she will live with Pro
fessor Albert as soon as he is released
Il will follow him to Pueblo, if my
husband is removed there, and imme'
diately start a movement to have him
released and declared sane. Hans is
not insane. My father can do nothing
about the matter, for ! am OF legal age
and am my own arbiter."
Shortly before o'clock last might
Miss Hadsell, accompanied by Rev
Inman and her friend, Miss Sweeney
OF Victor, called at the county Jai
| and asked permission to see Professor
| Albert. Jailer Benjamin Won Phu
| brother of the sheriff, refused then
permission, stating that strict order.
had been received from the district
attorneys Office not to allow any out
| SluSlS W Gail vi INC piioohCi. "ios
Hadsell pleaded with Won Phul fol
some time, but the jailer remained OBJ
durate, and the party finally left APP
parently very much crestfallen.
/ No one at the Jail OWNED the pub
pose of the call, and when Miss Had
sell and her friends left they were moi
watched
| A few minutes later Miss Hadsell
Rev. Mr. Inman and Miss Sweeney re
| turned to the jail with a number o.
dry goods boxes, which they piled un
der the window of the cell occupied
by Albert Miss Hadsell mounted thu
boxes and called to Albert to come L
the window. Albert threw up thu
window and greeted his visitors in ;
low voice I" have the license for III
to marry, Hans" said Miss Hadsell.
Good. let's hurry now before. the.
come" answered Albert.
Two minutes later the couple wer'
married.
Jailer Astounded.
After the ceremony the party agaii
called on Jailer Won Phul and notlne'
him OF the marriage. Won Phul wa
dumfounded and made hurried in
yestigation. When he returned to tn