The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-20
.MONROECAMPB
HELD AS LUNAT|C
Former Minister, Convicted for
Beating Child, Arrested OH
Wife's Complaint.
FEAR MIND is UNBALANCED
Sent to Jail, Where Commission
Will Examine Him Some
Time To-Day.

On a warrant sworn out by his wife
East Leigh Street who, was arrested
and convicted in Police Court soniu
time ago for cruelty whipping his
young son, Joseph. was arrested yes.
terday afternoon on charge of being
person of unsound mind. The Rev
Samuel G. Hatcher. d. D. pastor OF
the Broad Street Methodist Church, Is
named in the warrant as witness
against Campbell.
Mrs. Campbell was much affected
when she appeared before Magistrate
+. y. Mccarthy and asked him to issue
the warrant She stated that her hus-
pand mad suffered from extreme nerv-
BUSINESS, and had threatened to kill theI
son whom he SO cruelty logged on Sc, i
eral occasions. He was afflicted with
bad headaches, she said. and had boil
come addicted to the use of headacheI
powders once before, when the fam
lily was living in Newport News, she
told the magistrate, the family physi-
can had advised him to go somewhere
n the country for long rest He ac.
cepted the physicians advice. went to
the country and returned seemingly
much improved
Wife WINS Alarmed.
But of late Mr.. Campbell, Ii is said
mas undergone severe mental strain
over religious subjects. His mind was l.
constantly preoccupied with matters
pertaining to religion, and Mrs. Camp.
bell feared that he had become I'M
balanced When he made the threats
against the life of little Joseph she
was assured that he was becoming
dangerous, and had recourse 10 the
warrant
Mr.. Campbell was arrested by Off,
GERS Brantley and Tate. of the First
District, who found him at home They
were told by Joseph, who had been
hiding from his father. that Mr.. Camp-
Dell was inside. and they experienced
no dldiculty in taking him out and
TO the First Station. From the First
statlon, where there are no accom-
modations for persons suspected OF
iunacy, he was taken to the City
Jail
commission Of lunacy. conaposed Of
DR. William P. Mathews, DR.. William
5. Gordon, the Jail physician, and Mag
istrate F. j. Mccarthy, will sit on the |
case some time to-day.
Attention to the i'll treatment which |
Joseph had received at the hands of |
his father first came to the notice |
" one OF ms teachers in Central |
eehool who notified Principal Cren-
shaw. Mr.. Crenshaw examined the
boy, and finding that he appeared 10
be much bruised and had cut over
one of his eyes, had him sent to
the Retreat for the Sick, where his
hurts We're attended by physician
tie was afterwards sent home
Publicity Led to Arrest.
The story of the barbarous whip-
pings appeared in The Times Dispatch
the following morning, and on the
next day Mr.. Campbell was arrested.
he was tried in Police Court, convicted
ana hnal and sentence to a term
IN Jail. Justice Crutchfeld administer.
ING a severe arraignment at the time.
Sr Campbell appealed, and the case
was sent on to the Hastings Court
In excavation, the whilom preacher.
now carpenter, pleaded that the boy
mad been very remiss in his studies. as
shown by the reports sent from the
school. and he had whipped Elm in
me hope of making him better and
more attentive student But 1t was
shown, upon the boys testimony. that
ne had been tied and gagged and heat
en- until he almost tainted. The bows |
story affected all hearers. and Justice
erufchhsld IN sentencing the father.
spoke of 1t. as one of the most brutal |
cases which had ever come before