Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-17
. OlO RESIDENT ; GOES :. ID ASYLUM
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 sl 3zs George M. Metzger Imagin- ed He Was Being Depriv- ed of His Earthly Be- 5e,~ ~ longings.
GOES TO COURT HOUSE
knows His Name, But Imprisonment Puzzles Him-ShOwS Streak
 of Mental Ailmpnt.

George Nj. Metzger, German truck farmer, e years old, who has for years worked a small place or. the Warren road in iNiven township and sl5ld h1s produce m Pine Bluff, ap- pea:ed at the Court House yesterday morning laboring under the 1elusion that he is being persecuted in he courts and his land taken away from him. At the offices of County Judge C. M. Ph lptt and Sherif Edgar Brew ster lee said he had come into town to go before the grand jury and would wat hntil that body was ready 10 take his testimony. His speech and actious indicated an unbalanced men, tai state and after hear ng in Mag comm tied te. the county jail, pending an examination as 10 his sanity by Dr. .,sa Brunson, county physic an.
 My Metzger is we'll known in Pine Bluff. He was formerly tailor n the employ of the late Fred Schneider for whom re worked eight years. He engaged in truck rais ng in 1884. Mrs. Re. zger is also a familiar gnre en the streets of the city. She is older and more feeble than her hus- band ard Crives swaybacked, gray horse of uncertain age to aer vege- 4able cart. {
 When exam ned in the county jail Metzger answered questions slowly and with a hesitancy apparently due tc clouded in effect and defective memory. He spoke indistino:ly. with a slight German accent and d om, and mumbled his words. He was reticent in his answers tc. some ques-. .tions, but gave his. name and spelled it, stated his age, and sad he knew he vas n jail though he didn't know why he had been locked up. He said he had at one time owned he truck farm he works, but that they had taken it away from him. He was un- certain as to the number of acres the place contained, and when questioned closely as to whom he referred as they" his answers became very ln- defin te. Thst they" were num- Der ct people (whom he could not or woull not name) who had taken all he lad, was all that he could be in duced to mpart.
 He had been told by someore to come to Pine Bluff and lcoll after his land troubles, he said. He came to gown early yesterday morning and went 70 the office of County Judge Philoo and stated that he was ready to go efcre the grand jury and would wa until they had time to hear him. Beyond these halting sentences no claar statement as to his dllficul, es and what ne expected to say to the grand jury could be elicited from the old man during the physicians eN- am nation.
 Metzger is of slender build, about five feet, five inches tall, and slight ly stepped. He has an honest, Ger man countenance. His face is wrinkled and weather beaten. bushy beard, once black, now heavily shot With gray, gives hs face a rugged appearance. He kept his broad-brimmed straw hat on his head the whole time and raised lis eyes from the floor enly at rare ln- terya'; When the county phvsic an and Graphic reporter left the ia l MetZ,sr was sanding in the same nositr,n he had maintained through mt lhc examinat 'on-his hands gr p ming inc bars of the cell, one foot resting on cross piece, and eyes downcast.
 The physicians report shows Me'z- per tn be the victim of sen lie lnsah- ity. He will be taken to Little ROCK today to be confined in me o'a'e Asy!um for the insane.