The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-27
ATTORNEYSPREvENT EisPLEA
Doctors G.. H. Adams and j. o. Nc.
Cracker Examine Jensen and Declare
Him Insane and Should Go to
Asylun-Wife's Condition Bad.

Anton Jensen, Brighton farmer, ar
rested on Wednesday afternoon on
charges of attempting to murder his
wife, Katharine Jensen at their home
on the county line, was this morning
taken to Waupun. He did not go tC
the state prison but under a commit
ment issued in the county court he was
taken to the Hospital for the Criminal
Insane in connection with the state
prison and he will be held there until
he RECEIVERS his reason when he viii
be brought back to Kenosha county
to answer charges against him. Tele
phone messages from Milwaukee to
day indicate that the condition OF
Mrs. Jensen is not nearly as encour
aging as it had been on Friday and
physicians attending her fear that she
may take a turn for the worst at any
time. "Mrs. Jensen has fracture of
the SKULL" said the attending physi-
clan to Sheriff Stahl this morning
cit may be several days before
she has relapse, but we are fearful
that it will Gomez
Jensen was not told of the condition
Of his wife before he left for Waupun
in the custody of Sheriff Stahl and
Deputy Sheriff Edward Bruins this
morning. He was told that he was
mentally i'll and that he was to be
taken to hospital up near Fond du
Lac for treatment. AS Jensen has a
sister at Fond du Lac he went willing
ly with the sheriff. It was not neces-
sary to use any force and off for the
hospital Jensen chatted with his guards
as if nothing had happened to disturb
the monotony Of his farm life out in
the town of Brighton.
Jensen was very nervous on Friday
afternoon and late in the afternoon
District Attorney Drury decided that
it would be better to get him to one
Of the state hospitals. The district
attorney issued formal complaint
charging Jensen with an attempt Oh
the life of his wife and before this was
fled in the municipal court and the
formal warrant issued, Jensen was
taken before Judge Taylor in the
county court and formal petition fol-
an examination into his mental condi-
ton was fled. Doctors George FL
Adams and J. 0. McCracken were nam
ed to make the examination and they
found that he was insane and danger
ously insane and recommended that he
be committed to state hospital at
once. Then Jensen was taken into the
municipal court and arraigned on the
charges set forth in the warrant
Peter Fisher Jr., who had been named
as guardian ad Item for the defendant
protested against the warrant being
read to him and when it was shown
that he had been formally adiudicated
insane he was returned to the county
court and committed to the asylum for
the criminal insane. This was the
first commitment to the institution to
be issued in Kenosha county.
Jensen may never be tried on the
charge of attempted murder. Physi-
clans who have examined him believe
that his mental ailment is growing
worse every day and they fear that it
will bring a complete breakdown with
in the next few days.
Jensen had no recollection of his ap-
pearance in court this morning and he
seemed not to realize in any way that
he had been charged with a crime
Should Jensen recover at the hos
pital he will be brought back to Ke-
nosha and tried on such information
as the district attorney may see fit
to file against him. He will then be
entitled to preliminary hearing and
hearing to show that he was insane
at the time the crime was committed.
No bonds were required of Jensen
as he will be practically a prisoner
all of the time he is confined at the
Waupun hospital.
Members of the Jensen family have
been at the bedside of the wife in
Milwaukee, but none of them were in
Kenosha when Jensen was adjudicated
insane and sent to the state hospital,