Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-03-23
SET ASIDE ORDER
COMMITTING YOUNG
WOMAN TO ASYLUM
SISTER AND BROTHER RALLY TO
AID OF PEARL GARDENER NUN.
SON, WHO WILL BE TREATED
IN PRIVATE SANiTARlUM AND
NOT IN STATE HOSPITAL.

Pearl Gardener Munson, OF Mendoza
and Troy Grove. and who transferred
her rights to $j0,oe0 worth of realty
to her husband, Emery Troy" Mum.
son. and who Thursday was adjudged
insane by a commission OF doctors in
Judge Mayos court, will not have
10 30 to the madhouse. which she 50
utterly abhorred
Timely interference OF QueenabelIe
Gardener Cabin. her sister and of
Earl Gardener her brother. is all that
saved the unfortunate young woman
from Kankakee.
A petition asking that the order be
set aside and that her sister be con
fined in some private sanitarlum.
where she could be given the best Of
treatment, was filed before Judge
Mayo this morning and granted,
There was.no organized fight against
the order from members Of the Nun.
son family or their friends.
II was suggested in the petition to
the court that st. Joseph's, OF Aurora,
conducted hospital for just such
cases. The kindly old Judge consented
o this Arrangement without a protest.
a few minutes after the matter was
disposed of, Mrs. Munsor was being
whisked away in an automobile 60
, Aurora. where She will be given the
gentle nursing of the Franciscan Sis
tors. who are certain they can restore
her 10 her normal self under a short
course OF treatment.
Mrs, Munson protested vigorously
against "A separation from her baby--
a boy named Gale. Of five years. Rel
atiyes feared more than anything elst
what such a separation wOnld NEAR
to the distracted young mother After
she has been given the preliminar,
treatments, arrangements will bt
made for installing Gale in day nurs
cry attached 10 the hospital. where
mother and little son can spend {
deal OF their time together
Members OF the family are conf
dent that after her separation from
Munson whose reputation in Mendo
ia Ottawa and other cities in tht
county is anything but enyiable, vii
work wonders in restoring the wifi
TO her formerly Wellbalanced menta
equilibrium
Attorney J. f. Malone, Jr, Of Li
Sale, was counsel for the petitioners
He represented to the court tina
Queenabolle Cabin had authorized
him to assure the court that the bur
tden of expense in maintaining the sis
ter at 81. Joseph's would be borne b,
her
By her own acts in indulsing il
Munson whim for getting possession
of her farms aud other property, sh
divested herself Of all her earthl
possessions and, under the transfer
al only tho good graCes. of which thei
are few friends of the Gardener
aver. of Munson will send him 10 hi
Wife'S rescue He announced his pre-
erence for sending the wife to SON
one OF the states charitable instlt,
tions because he could not afford I
keep her anywhere else.
He told the doctors he had made ii
uuiries at Sacred Heart Sanitariul
in Milwaukee and that the price c
SIS a week demanded there was pr'
hibitive. Dl Jamison, a member
The commission took issue with MN
son on this statement and said h
had sent several patients to the MI
waukee institutions. and all were a.
ccpted at much less fee than h
one stated by him.
Out of the present Munson diillcu
lies a suit is promised to restore tn
wife to her property. Munson leave
next week for the army after tryln
every way TO eyade service, His att
tude toward his unfortunate mipnla'
his morning showed he was layil
great stress on the army
When Mrs NIunson said she misl
not see him again, Munson leerinH
replied: An. III come back III
house will be there, The furnitu
will be there, Everything viii.
, there and when you yet well YOU a
welcome to come back and live there
This grdciousness on his pa
brought him great eobssof "sympath
from those who overheard 1t.