Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 54
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 27, 1907
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INSANE THE SECOND TIME.
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Negro Discharged as Cured Is
Now Worse Than Ever.
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Henry Overstreet, son of
Boston Overstreet, is again in the county jail on a charge of lunacy.
This is the second time within a few months
that he has been thus arraigned. He was tried, convicted and sent to the
asylum in San Antonio. He was discharged after being there a short time,
came and was apparently well until Monday night, when he became a raving maniac
and his actions gave his family a thorough case of fright. He was brought
to Marlin by Boston and is in jail.
He was subdued with difficulty. His
relatives brought him in tied "hog fashion' as they said they did not propose to
take any chances.
The prisoner is a very wild man and the
occupants of the county jail are kept in a constant state of terror by his weird
demonstrations.
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