COOPER, Freeman E. - 1918
Source:
Crawfordsville Indiana Review newspaper, July 23, 1918 p 1
Covington,
July 22 – An insanity inquest was conducted before Justice Asa Osborn to
inquire into the mental condition of Freeman E. Cooper, aged 26, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Cooper of Richland township. The evidence disclosed that the young
man’s mind has been affected for the past year and that he has gradually grown
worse. He is melancholy and slow of
comprehending; is incoherent, sleeps out in the fields and remains away from
home for days at a time. Recently he has shown an undue infatuation for Lewis
Harrison, a neighbor boy aged 13. He is
never satisfied unless he is near this boy all the time. A few days ago he armed himself with a shot
gun and threated to kill his father, he also told members of the family that he
was liable to kill the Harrison boy regardless of his great infatuation. He was
finally taken into custody by the authorities and place in the county jail
where the inquest was held and he was found to be of unsound mind and dangerous
to be at large. Papers for his admission
to the Central Hospital for the insane have been forwarded to Indianapolis. --–
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