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The Muncie Sunday Star, December 4, 1904
EX-TOWN MARSHAL INSANE (by Star Special Service)
Pitiable Condition of Al. Nelson, of Orestes
Alexandria, Ind., Dec. 3.- Ex-town Marshal Al. Nelson, of Orestes, was today
adjudged insane by a lunacy commission held before 'Squire Matthews of this
city. Nelson's trouble is due in part to dissipation, aggravated by blood poison
from a splinter, which he run under his thumb nail to the joint, recently. His
tongue is swollen and he cannot talk. He figures over imaginary problems, and
cuts meat in pantomine, he being a meat cutter by trade. He has a wife and step-daughter.