Iowa
Old Press
Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler, Iowa
December 6, 1911
Groom Sent to Insane Hospital.
Marshalltown- John T. Bell of Reasoner, Ia., 64 years old, was
ordered committed to the state insane asylum at Mt. Pleasant.
Last week Bell went to Des Moines and married a 17-year-old girl,
claiming to her that he was immensely wealthy. When the child
wife reached her new home and found that her swain owned
nothing she promptly left him. Relatives of the bridegroom then
filed charges of insanity and the Jasper county commissioners
declared the defendant insane.
[submitted by C.J.L., Feb. 2004]