Show At Peace at Last CHICAGO January 17Henry De Travisse better known as Joel Henry Wells an old resident of this city was found dead in bed this morning presumably pre-sumably the result of heart trouble Tho accounts of a singular experience of Mr Wells are familiar to nearly all newspapers readers of the country About ten years ago he brought suit against his wife for divorce She caused his arrest and subsequent commitment com-mitment to the Elgin asylum as insane He escaped and wag after some months < recaptured but soon got away again Some of the most noted experts ex-perts in the country pronouced him sane and he traveled about lecturing on his experiences Last year when he attempted to regain control of his property he found he had no standing stand-ing in law and the superintendent of Elgin asylum for some unknown reason rea-son refused either to formally discharge dis-charge receive him back as a patient and the matter was settled only aftera tedious litigation by friends who managed man-aged to secure his return to a legal standing |