Show JOE STAYS CASE An Examination tit to His 3Iental Condition Yesterday Joseph Sty who lias been the recipient re-cipient of considerable newspaper notoriety no-toriety within the past few days on account of erratic escapades which resulted re-sulted in his getting 111 jai charged with running down Schooner im and his hound dorg ssfung the city prison on fire was before Judge Blair yesterday charged with being of unsound un-sound immd the complaint being attested at-tested by Sergeant Harry Ford Stay is the same party who wrote the county curt on Monday asking that Fred Brice fruit tree inspector be removed and that he bs selected his application setting up that the county horticultural society WaS unanimous unan-imous in endorsing linn When brought into curt Stay began writing1 at once and for an hour engaged in penning epistles to Judge Blair and the county curt praying that they stand by him inasmuch as the society was about t meet in sessVon working in his behalf His document contended tat the court had promised to stand by the society in the matter and the writer demanded that it redeem its promise Stays examination conducted examnaton 1 cnduCcd by Drs Wright and Anderson Sergeant Ser-geant Ford Jailer Kimbaill amd Officer Randolph were examined and testified as to the actions of the pate t During the examination Sty frequently fre-quently interrupted saying there vas nothing the matter with him except Dixie wine He said on his own exam iTiatlon that he had six children one of whom was named Joseph Hyrum ofltelr tnb prophet and his brother whale another was christened after Jesse James The man was very incoherent herent in his testimony throughout At tihe conclusion of the examination examina-tion Stay addressed a note t Ms wife saying that he had been arrested charged with attempting to rtde his horse over her friend James Ballard Bal-lard alias Schooner Jim After citing cit-ing the cause of his detention Stay signed himself her affectionate husband hus-band Joseph H sty landscape gardener gar-dener etc Stay also wrote a note to Harry VVoodimansee expressing a regret that he did not burn the jail down which he said was a dirty hole and a di grace to the taxpayers The court decided to send Stay t jail for a few taos pending Ihis get ting1 over his nixie wine |