Show SENT Mrs Nis Hodge a Mental Wreck and andEer Her Eer Husband Better Detter BetterA DetterA A physical and mental wreck from sickness and family troubles Christina Aiken Hodge the aged ed wife rIfe of William Hodge Hedge was yesterday committed to the state slate insane m The old man is feeble fe ble minded too and anti the officers ex cx expressed pressed the opinion that he also would soon be sent to tile the infirmary The examination which was conduct conducted ed 00 by County Clerk James Jamie us as judge pro tempore before Dr F C Wilcox and Dr P J McKenna brought out an un unusual unusual usual condition of QI domestic affairs Ac According According According cording to the statements of some of the old friends of the family Mrs Mr Hodge Hedge was never the same after her husband took a plural wife who woo how however however ever eyer died some years ago apo The death de th of the plural wife did not restore her herto herto herto to her former disposition Neglect of her wants was followed by more seri serious serious ous ou mental disorders coupled with ith ideal ailments aliments This condition has been going on for about five fhe years Mrs ills Hodge now past p st 70 years is a Q harmless imbecile She SIll has no no memory and no faculty to t form or express ideas As Ais she sat in the court room yesterday afternoon she did not know her old hus bus husband band bum She comprehended nothing The physicians s attributed the patients de decline cline dine to structural changes es in old od age and classed ed her iber malady mala y as senile de dementia demen mentia men When the deputy depOty dep ty sheriffs went to the Hodge home 54 North orth Seventh West street yesterday afternoon with a car carriage to escort the aged and rand broken down woman to the court house the theold theold old man wanted to know what they wanted having baving forgotten the appoint appointment appointment appointment ment he had bad made the day before when he swore to a complaint charging his lila wife with insanity Finally he recollected le ted and then all aU was satisfactory The old couple are not n without means They Th ey have five grown children C but tout it ft is isid id there has been between them and their parents as to the divi division division sion of property The old folks foUts trans tran transferred transferred their homestead to their chil chit children children dren some time ago |