Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-12-13 | Page 28 | Three Men Committed to Insane Asylum

THREE MEN COMMITTED TO INSANE ASYLUM In Judge Armstrong's division of tho third district court Saturday, John .Sodcnstrom and Thornton Lambert woro adjudged insano and ordered committed to tho state mental hospital at Provo. Sodcnstrom, who is an anarchist, or thinks ho i3 one, which amounts lo tho same thing, went on a rampage in the saloon at 51 East Second South street Wednesday night. lie was thrown out and was found tearing around on the military reservation to tho onst of the citj- the noxt day and lodged in jail, ponding a hearirfg to determine his sanity. Friday night ho attempted to commit suicide. Sodcnstrom is about 35 years old and has lived hero about fifteen years, no came hero from Sweden. Persons who know Sodcnstrom well say that ho is a victim of his own vicious habits. Tn Judge Ritchie's divisiou, Nophi Fife was adjudged demented on tho testimony of Jamos Hunt and ordered committed to tho hospital. Fife labors under tho delusion that an unknown onciny is pursuing and trying to harm him, if not kill him. He doesn't cat or sleep woll, aud is possessed of a desiro to wander. Last May ho was thrown out of a buggy and his back wrenched, and it is thought that tho spino was injured in tho accident, thus producing dementia.