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Show JOHN E. PICKERING IS COMMITTED TO ASYLUM John E. Pickering, forty-four 3'ears old, of 727 East Seventh South street, was adjudged insane b3' an insanit commission sitting in Judge Lewis's division of the -Third district court, Saturda3', and ordered committed to the State Mental hospital at Provo. Pickering's insanity is attributed to a diseaso which he contracted twelve 3'cars. ago, but his mind did not begin to fail until about a 3ear ago. lie is irritable and labors under the delusion that neighborhood boys are persecuting persecut-ing him. and that doctors are trj-ing to kill him. Several times receutby he evinced a disposition to dcstro3r the furniture anl kill his wife, upon whose complaint ho was sent to the hospital. Pickering is a teamster. |