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Show VAN VALKENBERG IS ORDCTEDCOMMITTED So-Called Inventor Will Be Taken to State Mental Hospital. John Van Valkenberg, recently adjudged ad-judged insane when tried in the United States district court on a charge of impersonating im-personating a federal officer, was again found to be unsound of mind when examined ex-amined by a commission in the Third district dis-trict court yesterday and ordered by Judge Hanpld M. Stephens to be committed com-mitted to the state mental hospital at Provo. Examination under the jurisdiction of the state court was necessary to effect the man's commitment to the state institution. institu-tion. The affidavit against Van Valken-berg's Valken-berg's sanity, by which the hearing ot yesterday was obtained, was made by W. H. Davenport, secret service agent of the United States in S-alt Lake. The hearing was brief. Van Valkenberg repeated his oft recounted claims of part 7 nership with Charles Henderson and a mysterious person designated as the "Old Man" in a flying machine venture of wildest wild-est imagination. He told of extravagant flights in the machines which he claimed were able to soar, through being impervious imper-vious to the forceof gravity. He said that he had not seen the "Old Man" since he had been arrested and held in jail. Van Valkenberg will be taken to Provo today by deputy sheriffs, to be placed in the mental hospital. Charles Henderson is already al-ready there, having been committed several sev-eral weeks since, after telling a" story practically identical to that of Van Valkenberg. |