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Show RESTORES MIND WITH A SHOCK Man insane, for Jen Years Recovers; Re-covers; When the Scene of Accident Is Re-Enacted Be-fore Be-fore Him. . OMAHA, July 8. Ten years ago .Edward. J. Wllmerk saw his best friend, Fred Jerome, ground to death under the wheels of a locomotive at Poritiac, Mich. Instantly his mind became be-came a blank and lie wandered away. He waa iouod. six. months. 'ago in an asylum for the insane at Glenwood, with hiB reason dethroned. It was Miss Eunice Holcomb of Philadelphia, his sweetheart, who found him. She believed if shock had caused him to became insane a similar shock -would restore his reason. She had a dummy made representing Jerome. Je-rome. Then she took Wilmark and the guards to a point near Omaha and threw the dummy in fronfof a train. WUmark's mind was restored Instantly. He left for Philadelphia with Miss Holcomb Friday. |