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Show OGDEN MAN IS INSANE Mania Takes tbc Form of Shouting: for Breakfast Fool George M. Grace, a machinist In the employ of the Rio Grande railroad at Ogden, Is In the county jail, pending an examination as to his sanity. Grace, who is 35 years old, and a man of powerful frame, walked down to Salt Lake from Ogden Sunday night, and at 4 o'clock Monday morning was found wandering about the Rio Grande roundhouse by Night Watchman Thomas Burge. Burge quickly perceived that the man was Insane, and while he watched him closely that he might not escape, tele-poned tele-poned fqr assistance. Fatrolmen Ben Seigfus and Joe Bush responded, and easily persuaded Grace to accompany them to the county Jail, by representing to him that they were taking him to a first-class hotel. - At the Jail he readily registered from Ogden, but when an attempt to search the man was begun, he put up a fierce fight, and nearly overpowered the po-licmen, po-licmen, the watchman and Deputy Sheriff Stoutr-who.was on duty at the jail. After a fight that continued for nearly near-ly a quarter of an hour Grace was securely se-curely Imprisoned in the padded cell. Then he went all to pieces and began to shout for patent breakfast foods. "Give me Royal Arch bacon. Give me Royal Arch mush!" he cried, and his ravings continued for hours, until he was completely exhausted. An Investigation as to the man's mental condition will be held Monday afternoon at the county jail. |