Show COMMITTAL OF PHELPS AND LEWIS Two Citizens Adjudged Insane I by Examining Board 1 TIl OL SS OF INSANITY I Like 1 a whIle er ery Jenry r E or of C street his ef city and amid Wilam Lwis Lewis or of Sandy Sand were vere as to theIr sanity to today day any adjudged to be or of unsound mind and committed to the insane asylum n at Although hough both men wore 1 In she Babe nl and orld to the ho sale mono In the forum torm ot of Insanity time the men tre are afflicted with Is ot of an entirely dU dit foment kInd who II is 71 years old be bared like I a In tho ho court room while Lewis fully sixteen years ers his Junior became very er violent and a at one onu onetime time during time the proceedIngs It tok took the combined strength of at four men to hold him him down on time the loor floor disease wai was sId said by my time the examining physicians to be senile dementia and Lewiss was as acute mania Th The of both the men waS con conducted before County Clerk D C Dunbar Dunbar sitting as judge pro torn tem County I 11 A AAnderson AAnderson Anderson Dr J N Harrion Harrison rho fhe vIe and daughter ot of were sworn Their testimony tended to show that lint the old genteman gentleman has been more or Ills less Irresponsible for tor the lat tl three O months Frequently he would Imagine that he limb n a business engage melt mont and would away from home and Jet get lost Mrs Ir Phelps In answer to Clerk Dunham said she did not Ilot want wan to see her husband to the What hat lie he needed was n a guardian someone to be n near him at al all ot of the day and night In order to see that list no huml berel befell him Mr lr Dun Dunbar Dunbar bar seemed somewhat adverse to Ing to nOI and thought time tho old eons or of whom theme thero are several ourt to be required to take tako care came ot of their father Phelps l at one time conducted n a SIC see store north or of the Herld Herald building Ho came to Utah along wih his parents In 1818 THOUGHT HE WAS JUDGE strange actions created con among amon Mr female clerIcal force torce lie He wanted to sing to tie time ladies but every man ho SI saw he wanted to lie He had no sooner entered the court room when lie be broke loose from the tho officers and made for tor Judge lilies accustomed seat lie He rapped for order wih with both hands the he could not nol nt very wel ha done other vIst for tor h he was handcuffed and ex cx claimed This court is 18 now In session liming BrIng on the 11 lawbreakers of England and America and I vilI 1 give them item n a nI adose I dose the 1 not get over oer le He then took hIs seat on the bench and demanded R a ln pun Ink and w The They were I handed him an and time traz crazy In 1 a fairly legible wrote the tol following owing order Salt Lk Lake City St ot or Utah 3 Din Dis DistrIct Dinnet net Court this thle day of at Jam January ar 1900 John Mack Dut Duff as Deface me and ed Ben Been guilty rl o of r me to 10 d d his Is Dut Duty ant and In That Thal as he hen hein in n not hl his not worth worthy or of pH p Eom bf been WillIam Lewis eh sheriff ot of Salt Lake Ike County WillIam LI Lewis Judg 3 DIstrict Court January I Clerks Swenson anti Howells ventured Into the court room roomI I Ind anti were requested by Lowis to take their sotis Your Cle cases wi will son soon b he reached he enl said with f a wave of oC lila his hand Nelt Neither r ot of the young oung paId any to th the tae your yourt seat t order wh when n LwIs Lewis u up and jump made a rush for tor them The lightning speed wih with which Swenson and Howell loft the time court chamber was nl wonderful to 0 behold AC After f getting outside neither could muster courage to return It Is I plainly eI eIdent dent to m me said all L wl wb ater otter the young men hud had retreated from his hIe that thO those lads hads have havo not yet finished the schooling luring During the tx examination that followed Lwis declared his condition the result or of Improper treatment At home Is Ills bl boys hl lie said wont to dances and danced liked the tho doI devil returnIng home home at ni nil hours of the nIght and morning and disturbing their fathers tather Peaceful slumber Il lie dId not want rant t 10 go to the asylum and said he would be better r In 1 a short while At tImes Lewis became quie quIte and talked or of Incidents that lap nel yeats ago wih wIth considerable ability I He I Is 1 a native ot of South Wale and has reide resided In Utah for Cor the past years le lie Is n a marrIe married an Id and the father or of eleven children Several years eal ago ngo during a 0 t fit of In insanity sanity he shot nd and killed a barber nam named Oer flier ot at Sand Sandy He was later taken to the at hun a raving maniac Some limo Hmo afterwards hi ire wa was released roni the tho asylum aHlum and In the tho spring or of 18 1897 was waB trIed for tor the killing of oC Oer bier The jury acquitted him 01 omi the tho ground of oC Since hi bitt release from the tho prison lie he has hes lIved with his In Sand Drink I Is said ald to b be the direct l cause ot of his present condition I I |