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Show TWO MEN ARE ADJUDGED ' INSANE Judgo Howell and Doctors DickBon and Conroy, sitting as a lunacy board .today adjudged Thomas Holmes Insane and committed him to tho stato mental hospital. Ho will be taken to tho hospital tomorrow in company with G. IL Van Leeuwcn who will bo returned to thut institution. insti-tution. Holmes is the half-breed Indian who created a disturbance at Flvo Points a few weeks ago and who later attempted to strike Deputy SherhT DoVluo with a piece of iron. He also attnekod County Commissioners Madson and Skoon In tho canyon a few days ago whllo he was with tho convict gong working on the canyon road. Tho unfortunate follow Is subject sub-ject to homicidal mania. Ho told the examining board today that he suffered a sovoro attack of chills and fever in the southern country a few years ago and that since that time ho has been subjoct to paroxysms of insanity. Van Leeuwen was sent to tho asylum I a number of months ago, but was released re-leased because of his Improved con-I con-I djtlon. Since spending a short time at homo, however, he has graduall) lapsed into his old mental condition and yesterday had to be taken Into custody again His is a religious mania, and he thinks at tiaios, as he puts it, that he Is "the God of all Gods." He Is a carpenter by trado and has a family In this city. Holmes Is a single man, 24 years of ago. He contents that tho world owes him a living and that ho Is going go-ing to have it if force is required at times to get It It is said that when he appeared at tho Flvo Points homos he demanded warm, well cooked meals. He stated today tnat South-worth, South-worth, who is In the county Jail charged with tho murder of Ed Hanks, has exercised a great deal of Influence over him and that he had convinced him that he should not entertain en-tertain the Idea of killing doputy Bhorlffs or anybody else, for that matter. mat-ter. He said that slnco talking with Southworth he had made up his mind that ho would not kill anybody. |