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Show 00 INSANE CONVICT IS SENT TO PROVO Salt Lako. Dec 30 Thomas Moore, an Inmate of the stato prison who has been losing his mind for more than a year paHt, was committed to tho State Mental hospital at Provo by Judge M. L. Ritchie In the Third district dis-trict court Friday morning. He was examined by County Physicians A. N. Hanson and T W. Stevenson. Moore created a sensation in the court room bv his strange yet humorous humor-ous hallucinations. He became enraged en-raged at the statements ot the examining exam-ining physicians and he declared that politicians were conspiring against him to sav he is a moral degenerate. Ho said he would kill the first man who said this if he could get a gun. Mooro delcared that he was a billionaire, bil-lionaire, having been left heir to a large estate In England by the nobility. nobil-ity. Ho said he was recently made emperor of America and king of Great Britain and Ireland. Moore has served about six years of a ton-year sontenco for burglary. |