Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-09-22 | Page 2 | C. H. Wheatstone is Seized by Dementia

G IS SEIZED BY DEMENTIA from tuesdays standard shortly after 8 last evening C H wheatstone who Is well known about the city waa with a spasm in a room in the broom hotel which was something in the nature of dementia and for a time made things lively for the clerk and guests of the hotel ho was after a considerable struggle subdued and turned over to the county sheriff who took uie man to the county jail and placed him in the insane ward although not a guest of the broom hotel mr wheatstone had wandered into the hotel and entering a room had undressed when seized with the spasm this Is not the first attack that air wheatstone has bad the week before last be was taken ill in a twenty fourth street saloon and at the time was confined to bis bed and his life despaired of he recovered but since that time has evidently been laboring under some mental excitement some time ago bis only son a young boy was bent to the state industrial school and the separation of the man from his son was a hard blow to the old man although he admitted to the judge of the juvenile court that he could not properly direct his son on account of his blindness this trouble coupled with financial difficulties has made a wreck of the man and he will doubtless have to be taken care of in the future