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Show i GERMAN AT COUNTY JAIL MAY BE AN INSANE MI R Wolfgang, a German. 58 year-- of I age, walked into the sheriff's office last w evening and told the clerk that he v,o,s stranded here and "up against it." He r. wa.s given quarters at the county jail r 'and an investigation was started. rj It wat-. found that he was released j I recently from an insane asylum at I ) Patton. Cal He had a ticket from Los I f Angeles to Butte and had used it as 1 far as Ogden. He said he had been accompanied by two other men from I Los Angeles and that they had put him ' 1 off the train hero and told him they ' were through with him. He told a - coherent story until he got started to J I talk Qbout wireless telegraphy and " radiograph. Then he rambled on with all tho evidence of Insanity. Xt Efforts will 1 made to learn why j he was put off tho train in Ogden and. J lj If it is found hew as merely sent here j H to get rid of, he may be sent back to 1 I the asylum Wolfgang said he did not know why j H he was going to Butte. He said he had H been released from the hospital where H he had been put different times. Hn had f. m hie pockeis. H. told the ;-h--r- f iff he was a German but would say ib- r' solutely nothing about the war. j |