| OCR Text |
Show HELD 17 YEARS, NOW DECLARED SANE Held 17 years among insane criminals, Beldcn has how been declared sane by a commission , appointed by Governor Smith of New York which hae found that he was unjustly deprived of 14 years of his liberty. Belden wan sent up for two and a half years for larceny in 1902 and held as insane he was kept in Dannemora State Hospital for the Criminal Insane until he gained Governor i Smith's attention with his protestations protes-tations that he was mentally sound. |