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Show PATIENT HAS STRANGE MANIA THOMAS HARTWELL IS EXAMINED EXAMIN-ED BEFORE INSANITY BOARD Tells History to Point Where He Lapsed Laps-ed Into Unconsciousness at Roy Strange Story Follows. Thomas Hartwcll. the unfortunate young man who was picked up near .the Roy railroad station immediately after aft-er the Clark murder, which occurred at Uintah on the 27th of November, in an unconscious condition, occasioned by a fractured skull, told the story of his life last evening before an Insanity board of examiners, consisting of Judge Howell and Drs. II. B. Forbes and J. R. Morrell. After listening to the storv the board adjudged him Insane In-sane and he was committed to the state mental hospital at Provo. He Is suffering from a religious mania, which Is considered likely to be of long standing and yet, it Is possible in the opinion of the members of the examiners exami-ners that his Insanity may have been brought upon him through the Injuries ho received at Roy at the time In question. ques-tion. Since the fateful morning, Tuesday, December '1, when the man waa brought to Ogden for treatment, he has remained at the hospital until yesterday, yes-terday, when he was taken to the sheriff's office for the above mentioned examination. The man seemed to have quite completely recovered from his physical injuries and he was perfectly per-fectly rational in the telling of his life. He stated that he was born in Omaha. Neb., 32 years ago, being the son of Thomas Jefferson and Elizabeth Hartwell. He said that his father Is still living, but that his mother died when he was a young man. According to the story he'told, he left home immediately im-mediately after the death of his mother moth-er and came west. He had always been a working man, his trade being that of a broom maker. He had usually been in the possession of money, but there had been times when he had to walk from place to place for want of means. He stated that he vividly remembered remember-ed everything that had transpired In his life except that which happened from tho time he lay down beside the railroad track near Roy, and the tlmo he regained' consciousness at the Ogden Og-den hospital, a few days later. He Eald he walked from Portland, Ore., to Ogden, arriving at the latter place about tho first of last month. December. Decem-ber. From Ogden he journeyed on toward to-ward Salt Lake. At a point near Roy he said he sat down beside a "switch stand" to re6L He finally concluded to rest for an hour or so and accordingly, according-ly, spread one of the old quilts he had with him upon the ground about four feet from the railroad track and lay down to sleep. That Is the last he knew until ho was aroused from unconsciousness uncon-sciousness at the hospital. He said he had no Idea at all as to how he was injured, "unless," he continued, "I met with an accident with some men." He stated further in answer to queries that he was much improved in health and felt that he was able to go to work at his trade and he felt that he could easily do sorting and light shop work In a broom factory. Up to this point the man showed no signs whatever of a mental weakness, weak-ness, but tho key note to his mental condition was 6truck when Dr. Forbes asked him why he was going to Salt Lake. Here his story turned to his mania. He said that he was going to Salt Lake to advise the Mormon church of certain evidences ho knew of what would help them In preaching the gospel. He desired to take tho leaders of the church to a certain point of the railroad about 200 miles away to show them Christ and the Godhead. In this story he said: "The place where these things are is close to tho railroad, about 200 miles toward Portland, Port-land, by a body of water. It Is closo to the railroad. After leaving the railroad rail-road for a short distance we would come to a small stable and then a little further on. by the water, wc would come to the Godhead, Jesus Christ and Mary, and Jacob and Joseph and to the right of this 1b the Holy Bible. All these things prove the gospel beyond a doubt and I wanted the leaders of the Utah Latter Day Saints to see them because It would be of great benefit to them in preaching the gospel. These things could be shown the people and then if they did not bellevo in Christ and the Godhead they would have to go to hell." He also stated that he saw God and Christ in the rocks and trees on his way down from Portland and that he had tried to take a minister of the Baptist church at Huntington. Ore., to see them, but the minister minis-ter would not go with him. It was hoped that when Hartwcll regained consciousness he could glvo some clue to the Clark murder, but nothing whatever In this direction can be gleaned from the man's story or the circumstances connected with his in-Jury. in-Jury. How the man was Injured may always be shrouded in mystery, the general supposition on the part of the officers, however, Is that Mr. Hartwcll was lying closer to the railroad track than ho thought he was and that he w as struck on the head by a passing train. He will be taken to the mental hospital today. |