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SHERIFFS REFUSENEGRO PRISONERBURNETTS'VILLE OFFICIALSARE IN SERIOUS QUANDARY IEHave A Colorcd Insane Man and Cass i Ami White County Sheriffs 11Refuse Him.Both Contend That He Belougs In TheIOther County-Village Officials Arc Up Against It.Buruettsvillc authorities have beenkeeping the telephone wires !etween»t1atIthis eitv hot all morning trving toW . ^ * ' V flty *V * ■ WfjPprevail upon Sheriff Berkley to cometo that village and get Henry Lindsey, eolored. who is being kept in custody on a charge of insanity. Sheriff Berkley maintains that Lindsev is nota resident of this eouutv and as Bur-wuettsvillc is in White countv that it i*1 ^iij* to the Sheriff of White county 1take charge of the insane man.The sheriff of White countv alsoi '* ;Wrefuses to take charge of the negro, j jtIiIiclaiming that he came to Buruotts-vllle from Logansjmrt, and ilie situa-«tion remains that Burnettsville has an insane negro oti their hands and nlt; place to send him. The officials of that village are greatly worried andsthe local official* expect that sometime this evening they will come {rugging into this city with the negro, lr ap]*eai* that the fellow admits that he had 1mk*u in Logansport prior to eotuing to Burnettsville, hut this tin»sheriff claims dot s not make Logansjort liable. It costs the county considerable money for each insane patient sent to the hospital and SheriffBerkley i* determined that the-charges shall not be assessed againsthis office. L*gan-)mrt already ha-one insane patient that does not belong to her. that is Mrs. Redmond, ofElkhart, who came back to the asv-lum after she ha 1 been acquitted aseared.
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Logansport Daily Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 14, 1904
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