Description
Lewis Hamilton, colored, of Weston, was adjudged insane in the county court Wednesday and taken to the asylum at St. Joseph the same afternoon by Sheriff Elgin as a county patient.
Hamilton has an uncontrollable desire for making and spending money. Some of his purchases reach to millions of dollars and include articles too numerous to mention. He claimed to have purchased 2 or 3 automobiles and when asked how he would get them home, said he would go and run them home one at a time. He also claimed to have made $40.05 Thursday, repairing bicycles.
In court it was noticed he wore one red and one blue sock. He said one of them had faded and later, that he wore them that way because he was an Odd Fellow.Date(s) of Creation
8/19/1904
