Newspaper

Did Some Quick Work Insane Man Is Taken To The Asylum In Short Order At nine o'clock Saturday morning, Sheriff Masters and Deputy Sheriff B. F. Mears left Newton in a buggy to make a drive twenty miles out into the country to take into custody Chris Goebel, an insane man. At nine o'clock that night, twelve hours later, Goebel was in the asylum in Topeka and Sheriff Masters was returned on the train to Topeka, from which place he came back to Newton early yesterday morning. The two officials rode a distance of forty miles out to the Goebel place in Alta township and back in a few hours, arriving here in the afternoon early. After purchasing a few articles of clothing for the man in his care, Sheriff Masters took the man on to Topeka and turned him over to the asylum authorities. Goebel has been in the asylum before and it is was not necessary to give him a hearing in the probate court. (The Evening Kansan-Republican, Monday February 29, 1904)