Jan 1887 Owensboro Messenger Constable Jo Stirman took Peter Coghlan to the Hopkinsville lunatic asylum again yesterday. Coghlan was first sent to the asylum last October, but escaped and returned home on foot. He was a very bright young man, the pride of his mother and relatives, and the development of unsoundness in his mind last fall was a distressing revelation in them. He had been studying for the priesthood in New York for about two years. The first symptom of insanity manifested was an hallucination that he had committed a grevious sin and the newspapers were about to expose him. ------- Jan 1887 Madisonville, Ky This community is very much shocked and full of regret on learning that Mrs. Gordon, wife of the Hon. W.L. Gordon, has become violently insane, so much so, that she was yesterday adjudged a lunatic and sent to the asylum at Hopkinsville. About six months ago she showed signed of insanity, thought in a mild and harmless form and until a few days since was thought to be almost recovered, when all at once she became so violent that it became necessary to restrain her. It was caused by religous excitement. -------- Betty Sellers