FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, February 12, 1909 G. W. PARKER'S SANITY IS AGAIN QUESTIONED Mr. G. W. Parker of Bismarck, formerly of Detroit, Mich., and reputed to be possessed of considerable means, was adjudged insane last July, and his son appointed his guardian and curator of his estate. He was placed in State Hospital No. 4, but in October was taken away, and on the 11th of last month adjudicated sane before Probate Judge G. O. Nations. The following week he married Mrs. Hart of Bismarck. On Wednesday evening of last week an accidental shooting occurred at his home, in which a youth named Henry Rickmar killed Arthur Berner, another boy. Dr. Stammer was called to the home and when he arrived it seems that he saw no one but Mr. Parker and the dead boy, and Parker's actions were such that the Doctor didn't think it prudent to remain. Parker was either insane or crazy drunk, and at first the impression got abroad that he had killed the boy. After Coroner Yount arrived at Bismarck he had the constable summon a jury to hold an inquest, but before venturing to the Parker home Sheriff London was called up and arrived at Bismarck about twelve o'clock that night. Some of the citizens told him that Parker was a very dangerous man; but the Sheriff proceeded with the Coroner and jury to the house, and the inquest was held, developing the facts of the accidental shooting as published in The Times last week. Mr. Parker's former episode of "shooting up" a Pullman sleeper at Danville, Ill., last summer, for which he was arrested and subsequently adjudged insane, was supplemented by other stories of indiscriminate use of fire arms told Sheriff London, which were so numerous and the relators so insistent, that the Sheriff filed his affidavit with Probate Judge G. O. Nations demanding that Parker be "tried for his sanity." Accordingly last Friday the trial was called and lasted that day and part of Saturday; but it appears that the evidence did not show up so strong as the stories told the Sheriff, and the jury wre out only about fifteen minutes when they returned with a verdict wherein they found "G. Walter Parker to be of sound and disposing mind." Mr. Parker's trouble, from the various reports of his peculiar actions, seems to be a strong appetite for intoxicants, and that when he is under their influence he acts very much like a crazy man. It has been suggested that if he is guilty of doing anything against the "peace and dignity of the State" that he be informed against, arrested and punished like any other common, ordinary Missourian.