FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, May 27, 1909 DECLARED INSANE The case of State of Missouri against Dudley H. Thomson was called last Wednesday, and on affidavit of Wm. London, Sheriff, he was placed on trial to determine as to whether or not he is now sane or insane. The jury promptly found him insane. Some time last December Mr. Thomson, for some fancied wrong, shot Miss Bettie White in one of her lower limbs, and assaulted her sister, Miss Ellen White, with his pistol. The Whites and Thomson lived near DeLassus and their lands joined. Thomson imagined that the Whites were stealing wood from him and committed the felonies mentioned above. It developed in the meantime that Thomson had been committed to an insane asylum in Tennessee as early as 1877, and since being out near DeLassus has shown signs of insanity. He seems to think every one "is against him," and as he is getting old and the trouble seems to be growing worse, it was feared that he would either kill some innocent person or get killed, if acquitted of the criminal charge, so the Sheriff prepared and filed the statutory allegation of insanity, which resulted in Thomson being committed to Hospital No. 4.