“After listening to the facts in the rather complicated case of Mrs. John Freeman, of Fourth and Madison streets, Monday night, Mayor Kaps ordered the safety department to re-commit her to the county infirmary.”
“Mrs. Freeman is 65 years of age and the wife of an employee for Contractor Frank Seymour. It seems that she fractured her hip in a fall some months ago and was sent to the infirmary. Against the county infirmary superintendent’s wishes the woman’s husband came later and took her away. She was sent back only to be taken away again by the husband, although according to neighbors he never took care of her when he did take her back home. He again sought to have her sent back to the infirmary, claiming his wife is weak of mind and that Mr. Seymour, because of that fact, did not want her to stay in his property, he saying Mr. Seymour granted him free use of it besides giving him what coal he needed.”
“A neighbor woman interceded for Mrs. Freeman with the safety department Wednesday, saying she was sitting in the house without any fire to warm her until she simply prevailed upon Freeman to go out and chop some wood and build a fire for his wife’s comfort. She said she had offered to take Mrs. Freeman into her own home until some arrangement could be made for her permanent care but that the husband would not even listen to this. The safety department, feeling it a county case, and in the absence of County Infirmary Superintendent William Weidner, put the facts up to the mayor and he took prompt action in the matter.”1
