October 2, 1907 ASYLUM FOR PATTERSON.
County Court Refuses to Send Inde-
pendence Man to Rock Pile.
William Patterson, the Independence incendiary, was again sent to the asylum at St. Joseph by the county court yesterday. Patterson believes he has a commission to burn the buildings on the Mormon temple lot at Independence and has once made the attempt.
During his lucid intervals, when he is not in the asylum, Patterson writes booklets and preaches. Chief of Police Hughes, of Independence, appeared before the county court yesterday and recommended that Patterson be assigned to the rockpile for a season, but the ocurt, taking into account the man's past record for unsoundness of mind, failed to agree with him.
