SAY SWANSON WAS DEMENTED.
While Serving in Philippines He Suf-
fered Sunstroke.
It is the belief of relatives of Thomas Swanson, who entered the home of Mrs. Rose Everett, 819 Orville avenue, Kansas City, Kas., at 12:30 o'clock yesterday morning, apparently with the intention of criminally assaulting Irene Everett and afterwards committed suicide was insane.
"My brother had not been just right mentally, for over a year," said Mrs. Effie Hess, a sister, yesterday.
"He was a soldier during the Philippine war, and was then sunstruck. At times he was almost violent, and neighbors advised mother to have him taken to a sanitarium. I think he tried to commit suicide by drinking carbolic acid a year ago."
Many neighbors who have long known both the Everett and Swanson families believe, with Mrs. Hess, that Thomas Swanson did not know what he was doing when he entered the Everett home.
They say he had always borne the reputation of being a young man of good habits, but had lately been subject to fits of melancholia.
