State v. Moore

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

In 1881 Belle Abbott, then about eleven years of age, was admitted to the Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, which was then situated at Lawrence, but which was shortly thereafter removed to its permanent location at Winfield. She remained in this institution until October, 1897, when she was ajudged insane by the probate court of Cowley county and committed to the State Insane Asylum at Topeka. After being there two years she was by order of the State Board of Charities returned to the asylum at Winfield, where she remained…