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Gertrude Haast, aged 7 years, is the first child to be sent by the county court to the Stat Home for Mental Defectives, now being build west of Arvada, under an act passed by the last legislature. The child was de- clared mentally unbalanced by a jury in the county court Friday night. The little girl's case is a patetic one. She is a daughter of Gerretje Haast, a young Dutch girl, who was found murdered in 1906 in a shack on a claim she was homsteading, twen- ty-two miles south of Wray. Gerhardt Van Wyck, brother-in-law of the mur- dered woman, is now servinc a life sen- tence for the murder. Gertrude Haast was placed in the House of the Good Shepherd shortly after her mother's death. Recently she has showed signs of insanity, but it is thought that with proper treat- ment at the home her reason will be restored. She will be kept at the Good Shepherd until the state home is com- pleted. - Denver News |
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