Put Markham Under Arrest

PUT MARKHAM UNDER ARREST

Willis Man Who Assaulted His Parents

IS OFF HIS TROLLEY

And an Effort will be Made to Have Him Adjudged Insane

Alphonso Markham, the Willis man who brutally assaulted his aged father and mother last week, was arrested in the city by Officer Ryan Monday evening, and Tuesday was taken to Ann Arbor in charge of Officer Ryan and Supervisor Mason. He is currently regarded as weak minded, and an effort will now be made to secure his commitment to an asylum.

Markham was abusing a cow on the family farm in Willis one night last week, and when his mother remonstrated with him he knocked her down with a blow on the head from a club. The poor woman managed to crawl to the house, and when the inhuman son found the father washing the blood from her face a few moments later, he felled him with a blow from his first, then leaving the place.

The officers have been on the  lookout for Markham since word of the assault reached them, and shortly after he came into the city yesterday he was stopped by Officer Ryan and invited to accept the hospitality of the jail

Markham broke into print a year ago by claiming to be the husband of an Ypsilanti young lady whom in reality he barely knew. He dogged the girl's steps for several days, causing her the greatest embarrassment and annoyance by his reproaches and protestations of affection, until finally he was arrested and locked up, when his hallucination vanished. There was talk at that time of having him adjudged insane, as he undoubtedly is, but his parents promised to keep him on the farm where he would give no farther annoyance, so he was allowed his liberty.