To be issued to duplicate, one to be kept by Supt. Of Hospital, the other to be returned to the County Clark of County where patient was sent from.

STATE OF ILLINOIS } Whiteside County } SS.
The People of the State of Illinois , to F. G. Gould, GREETINGS:
You are hereby commanded forthwith to apprehend Charles E. Payson who has been declared to be insane, and to deliver him to the Superintendent of the Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane, at Watertown Illinois, and you are hereby authorized to take to your aid one assistant, if deemed necessary and of this Warrant make due return to this office after its execution, with the receipt of the Superintendent endorsed on back hereof.

Witness my hand and the seal of the County Court of Whiteside County, at Morrison this 23 day of March A. D. 1904, [signed[ Geo. K. Hover, County Clerk

Sterling Gazette, Sterling , IL., 23 Mar 1904, page 5, col. 2.
C. E. Payson Declared Insane
Examined by Board Before Judge Ward This Afternoon
C. E. Payson was examined before Judge H. C. Ward this afternoon on a charge if insanity. He was found to be insane by an examining board consisting of Dr. C. H. Beard and Dr. J. C. Maxwell. Mr. Payson was taken to the asylum at Watertown on the 4 o’clock “Q” train this afternoon. He has been in feeble health mental and physical for a numbers of years, but has never been violent.

Sterling Standard, Sterling , IL., 23 Marc 1904, page 2, col. 2.
Payson Adjudged Insane
Rock Falls Man is Taken to Watertown For Care and Treatment.

C. E. Payson of Rock Falls was adjudged insane this afternoon before Judge H. C. Ward, and taken to the asylum at Watertown by Del Gould. He was been in bad condition mentally for some time and has been cared for by his mother Mrs. Mary Payson, but his condition has grown so critical that it has become necessary for him to be taken care of at an asylum.