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NEWTON BENNINGTON GOES INSANE. As the result of an inquest of lunacy, Newton Bennington Is now an inmate of a sanitarium for the insane near Flushing, Long Island. This serves to throw light on actions and wild statements that brought surprise, to say the least, to his friends, at various times within the past few months. Bennington was a turfman of extensive operations and quite successful. Ho was usually a heavy purchaser at the Ilaggin yearling sales and developed a number of crack two-year-olds that sold for large sums after having won valuable stakes, with them. He leased the running qualities of Beldame from August Belmont and swept the boards with her when she was a three-year-old. He was considered a wealthy man. but it has recently been stated that he Is in straightened circumstances financially.
