Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-08


A Raying Negro Jumps from a Sick Bed
and Attacks His Physician and En-
ployer-Making Things Lively for His
Attendants
About a week age a mulatto named
Winston Hunt, who has been in the en-
ploy of Capt. f. NJ. Hull as butler for
over two years, was taken i'll with dysen-
terry so that he was confined to his room.
Early yesterday morning his wife sent
word to Capt. Hull that if he
wished to see her husband
alive he had better call at once as
he was rapidly sinking. Capt. Hull at
once went TO the man and found him too
weak to lift his hands or utter word
above a whisper. He told the Captain to
give parting word for him to each of his
family, and finally babe his employer
with the intention of going to the post
office and then returning to the bedside
of his servant.
on his return about an hour af-
forwards he found that an aston
ishing change had taken place in the sick
mans condition. He had driven his wife
out Of the house and she had called DR..
Mcfarland to attend him. The Doctor
and Capt. Hull met at the door
room, where he was throwing things about
and acting like a maniac. DIR. McFar-
land approached him, when he struck
him violently in the face, causing him to
stagger backwards. Capt. Hull
also attempted to quiet the maniac and
be too was hit in the face, the strength
of the blow contrasting quite
decidedly with the feebleness which the
patient manifested an hour before, wnen
he was apparently almost death-strlcken,
and too feeble to raise his hand from his
side. Hunt was in a measure quieted,
however, and placed in carriage 10 be
taken to the Georgia Infrmary. On the
way there Capt. Hull learned that there
were no accommodations there for the
lunatic, and an effort was made to have
him admitted to the Savannah Hospital
as paw patient, but without success.
Capt. Hull then took Hunt to his own
house and gave him room, and secured
the services Of two colored men to attend
him.
A short time afterwards while the
Captain was on the street in the neighbOr-
hood, some of his servants came in haste
to him with the information that Hunt
had run the men out of the room and
locked himself in, aud that the members
of the family were also leaving the house
to the mailman. 1t appears that after
Capt. Hull was out of sight Hunt sprang
from his bed, and Selling a large bottle
hurled it at one of his attendants, when
both took fright and ran. The
maniac then grasped the marble
on the bureau and dashed it into the
middle of the room. The fall shook the
house and the alarm of the inmates be-
came general. Capt. Hull, accompanied
by the two men, finally succeeded in
gaining admission to Hunts room, where
he was found standing IN a corner with
another bottle ready to hurl at the first in
truder. AS soon as his employer spoke
to him, however, he regained calmness,
and was promptly placed in a carriage
and lodged in Jail, where be was under
medical treatment, but in precarious
condition, last night. Capt. Hull stated
to a reporter of the MORNING NEWS that
Hunt was one of the most faithful, or
DERBY and Obedient servants he ever had,
and that the change in his condition from
a state of complete prOstration to that OF
a raving maniac was surprise even to
the physicians.