Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-01
ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT.
Death of an Imbecile Who Had Live
His Whole Life in an Almshnnse.

Death of an Imbecile Who Had Lived
His Whole Life in an AlmshOuse.
Frank Hunter, pauper at the Nor
witch almshouse, died Monday of this
week at the age of %. He had spent
his whole life in that asylum, having
been placed on the bank of Yantic Cove
when an infant, by his mother, just be-
fore she committed suicide by drown
ing. His parents went from Bridgeport
to Norwich, and for fifteen or sixteen
years there was a legal fight as to
whether his support should fall upon
Bridgeport or Norwich. About six
years ago iT was decided that he be-
longed to Norwich and must be sup
ported by that town. He was simple
ton and subject to epilepsy. He Was
partially paralyzed and had suffered
from water on the brain from infancy.
Tuesday the doctors held an autopsy
and found large large sack OF water
in the brain cavity, and the brain itself
did not appear to have made much
growth FROM the infantile stage. Ii
was SO small it could be held in the
hand. The town has spent several
thousand dollars in his maintenance.
The covered bridge of the CONSOLE
dated railroad across the Mattabesett
river i'll Berlin, wooden structure, was
burned last night. The fire was COM
municated to the bridge from turning
oil house of the Berlin Bridge company.
The bridge was about seventy-tive feet
long. Passengers will have to be trans
ferred all day to-day.
Richard Sullivan, who on Monday last
was sent to Hartford Jail for sixty days
for being a common drunkard. died in
his cell Wednesday night. Before his
arrest Sullivan had been on spree for
several weeks and his death was caused
by alcoholic poisoning.
Yesterday, for the third time, Gustave
Lantz of Derby attempted to kill him
self, and succeeded. He got out of bed
in the morning, procured a pair of
shears and plunged them into his abdo-
men little below the umbihcus. His
wife soon found him on the floor disem-
boweled. DIR Blodgett was summoned.
but Lantz died between 5 and 6 D. IN.
He was i'll the asylum for six months
and the family We're about to send him
back again. although the doctors
thought it best to wait for few days
longer. He was "a years of age and a
machinist by trade.
William Collins, switchman in the
employ of the Consolidated road, had
his left foot crushed at Belle dock, New
Haven, last night by one of the switch
engines. His foot caught in frog, and
before it could be released the engine
ran over his ankle, crushing it badly.
He was taken to the hospital where the
wound was dressed. Amputation was
unnecessary. Last July Collins had the
same foot badly smashed, and refused to
allow amputation. He was in the hos
pital until october.
The men employed by A. Beach, in
digging a trench for water pipes on
Maple avenue, East Norwalk, unearthed
a well preserved skeleton of a man
about six feet tall, yesterday afternoon.
The bones were about four feet under
ground in a doubled up position, indi-
eating that the body had been hastily
thrown into ditch and covered over.
1t is supposed to have lain there since
revolutionary times as the place where
it was found is the same ground over
which the British passed Wien General
Tyron burned Norwalk on Sunday
morning, July II, 1879.
Barney Ryan, aged 90, and Andrew
Shea, 10, were drowned in the Connec-
ticut river near Deep River, last night.
by thenpsetting of boat. Three other
young men were rescued with great
difficulty.
The trial of Addie L. Rose and James
A. Wakelee, for adultery was began this
morning, and the evidence introduced
was the most disgusting ever heard in
New Haven. At o'clock the ATTORNEYS
began making their arguments.
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