The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-29

man was patient in the hospital
whose case got into the newspapers.
lie imagined himself locomotive, and
would make sounds like the ringing OF a
bell, the escape OF steam md the toot OF
whistle. lie would sit up in bed TO
make these noises und, OF course, they
were at first annoying. have seen
Putnam stop the noises by striking him
in tho stomach and knocking him fiat
on his back"
4 delicious patient who seeks to in.
trolUce the most Objectionable features
Of railroad travel into n hospital ward
mny BIO hard trial on the patience OF n
nurse. Tho same Is not truc OF an un.
fortunate wretch dying OF dropsy whose
only oiIcnse Is desire to take off his
ehift.
a saw him beaten for this offence
tho day before no died." said Mr.
Reimensnyder. "lIis name on the hos.
pital books Is liowle,cck, first name
not given. For two days no had SUI
icrca agonics from his disease and
finally entertained tho fixed dclusion
that II he could remove his shirt he
would be relieved. Ills thin hands
laborcd with his garments for hours.
Whom his plendings became annoying
and his rcstlessness disarramgcd the
bedclothcs he was beaten. After the
beating, while the poor fellow struggled
to carry ont his ono idea OF comfort and
cure, turned to ppinam and said,
For Gods snke let him take it oil. III
stay and watch him and see that he Is
properly covered
You 20 to your room,' lie said.
and mind your own business, or we'll
zee that you get there, and quick, toe"
The next night the man died. Hos
pital discipline was triumphant. lie
died with his shirt on.
FATE OF DELlRirM TREMESs PATIENTS.
Mr.. Rcimcnsnyder marrcllcd much
at what he saw and heard, and spoke
to his fellow patients OF longer standing
in the hospital concerning them, ask.
ing ii these occurrences we're usual IN
their experience.
Two OF them related 10 him what they
called murder cases." though the
phrase was loosely used md CONVEYS Il
better expression OF the impression
made on the consciousness OF the wit
nesses than legal definition OF the
olIenso charged.
Zone night" said one OF these in
iormants, II heard desperate shrielis OF
III you do that III die, III die; | know
It.. looked toward the bed whence
the noise came, and cav it was q de
lirium tremcns patient, Il tall finely de-
vclopod man, laborer, | believe. Then
| saw two nurses, despite his cntreatics,
bind him hand and foot 10 his bed. lie
struggled desperately. and in the
struggle was numerically beaten. Be-
fore he was united he was dead. lIc
continued to struggle, | believe, until lie
died. The only reason for tying him, so
far MS l know, was that he disarrangcd
the bedclothcs."
The other case included by Mr..
Reimensnydcr's informants in the cata.
CORY Of murder was also that OF de.
lirium trcmcns patient.
"lic had been quiet for several days
after his admission" said these wit
nesscs, "but one night he began to rave.
The nurses pinioned him hand and foot
and actually beat him into silence and
supposed inscnsibility. The next morn
ing he was dead"
Ofthesc two informants one was J.
Gielgud. OF Carbon. Carbon county,
Wyo. IIcwa an English ranch owner
and man OF standing who had come to
the hospital for treatment for cancerby
Koch's lymph. lie lett his name and
address with Mr.. Reimensnydcr ior
whatever use he might choose to make
OF Il for the alienation OF the miscries
OF patients, and promised to make an
affidavit supporting his statements
whenever called upon.
1t was necessary to present this re-
markable story ior general confirmation
or denial to two sets Of men-the
patients in the hospital TO see il their
general observation and experience
Tailed with that OF Mr.. Rcimensnvder
said the officials Of the institution. The
results OF these inquiries are given be-
low.