The morning call., 1892-01-05
LITTLE GEORGIANA.
The Madman's Victim Resting
Easily Yesterday.
How Georgiana Bates Suffers From Knife
in Her Brain -.Antecedents of the
Maniac-His Mania.

|
yesterday. She made only an occasional
sign that the TWO ugly gashes in her head
tormented her.
The mailman, whose knife had been
driven into the child's brain, is locked UP in
"cage" with several other prisoners in
the old City Prison. The hearing of the
charges against him was postponed until
tomorrow. Meanwhile he is to be taken
| before the Lunacy Commissioners.
THE MOTHER FRUSTRATED.
Mrs. Bates, the mother of Georgiana
| Edna, was Frustrated all day. The shock
and strain had quite unnerved her. After
! the little girl and she were taken TO their
| home at COG Montgomery avenue there was
no sleep for the family Mrs. Bates sat up
the night through. holding GeOrgiana in her
arms, while the father kept an anxious
vigil with them. Many people called to
! prOffer sympathy. but the chief need was
rest, aud visitors, therefore, did not tarry
| very long.
Yesterday morning the little victim of
manac's bloody freak was put TO bed and
the mother having tied a bandage around
| her own head to ease thrObbng pain lay
| down beside the girl.
STILL IN DANGER.
The doctor in the Receiving Hospital be-
! fore extracting the broken knife blade had
/ cut away the child's hair, and having
! dressed the wound and bandaged her head
! gave the distracted parents an encouraging
| word. The crisis however, will not be
reached for some days. The principal ele-
ment of danger lies in the chances of brain
| fever. Up to a late hour last night there
| had been no delirium.
The curious feature about this terrible
! injury-a knife-blade penetrating the left
! lobe of the brain-iS that, except while
under the influence of ehlorOtOrm, GeOrg-
ana has never been for one instant uncGn-
| SclOuS. She is just little over years OF
age. but she exhibits remarkable fOrtItnde.
She has uttered no wall nor shed a tear.
! Yesterday she lay on her right side with
| her pretty little dimpled white hands out
! side the cOyerlet
GEORGIANA's PET DOG.
She has pet Skye terrier who has taken
/ a position right under the bed. leaving
there only to bark his disapproTal when
/ ever a visitor walks in. The child seems
more anxious about the dog than about
anything else, and constantly asks for him.
| She is a very bright little girl and II she
| shows any concern il is to wonder what is
! troubling her papa and her mamma Mr..
Bates is constantly at her side soothing
with affectionate words and caresSes his
| stricken child.
THE MANAGES RECORD.
The maniac's correct name is VlahO
Buesen. He is an Austrian. He has lived
in this city since 1SS4-the year he and his
| two brothers emisrated. He has been en-
! ployed pretty constantly as dlshwaSher,
/ though about six mouths ago he rose to the
! dignity of a cooks position In the chop
/ house 626 Montgomery street. He was for
| three years in the service of Z. JOrgensen,
! the owner of the Central Oyster-house in
| Central Market. All his former employers
| say that except for his religious mania he
| was a most diigent honest and reliable
/ VI Ia moi
and be saved his small wages.
Mr.. JOrgenSen said that BueSen once
| threatened 10 cut off his chief cooks head
( with ceaver. He would often give way to
q terrible passion, in which incensed state
! lie exhibited his hOmlcidal propensity. lie
| would drive all hands out of the stand. His
! general Steadiness, however, made II diff
| cult for Mr.. Jorgensen to let him go.
| Neither did his other employees want him
dismissed. At last, after one OF his out
breaks. he was discharged. He refused to
| 60 Police aid was invoked. His first COM
/ mitment 70 the insane asylum followed, and
a year ago last September he was dis
charged as of sound mind, though, as events
show, more dangerously crazy than on the
date OF his original commitment.
his RELIGIOUS MISSION.
At the Montgomery-street chop-hOuse the
young woman who Is proprietor gave
Buesen an excellent character He failed
TO report yesterday morning ut the usual
h our, RhereupOn she hired another cook.
III G man, she said, attended strictly to his
work, and his only weak point was his in
coherent talk about having some religious
mission. As there are many OF this type OF
cranks roaming about who seem to be HARM
less she did not ~ TO yesterday think
Buesen at all dangerous.
| BueSen was spoken TO yesterday In his
cage. He did not seem to think he had done
any harm, though he asked somewhat ear
nestly if the little girl would die. lie ex-
hibited no regret He said he intended to
kill all the Jews because they had cruciied
Christ He wanted to find some rich girl
to marry. Only a Catholic would do, and
she must have three million dollars. He
would do whatever the Judge said.
OTHERWISE RATIONAL.
This is the kind OF jargOn he INDUCES in
when his unhnged brain is occupied with
his mania. On all other topics he is rational
and talks quietly. lie told about the places
where he had formerly worked. about his
family affairs, and the country he came
from, Dalmatla.
AN OLD SCAR.
The reporter asked him to remove his hat.
Buesen gracefully raised his Derby and.
| walking to the rear Of his cage, hung IL up.
| The reporter then noticed a deep scar high
on his left temple. Buesen was asked to
tell about it.
81 got that" he replied, "when l was 8
years old. Another boy struck me with a
rock.
Bpesen's appearance is in his favor. He
dresses neatly for one thing aud his line
black hair is cut pOmpadour His mus
tache is somewhat struggling and his chin
curves in little too sharply. His head
points upward at the back. His eyes Detray
his mental condition The unfortunate man
is insane without doubt
Mr.. Bates has nOtany other opinion about
him except that it is a frightlul wrong to
| permit such men to be at large.
A BOY ESCAPES.
The lulatic in another interview referred
to an attack he had made upon another
child the night before. The child he re-
ferred to was the fOur-year-old son of Mrs.
Alexander Lyons of 1906 Ellis street. The
attack was made at the corner Of Post and
kearny streets, and the boy was cut in the
head also, like the girl on the following
evening. Mrs. Lyons screamed for help,
but no officer was at hand ard the assailant
escaped. The child was taken into store
where the wound was dressed.
The surgeon in attendance upon little
Georgiana says If no hair or skin was
carried into the brain she will recover