New-York tribune., 1897-08-02
MANUFACTURING MADMEN.
ANOTHER KINGS COUNTY PENlTENTiARf
CONVICT INSANE.
,.,,,s wnorGur UP OVER THE INCREASED
S1rMBER OF LUNATIcs AMONG THE IN
,,,rr,s-NR. BuRTIs BOUND TO FIND

vsTEs-MR. BURTIs BOUND TO FIND
EMPLOYMENT FOR THEM
Another Kings County Penitentiary convict
-. lost his reason as result OF ehioioeu 'N'0
- While Charities Commissioner bur's' Va
r,~,,,k,vn was making the rounds Oh 'he oe"'
ID 80, nc &c his custom on Sunday ne
ro,ced that Harry Heath, shor' 'ein pi.
or was sitting on his bed and looking through
,ho Grated door with vacant STARE su0'' 90
.ho face of a sane man never pears
~, purtis AT once began TO question the man.
-. % his questions Heath made no reply
~. .s, looked and looked with the expression
,ss ewes of a man whose nina Was 'i"'''
49,. tho Commissioner had put number Oh
questions Heath seemed to make an e"of' ~
aouect his wits but most of his answers "e'e
wholly irrelevant oa,,v
.,iss,oner Burtis has been greatly
.,,c,t nm over this manufacture OF lunaucs
va no went in considerable excitement 10 war
s., Moves and asked him what was the lroupie
with Heath. Co., so,.ora,
~ have been watching this man 'or se|ei"i
sovs" replied the Warden, ana iet,i "o
Gov on the road TO either madness OF i'io'''
u watch him closely and have him eX-
amined.' ,.,o,, .nis t,vartv-
~ i-'o IA Brook,vn boy was arrested was
Hvp-NP2r-OlQ
xo,,c found one night sleeping in coai''h
,~..aad Of a bed. The police promptly chacseo
- ,.+b vaerancy and he was sentenced u
Two months in the penitentiary'
18th ;s one of the many for whom no en-
n,oyment could be found.
re,y and serious phase of the mahuiac'u'e
80 madmen at the penitentary IS the ldc' ',a'
.no prisoners have themselves been struch WIZ"
,orror at the sight of nineteen OF thelr hu'"oei
oinq insane within seven months Inc '"o"e.
tbat II may be their turn next mas 50 "to"e"'
,nor the minds of some OF them that II H'"S
.as,e, their mental collapse unless relief coihes
soon. ,,,.o+os +b;s
oir+ He served three years for burglary o'-
= now, serving out a 500 fine. He Is man VI
considerable intelligence and has just "I1t'e"
,,tifuI letter to his attorney fooe'' / go
urging him 10 spare no pains 10 get d P"' 'uo' '
10 ua saws in this letter that he did not
.,ra tho three wears Imprisonment, as ne hau
nn,r,ovment then that kept his mind occupied
brt now that he has nothing to 90 ne eAPieSS''
= fsar that he will become insane as o'hei'
.;,b Nothing to do except TO Watch the
,;o,,s hours pass in loneliness. lie notes t"e
rao, that he has lost fifty pounds OF hesh siiice
-. ar,nlovment stopped Speaking OF MS OWN
o-nearance and that of his felow-prlsohers' he
.,is bis LAWYER that if the public could see t'ie
4o,ard wild-eyed appearance he ana uie'
h~,o now compared with what it was Wheh
,hav were at work, there Woulo ne " "o','''"N
from the people that the doors OF the p;snrers
tisrv be thrown open and all the IA
- commissioner Burtis ever doubted Wacis & n.s
d1tv law he doubts no longer lie pIousIie " ~" -
his fist Yesterday as he declareu WI" ,bsa men
We've got 10 have sometl.in8 ioT lhese nv or
.. Az ehau not stand on official ceremony "a
roreerse of that kind. AS we are ~ 80,
.j;ans of these prisoners 1t is proper that oui
RoarG shall make a request to the IaIh It ~ %
missioner TO give our men Such elHPlCf .-o
In NOT compete with free labor propose
,bat these men shall have work 70 40 anu an
cor6dent that the Park Commlssloner Mn ~
onarate with us. ! discussed WIN the wa ~
today the question OF putting III ~ =; ,rnhabIe
,rorlr on PARK improvements, ana IL Is PlopdpIo
~ we shall begin with fifty men ana iiicledsc
tbst number by about ten day. In iha wa!
we can accustom them TO the he" "'iN 7
ally. -, ;a ,bo+ ,f these
- ,ara ,,ut 70 work he had work TO be done
"a mn money TO pay for It. ct three partlculal
roints-the East Side LANDS, Dyhei y.
ParL and Forest Park. He seemed IatIie! 20 20
80 Dvker Meadow Park. that beng OUT ol
!dNor "a -, ~ Fror, the public gaze. We could take
~ ~ 80 there in wagons and cook their dinner
for them on the ground, but thlnK IL "VuIu a. Do
much wiser to begin on the East olue l-lliu9, r,
which are SO near the pententary, we .tt
have TO build shelter for mem - rained But
tbev might go under cover when II raliteu' - .
~ conid 90 to the penitentary for ther
dinners. ,..ior, Of y meeting
NJ the Charities Commission to-ud| oiiaC' d;'
Informing Commissioner Dettmer OF the conul
~ ~ the prisoners and asking him 10 put
tbero AT work AS soon as he returns on >, uS9
Sav we shall call and see him personally