The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-14
ACUTE MANIA.
Is Mr.. Greenspan's Ailment
Says DIR. Eastman.
He is Confined in a Barred
Room With Guards
AND is SOME QUIETER.
Mrs. Greenspan Does Not Wish
Him Sent
To the Asylum and Has EN-
To the Asylum and Has EN-
pIOyed PHYSICIANS.

Simon Greenspan is confined in a rear
room in the third story of Chiles' hotel
on East Seventh street, a raving
maniac.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Greenspan
visited him at the city Jail and con-
suited with DR.. B. D. Eastman in re-
gard to the case. It was decided to
take Mr.. Greenspan to Christ hospital
for treatment, as Mrs Greenspan did
not wish a charge of insanity brought
and did not wish him taken to the
asylum.
Mr.. Greenspan was shouting at the
top of his voice and had broken out all
the window glass in the cell. He was
entirely too violent to be taken to the
hospital
Nick Chiles was in the police station
at the time, and when he learned that
the hospitals would not take Mr.. Green
span because he was too violent, Chiles
, said: I'll fix up room where he can
be kept and will furnish guards to
watch him. Mrs. Greenspan accepted
the offer and asked Chiles to prepare
the room and employ the guards.
The rear room on the third floor of
the hotel was fitted up for his accom-
mediation. Heavy oak bars were placed
across the windows and most of the
furniture was removed. Two stalWart
cOlOred men were engaged to watch him
night and day. Last night at o'clock
Mr.. Greenspan was removed in hack
from the jail to the room fitted up for
He was placed in the room and a guard
placed over him.
DR.. B. D. Eastman said: "dr. Green
span is suffering from acute maniacal
excitement. How long he may be in
this condition I cannot say at present
or what the outcome may be. The room
where he is being kept is about the best
that could be provided for him while he
is suffering from such excitement"
1t was Monday noon that Mr.. Green
span was first found by the police to be
disturbing the peace on lower Kansas
avenue. He was taken to the city jail
and a charge of drunkenness was en-
tered, but since his first arrest he has
not improved in the least and it is plain
ly evident that he is suffering from total
alteration of the mind. He talks con-
tinuaIIy of business.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Greenspan
visited him at the Jail and talked with
him through the grating of the cell
door. He did not talk rational to her.
Mrs. Greenspan was pale when she en-
tered the police station. While she was
talking with her husband she was ac-
cOmpanied by Officer PaVey and Jailer
Hopkins. While talking to Mr.. Green
span she suddenly grasped at the bars
of the door and before the officers who
were near her could reach her she
tainted and fell to the floor. She recov-
cred from her faint and was taken into
the court room. 1t was an hour before
she was able to leave the station.
Mr.. Greenspan has prOba bly, been de-
ranged for some time as he told Fred
Miller several days ago that in the last
few days he had made $780, 900. He told
Walter Peck that he would send him to
Europe to sell chewing gum.
At the police station he said he was
in Jail simply to see what was done be-
hind the bars. that he and D. o. Nc
Cray had bought out a large eastern
newspaper and that his experiences
would be printed in that paper. He
gave Officer Pavey an order for a case
of champagne to be delivered to Judge
A Bergen, Judge L. S. Ferry, P. I.
Bonebrake, Judge w. r. Hazen, A. w.
Dana, c. 3. Merriam and Howell Jones.