The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-28
ANAC FONDA NE WIS.
PAT BURKE IS INSANE
Well-Known Young Man OF
Carroll in a Very Bad Way.
WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
He Tries to Sever an Artery in His Wrist,
and Failing in That He Butts His
Head Savagely Against the
Iron Cell Grating.

I've beaten the record-two miles in
IL seconds. with two men i'm hot pur.
suit-one horseback and another afoot
their big gun trained on me; but I'm
safe. thank the Lord: they can't get
me here, can they? Hurry, lock me ur
In a cell; they're coming; my life is in
danger!"
1t was Pat Burke who had run, like
madmen do sometimes, from Carroll just
after midnight yesterday morning. He
arrived at the county jail and asked to
be locked up from imaginary pursuers.
The night jailer locke him up in a
county cell and all went we'll until
about noon yesterday, when Deputy
Sheriff Schurtz was feeding the prison
ers. While the deputy was unlocking
Burke's cell the latter was in the act
of saving his wrist with a small piece
OF looking glass that had been used 10y
prisoners in making their toilets. The
deputy rushed at the crazy man. but
did not reach him before he had cut an
ugly cash in his wrist. The deputy sum-
moned assistance from the office. and
three men tussled with the frenzied pris-
oner. While he was being dragged from
the cell, his feet and hands in the firm
grasp OF officers, he struck his head re-
peatedly on the hard floor. He was re-
moved to a city cell. In there he beat
his head against the iron grating and
after trying to beat his brains out he
would put his hand to his head to see
II 1T We're bleeding. He was then
shackled, hands and feet. Still he con-
tinued to butt his head against the iron
walls. until officers went in and tied
him securely to a cot. He did not yell
or rave, but submitted to being bound
to the bed.
Deputy County Physician Evans
wv up the wound. which. however,
was not deep enough to cut a vital ar
terry.
Burke has acted queerly for several
days. "A few days age he went to the
sheriff's office and asked for the use of
the telephone. He wanted to talk with
a man in Carroll. saying that he wished
10 tell him that there was no truth
in that report" He then asked to be
locked up, which request was granted.
In the evening friends wen to the Jail
and took the young man away, saying
that they would keep watch over him.
They said hat he had taken a pledge
not to drink and hat he had broken Il
by getting very drunk, and they
thought that his roubl was only tenn
porary. They later returned and asked
to have him locked up over night. prom
Using to return the next morning and
take him to the hospital. They return
ed and started for the hospital. When
they reached the gate at the hospital
of the men went in to make ar
rangements for a ward for their patient.
Burke. however, in the meantime
showed decided symptoms of sanity, and
IL was agreed to return with him to Car
roll. That was the last heard of Burke
until he rushed into the ~jailer's room a
crazy man.
Burke imagines that he is an A. p. A.
and that hundreds of men are after his
life. He said hat a man had been hung
in Carroll for offending him: tina he
was acquainted with a young lady
whose heart woul break il she knew
what he did: that a prominent man
in this city had given him a dollar and
that 160 jurymen had been killed in the
court room upstairs.
He has many friends i'm Carroll who
have watched him in the hope that care
and attention would result i'm his COM
plete recovery.
He told an officer, who asked him
why he tried to commit suicide, that he
would rather be dead thar live the
way he is, in mortal fear of enemies.