The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-04
tVAR OYER INSANE PATIENT
|ouly FROM BELLEVUE DIED AT
CIyUaTTAN STATE HOSPITAL.
,..e, and &brasions on Mrs. Maier's Body,
supt. Dent RepOrts-She Died Soon
Iuer Leaving Belleyue-t's Man.
h.rans Fault, Says Supt. Rickard.

Iner Leaving Beileyue-Its Man.
h,rans Fault, Says Supt. Richard.
controversy over the circumstances
',oundIng the death OF Helen Maier,
,sars old, wife OF August Maier, Of 1893
and avenue, has arisen between Supt.
=, Of the Manhattan State Hospital
the Insane and Supt Richard Of Belle
The woman was removed to the
,,battan State Hospital from Bellevue
Saturday shortly before noon and
at o'clock in the afternoon. Supt.
N, sent the Board Of Coroners yesterday
lo,,er in the course Of which he made
lis statement
A. ,,soA. NJ, July /. received a patient
AZ, pelleyue suffering from acute mania
"a showed violent mental and motor excite
throwing herself about--and was In
rata NJ great restessness. She showed
.n,. .unerAcIal bruises and abrasions on
hodv when admitted. She was brought
Az pe,Iev,,e on a stretcher and was i'm
sSis,ely given every care and attention.
The letter, which reports the woman's
.atb was referred to the Bellevue man
lament with request for an explanation.
uas said there last night that on April
s Nsier was committed to the Manhat-
n State Hospital from Bellevue after be-
y sdnIdged insane. She remained there
NH June 20, when she was discharged,
A report from Dr. Dent, 1t was said,
at she was fit to go home. In the record
the case ia statement OF her husband
Harding her removal, in this language:
3ttan State Hospital at the urgent insist
re Of Supt. Dent, who told me the patient
i well enough to be cared for at home"
According to Mr.. Maier, also. no sooner
his wife reached home than she left
Isin, and for two days he could not find
n Then Policeman Fitzgerald OF the
lst SiXty-seventh street station discov-
ed her behaving frantically on the street.
e was taken to Bellevue in an ambulance.
! the way there and after her arrival she
lled tore her hair, tossed herself about
d did everything in her power to DO her
n injury. In other words, the Bellevue
kople say, she was suffering from re-
|rrence of that "motor excitement she
Nj at her first commitment.
Before she could he removed to the Man
ian Sta.e Hospital, the Bellevue authori-
saw, it was necessary to secure another
tmitment, and this was obtained last
lrday morning from Justice Truax.
il insisted at Bellevue that everything
slble was done to get her to Manhatta an
tie Hospital again as speedily as possible:
supt. Richard talked vigorously and
ntedy about the case last night. He
d.,
II consider it very unmanly act on the
II Of Supt Dent to try to throw the blame
Mrs Maier' death upon the pyschopa THO
|rd of Bellevue. Nevertheless, if there
going TO be a controversy over this, it
be good thing to have 1t settled by
id and thorough examination, for there
80 many circumstances In which similar
troversy arises. For my part. 1 well
me an investigation. The records here
bv that the responsibility rests entirely
b the Manhattan State Hospital
is considered certain that the coroners
order thorough investigation through
Of their number. The woman's body
been removed to the Morgue. Her hus-
bd has made no formal complaint re-
ttng the care given her.