The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-04
'VAR OYER INSANE PATIENT
.v,y FROM BELLEVUE DIED AT
C,HtTTtN STATE HOSPITAL.

,,.,s and lAbrasions on Mrs. Maler's Body.
can't, Dent Reports-She Died soon
,rsr Leaving Beiieyuc-It Man.
h,tan's Fault, says Supt. Richard.
.,n,roversy over the circumstances
.nndine the death of Helen Maier.
.,r. old wife of August Maier, OF l7Gs
.,rd avenue, has arisen between Supt.
~ the Manhattan State Hospital
.hs Insane and Supt, Richard Of Belle
The woman was removed to the
Y,,,,an State Hospital from Bellevue
saturday shortly before noon and
, ot 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Supt'
y, .ent the Board of Cor6ners yesterday
otter, in the course OF which he made
|, statement;
u,ao A, NJ. July /. received patient
po,,eyu, suffering from acute mania
y" toy,d violent mental and motor excite
,hro,vinu herself about-and was in
~ yreot restlcssness. She showed
s,nsrscial bruises and abrasions on
't S,d,. whom admitted She was brought
n ll,yue on a strctcher and was I'M
Iio,,v given every care and attention.
rho letter. which reports the woman's
.tb was referred to the Bellevue man
k'mer, with a request for an explanation.
-,s said there last night that on April 1
Major was committed to the Manhat-
c,ate Hospital from Bellevue after be-
admdred insane She remained there
Il lime %, when she was discharged,
n report from DR.. Dent, 1t was said,
she was fit to 20 home. In the record
.be case il a statement of her husband
,srdine her removal in this language
Nv wife was discharged from the Man
tan State Hospital at the urgent insist
X OF Supt. Dent, who told me the patient
well enough to be cared for at nome.
lccording to Mr.. Maier, also, no sooner
! his wife reached home than she left
ain and for two days he could not find
Then Policeman Fitzgerald OF the
St Sixty-seventh street station discov-
ID her behaving frantically on the street.
. was taken to Bellevue in an ambulance.
,he way there and after her arrival she
lad. tore her hair, tossed herself about
Il did everything in her power to do her
injury. In other words. the Bellevue
one say. she was suffering from a re-
renee of that "motor excitement she
4 AZ her first commitment.
Bafore she could be removed to the Man
ian STATE Hospital, the Bellevue authori-
ssay it was necessary to secure another
imminent, and this was obtained last
mrday morning from Justice TruaS.
i insisted at Bellevue that everything
sibls was done to get her to Manhattan
he Hospital again as speedily as possible.
Elpt Richard talked vigorously and
ntedly about the case last night. He
81 consider it very unmanly act on the
n Of Supt Dent to try to throw the blame
Nrs. Maier's death upon the pyschopat hic
I'd of Bellevue. Nevertheless, If there
going to be controversy over this, 1t
be a good thing to have it settled by a
ID and thorough examination. for there
20 many circumstances in which simila
ntoversy arises. For my part, well
he an Investigation. The records here
bw that the responsibility rests entirely
h 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-
hd has made no formal complaint re-
ring the care given her.