The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-04
|,VAR OYER INSANE PATIENT
lovAN FROM BELLEVUE DIED AT
"IyHaTTiN STATE HOSPITAL.

.,,.s and Abrssl ons on Mrs. Maier's Body,
can, Dent Reports Died Soon
Alter Leaving Belle,ue-1t's Man.
satan. Fault, Says Supt. Richard.
controversy over the circumstances
a,undinp the death of Helen Maier,
nsars old, wife of August Maier, of 1893
{. ,ond avenue, has arisen between Supt.
~, Of the Manhattan State Hospital
,bs Insane and Supt. Richard Of Belle
The woman was removed to the
",o,,an State Hospital from Bellevue
:, saturday shortly before noon and
~ a, o'clock in the afternoon. Supt.
81, ssnt the Board OF Coroners yesterday
latter in the course OF which he made
bis statement
a. soA. NJ. July /. received a patient
~, pslleyue suffering from acute mania
showed violent mental and motor excite
throwing herself about-and was in
o,o ~ great rcstlessness. She showed
,nr sunerncial bruises and abraslons on
kodv when admitted She was brought
CO. pelleyuc on a stretcher and was I'M
.d,,oly given every care and attention.
Tho letter, which reports the woman's
..,b was referred to the Bellevue man
lsment with request for an explanation.
vas said there last night that on April
r.. Maer was committed to the Manhat-
n state Hospital from Bellevue after be-
adiudged insane She remained there
Vii lime %, when she was discharged,
n report from Dr. Dent, II was said,
bat abe was fit to go home. In the record
the case il a statement OF her husband
srardinp her removal in this language:
NV wife was discharged from the Man
[,ttan State Hospital at the urgent insist
rce Of Supt. Dent, who told mo the patient
las well enough to be cared for at home
According to Mr.. Maier, also, no sooner
lad his wife reached home than she left
|rain, and for two days he could not find
Isr Then Policeman Fitzgerald OF the
fest Sixty-seventh street station discov-
he'd her beha wing frantically on the street.
he was taken to Bellevue in an ambulance.
n the way there and after her arrival she
! led. tore her hair, tossed herself about
nd did everything in her power to do her
N injury. In other words, the Bellevue
feope say, she was suffering from a re-
frrence of that motor excitement she
I sd at her first commitment.
Before she could be removed to the Man
Is,tan Stae Hospital, the Bellevue authori-
rs say, II Was HeStSSdIy w sCSuiC
j,nmitment, and this was obtained last
Iaturday morning from Justice Truax.
is insisted at Bellevue that everything
Sossbe was done to get her to Manhattan
tate Hospital again as speedily as possible:
Supt Richard talked vigorously and
\ointedy about the case last night. He
|aid
| I consider it very unmanly act on the
art Of Supt. Dent to try to throw the blame
u Mrs Maier's death upon the pyschopathic
ard of Bellevue. Nevertheless, if there
going to be controversy over this, it
| II be good thing to have 1t settled by a
id and thorough examination, for there
h so many circumstances in which similar
ltroversy arises. For my part, I well
bne an investigation. The records here
bow that the responsibility rests entirely
ah the Manhattan State Hospital
| It is considered certain that the coroners
HI order thorough investigation through
be Of their number. The woman's body
b been removed to the Morgue. Her hus-
Ind has made no formal complaint re-
brding the care given her.