The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-27

strike the driver, who got out of the
wagon. The mules not going fast
enough for him he quit the wagon,
especially when he saw new attend
ant entering the chase after him. Be
fore he reached the top of the hill
which was quite steep the other side
of Walnut creek, and was watching
the attendant who was trailing him
the fresh attendant seized him, and
a struggle ensued, the patient OF
maniac having the weight and the
desperation to aid him in making a
fight for his liberty. In the mean
time the chasing attendant came up
and the three struggled together, the
attendants trying to secure him, and
they all rolled down the embankment
and not into a railroad cut At this
juncture the other two attendants
came up, and in order to get control
of the patient one of the attendants
took his belt from his waist and tied
his hands behind him. On the way &c
the mill. A telephone message was
he gave out, and thew carried him to
the mills. A telephone message was
then sent to us from the Caralelgh
Mills that an escaped maniac was
giving great trouble to his attendants
and they needed help. | immediate
ly sent the head nurse and the next
riage that was standing in front of
the building, having brought pa
tient to the house. They met a buggy
with the maniac being conveyed to
the hospital, and tho transferred him
to the carriage, brought him to the
hospital where he was stripped and
thoroughly examined by DR.. Jenkins
the assistant physician, and myself
and put to bed. The mans pulse, was
tic
were dilated, and the man uncon-
scous. He was given stimulants and
strong heart tonics, hypodermatically
An examination of his body disclosed
a scalp wound on the upper left side
of his scalp, an inch long, and not
cut to the bone. but a clean cut wound,
from which the blood flowed very
freely, the scalp being very vascular
tissue. There was a bruise on the left
side of his face which the man had
when he was admitted to the hospital.
There were some abrasions about his
chest and shoulders. There were no
or cuts about his body, no
bones broken. The man responded to
the stimulants internally and 'hypo-
Dramatically and began to beat his
chest with his hands as if he was
fighting for air, showing that he was
not getting sufficient oxygen. This
condition was probably due TO the
over-taxed condition of his heart, due
to his prolonged muscular effort and
accumulated fat or possibly to the
rupture of a small blood vessel inter-
nally, and as he bled freelv from the
nose some hours after death, it is
rather confirmatory of the ruptured
blood vessel. The man died from
heart failure, due to either one of
those causes mentioned or probably
both. The death certificate was rem
dered as heart failure due to prolonged
effort. The body was turned
over to Undertaken Brown to be en-
balmed. Mr.. Brown, who does the
stated that his lungs and
heart were both overloaded with blood,
and that blood ran profusely from the
dead maniac's nose. His father was
notified by wire, and a letter written
him in explanation of the whole pro-
ceeding.
I'VE have not been in the habit of
chasing escaped patients. We usually
catch them by telephone or telegraph,
but on account of the desperate and
character of this patient, it
was thought best that we apprehend
and return him lest he do damage to
of hers