Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-03-03
TRAGIC ENCOUNTER
WITH A PATIENT

Justice of the Peace ". V. Oglesby
was called to the Hospital for the In
sane Monday evening to hold an in
quest OIL the death of patient who
died under peculiarly sad and tragic
circumstances.
| The patient in question was Stanny
| Zuciemevic of Shamokin, who was ad-
judged insane at Sunbury on Thursday
of last week and brought to the Hos
pital for the Insane on the same day.
Before leaving Snubury Zuciemevic
made his will. giving expression to
the prophetic remark that he would
not live more than few days
Zuciemevio was confined in ward
at the Hospital About 8: 40 O'Clock
Sunday night he raped Oh the door OF
his bed room. An attendant answered
the call, whereupon the patient asked
for drink of water. The attendant
procured the water but before taking
it to the patients room as customary
precaution called another attendant to
his assistance.
With candle in hand the two men
opened the door when they we're viol-
emily assaulted by Zuoiemevic. In
their endeavor to prevent the patient
from escaping from the room, the two
attendants were themselves drawn in
to the narrow apartment, when the
lunatic with cunning design pushed
the door shut and renewed his fero-
cious assault upon the two men.
The door at the patients rooms have
10 knobs on the inside and can only bs
opened by a certain manipulation un-
derstood by the attendants, which re-
auires some little time. The wild
man, kept the two men SO busy that
they could not get the door open and
we're obliged to act on the defensive
o ave heir liyea 1t was indeed a
desperate encounter, which the attend
ants have cause to remember until
their dying day.
They finally overpowered the insane
man and put him in straight jacket.
One of the doctors was Immediately
summoned. The usual remedy was ap-
piled to quiet the patient, when he fell
asleep and rested until morning. He
ate breakfas and seemed all right.
Later, however, he showed symptoms
of illness and fever developed. He
grew steadily worse until O'Clock.
Monday afternoon when he died
Death, it is thought, was caused by a
fractured rib, which penetrated the
liver.
The following jury was impaneled
by Justice of the Peace Oglesby: Dr.
J. .. Reed. William Started, George
Freeze, Edward German. Milton Am
norman and W. f. Young The jury
after hearing all the testimony decid-
ed that the patient came to his death
under circumstances which cast no
guilt upon the attendants and that
there was no evidence upon which
they could be held
w. V. Oglesby, Justice of the Peace.
acting coroner. yesterday presented to
: the court report of the lnquisition
3 taken at the State Hospital for the In.
sane, Monday, February 27th. upon
J view OF the body of Stanny Zuciene'
wicz, then and there lying dead.
, The facts as presented to the court
are as follows:
} "Stanny Zucienewicz was admitted
to the Hospital on Thursday, February
23, 1905 by order of the Court OF North
cumberland comfy, he having been
resident of Goal township in said coun
ty, heing under the delusion that every
body was trying to kill or poison him.
, At 40 O'Clock Sunday evening
$ Sterling Ash, a nurse in the receiving
Q ward of said Hospital, heard knock
' ing at Zucienewicz' door. went ant
found that he wanted drink of wat
er Having gotten the tin of water ht
went with Edward NJ. Hart. another
p nurse (these two being the only nursei
8 in the ward at the time) unlock ad tht
!, door, entered and gave the tin to Zuci
A enewicz, who declared it to be poison
and made savage attack upon them
stating in his broken English, that he
intended to kill them. In the scuffls
the candle. the only light in the room
was upset aud the door, which has NJ
inside knob. was shut, making it i'm
possible to escape. The room was by
10 feet and contained large-sizet
wooden single bed.
i In the effort to subdue the patien
Is he came violently in contact will
ID something, probably the head or TIN
foot of the bed, which made a bruis'
l. clear across the abdomen, fracturini
the breast bone and two ribs. 1t ais
n ruptured the liver. making an openin
n about one inch long and one inch deep
II The skin was not broken or punctured
~ 1t further appears from the testimon
10 that the said Sterling Ash and Edwar
NJ. Hart, were acting in the perform
: ance of their duty when the said Stann
Zucienewicz was injured and that the
did nothing which under all the Gil
cumstsnoes is subject TO censure.
The report was ordered filed and di
rected by the court tn be placed on tn
argument list for further disposition.
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