The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-27
IMBECILE'S BED
 WAS IN ASH BIN
Most Shocking Condition Discovered By Charities
 Department Today
MAN NAKED IN LITTLE SHANTY
Prevalence of Insanity May Be Due to Dead House
 Booze, Say Physicians


 The most shocking case of neglect within the memory of the officials of the Charities department came to light 4oday when Investigator Morrissey was despatched by Superintendent of Charities Brennan to the rear of Gas per Kuhn's saloon, 425 Hancock ave mue. to look up a report Of an insane man.
 The investigator visited several homes in the vicinity seeking the man and was about to give up when he re- ceived word from Kuhn's saloon that lnis quarry was to be found in the back yard
 storage of hay and the remainder to housing the ashes and refuse from ten ement houses in the vicinity, stands dn the rear As Morrissey looked into the damp recesses of the building ne saw a form lying in the corner As his eyes grew more accustomed 10 the darkness he saw 1t was a man, slarH naked, who was huddled in an armful of loose hay arranged about the floor of the barn. A few tattered, filthy garments were scattered apout the lHh- provised bed.
 The man proved to be John Kosicz- Ezf laborer, aged 40, who had been living in the West End for about s years For several years he has been a hard thinker, and of late he had been acting so strangely that none Of his fellow COunCTY1nen WOu1G G14AOW him board Little information as to the places of employment and resi- dence could be ascertained from the victim who is little better than an inn beetle.
 The man reused himself when Mor- rissey called, and grinned vacantly 1n and with Morrissey's help donned part of his clothing. Several Of the gar. nnents were so dirty that he was not allowed to put them on But when to the investigators carriage he was taken in, bundled in blanket and driven away.
 in the ahanty for several weeks. He had made one bed in a corner Of the ash heap, where a pillow made Of bathed for many weeks. That he was able to retain his health despite the alnsanitary surroundings is a marvel to those who looked into his case
 Investigator Morrissey took the man directly to Lakeyiew home, where his 1clothes were at once thrown into a 5bonfiue He was put through a bath, the first he had had, no doubt, in years, and then placed in cell in the insane pavilion. Here he will be de tained until arra9Pgements sa can De
 Kosiczkf has been eight years in the United States, as nearly as can be from the provisions of the Immigra- tion Restrictions relative to deport- sation. But the city will doubtless be glad to pay the expense of his trip back to Austria if arrangements can kbe made to that end.
 Kosiczki's addition to the insane pavilion at LakevieW home leaves that place badly overtaxed. The prevalence of insanity of late hereabouts had shown that the facilities there are not adequate. There are but 12 cells for the detention of insane people there, and a large room where the harmless dnsane are allowed to eongregate. Within a few weeks, seven insane peo- pie were brought there inside of AS hours. most of them arising, the city 2 officials and physicians think from -dead-house'' whiskey so called. Some of these rapidly recover and are al- lowed their liberty within 9, short time, wHhiIe others are permanently derang- ed and eventually are sent to one of hhe state hospitals for insane.
 The Middletown state hospital is sovercrowded at present. Today two of the insane inmates of. Lakevfew were committed to one of the state hospitals. The only other state hos pidly filling up, and it is question of but a short time, it is feared, be- fore both the state institutions will be taxed beyond their capacity.
 Yesterday the population of the in sane pavilion was increased by the arrival from the county jail of Joseph Griffin, formerly proprietor of a lit tile notion store in Stratford avenue in the East End. He was sentenced to Jail for IS days last week for in- toxication. Griffin has wife and daughters in Waterbury. from whom he has been eetranged. He formerly kept a large store in Southington Now he is penniless-
 Martin Hudac, another inmate ot the Laheview insane ward, who tried to hang himself at his sisters home RA Church street, last week, will be haken to Hoboken by Investigator nGorrissey for deportation tomorrow.