The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-08

Mrs. Amelia Bloch, wife of Adam Bloch, baker living at 637 Arctic street, this city, is held at the Fair Held County Jail here for the murder In Greens Farms yesterday morning of the occupant of an adjoining room En Dr. D. W. McF'arland's Greens Farms Sanitariuna, Westport. The vic Rim was Lyria F-ouchere. B, school teacher of France, who came to Amer acaL little more than year ago at Ehe instance of her brother. Leon Fouchere of 322 w. 29th street. Her body was taken to New York city by her brother this afternoon.
 Mrs. Bloch was an inmate of the sanitarium a little less than a month. She had been subject to mental troubles for several years and had months ago she drank a quantity of carbolic acid that nearly killed her. When she had recovered sufficiently to leave the Bridgeport hospital her husband sent her to the Hartford, Conn, Retreat where she remained un- til -she returned to Iakeview Home in this city. Then she went to the Greens
 Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock Mrs. Bloch after breakfast began to enjoy the privilege accorded the seven oceu- pants of her ward, of lounging about the corridor into which their. rooms opened. The ward is on the top floor 2 of the San1far1u1n ana It IS QoVOCeQ IO patients who are regarded as hopeless 1y insane and therefore not suitable to associate with the milder patients who have lower portions of the big build a1ag.
 Suddenly she became hysterical and shouted so loudly as to lead Mrs. Min nie varian. one of 2e two. graduate her back to her room. Mrs. Bloch struggled violently, and bit Mrs. Vari- an several times upon the forearns 1lurk +fR.o T1rYN T~05 nIT1fP forced the patient into her roon- Then she called upon Miss Mary Stannard another nurse to dress her injuries
 They left Mrs. Bloch in her room. adjoining that of Miss Fouchere, and walked to a further end of the corridor where the dressing of the wounds was Mrs Bloch stealing stealthily out of the room of Miss Fouchere.
 The nurses abandoned their bandag- Ang. and hurried into the room of the Foaohere girl. She lay upon the floor. her light dress torn and ripped open, at the neck They thought she was their discovery led them to cryout She had been csaocked and death was due partly to shock, partly to strangu- Aation- Other nurses and attendants who was dressing.
 He reached the room in a moment the woman he was unable to do SO. He toiled for half an hour trying to discover 6 spek of life then notified Medical Examiner F. Powers, M. D.,
 Dr. MoFarland and the nurses then questioned Mrs. Bloch as to her con altitude of stoIid indifference and part of the time refused to answer quest 3ona, and again she disclaimed all re gponsfbi1ity for the girls death. 1~ None of the attendants had ever mo- t1ced anything alarming in the conduct of the Bloch woman save the hysteri- cal outbreaks. They regarded her case as one of hopeless insanity, but hay ing no history of violence did not con- eider 1t imperative to place her under constant restraint, and satisfied them selves with restricting her to the ward reserved for the cases considered be- yond cure.
 Dr. Powers satisfied himself that the conditions at the sanftariun were in every day in keeping with the require 1nent of the statutes. but in accordance with the law he notified Coroner Will Son. At the order of the latter. the Bloch woman was turned over to the custody of Investigator Alexander Mor- par1ment at the sanitarium late yes terday afternoon and brought back to Bridgeport and lodged in the county jail by night.
 be the appointment by the Superior court, criminal side, which convenes in thre weeks of commission of 1un- acy to pass upon the condition of the prisoner. She will in all likelihood be committed to the State Hospital for Insane, where she will be kept con fined in the criminal ward.
 The coroner is satisfied that the san ftarium people used every reasonable safeguard.
 Mrs Bloch is g years of age a na- tive of Russia, ard has been living in this country but a few years. About three years ago she underwent an op- eration, the shock of which left her mentally impaired Her physical strength returned, but her mind was never fully restored. The motive for her drinking the acid at her home was never ascertained other than she may have taken it in a fit or dispondency.
 Her husband is employed at Rams bakery, and is an industrious and frug- al workman.
 MAN ARRESTED NEAR
 TAFT SUMMER HOME
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