The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-02-17
EX-SOLDLER is
FOUND INSANE
Michael Chudada, Former
Kenoshan, Sent to Hos
pital at Mendoza.
HAD A FEAR OF WAR
Tells Examining Physicians
Weird Stories of Attacks
on His Life.

Soothing at scars which never felt a
wound and hearing continually in his
ears the rattle of musketry which
rs years, residing at $50 Lemon street,
Kenosha, and a former soldier, was
adjudicated insane in the county court
at Madison on Friday afternoon and
committed to the state hospital at
Mendoza as charge of the county of
Kenosha. Judge Zimmerman in com
hitting the man declared that the case
was one of the most unusual ever seen
in his court. While Chudada never
saw service on the battle front, he has
all the symptoms Of a man who had
been submitted to the fear Of battle
and the results of the poison gasses
used on the battle front. His relatives
have declared that his condition is due
to ibis military service, but surgeons
who examined him before he was com
mitted to the asylum declared that he
was suffering from disease and that
this disease had probably brought the
failure of his mental faculties.
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Chudada related to the examining
physicians a series of narrowing ex-
periences which were alleged to have
been the cause of his mental condition.
He declared among other things that
the lieutenant in charge of the com
pany in which he had served in the
army had shot at him with a revolver
thirteen times and although the bull
lets were fired point blank at him that
not one of them hArt him. He declares
that the "hard-boiled sergeant" under
whom he served attempted to kill him,
that his father tried to kill him with
a chair but that the chair bounced off
his head without doing him any bodily
injury. It was declared that none of
these things ever happened.
Saw Ghost of Woman.
His most interesting hallucination
concerned the ghost of a beautiful
woman. The ghost came to him in the
night and Chudada declared that it
was in the form of beautiful woman
who threw bayonet at him from the
air. Like the other attempts on his
life, the bayonet failed to cut. He de-
clared that there was constant noise
in his right ear which went to his
heart but that with his left ear he
could hear and understand any kind of
language.
Chudada was declared to be in per-
feet physical condition and the physi-
clans could not account for the strange
Authorizations which he has told about.
He has been suffering from these hall
lucinations for some time and it is
thought possible that they represent
the fears which he felt when he was
in the army service for a short time.
Never Went Overseas.
Chudada, who is we'll known and a
citizen of the United States, never saw
service overseas. He was drafted into
the army at Kenosha, August A, 1918
and sent to Camp Grant and he was
still under training at Camp Grant
when the armistice was signed in No
vember of the same year. He remained
in the service until the first of Janu-
airy of 1919 when he was released and
returned to Kenosha Later he was
taken sick and he was sent to the Ma
rine hospital in Chicago. He was un-
der the care of the United States pub
lie health service when he was turned
over to the officials of Dane county
with the request that he be sent to
the state hospital for the insane The
physicians attending the man declared
that his condition was such that they
feared that he could not recover.