Suicide of a Patient
On Monday last sometime before noon Cyrus Dew, aged 50, a patient in the Athens Asylum from Perry county, managed to elude the vigilance of his attendants while taking his customary daily exercise on the Asylum grounds in company with the other patients of his ward, and making his way to the Hocking river at a point opposite the Asylum lake, drowned himself. As soon as he was missed a search was instituted, but before he was found by the attendants he was discovered by a number of boys who were bathing in the river, standing in a stooping posture a short distance from the shore with his head submerged in the water dead. He had tied his hands together with his handkerchief, and wading from the bank held his head under the water until life was extinct. No blame attaches to the officers or employees of the Asylum, and the only wonder is that more patients of suicidal tendencies do not succeed in making way with themselves than now do, and from doing which they are prevented only by the sustained watchfulness that is kept over them.
Athens Messenger (OH) Thursday, July 27, 1893. page 1, column 2
Contributor:
John Cunningham - [email protected]
On Monday last sometime before noon Cyrus Dew, aged 50, a patient in the Athens Asylum from Perry county, managed to elude the vigilance of his attendants while taking his customary daily exercise on the Asylum grounds in company with the other patients of his ward, and making his way to the Hocking river at a point opposite the Asylum lake, drowned himself. As soon as he was missed a search was instituted, but before he was found by the attendants he was discovered by a number of boys who were bathing in the river, standing in a stooping posture a short distance from the shore with his head submerged in the water dead. He had tied his hands together with his handkerchief, and wading from the bank held his head under the water until life was extinct. No blame attaches to the officers or employees of the Asylum, and the only wonder is that more patients of suicidal tendencies do not succeed in making way with themselves than now do, and from doing which they are prevented only by the sustained watchfulness that is kept over them.
Athens Messenger (OH) Thursday, July 27, 1893. page 1, column 2
Contributor:
John Cunningham - [email protected]
Suicide of a Patient
On Monday last sometime before noon Cyrus Dew, aged 50, a patient in the Athens Asylum from Perry county, managed to elude the vigilance of his attendants while taking his customary daily exercise on the Asylum grounds in company with the other patients of his ward, and making his way to the Hocking river at a point opposite the Asylum lake, drowned himself. As soon as he was missed a search was instituted, but before he was found by the attendants he was discovered by a number of boys who were bathing in the river, standing in a stooping posture a short distance from the shore with his head submerged in the water dead. He had tied his hands together with his handkerchief, and wading from the bank held his head under the water until life was extinct. No blame attaches to the officers or employees of the Asylum, and the only wonder is that more patients of suicidal tendencies do not succeed in making way with themselves than now do, and from doing which they are prevented only by the sustained watchfulness that is kept over them.
Athens Messenger (OH) Thursday, July 27, 1893. page 1, column 2
Contributor:
John Cunningham - [email protected]
On Monday last sometime before noon Cyrus Dew, aged 50, a patient in the Athens Asylum from Perry county, managed to elude the vigilance of his attendants while taking his customary daily exercise on the Asylum grounds in company with the other patients of his ward, and making his way to the Hocking river at a point opposite the Asylum lake, drowned himself. As soon as he was missed a search was instituted, but before he was found by the attendants he was discovered by a number of boys who were bathing in the river, standing in a stooping posture a short distance from the shore with his head submerged in the water dead. He had tied his hands together with his handkerchief, and wading from the bank held his head under the water until life was extinct. No blame attaches to the officers or employees of the Asylum, and the only wonder is that more patients of suicidal tendencies do not succeed in making way with themselves than now do, and from doing which they are prevented only by the sustained watchfulness that is kept over them.
Athens Messenger (OH) Thursday, July 27, 1893. page 1, column 2
Contributor:
John Cunningham - [email protected]
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