Pueblo County, Colorado
Insane Asylum Patients
Pack, H. C.
patient gender M race Kor age 63 marital status Un birthplace Korea source 1930 census
Packer, Alfred
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 8-10-1893 The Colorado Man-Eater at Canon Rapidly Losing His Mind. Alfred Packer, the man-eater of the San Juan, now serving a term of forty years in the state penitentiary is said to be insane. Governor Waite today received a letter from the penitentiary to that effect. Alfred Packer is serving a term for killing and eating five of his companions near Lake City, in the pioneer days of that section. He was a part of a prospecting party from Salt Lake City which was in route to Saguache, and camped just above where Lake City has since been built. While there Packer killed his five companions and ate them, for which he was tried and convicted. Numerous efforts have been made to affect his release, this being the latest and the allegation of insanity is probably true.
Packer, Alfred
Rocky Mountain Sun 8-19-1893 Governor Waite has appointed a board of three physicians to examine into the sanity of Alfred Packer, known as the man eater, confined in the penitentiary on a forty years' sentence. Packer's mind has failed rapidly of late and it is believed he will soon be hopelessly insane. He will probably soon be removed to the asylum at Pueblo.
Packer, Alfred
Rocky Mountain News 8-10-1893 Is the Cannibal Insane? A Committee to Inquire Into Alfred Packer's Condition The governor yesterday appointed P. R. Thombs of Pueblo, J. T. Eskridge of Denver and F. P. Blake of Canon City as a committee to inquire into the sanity of Alfred Packer. The action was taken at the recommendation of Warden McLister, who has doubts as to the prisoner's mental balance. The story of Packer's crime has been written many times and is well known throughout Colorado and the West. He was found guilty of murdering five men in San Juan county in 1874, and is serving a sentence of forty years in the penitentiary. It is claimed that disappointment at the recent decision of the supreme court has unbalanced Packer's mind. The court maintained that the cumulative sentence, as enunciated in Packer's case, was not in violation of the laws of the state.
Packer, Alfred
Rocky Mountain News 8-22-1893 From State Offices The special committee of medical experts, appointed by the governor to examine into the alleged insanity of Alfred Packer, at the state penitentiary, yesterday filed its report. The committee decides that Packer is not insane.
Packer, Alfred
Rocky Mountain News 4-7-1894 Staved Off Death The state board of pardons yesterday unanimously voted
The case of Packer, the man eater, was discussed and finally postponed to be reported upon by J. Warner Mills, who was prosecuting attorney at the time of Packer's trial. The point at issue is the justice of the cumulative sentence. John R. Smith presented Packer's case.
Padgham, Jessie
admitted 7-28-1915 from Montrose, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Padilla, M.
patient race W gender F age 31 marital status M place of birth Colorado source 1910 census
Padroza, Ramon
patient gender M race Mex age 28 marital status D birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Paeliman, Emma C.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1847 age 53 marital status S place of birth Ohio occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Paez, Ianacia
patient gender F race Mex age 40 marital status M birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Page, Ada
patient race: W sex: F age: 57 marital:M place of birth: Iowa occupation: kitchen help source: 1920 census
Page, Winnie
patient race: W sex: F age: 14 marital: S place of birth: Coloradonone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Palatier, Cecelia
Denver Evening Post 9-26-1896 Denver's Insane in Dismal Quarters Arapahoe county, through negligence of its officials, pays thousands of dollars annually to the state insane asylum for the care of its insane and the people never receive the benefit of the money expended. By the manner in which the state authorities permit the state asylum to be conducted they are responsible to the people of Arapahoe county for taking their thousands and giving them but slight benefits in return. Superintendent Thoms of the Pueblo asylum says Arapahoe county is entitled to but 33 per cent of the patients in the institution, and that its allowance is already present within the walls. The county commissioners of Arapahoe county know that the people whom they represent contribute 46 per cent of the support of the state asylum, yet they crowd their insane into small, badly-lighted cells in the basement of the county hospital instead of exerting sufficient endeavors to force the state asylum to receive patients for whom the institution has been paid. The hospital is now sheltering twenty-five insane patients when it should be sheltering none. There are no facilities and what means are at the disposal of the superintendent and medical staff are inadequate to cope with the constantly increasing number of lunatics. The hospital authorities are struggling nobly but it is a severe tax upon them and the county. It is a shame of many appealing voices (?) that the insane of the county are so poorly taken care of and that a dangerous lunatic should be made to suffer irritation beyond measure because of a lack of better quarters
In room No. 1 (of the Arapahoe County hospital) on the first floor, women occupy the four cells and three are probably the worst patients at present in the building
Some of the Worst Cases
A sad case is that in the opposite cell, where Cecelia Palatier lies on the cot partially undressed and monotonously chants, Ah, ah, ah, ah, to varying tunes all day long, her stockings hang from her feet while foam drops from her lips, as she occasionally stops her song and asks a question in French. To prevent damage, her hands are securely fastened in a leather bag
During the present year the county hospital has been relieved by the state asylum of but twenty-five of its charges who had been forced upon it by a lack of room at the state asylum, where they are firmly denied admission. At one time not many weeks ago there were nine persons tried in the county court on the charge of insanity, and all adjudged insane. They were at once taken to the county hospital for temporary detention. There are now at the hospital twenty-five persons who are adjudged insane, but who have not been sent to the state asylum. The county must support these people, regardless of their 46 per cent of the support of the state asylum. The patients at present in the county hospital are: Cecelia Peletier... Of this number four are dangerous to others as well as themselves. They are Ethel Jackson, Godfrey, Peletier and Farrell. They are patients that require constant attention
Paldji, Frank
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Paldji, Frank
patient race: W sex: M age: 28 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Palerno, Joe
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1846 age 54 marital status S place of birth Italy occupation miner source : 1900 census
Palmer, Cannie
Record Journal of Douglas County 7-30-1909 Notice of Adjustment Day Estate of Cannie Palmer, adjudged insane. The undersigned having been appointed conservator of the estate of Cannie Palmer, adjudged insane, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of said Douglas County at the Court House in Castle Rock in said County, on Saturday the 28th day of August A. D. 1909, at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated at Castle Rock, Colorado, this 29th day of July, A. D. 1909. E. M. Jackson, Conservator of the estate of Cannie Palmer adjudged insane. Chas. S. Heimann, Attorney.
Palmer, Florence M.
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Minnesota source 1930 census
Palmer, Florence M.
patient race: W sex: F age: 34 marital:M place of birth: Minnesota occupation: none source: 1920 census
Palmer, J.B
patient race: W sex: M age: 47 marital:W place of birth: Kentucky occupation: none source: 1920 census
Palmer, Michael
11-3-1905 Ouray Plaindealer Section Foreman Declared Insane A dispatch from Delta says that Michael Palmer, who has been section foreman on the D.&R.G. at that place for a number of years was declared insane; will be taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo. His particular hallucintaion seems to be a desire to tell George Gould how to run a railroad.
Palmer, William
patient race W gender M age 54 marital status S place of birth Wales occupation section man source 1910 census
Palmgrin,
6-9-1899 Silverite-Plaindealer The sheriff said he is bothered by a chap named Palmgrin, who was sent out to the insane asylum about a year ago. It seems that the man had about $40 when he was taken, which was applied on the expenses of his incarceration, the county paying the balance of over $100. Now the man wants his $40 back, and makes life a burden to the sheriff about it. The trouble with the insane asylum is that it is crowded, and the management turn out the patients upon the public long before they are cured. This is the case in almost every instance.
Pamperin, Louie
patient gender M race W age 78 marital status S birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Panak, Stephen
Steamboat Pilot 11-24-1920 Overjoyed at the thought that pains he had suffered for years were slowly but surely leaving his body proved too much for Stephen Panak, an old-time resident of Moffat county. During the last couple of weeks the joy appeared to prey upon his mind, until he was taken into custody and confined in the county jail. Panak was crippled several years ago and for years suffered great pain from one of his legs that failed to heal. He was adjudged insane and Sheriff S. H. Mosier took him to Pueblo.
Panak, Stephen
Routt County Sentinel 11-26-1920 Stephen Panek of Craig was last week adjudged insane, being taken to the Pueblo state hospital.
Panak, Stephen
Routt County Sentinel 12-3-1920 Among Our Neighbors Stephen Panak, who two weeks ago was taken to Pueblo from Craig, died Saturday at the insane asylum.
Panak, Stephen
Routt County Republican 11-19-1920 Steve Panak was adjudged insane at Craig Monday and Tuesday was taken to Pueblo by Sheriff Mosier of Moffat county.
Panak, Stephen
died 11-25-1920 buried South St. Mary's Cemetery, Walsenburg, Colo.
Paniff, Rachs
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Bulgaria source 1930 census
Panion, Barbara
patient gender F race W age 55 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Panion, Barbara
patient race: W sex: F age: 45 marital:M place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Panion, Barbara
admitted 6-5-1915 from Garfield, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Pantaleon, Serrano
patient gender M race W age 34 marital status S birthplace Philippine Islands source 1930 census
Papillion, Joseph
Rocky Mountain News 7-6-1894 Adjudged Insane A Prominent Mining Man Consigned to St. Luke's Hospital Breckenridge, Colo., July 5 Joseph Papillion, an old resident and prominent mining man of Kokomo, was adjudged insane to-day in the county court. W. L. Lawrence was appointed his guardian and will take him to St. Luke's hospital in Denver to-morrow for treatment. Mr. Papillion is in good financial circumstances and will therefore have the best of medical skill in his case.
Papist, Harry
patient race: W sex: M age: 25 marital: S place of birth: Coloradonone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Pappas, John
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:. place of birth: Samoan Islands occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pappas, Pete
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status D birthplace Greece source 1930 census
Papper, Levina
patient race: W sex: F age: 26 marital: M place of birth: Kansasnone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Papplan, Maria
patient race W gender F age . marital status . place of birth Germany occupation chambermaid source 1910 census
Parapet, Michael
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1843 age 57 marital status S place of birth Germany occupation tailer source : 1900 census
Pardew, Ella
patient gender F race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Oregon source 1930 census
Parish, Mr.
Castle Rock Journal - May 6, 1896 - Mr. Parish, who has been prospecting for a number of years in Russell Gulch, was adjudged insane by the county court on Monday, and remanded to the asylum at Pueblo.
Park, Alice McCormack
Park, Alice McCormack age 6m 15d, residence 944 Cateret Ave, Pueblo, daughter of James A. Park, died 7-30-1898, shipped 8-1-1898 in charge of father, Dr. Work, cost $50.00
Parke, Alice D.
patient race: W sex: F age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Wisconsin occupation: none source: 1920 census
Parke, Alice D.
Colorado Transcript 12-24-1914 In the County Court Before Judge Jameson The lunacy case of the People vs. Alice D. Parke was tried by a jury, Mrs. Parke found to be of unsound mind and sent to the State Asylum at Pueblo.
Parker, Della
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status Wd birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Parker, J. W.
patient race: W sex: M age: 60 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Parker, Joseph
patient gender M race W age 70 marital status S birthplace New York source 1930 census
Parker, Lillian
patient gender F race W age 37 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Parkhurst, Harvey J.
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Parkhurst, Kate
Grand Valley News 5-25-1910 Additional Local Items Mrs. Kate Parkhurst, wife of Irving Parkhurst of Grand Valley, was declared insane Tuesday afternoon by a jury in Judge Smith's court and was committed to Dr. Work's sanitarium at Pueblo. This is indeed a sad case. The affliction came upon the young woman since the birth of her baby about two months ago. Glenwood Post.
Parkinson, Nellie
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Parkinson, Nellie
patient race: W sex: F age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Kentucky occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Parkinson, Nellie
patient, female, white, age 64, divorced, born Kentucky, 1930 Woodcroft census
Parks, Addie B.
patient, female, white, age 69, married, born Colorado, 1930 Woodcroft census
Parks, Alva
Steamboat Pilot 12-4-1918 Sheriff Clark and Undersheriff Shaw left yesterday morning for Denver, taking with them Alva Parks, the Hayden ranchman who had been committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Parks, Alva
Routt County Sentinel 11-29-1918 Alva Parks, for many years a ranchman near Hayden, was examined by the Lunacy commission in the County court Saturday and was ordered committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. On account of the illness of Sheriff Clark, he is cared for here.
Parks, Alva
Routt County Sentinel 12-6-1918 Sheriff Emory E. Clark left on Wednesday morning's train for Pueblo, taking Alva Parks of Hayden, who had been committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. Undersheriff W. C. Shaw accompanied them, going to Denver for a visit of a few days.
Parks, Alva
Routt County Republican 12-20-1918 Adjustment Notice Estate of Alva Parks, insane. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them for adjustment to the County Court on the 20th day of January, A. D. 1918 (should be 1919). H. J. Summer, Conservator.
Parks, Alva
Routt County Republican 12-27-1918 Conservator's Sale Notice is hereby given that on Monday the 13th day of January, 1919 next, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of said day at the late residence of Alva Parks, insane, county of Routt and state of Colorado, the personal property of said person consisting of: Six head of Horses; 24 Head of Cattle; 30 Tons of Hay; some Farm machinery and some household goods and other articles, will be sold at Public Sale, in accordance with an order of court. Terms of Sale Cash. H. J. Summer, Conservator.
Parks, Clara
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status M birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Parks, Florence
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status Wd birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Parpala, Alexander
Daily Journal December 20, 1898 Found Insane and Sent to Pueblo - Alexander Parpala, the Findlander who was thought to be insane and was arrested Saturday afternoon in the lower part of town by deputy sheriffs, had a jury trial in the county court yesterday afternoon before Judge W. T. McGarvey, and was adjudged insane. The jury was only out a short time and returned a verdict with the above result. Sheriff Downtain left this morning for Pueblo and had with him the insane man, whom he will place in the insane asylum. The unfortunate man is about 45 years old.
Parpala, Alexander
Telluride Daily Journal 12-23-1898 Sheriff Downtain returned home on last evening's belated passenger from Pueblo, where he accompanied the insane Finlander.
Parpart, H.
patient, white, male, age 40, single, Germany , 1885 census
Parpart, Henry
gender m age 36 occupation Farmer birthplace England source: 1880 census
Parpart, Henry
patient race W gender M age 68 marital status S place of birth Germany occupation miner source 1910 census
Parpet, Michael
San Juan Prospector 6-27-1887 Michael Parpet, a ranchman having property some six or eight miles from Del Norte, was this week adjudged insane in the County Court and John Poole was appointed conservator of the estate. Mr. Parpet had shown no violence, but was undoubtedly crazy and incapable of attending to his own affairs. It is not always best to await violence on the part of an insane man to prove his dangerous character. The average lunatic is dangerous on general principles. Mr. Parpet was taken to Pueblo Wednesday by Isaac White, of Del Norte.
Parpet, Michael
San Juan Prospector 10-25-1890 Notice of Conservator's Sale of Real Estate Pursuant to authority in me vested, by the Probate Court of the County of Rio Grande and State of Colorado, public notice is hereby given that the undersigned, John Poole, as Conservator of the estate of Michael Parpet, an insane person, will sell at public auction at the highest and best price for cash, the following described real estate, belonging to said insane person's estate, to-wit: The west half of the northeast quarter of section 30 (80?), and the west half of the south-east quarter of section 19, all in township 40 n, R 5 E, N. M. M., situate in Rio Grande county, Colorado. The time of said sale to be Monday, the 4th day of August, at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m., and the place at which said land will be offered for sale will be the front door of the County Court House; in the town of Del Norte, county of Rio Grande and State of Colorado. Witness my hand this 8th day of July, A. D. 1890. John Poole, Conservator of the Estate of Michael Parpet, an insane person, E. F. Richardson, Attorney. The above sale stands postponed until September 4th, 1890 at 10 o'clock a.m. John Poole, Conservator of the estate of Michael Parpet, an insane person. E. F. Richardson, Attorney. The above sale stands postponed until November 8th, 1890 at 10 o'clock a.m. John Poole, Conservator of the Estate of Michael Parpet, an Insane Person. E. F. Richardson, Attorney.
Parpont, Henry
patient race W gender M month born November year born 1841 age 58 marital status S place of birth Germany occupation miner source : 1900 census
Parrent, William R.
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Parretto, Guiseppe
admitted 1-22-1898 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Parriff, Racha
patient race: W sex: M age: 30 marital:S place of birth: Bulgaria occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Parsons, Essie
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1869 age 31 marital status S place of birth Illinois source : 1900 census
Parsons, Essie
patient race W gender F age 40 marital status S place of birth Illinois source 1910 census
Parsons, James
admitted 4-4-1914 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Parsons, Margaret
Fairplay Flume 1-18-1924 Miss Margaret Parsons, 21 years old, daughter of Dr. Stephen T. Parsons, Denver, escaped from the state hospital for the insane here, and according to the superintendent of the hospital, the police of Denver, Pueblo and other towns have been asked to look for her and Harold Jones, 20, and Lee Dougan, 21, who are suspected by him of being connected with her disappearance.
Parsons, Margaret
Fairplay Flume 1-18-1924 As a result of the mysterious escape from the state insane asylum here of Miss Margaret Parsons authorities of the institution discharged Miss Sibyl Surfling, nurse, who was in charge of the patient at the time she disappeared. For the good of the service, was the reason assigned.
Parsons, Margaret
Fairplay Flume 1-25-1924 Pueblo police received a telegram from police at Dallas, Texas, informing them of the arrest at that place of H.B. Jones and Lee Dougan, wanted in Pueblo in connection with the disappearance of Margaret Parsons, 21 years old, of Denver, who disappeared sometime during the night of Jan. 6 from the state insane asylum. Miss Parsons was not taken into custody with the men, but is believed to be hiding in or around Dallas.
Parsons, Margaret
25 January 1924 Plateau Voice (Collbran, Mesa County) CRISP COLORADO NEWS Pueblo Pueblo police received a telegram from police at Dallas, Texas, informing them of the arrest at that place of H.B Jones and Lee Dougan, wanted in Pueblo in connection with the disappearance of Margaret Parsons, 21 years old, of Denver, who disappeared sometime during the night of Jan 6 from the state insane asylum. Miss Parsons was not taken into custody with the men, but it believed to be in hiding in or around Dallas.
Parsons, Viola
admitted 6-24-1915 from Delta, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Parton, Dollie
patient gender F race W age 37 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Pasco, Henry
patient gender M race W age 66 marital status D birthplace England source 1930 census
Pascoe, John G
admitted 5-28-1901 from Teller, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Pasfield, James
patient race: W sex: M age: 68 marital:. place of birth: England occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pasichowitz, Zelda
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Pasichowitz, Zelda
patient race: W sex: F age: 31 marital:S place of birth: Russia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Passero, Celia
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Pastore, Marcello
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Pate, Pius E.
patient gender M race W age 59 marital status M birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Paternosky, Victor
patient race W gender M age 46 marital status W place of birth Poland occupation coalminer source 1910 census
Paternosky, Victor
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1874? age 36 marital status W place of birth Poland occupation coal-miner source : 1900 census
Paternosky, Victor
patient race: W sex: M age: 56 marital:W place of birth: Poland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Patrick, Eliza Jane
Patrick, Eliza Jane age 75y 4m 12d, married or widowed, died 5-28-1900, shipped 5-28-1900 to St. Louis, Mo., informant Dr. W.W. Bullette 530 Lake Ave, Dr. Hubert Work, cost $215.00
Patrick, Tony
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Patterson, Alice
patient race W gender F age 67 marital status W place of birth New York source 1910 census
Patterson, Alice
patient race: W sex: F age: 77 marital:W place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Patterson, Alice M.
Fort Collins Courier 9-2-1886 Mrs. Patterson Insane.One of the saddest cases of insanity that has ever been our misfortune to meet is that of Mrs. Alice M. Patterson, wife of Alderman A. H. Patterson, of this city, who was this (Thursday) morning adjudged insane by a jury of six, sitting in county court before Judge McAnelly. Some six weeks ago, during Mr. Paterson's absence in the east, Mrs. Patterson began to show unmistakable signs of a disordered mind. At first this appeared in a mild form, and was attributed to nervous prostration, produced by too close attention to household duties and the care of her family of five little ones, which it was thought that medical treatment would soon remove. She gradually grew worse, howeverat times violent, until the unwelcome fact stared her friends in the face that she was really, and perhaps, hopelessly, insane. Mr. Patterson was notified by telegraph of his wife's condition, and at once returned home without having accomplished the object of his trip. Thinking that a trip to the coast, a lower altitude and change of scene might prove beneficial to his wife, Mr. Patterson at once returned to New York with her, where he could also secure the best medical aid obtainable in such cases. All was of no avail, however, and he was obliged to come home with her with all hope of her recovery nearly destroyed. There is no improvement in her mental condition, and for the safety of herself and her family, it is thought best to commit her to the Pueblo asylum. A jury, consisting of Messrs. J. C. Evans, David Patton, H. C. Pratt, J. F. Stephenson, J. C. Hamilton and B. F. Kelly, was impaneled in the county court this morning, who, after hearing the evidence of Dr. Lee, her family physician, and others, brought in a verdict adjudging her insane. She will today be committed to the asylum at Pueblo, and removed there in a day or two at farthest. Mrs. Patterson is the eldest daughter of Hon. W. F. Watrous, and, in health, is a lady of culture and refinement, a devoted wife and mother, and an ornament in the circle in which she moved. Upon her husband and family, and upon all of their friends, this saddest of all afflictions falls with crushing effects. All the kindest care, closest attention and best medical skill in the country could do for this unfortunate lady, has been done in her behalf, regardless of the cost in time, trouble or money, in the effort to save her from the asylum.
Patterson, Alice M.
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 8-9-1900 County Court.Mrs. Alice M. Patterson was adjudged insane at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon before Judge Mills of the county court, and was committed to the asylum. Sheriff Cross, accompanied by Mrs. Day as assistant, left for Pueblo with Mrs. Patterson on Wednesday morning.
Patterson, Alice M.
Rocky Mountain News 9-3-1886 Placed in Pueblo The Wife of Alderman Patterson, of Fort Collins, Sent to the State Asylum for the Insane Fort Collins, Sept. 2 A very sad case came up in the county court to-day, Mrs. A. H. Patterson, wife of the First ward alderman, being adjudged insane on expert medical and other testimony. Mr. Patterson came west in 1860, first visiting the Poudre valley in 1867, whither his wife with the family of her father Hon. W. S. Watrous, now a member of the state board of agriculture followed four years later. Symptoms of derangement showed themselves about a month ago, during Mr. Patterson's absence in New York city, where he was visiting Buffalo Bill (Hon. W. F. Cody), of whom he is an old-time personal friend. In compliance with a telegram he hastened home, and in a few days, accompanied by Mrs. Patterson, started east, in hopes a change of altitude and scene might benefit her. The hope was vain, however, and a verdict of insanity was rendered by the following jury yesterday morning: J. C. Evans, H. C. Pratt, David Patton, J. F. Stephenson, J. C. Hamilton and B. F. Kilby. Mr. Patterson will accompany his wife to the Pueblo asylum this week. The sad derangement is believed to be the effect of too continuous application to religious study, upon a highly nervous temperament.
Patterson, Garland
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Patterson, Herbert
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Patterson, J. R.
patient race: W sex: M age: 62 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: laundry helper source: 1920 census
Patterson, Maud
patient race: W sex: F age: 30 marital:S place of birth: Canada occupation: none source: 1920 census
Patterson, Nan
patient gender F race W age 52 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Patterson, Nan
patient race: W sex: F age: 41 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Patterson, Walter
Daily Rocky Mountain News 1-10-1879 - Session of the Commissioners - The county commissioners were in session yesterday with all the members of the board present... The quarterly report of Dr. Andrew McFarland, of the Oak Lawn Insane Retreat, was submitted and read. The report gives a diagnosis of the condition of Robert Burke, Joseph Klein, Moses M. Millsap, Cosmo Cannelis, Walter Patterson and Mary Greer, patients from this county. None of these, according to the physicians' report, are improving, and some of them are growing worse.
Patterson, Walter
Denver Daily Tribune 4-2-1878 The superintendent of Oak Lawn Retreat, Jacksonville, reported by letter on the condition of the inmates from Arapahoe county, as follows: Robert Burke, prospect for recovery not encouraging. Jos. Kline, mild insanity, think is losing his mind. Moses Millsap, recovery hopeless, a dangerous patient. Cosmos Canales, very insane. Walter Patterson, will not live long. Harry B. Rollins, after he was brought back from Springfield, Missouri, to which place he escaped, he removed in a few days the iron bars from his window and escaped. He took refuge in the house of a friend, where he is kept, and will be permitted to remain so long as they will take care of him. He is a disorganizer in the asylum
Patterson, Walter
Denver Daily Tribune 2-28-1878 Walter Patterson, who was adjudged insane by jury, Tuesday, was sent East yesterday, to Jacksonville, Illinois, in charge of Mr. Pryor, late of the Richings Bernard troupe.
Pattinhauser, Laura
patient race: W sex: F age: 35 marital: M place of birth: Illinoisnone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Patton, Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Patton, Fulton
admitted 1-5-1899 from Beulah, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Patton, Harry M.
patient race: W sex: M age: 48 marital:M place of birth: Canada occupation: none source: 1920 census
Patton, Jessie
patient race:W sex:F age: 31 marital: D place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: physician source: Dr. Works 1900 census
Patton, Jessie M.D.
admitted 3-31-1900 from Arapahoe, Co, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Patton, Minnie
patient race W gender F age 36 marital status S place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Patton, Mrs.
Steamboat Pilot 12-3-1913 A Mrs. Patton was sent by a Denver employment agency to cook at the Juniper boarding house. She was found to be insane and was sent back to Denver, Sheriff Chivington holding that Denver should take care of its own insane patients.
Patton, Nellie
patient gender F race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Patty, Walter
Telluride Daily Journal 8-27-1921 Finds Husband of Daughter in Insane Asylum Durango Man is Recognized by Insane Son-In-Law in Oregon Salem, Ore., Aug. 27. Finding his son-in-law, Walter Patty, in an insane asylum, was the experience of A. G. Cook, of Durango, Colo., who happened to visit the asylum. Patty has been missing for 12 years and was committed to the asylum last year from Oregon. He recognized Cook, although hopelessly insane. He has the delusion that he has been killed 26 times. Cook made no offer to have Patty removed.
Paugh, Elmer
Record Journal of Douglas County 9-7-1917 Penned in by Posse, Shoots Self. Elmer Paugh is in a local hospital with a self-inflicted bullet wound in his stomach, which doctors say, will cause his death. Paugh shot himself when surrounded at his cabin near here by a posse following threats made to Deputy Sheriff Frank Lacey in Cripple Creek. He told doctors at the hospital that he is an escaped inmate of the State Asylum for the Insane at Pueblo. Deputy Lacey has questioned Paugh regarding his registration for the selective draft.
Paul, Joseph
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 12-20-1900 In the County Court. On Tuesday, December 11th, Joseph Paul of North park, was adjudged insane and committed to the county jail pending notice that there is room for him in the insane asylum a Pueblo. Paul had just completed a 60 day's sentence in the county jail for setting out fires.
Paul, Joseph
patient race W gender M age 57 marital status S place of birth Germany occupation laborer source 1910 census
Paulek, Mae
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status M birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Paulsen, Jasper
patient race W gender M age 39 marital status S birthplace Nebraska occupation engineer source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Paulson, Alma
patient gender F race W age 64 marital status D birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Paulson, M.
Rocky Mountain News 6-17-1892 One Man's Evidence Shallow Pretext of Passing Upon Lunacy Cases Five lunacy cases were tried yesterday in the county court. Four were convicted and one was discharged. Dr. Eskridge appeared as witness in all the cases heard, and the respondents were held incapable of managing their own affairs on the unsupported testimony of the expert. Mr. J. O'Malone, who came from Greeley last spring, imagined that he was president of Oxford and Harvard colleges. M. Paulson insisted that he was born in Jerusalem. Florentine Pellocond imagined that Sand creek was turned into a huge beer tank, and that he was the sole retailer of the amber liquid. Blanch Harrison, while coming here from Chicago March 22, tried to jump from an express train, and has since exhibited suicidal tendencies. All these were adjudged lunatics, and will be sent to the asylum at Pueblo.
Paulson, Velmea
pupil race: W sex: F age: 14 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Pauseri, A
admitted 6-28-1901 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Paver, Walter
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 12-15-1916 Walter Paver was recently adjudged to be insane and was taken to an asylum this week. He was first arrested charged with issuing a bad check. This resulted in an inquiry as to his sanity.
Paver, Walter
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:W place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pavey, Charles
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status D birthplace England source 1930 census
Pavola, Guerrino
patient race W gender M age 29 marital status S place of birth Austria occupation laborer source 1910 census
Payne, Effie
patient gender F race W age 27 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Payne, J.A.
Pueblo Indicator 7-24-1933 - The Payne Poor Farm Case - P. Byrnes, Publisher, Pueblo Indicator. Dear Sir: There have been numerous articles in our papers concerning a man now confined to a bed in the Woodcroft hospital, and unable to talk. In order that the people may know more fully the circumstances and character of this man, I will ask you to kindly publish the following statement. About the year 1900 the writer employed J. A. Payne to work on the Bessemer ditch. He proved to be a good worker and was retained in the ditch service for a period of ten years. He was entrusted to the care of the headgates at night during a four-year period that the ditch was operated without a flume at Rock Creek. His services at that time were very valuable to the company. Mr. Payne left the ditch in January, 1911. He let his salary accumulate with the ditch company so when he retired from the services, the company owed him $2100 in back salaries. This money he invested in land on the St. Charles Mesa. He went to farming. He was a hard worker and economical, and in a few years he had added to his acreage and accumulated some money. Mr. Payne is a native of Kentucky and never married. In 1927, he supposedly had a stroke and his health failed. He continued living on his farm but rented the land. In the fall of 1928, his health was still failing, so he was becoming a constant charge to the neighbors. He did not want to come to the city to live, but his friends persuaded him to go to the county farm and they approached the officials in his behalf. Mr. Dixon Burkett, the superintendent, said we had better see Mr. Rees, the commissioner in charge. Mr. W. L. Farmer, now deceased, saw Mr. Rees and reported favorably, and the price was arranged at $1.00 per day. Mr. Payne went to his farm frequently during the four years he was at the county farm. Last fall, Mr. Burkett took Mr. Payne to the State hospital and had him entered as a pauper. Later a tax card addressed to Mr. Payne reached the hospital. The officers investigated and found he had property and moneys. Mr. Payne's business was turned over to the county administrator, and he was taken to the Woodcroft sanitorium. But the present board of county commissioners investigated their records and could not find that Mr. Payne had lived at the county farm, or that any money had been received for board, so they presented a bill to the administrator for $1680, for his nearly four years' keep. (The bill was later reduced to about $1450). Several very abusive articles as to Mr. Payne's character appeared in the papers which were very kindly corrected when the facts were made known. Mr. Payne was very prompt in paying his obligations and it was his pride to say he owed no man a dollar. Mr. Burkett admits he paid, but that the money was used on the county farm, and that no return was made to the county commissioners. It is not my desire to charge any official with neglect in this matter, but it is my desire to speak in behalf of an honest man that has paid his obligations to the county for four years, and who is now being asked to pay it again - a man that now lies helpless and speechless in his bed in Woodcroft hospital. Respectfully submitted, G. W. Bentley
Payne, Mary J.
Rocky Mountain News 8-25-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Mary J. Payne; Robert H. Latta appointed guardian ad litem; trial; verdict of lunacy; judgment on verdict; guardian ad litem allowed $15; order that defendant be kept in the county hospital until further order.
Payne, Mary J.
Rocky Mountain News 8-25-1892 Sad Case of Insanity A jury in the county court yesterday found Mary J. Payne insane. The case is a very sad one. Mrs. Payne is the victim of a very peculiar form of melancholia. She insists that she has committed some unpardonable sin, the nature of which she will not divulge, as she declares it would be wicked to talk of it. About three months ago an infant died, since which time her mind has been unbalanced. There are three small children living. Mrs. Payne will be taken care of for the present at the county hospital in the hope that it will not be necessary to send her to the asylum at Pueblo.
Payne, Mary J.
Rocky Mountain News 11-19-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Mrs. J. P. Payne; order for release of defendant from asylum to custody of her husband upon recommendation of county attorney and Dr. J. T. Eskridge.
Payton, Fannie
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1855 age 45 marital status M place of birth New Brunswick occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Payton, Fannie
patient gender F race W age 75 marital status M birthplace Canada - Eng source 1930 census
Payton, Fannie
patient race: W sex: F age: 64 marital:M place of birth: England occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Payton, Fannie
Denver Post 1-3-1895 - Insanity - Five Insane Women - Tried in the County Court and Ordered Confined - One of the Unfortunates Became Insane After Going to Work as a Domestic - Another Lost Her Mind Through Family Troubles - Only One Was Violent -One Man Among the Batch - All Sent to Pueblo - In the County Court this morning six persons were tried as to their sanity. Five were women and one was an old man... Fanny Payton was next tried. Her mania was not at any time violent. She sat for the most of the time imagining that her children and husband were talking to her. She had become separated from her family through trouble. She was adjudged a lunatic...
Payton, Fannie
Rocky Mountain News 1-3-1895 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre: To-day's call: 3800 Fannie Peyton, lunacy.
Payton, Fannie
Rocky Mountain News 1-4-1895 Sad Scenes in Court Number of Demented People Officially Pronounced Insane There were some sad scenes in the county court yesterday when six lunatics were brought from the county hospital and placed on trial to determine their sanity. Five of the unfortunates are women, and each seemed possessed of the idea that the time had come when she should give an exhibition of her peculiar mania. Mary Williams is one of the most dangerous lunatics that has ever been treated at the hospital. A few weeks since she attempted to set fire to the institution by throwing clothing upon the red hot stove in the corridor of the basement. She raved continually during the trial, and was carried, struggling, after the verdict was returned, to the ambulance in waiting. Hannah Swan is a very pretty young woman and the doctors said that her relatives gave her age at 22. She was employed for a time as a domestic at Fort Logan. One middle-aged woman, Tillie Lundgren, talked continuously, and it was with difficulty that the trial could proceed. There were two women who sat and stared at their surroundings, apparently unmindful of what was going on. Their names were Fannie Payton and Clara Wilson. Fred Krause gave the attendants no trouble. The jury found in each instance that the party was unable to care for herself and was dangerous to her person and to that of others. They were all taken back to the hospital, where they will remain until there is room for them at the asylum at Pueblo.
Payton, Fannie M.
patient race W gender F age 54 marital status M place of birth Canada source 1910 census
Payton, James
Eagle Valley Enterprise 4-27-1917 Man Driven Insane by Exposure Steamboat Springs. James Payton, an old-time resident here, has been declared insane as a result of suffering received by him in a storm last January. He was almost frozen when found, and since that time he has been confined in a hospital here. A short time ago, while unwatched, he performed a surgical operation upon himself, removing two of his toes.
Pazol, Alexander
patient gender M race W age 18 marital status S birthplace New York source 1930 census
Pazoldt, Franz
patient race W sex M month of birth . year of birth 1874 age 26 marital S place of birth Missouri source 1900 census
Peacock, Sarah
Rocky Mountain News 3-20-1887 Are They Both Lunatics? Yesterday County Attorney Pence presented complaints in the County court for inquisition of lunacy against Sarah Peacock and Adolph Nedean. Mrs. Peacock is the woman who was arrested at Elyria for fear that she would kill children. Nedean was taken to jail last summer and placed on the poor house farm. Of late he has frequently wandered from the farm, and it was thought best to again put him in jail.
Peacock, Sarah
Rocky Mountain News 3-22-1887 Local Brevities Mrs. Sarah Peacock and Adolph Nedean will be tried in the County court Friday, March 25, on the charge of lunacy.
Peacock, Sarah
Rocky Mountain News 3-19-1887 A Crazed Woman Mrs. Sarah Peacock, of Elyria, Attempts the Life of Her Children In a Fit of Insanity She Attacks Her Five Little Ones With a Knife Arrested and Taken to the County Jail for Safe Keeping Mrs. Sarah Peacock, who attempted to murder her five children at Elyria Wednesday night, is now imprisoned in the county jail. Dr. McLauthlin, county physician, went to the jail yesterday afternoon and was undecided as to whether the woman was insane or not. From her condition at the time he made his visit it was difficult to decide as to the woman's state of mind and he thought that possibly it might be melancholia. Yesterday Mr. Gird, chairman of the board of county commissioners, received a telephone message from Elyria to the effect that a woman at that place had attempted to murder her children and that unless she was taken in charge she might carry out her threats or intentions, whatever they may have been. Pursuant to this request Chairman Gird hastened to Elyria, and after making an investigation, returned to the city and Deputy Sheriff J. W. Shrock was sent to that place to arrest Mrs. Peacock on the charge of lunacy. Crying for Help On the night mentioned, there were strange actions at the home of Mrs. Peacock. The story as told in Denver is to the effect that at about 9 o'clock at night on Wednesday there were heard terrible screams from the children and heartrending cries for help. O mamma don't. O don't hurt us, and similar cries of alarm are said to have been heard at the house where Mrs. Peacock lived. These were followed by screams and cries for help. The neighbors immediately rushed to the house, and as they appeared a woman, who proved to be Mrs. Peacock, rushed from the building in a great state of excitement. Her actions were wild and excited. She fled into the street and threatened to break through the windows of a building near by. Not only had she threatened to kill her children but had not the neighbors interfered she would probably have taken her own life. She seemed to be raving mad. The woman hurrying down the street like a maniac and the screams of the children aroused all Elyria, and a large number hastened to the spot. Was She Conscience Stricken? Her wild and maniac attempt terrified her children. Some of them had gone to bed and their piteous appeals seem to have aroused in her heart the feeling that she was a mother, and horrified at the diabolical deed she was about to attempt, she fled in horror from the scene. Reason for the moment must have asserted its power, and the mother in terror fled from the bed-room of her children. After being taken in charge by the neighbors, Mrs. Peacock was returned to her home, but it was unsafe to leave her alone. She was at times violent and it was considered unsafe to leave her with her family. Her Condition Worse Her condition became worse, and Chairman Gird was telephoned for yesterday. Mrs. Snyder, who lives next door to the unfortunate woman, informed him of the strange actions the night before. Mr. Gird becoming convinced that the lives of her children would be endangered if the mother were left alone over night, had her arrested on the charge of lunacy and placed in the county jail. At first she was inclined to resist Deputy Sheriff Shock, but he finally persuaded her to get into the buggy with him, and she remained quite docile while en route to the city. Mrs. Peacock has a mania for looking at the sun. Chairman Gird found her sitting in front of the house yesterday engaged in that idle occupation. Several times when coming to the city she wanted Deputy Sheriff Shock to stop and let her look at the sun. She Did Have a Knife There are reports to the effect that Mrs. Peacock threatened to use a knife on her children, and when seen at the county jail yesterday she frequently spoke of knives when interviewed by a News reporter. At times she would talk in an almost rational manner, and then her mind would wander. She also stated that she had tried to hit herself on the head with a fork. I never attempted to kill my children, she said and followed this statement with the following remark: They are the worst children in the world and ought to be beat. They are very bad children. Where is your husband? In heaven. When did he die? About a year and a half ago, at Argo. She then became excited again and began to talk about the bottom of the sea. Where were you born? In Wales. The woman's mind again wandered and she gave no more intelligent replies, except to say that she was a washer-woman and had five children, three girls and two boys, and then began another tirade against her children. Going to Bed On being placed in the jail, said Jailor Hopkins to a News reporter, she immediately took off her clothing and went to bed. When Dr. McLauthlin called she got up and put on her dress, tying on her ribbon and tried to be neat. The doctor says that she seems to be insane, but it possibly might be melancholia. When interviewed last evening, both Chairman Gird and Deputy Sheriff Shrock stated that it was common talk at Elyria that Mrs. Peacock drank quite heavily. While talking with a reporter at the jail last evening Mrs. Peacock said she was ashamed of being drunk so much. Chairman Gird said that possibly a son 12 years of age was not at home at the time of the trouble. The story is a sad one and only by timely interference were the lives of helpless children saved.
Peacock, Sarah
Rocky Mountain News 3-20-1887 The Courts County Court Probate County Attorney Peace presented complaints for inquisition of lunacy against Sarah Peacock and Adolph Nedean. Frank L. Johnson appointed guardian ad litem for Sarah Peacock, and S. W. Carpenter for Adolph Nedean.
Peacock, Sarah
Rocky Mountain News 3-26-1887 Local Brevities Mrs. Sarah Peacock and Adolph Nedeau were adjudged insane in the County court yesterday and will be taken to Pueblo today by Deputy Sheriff Shrock.
Peaner, Louis B.
patient race: W sex: M age: 29 marital: S place of birth: Kansasnone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Pearce, Bertha
Durango Wage Earner 6-17-1909 Young men should think of their mother before committing crimes as vide (?) the pitiful case of Mrs. Bertha Pearce of Gunnison county, who lost her mind brooding over her son, who is serving a 20-year term in the penitentiary for the murder of Luther Hunt, and who was adjudged insane. She was found rambling through the fields with a lighted kerosene lamp, saying, she was looking for her little children
Pearce, Bertha C.
patient race W gender F age 61 marital status W place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Pearce, Laura
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Pearce, Laura
patient race: W sex: F age: 43 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Pearson, Bernie H.
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status Un birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Pearson, Bernie H.
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pearson, Betty
patient race W sex F age 61 marital M place of birth Sweden source 1920 Woodcroft census
Pearson, William
patient gender M race W age 78 marital status S birthplace Ireland source 1930 census
Pease, Ansley
patient gender M race W age 70 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Pease, Paul
pupil race: W sex: M age: 15 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Pease, Stella
pupil race: W sex: F age: 17 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Peckering, Martin
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Peckham, Josie
Rocky Mountain News 10-23-1885 The Courts County Court Probate Business People vs. Josie Peckham; lunacy; lunatic ordered discharged.
Pedron, John
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Pedroni, Pete
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status S birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Pee, John
patient, white, male, age 30, single, Indiana, 1885 census
Peight, George
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1878 age 22 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Peight, George
patient race W gender M age 31 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation farmer source 1910 census
Peight, George
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Peight, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:S place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: stable helper source: 1920 census
Peightal, Hugh W.
patient gender M race W age 60 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Peightal, Hugh W.
patient race: W sex: M age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Peletier, Cecelia
Rocky Mountain News 12-1-1896 Civil Briefs Amelie Peletier was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and will be sent to the state asylum, the superintendent having announced he has room for one Arapahoe county patient.
Peletier, Cecelia
Denver Evening Post 11-30-1896 The Arapahoe Insane County Authorities Will Not Consider the Illinois Asylum Offer Superintendent Thoms of the state insane asylum at Pueblo has informed the county commissioners that he has room for one more insane woman in his institution from Arapahoe county and this afternoon Cecelia Peletier will be adjudged insane in the county court and committed to the state asylum. Cecelia has been at the county hospital for some months and her removal will give more room to the insane remaining at the hospital. The state asylum relieved the county of another insane woman last week
Peletier, Cecelia
Rocky Mountain News 9-8-1896 An Income of Millions Cecil Peltier, living at 2237 Market street, last night demolished the stove, windows and bureau, and then started in to throw out everything of a movable nature. She was charged with insanity. The woman, who has been remarkably pretty in her day, believes that she owns the town and has an income of several million francs a week.
Peletier, Cecelia
Denver Evening Post 9-8-1896 Town Talk Emilie Peltier, a Frenchwoman of 34, was taken from 2737 Market street yesterday afternoon to the city jail, suffering from insanity. Her condition was occasioned by the loss of a fortune thirteen months ago.
Peletier, Cecelia
Rocky Mountain News 12-1-1896 Court Calendar County Court Judge Steele 4550 People vs. Cecilia Peletier; verdict of insanity.
Peletier, Cecelia
Rocky Mountain News 9-8-1896 An Income of Millions Cecil Peltier, living at 2237 Market street, last night demolished the stove, windows and bureau, and then started in to throw out everything of a movable nature. She was charged with insanity. The woman, who has been remarkably pretty in her day, believes that she owns the town and has an income of several million francs a week.
Peletier, Cecelia
Denver Evening Post 9-8-1896 Town Talk Emilie Peltier, a Frenchwoman of 34, was taken from 2737 Market street yesterday afternoon to the city jail, suffering from insanity. Her condition was occasioned by the loss of a fortune thirteen months ago.
Peletier, Cecelia
Rocky Mountain News 12-1-1896 Court Calendar County Court Judge Steele 4550 People vs. Cecilia Peletier; verdict of insanity.
Pelochond, Florentine
Rocky Mountain News 6-17-1892 One Man's Evidence Shallow Pretext of Passing Upon Lunacy Cases Five lunacy cases were tried yesterday in the county court. Four were convicted and one was discharged. Dr. Eskridge appeared as witness in all the cases heard, and the respondents were held incapable of managing their own affairs on the unsupported testimony of the expert. Mr. J. O'Malone, who came from Greeley last spring, imagined that he was president of Oxford and Harvard colleges. M. Paulson insisted that he was born in Jerusalem. Florentine Pellocond imagined that Sand creek was turned into a huge beer tank, and that he was the sole retailer of the amber liquid. Blanch Harrison, while coming here from Chicago March 22, tried to jump from an express train, and has since exhibited suicidal tendencies. All these were adjudged lunatics, and will be sent to the asylum at Pueblo.
Pelochond, Florentine
Rocky Mountain News 7-31-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Florentine Pelochond; order for release from jail to custody of Frederick Reithmann until further order of court.
Pelta, Harrit
patient race W sex F age 48 marital M place of birth Missouri source 1920 Woodcroft census
Peltier, Cecelia
Rocky Mountain News 11-2-1896 Amid Scenes of Horror County Hospital Is Crowded With Insane Citizens A solitary ray of light angles through a small grated window and envelops the untidy and not by any means prepossessing form of Carrie Peltier. It is not sunlight, but the cold gray streaks from the day itself which partially dispel the darkness and outline the only piece of furniture in her cell an iron bedstead with mattress. Carrie is crazy. Gone clean mad. There seems to be no hope for her. For two months she has maintained loud, blood-curdling whoops, yelling transpositions from street airs, without cessation. Not only this, but she possesses an unfortunate faculty for reducing every portable article that comes within her reach to a molecular state. That accounts for the iron bedstead. She has thus far only succeeded in bending one of the foot bars, despite the fact that she has hammered and pounded away at it with the vigor and persistence of a pile driver. Carrie is confined in the basement of the county hospital, in quarters where her wild breaks prove innocuous. Her face bears unmistakable traces of former beauty and during her extremely rare lucid intervals she exhibits relics of what was once a state of decorum, evidences of good breeding. To-day she is a pitiable object; a being better dead than alive a raving maniac. Carrie is but a sample of the company of unfortunate insane met with at the county hospital. She is one of the worst cases handled by the county and a decided burden to its institution. The proper place for the poor wretch is the Pueblo asylum, but she can't be taken thither, for the present at least. Thereby dangles a story a narrative showing how well the county doesn't provide for her wheely citizens, and exemplifying the extra labor and unenviable experience to which the hospital attendants are subjected
Among the Maniacs Three of the most pitiable and at the same time awful spectacles were next encountered raving maniacs. Long before the outside door leading to the dungeons in the basement was reached, the crazy singing of Carrie Peltier paralyzed the tympanums of the reporter. It would be hard to imagine a more haggard, unkempt, filthy creature than Carrie Peltier. Her face, once beautiful, is badly distorted and a pair of wild, savage eyes peer through a mass of disheveled hair. She sat on the edge of her iron cot and did not allow the visitors to interrupt her din. La, la, la, la, ho, ho, ho, ho, la, le, li, lo, lu, lu, lu, lu, she screeched, keeping time by pounding her heels into the cement floor and against the iron bed. On the floor lay a mattress upon which she had generously expectorated. It is impossible for the woman to keep her hands from destroying everything movable. Outside of the iron bedstead, the mattress is the sole article in the cell, and it is sure to go soon. A small barred window throws a gray light into the dungeon, and a heavy grated door withstands the constant attack upon it. She has been in this cell for two months, and her wild screeching is incessant. Her quarters are so undesirable that a sane woman would be liable to lose her reason by merely being locked up within them. Carrie will be the first one to go to the Pueblo asylum, whenever the warden of that institution sees fit to make room for her
The raving maniacs are looked after by Charlie, a porter who often has to handcuff an inmate. Not infrequently he has the services of three porters to assist him in subjecting a frenzied prisoner
There are as many insane at the hospital to-day as can be accommodated. As it is, the other patients are crowded or rendered miserable by the presence of those daft. Demented patients are taken to the institution very rapidly, sometimes at the rate of two or three a day. As none of those there can be removed, the result is obvious. The women are absolutely jammed together and something will have to be done soon to alleviate the distress. This changing about is a great deal of trouble, said Dr. Simon, and if we had a couple more 'ravers' we would have no place to put them, unless it be the county jail. We ought to have a new wing for the acute sick women, and then the old building can be remodeled and given over to the insane and consumptives. The extra and dangerous duty entailed in the care of the insane is not realized. We have twenty-six nurses and three porters, all of whom are kept on the jump
The ratio of one insane patient to every five inmates at the hospital threatens to be increased at the rapid rate people in Denver are going daft. In no time at all the county hospital will be on a par with a lunatic asylum, unless reform measures are soon adopted.
Penaluna, Laura
patient gender F race W age 37 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pensoncio, O.
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Pepper, Gertrude R.
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Peppercone, Mary
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status Wd birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Perales, Guadalope
patient gender M race Mex age 60 marital status Un birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Peretto, Joseph
Telluride Daily Journal 1-19-1898 Joseph Peretto, an Italian on his way from Pittsburg, Pa., to Telluride, went insane at Pueblo and tried to kill himself on Sunday last. He is now in the Pueblo jail.
Perez, B.
patient gender M race Mex age 40 marital status S birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Perkins, J A
admitted 6-9-1901 from Omaha, Neb. - Woodcroft Hospital
Perkins, Margaret
patient gender F race W age 24 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Perkins, Sarah R.
patient gender F race W age 73 marital status Wd birthplace Connecticut source 1930 census
Perkinson, Matthew
Rocky Mountain News 5-11-1886 The Courts County Court Probate People vs. Mathew Perkinson; lunacy; I. N. Stevens appointed guardian ad litem; L. R. Rhodes, district attorney; case set for Friday, May 21.
Perkinson, Matthew
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1886 A Mad Murderer Perkinson, the Slayer of Payne at Deer Trail, Tried for Lunacy in the County Court Yesterday About a year and a half or two years ago a farmer named Payne, living near Deer Trail, was called from his breakfast by a young man named Mathew Perkinson, who had been in his employ. Perkinson claimed that Payne owed him money, and after a short conversation drew a gun on Payne and shot him dead. There seemed to be an indication of premeditation and design on Perkinson's part, but very little sufficient provocation for the killing. Naturally public feeling ran pretty high against Perkinson for a time, as the cause for the homicide was trifling and as Payne was a man held in high esteem by his neighbors and by all who knew him, and there was a strong feeling at the time that Perkinson should hang. The plea of insanity was entered in the case and a change of venue from Arapahoe taken to another county. The plea of insanity was not generally believed at the time, but the case was for some reason postponed and continued from time to time, and public opinion regarding it had quieted down. In fact, the memory of the case had probably passed from the minds of many people. Yesterday Perkinson was on trial for lunacy in the County court and the evidences of insanity seemed to be much better than the public had expected. Indeed, there seemed to be very little reason to doubt the fact that Perkinson was crazy. Judged by the evidence, Perkinson's insanity is said to spring from epilepsy and his fits are said to have occurred within the last year or two with frightful frequency. He comes of a good family in the East and had borne quite a good reputation up to the time of the shooting, and his insanity is believed to have developed in a large degree before the homicide was committed. The trivial occasion for the homicide strengthens such a belief. It is thought that Perkinson's epilepsy is the result of an hereditary taint of disease in the blood. The jury had not given its decision in the case at a late hour yesterday afternoon, but it was considered morally certain that the verdict would be insane.
Perkinson, Matthew
Rocky Mountain News 5-29-1886 Local Brevities Matthew Perkinson, the slayer of Payne at Deer Trail, was declared insane by the jury in the County court.
Perners, Harmon J.
patient race: W sex: M age: 42 marital: W place of birth: New Yorknone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Perok, Felix
patient gender M race Mex age 21 marital status S birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Perr, George A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital: M place of birth: Ohio none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Perrce, Goldie
patient gender F race W age 33 marital status M birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Perry, George
Rocky Mountain News 4-20-1896 Not at the Pueblo Asylum Pueblo, Colo., April 19 The authorities of the State Insane asylum can find on their records no such person as J. E. Perry, who killed his mother with a hatchet at Wallace, Idaho, Saturday, and who was believed to have been at one time confined at the asylum here. The only Perry who was an inmate of the institution was George Perry, who was placed there in 1889, and who was suffering from epilepsy. He was at that time 22 years old, and could not, therefore, correspond with the murderer, who was said to be 24 years of age. George Perry was at the asylum over a year, and was then discharged.
Perry, J. E.
Rocky Mountain News 4-19-1896 Murdered His Mother J. E. Perry Kills His Mother with a Hatchet Wallace, Ida., April 18 J. E. Perry, a young man about 24 years of age, killed his mother here this morning cutting five gashes in her head with a hatchet. He fled but was overtaken about a mile from town, fighting like a demon until overpowered by the officers. He was doubtless insane at the time having been in an asylum first eight or ten years ago at Pueblo. His parents then lived at Morrison and again four years ago at Medical Lake, Wash. He had been acting queerly for a year or two. The family only arrived here yesterday from Tekoa, Wash. While residing in Colorado his father was engaged in handling and raising cattle. The murderer (?) has a wife and baby. Perry refuses to talk.
Perry, J. E.
Rocky Mountain News 4-20-1896 Not at the Pueblo Asylum Pueblo, Colo., April 19 The authorities of the State Insane asylum can find on their records no such person as J. E. Perry, who killed his mother with a hatchet at Wallace, Idaho, Saturday, and who was believed to have been at one time confined at the asylum here. The only Perry who was an inmate of the institution was George Perry, who was placed there in 1889, and who was suffering from epilepsy. He was at that time 22 years old, and could not, therefore, correspond with the murderer, who was said to be 24 years of age. George Perry was at the asylum over a year, and was then discharged.
Perry, Jack
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 2-16-1886 Perry's Alleged Insane. W. C. Perry stated soon after he got to Red Cliff, that there were good reasons for believing that his brother was insane, both when he slugged the cook of the Robinson mine, and when he shot Gleason. He said that when Jack was a boy, between 8 and 10 years old, he had a rising in his head which affected his brain. The abscess finally discharged itself through his ear, from which aperture it ran for a long time. This abscess so affected his brain, says Will Perry, that he has been deaf in his left ear ever since, and has always been flighty when suffering from a bad cold, or under the influence of liquor. The indulgent brother also says that he has no doubt that the liquor drank at Deering's by Jack had a worse effect upon him, as he had been a total abstainer for some time before that. In addition to this he cites the fact that the great altitude at Red Cliff and Robinson has a tendency to increase all mental and nervous aliments, and he believe it had a very bad effect on Jack.
Perry, John
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Perry, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 52 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Perry, John Thomas
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:M place of birth: Georgia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Perry, John W.
Fairplay Flume 12-22-1922 John W. Perry was found to be insane and ordered committed to the asylum at Pueblo. Perry, who has been attending a series of revivals here, recently threw the meetings into panics when he announced he was going to get a shotgun and go over to Turkey to end the troubles in Europe.
Perry, Julia
patient race W sex F month of birth . year of birth 1852 age 48 marital M place of birth New York occupation housekeeper source 1900 census
Perry, Mrs.
Boulder Daily Camera 1-24-1893 - Wright at Pueblo - Judge Alpheus Wright has returned from Pueblo, whither he went at the request of Mrs. A.A. Brookfield to look into the condition of her husband's health. Judge Wright reports that Superintendent Thombs of the insane asylum expresses confidence in Brookfield's ultimate recovery in the course of a month when he will be immediately released from confinement. Judge Wright says that he found Mr. Brookfield as sane as any man in Boulder or Pueblo and that Dr. Thombs only keeps him to perfect his treatment. He walks the streets of Pueblo and has often dined at the home of Hon. James N. Carlile and other friends. There are 200 men and 107 women in the asylum, which Judge Wright holds to be admirably conducted. George Bittenbender, Al Carpenter and the wife of Dr. Perry are all of them pronounced incurable, but all knew Judge Wright and readily maintained their conversation with him.
Perry, Mrs. U.
Boulder News 7-24-1890 Mrs. Dr. U. Perry was brought to jail wildly insane 23 July 1890. A neighbor complained. Said to be victim of religious study. Source also references article in Boulder County Herald Weekly 7-23-1890. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Perry, Rose
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Perry, Rose
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Perry, Thomas J.
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status M birthplace North Carolina source 1930 census
Peters, Annie L.
patient gender F race W age 82 marital status Wd birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Peters, Annie L.
patient race: W sex: F age: 72 marital:W place of birth: Indiana occupation: none source: 1920 census
Peters, Charles O.
Durango Democrat 7-15-1904 Murderer Peters Has Become Insane Denver, July 14. Word was received at the governor's office today from Warden Cleghorn of the state penitentiary at Canon City that Chas. O. Peters, under sentence of death in connection with the murder of Mrs. Amanda Bloodgood, had become insane. Peters with his two companions have occupied separate cells in the death house since their incarceration in the penitentiary five months ago. Pending an appeal to the supreme court a stay of execution was granted them, and the delay incident to the appeal caused Peters to grow melancholy. On Wednesday _____ _____ ___ _____ ____enness, Peters suddenly became violent and tore at his cell door. It required the efforts of six guards to subdue him, when he was placed in a straight-jacket. A special commission will inquire into his sanity and he will be sent to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. Note: Part of this article was unreadable.
Peters, Charles O.
Durango Democrat 5-6-1905 Insanity Plea For Murderers Denver, May 5. The board of pardons heard pleas for the commutation of the sentence of death for the men under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood. Attorney Samuel Belford on behalf of Peters and Attorney J. M. Ecsington, representing Arnold, argued that their clients were insane and should not be executed. Warden Cleghorn of the state penitentiary and Undersheriff Felix O'Neill of this county gave testimony to effect that Peters is undoubtedly insane. The mother of Arnold urged the board to commute the sentence of her son to life imprisonment, saying that when the murder was committed he was a mere boy and had strayed from the path of right, through association with reckless companions. Her address was entirely devoid of any attempt at a passionate appeal to the sympathies of the members of the board. Because of the unavoidable absence of the attorney of Andrews' his case was passed by the board and will be heard later. At the conclusion of the hearing today the board instructed Dr. J. E. Courtney, one of the members, to examine into the sanity of the three young men and report to the board. A commission consisting of Dr. H. T. Pershing, Dr. S. D. Hopkins and the penitentiary physician was also appointed to make a similar examination and recommend as to whether or not executive clemency should be extended. As soon as the committee is ready to report a special meeting of the board of pardons will be called.
Peters, Charles O.
Durango Democrat 2-16-1906 Condemned Murderer Is Insane Denver, Feb. 15. A call was issued today for a special meeting of the board of pardons tomorrow afternoon to consider an application for unconditional pardon for Charles O. Peters, under sentence of death for complicity in the murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood in this city. It is claimed that Peters is insane. The call was issued by Governor McDonald who had received a letter from District Judge Peter L. Palmer, before whom Peters was tried, recommending unconditional pardon for Peters if it be definitely shown that he is incurably insane.
Peters, Charles O.
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 1-9-1903 Charles Peters probably will never be hanged for the murder of Mrs. Youngblood, because he is insane. Not much has been said regarding this feature of the case, but it is a fact that Warden Cleghorn has Peters confined in the insane ward of the prison. When the time comes for execution experts probably will be called in to examine the young man as to his mental condition, and upon that report will depend the question of taking his life.
Peters, Charles O.
Alamosa Journal 11-3-1905 Charles O. Peters, the only living member of the trio of Youngblood murderers, is beyond question hopelessly insane, and his death sentence will be commuted. The physicians who have examined him state that there is no hope of his ever regaining his sanity. The reprieve granted in his case has about expired, but his condition is such that there is said to be no chance of the original sentence being carried out.
Peters, Charles O.
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 3-2-1906 No Pardon for Peters Denver. At a special meeting Friday the Board of Pardons refused to pardon Charles O. Peters, murderer of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood, now under sentence to die the week beginning May 20th. The action of the board was unanimous and no hope of commutation even was given. However, Peters will not hang as long as there is any question of his sanity. Various petitions for commutation having failed before, friends of Peters in Ohio sent Mr. Moulton here last week to ask for a release of Peters on the ground that he was insane. H. A. Lindsley, district attorney who prosecuted the trial, was in favor of commutation and Judge Palmer, who presided at the trial, signed the petition for a pardon. Mr. Moulton said after the pardon was refused that he felt all possible had been done.
Peters, Charles O.
Eagle County Blade 2-22-1906 Pardon Refused Peters Case Must Come Before Regular Board Meeting Denver. Governor McDonald on Wednesday refused to grant a pardon to Charles O. Peters, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood and now under sentence of death at Canon City. Peters is believed by Warden Cleghorn of the penitentiary and many others to be insane. It is on the ground that he has lost his mind that the petition was presented Wednesday by J. F. Moulton of West Dover, Ohio, Peters' home. Mr. Moulton, who has lived in Colorado as well as in Ohio, was accompanied by Samuel B. Belford. They had a long petition signed by Ohio people at Peters' home, telling of his good record there and also a letter from Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, mentioning the respect in which the Peters family is held in Ohio. Governor McDonald said that he could not grant a full pardon under the circumstances, nor could he call a special meeting of the Board of Pardons. To give a pardon it was necessary that the trial judge, Peter L. Palmer, sign his name to a petition. This was not done. H. A. Lindsley, district attorney at the time of the trial, recommended commutation, not a pardon. As the case stands now, it will have to come up again in regular order before the full Board of Pardons. Peters is under sentence to die the week beginning May 19th, after various reprieves. His case has been peculiar. Two commissions appointed to examine him have declared him sane, while a special physician, also an expert alienist, has told the governor that he is insane. It is the general opinion of those familiar with the case that the prospect of hanging has so scared Peters that he has become insane. He is in a weak condition physically. One of the things that is expected to result from the case is the establishment of a ward for insane criminals at the Pueblo asylum, the same as is done in most states. There are now a dozen insane prisoners at Canon City, some of them dangerous. There is no special provision for their care, the warden having to attend to them as best he can. There is no extra money to provide for them and the attention they get is far from satisfactory in the eyes of the state officials, although the best that can be had under the circumstances. A movement has been started to secure accommodations for the insane criminals of the state, apart from the penitentiary, and it is expected that the next Legislature will make an appropriation. This move is sanctioned by the State Board of Charities and Corrections. As matters stand, if Peters' sentence is changed to life imprisonment, he will remain at the penitentiary, unless the contemplated change goes into effect and the criminal insane are transferred to Pueblo.
Peters, Charles O.
Eagle County Times 7-23-1904 Peters Not Insane Denver, July 22. In a brief report submitted to Governor James H. Peabody yesterday, the lunacy commission, appointed to examine into the sanity of Charles Peters, one of the trio of the Youngblood murderers, stated that he was sane. Peters, under the rigid examination of the board of physicians, was unable longer to act the part which he has played so naturally during the past few days. After less than an hour's ordeal he admitted that he had been shamming, in an attempt to cheat the gallows. Night and day since last week, Peters has fought the guards violently and has raved constantly in a manner so natural, that even the penitentiary physicians were deceived as to his condition and reported him to be violently insane. It has at times taken six men to hold him and he has not slept more than two hours out of every twenty-four since he first attracted the attention of the guards by screaming and tumbling about his cell like a wild person. After confessing his ruse to the board Peters was taken back to his cell, amid the jeers of his fellow convicts.
Peters, Charles O.
Eagle County Times 7-23-1904 State Capital Notes Governor Peabody on the 16th inst. appointed a commission of three to inquire into the mental condition of Charles Peters, the youngest of the trio of Youngblood murderers who are waiting the death penalty at the Canon City penitentiary. Peters has recently shown every indication of violent insanity. The commission consists of Drs. S. D. Hopkins and Howell T. Pershing of Denver and F. N. Carrier of Canon City. According to the statutes of Colorado a convict sentenced to be hanged cannot be removed from the penitentiary to an insane asylum, but must be kept at the penitentiary and the sentence stayed. In the event he recovers his reason he is hanged.
Peters, Frank R.
Rocky Mountain News 10-19-1891 County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted Saturday Estate of Frank R. Peters; lunatic; Maggie Peters appointed conservator.
Peters, George
patient race W gender M age 36 marital status S place of birth New Jersey occupation laborer source 1910 census
Peters, George
patient gender M race W age 57 marital status S birthplace New Jersey source 1930 census
Peters, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:S place of birth: New York occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Peters, James
August 30, 1890 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitken County) JAMES PETERS INSANE The lunacy inquisition in the case of James Peters, who was arrested yesterday while attempting to disrobe himself in front of the Hotel Jerome, was held last evening before Judge England of the county court. The young man has been in half-demented condition for the past week or ten days. Though he has acted peculiarly. This had been noticed by his friends, but no steps had been taken to have an examination made, as their attention had not been specially attracted to his condition until his insane act of yesterday afternoon. The unfortunate young man is a miner and has worked on the Mollie Gibson. Lately he was employed in the excavation of the cellar for the Webber block. His friends testified to his good character. So far they knew he was not in the habit of drinking, and they did not think his present condition arose from anything but a predisposition to insanity, as several of his family had been thus afflicted. His mother is now in the insane asylum at Pueblo, and his mother's sister and father also developed insanity. Peters is about 33 years of age. He has no relatives here in Aspen, with exception of his step-father , Michael Kelly. Judge Yates conducted the case for the people, and Mr. Rogers was appointed by the court on behalf of Peters. A jury of six was called and sworn as follows: William Hoag, James Stewart, James McMurry, Thomas J Cunningham. James W. Williamson and John Bennett. The first witness was Sam Barton. He had noticed the peculiar actions of Peters for the past few days. He would walk around the cabin where he was staying; seemed to be despondent and showed a desire to be alone. Although he was quiet-seldom stopped to speak to any in his ramblings day or night-he showed various signs of an unbalanced mind. Dr. Perry, who had been called to examine Peters, also testified. He said that Peters was not responsible for his acts, according to his belief. Whether it was more than a temporary aberration he could not tell. With proper care and treatment he thought he might eventually recover. Several other witnesses were examined, the testimony being pretty much to the same effect throughout. Michael Kelly, the step father of the prisoner, testified to having known him for many years, but only within a couple of weeks had he observed anything out of the way in his actions. Among his delusions, one was that he thought Kelly and the doctor to whom Kelly had taken Peters for advice, were trying to electrify him by some means or other. The prisoner was also called. He appeared calm and took all the proceedings very quietly, though he wanted to shake hands with every one when he came into the court room. He showed his condition very plainly when on the stand, answering questions in a confused sort of way, being troubled mostly by a lack of memory. One of the counsel said to him: I suppose you have been a pretty bad boy-killed a good many people? Yes, said Peters, I've killed lots of 'em. Here his memory was defective as he couldn't remember the last person he had killed, nor how many he had killed yesterday. The evidence was so conclusive as to the prisoner's insanity that it was useless to hear any arguments and the case was given to the jury. After retiring for a few minutes consideration they returned a verdict adjudging him insane. He was thereupon committed to the state insane asylum at Pueblo, to which place he will be immediately taken.
Peters, James D.
Aspen Weekly Times 4-11-1891 County Commissioners From Thursday's Daily The county commissioners met yesterday with all member of the board present
Below will be found a list of the bills which were allowed
T. G. McCarthy, Pueblo, care of James D. Peters, insane - $7.50
[Evidently Mr. Peters died in the asylim, as McCarthy was the local undertaker]
Peters, Pauline M.
patient gender F race W age 36 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Peters, Swan
patient race W gender M age . marital status . place of birth Sweden source 1910 census
Petersen, Petrea
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Denmark source 1930 census
Petersen, Susan
patient gender F race W age 62 marital status M birthplace Massachusetts source 1930 census
Peterson, Andy M.
patient gender M race W age 30 marital status S birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Peterson, Anna
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Peterson, Anna
patient race: W sex: F age: 37 marital: S place of birth: Iowa none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Peterson, Anna
admitted 1-24-1914 from Boulder, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Peterson, Anna H. M.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1851 age 49 marital status W place of birth Sweden occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Peterson, Anna S.
patient race: W sex: F age: 50 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Peterson, Anna S.
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Peterson, Carl (Earl Evans)
patient gender M race Neg age 28 marital status S birthplace South Africa source 1930 census
Peterson, Carl O.
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Peterson, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 8-10-1883 Charles Peterson, who shot a man named Hoskins, at Leadville, several months ago, has been adjudged insane.
Peterson, Charles
patient, white, male, age 28, single, Sweden, 1885 census
Peterson, Frank R.
Rocky Mountain News 9-17-1890 Briefs Frank R. Peterson was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday. He has a laughing mania and laughs heartily continuously. He will be sent to a private asylum.
Peterson, Gus
patient gender M race W age 68 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Peterson, Gus
Ouray Herald 8-27-1922 Gus Peterson Adjudged Insane Wednesday Wednesday the sanity of Gus Peterson was inquired into, he was adjudged of unsound mind and was taken to a Pueblo sanitarium this morning. It will be recalled that Peterson, generally known as Deafy, several weeks ago threatened to shoot Mrs. William Knowles, near Ridgway. At the time Peterson was bound over to the December term of the district court, but observation since then convinced the authorities he was of unsound mind and the inquisition followed, resulting in his being sent to Pueblo.
Peterson, Gus
Ouray Herald 8-27-1922 Personal and Social Sheriff Laird and George Bedard, accompanied by Messrs. Baur and Peterson, the two last named declared insane during the past week, departed for Pueblo via auto this morning. Baur and Peterson will be placed in the State Sanitarium for treatment tonight.
Peterson, Gus
Ouray Herald 8-31-1922 Frank Lavall Tricks Officer and Gets Away Sheriff Roy Laird and George Bedard, who took Baur and Peterson to the state sanitarium at Pueblo last week, arrived home from that trip Sunday night and Mr. Laird went out again Monday morning and returned from his second trip Wednesday evening. The trip to Pueblo was without incident, the two mentally-unbalanced men behaving splendidly
Peterson, Gus
Ouray Herald 9-28-1922 Commissioners Proceedings for Month of September The Board of County Commissioners met this day
The following bills were allowed from the Several County Funds: General County Fund: R. J. Smith, witness fees, Gus Peterson, $2.95; Mrs. Grace Knowles, witness fees, Gus Peterson, $4.75; J. B. Jones, witness fees, Gus Peterson, $4.30; John Crist, witness fees, Gus Peterson, $4.30; Emma Anderson, witness fees, Gus Peterson, $2.50; B. B. Slick, physician, Gus Peterson, $11.80; E. E. Wheeler, guardian ad litem, Gus Peterson, $10.00; Dr. L. C. Stadler, physician, Gus Peterson, $10.00; Earl Hoskins, bailiff, Gus Peterson, $2.50; Emil Johnson, interpreter, Gus Peterson, $5.00
Peterson, H. M.
patient race W gender F age 58 marital status W place of birth Sweden occupation housekeeper source 1910 census
Peterson, Helga
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:M place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Peterson, Helga
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Peterson, John
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 9-22-1886 Dementia Victims. Oakley, the unfortunate little hunch-back, whose reason was temporarily dethroned, and who, after being adjudged insane, was sent from this county to the asylum for the insane at Pueblo, has returned much improved, and is again visible about the resorts. It has always been maintained by his friends and intimate acquaintances that this was the result of a misfortune by which he was overtaken while in the employ of a railroad and occupying a responsible position in the bridge department several years ago. At that time he was on a falling building and crushed beneath its rafters, never recovered from the spinal injuries. He had accumulated considerable money which disappeared with his extravagance, and he was again thrown on his own resources. Of the asylum he speaks in high terms, saying that under the circumstances he could have demanded no better treatment. And he was among a large group sent from this city. There was Waite, the barber, who had in a fit of derangement and insane frenzy attempted to cut his throat. It was said of Waite that his lunacy had been the result of vaccination, the virus used by the physician having apparently set his body on fire. No sooner had the stuff been injected in his arm than he was prostrated, and the hot burning fever began to prey on him. The disease with which he had been unwittingly inoculated began to manifest itself in sickening eruptions on every portion of the body. He consulted the doctors and finally sought relief in the properties of the mountain springs. From these he derived no benefit however. His mind was racked, and returning to the city he grew desperate. One night in February last he seized a razor and drew it violently across his throat. He was then placed in the county jail and after an inquiry had been made in his case, he was sent to the insane asylum. Oakley says he is yet very violent, and his powerful physique is rapidly crumbling beneath the terrible disease. His days, he believes are numbered. At the time this unfortunate man was there, Jack Duggan was raving in one of the apartments, the warden expressing but little hope for his recovery from the first. The awful hallucinations beneath which he fell continued to grow worse from day to day and men shuddered as they heard him day and night in convulsions. His form is said to have wasted like the sensitive plant before the breath of the deadly sirocco, until he was placed as helpless as an invalid in the hospital department. Having exhausted his powers of resistance the warden for the first time expressed a hope of driving the grim demon from his mind, but death came to his relief and one morning he passed away into the silent realms of eternity. Peterson, the irresponsible slayer of one of the workmen on the Iron Silver mine several years ago is still in the asylum, having grown gradually worse until today little hope is entertained for him. He was never violent but moved about his cell in an aimless manner and talking incoherently on some topic the mortal had little to do with. It is thought his condition was vexed by the mock trial to which he was subjected on being placed in the jail, a jury of jailbirds having found him guilty of murder, and sentenced him to hang by the neck. In his delirium he believes himself convicted by a genuine authority, and demanded of the prisoners an execution at their hands. And he believes today that he is to be hung for the murder of his rival for the woman's affections, the difficulty having originated over the contest for a young woman's adulation. There are a number of others who were sent from Leadville who are still in the asylum, and who will probably end the terrible ordeal there in death.
Peterson, John
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 1-5-1888 The County's Insane. Marshall Phelps, who was recently summoned to Pueblo on an official errand, and at which time Campbell, who was several days ago adjudged insane, was committed to the walls of the grim asylum, accepted an invitation to inspect the institution to which this locality has contributed so many. He describes the experience as one of the most thrilling that has ever marked his voyages through the institutions of the state, while his reference' to the inmates who were dispatched from this city will be read with interest by those who know them. The first greeting I got from the unfortunate guests of the place, remarked Mr. Phelps, a shade of pathos appearing on his face, was from young Robert, who presents a healthy appearance, and who youth makes his prospect for recovery exceedingly encouraging. His insane love for alms, however, still manifests itself, and surveying his visitor for a second he lifted his hands to my shoulders and asked for a nickel. Other than that he makes no demonstration, and his keepers entertain strong hopes that his reason will be eventually restored. At times he enjoys a rational period; I was told, when he expresses a pitiful desire to return to his friends and relatives in Leadville. We were going through the meanderings of the institution, however, when a shrunken, emaciated figure darted before us and grasped my hand with all the fervor of a prodigal returned. Only a feeble, wasted shadow of its former self, I had no difficulty in identifying the figure with its hump-back as that of poor Oakley, better known as Obey, who for years resided in this city. He was as looney as ever, poor fellow, and began to chatter like a magpie, his face all the time beaming with delight at seeing us. You've no idea how he has wasted! His thigh is no bigger than my wrist, and yet he is rarely confined to his bed. In referring to his health he said he had lost his left lung and ear but if I would write to his grandfather-heaven claimed him long ago-he would replace them with a diamond lung and gold ear. Obey very reluctantly permitted us to continue the journey through the building but finally releasing ourselves we were admitted to the women's ward. There we were confronted by the most heartrending spectacle that appeared during the expedition. The keepers were just putting a straight jacket upon a woman-her name I forget-who was sent from Leadville last year. Well sir, it made my heart tremble with pity to see her writhe and twist in her insane frenzy. She is the most violent inmate of the asylum and heaven help her husband who is living in this city-the keeper informed me that she cannot live longer than a month. We had seen enough of the fierce place at this and retracing our steps sought the reception room in the meantime passing John Peterson, who killed a man on Iron Hill, in '84, and who was adjudged insane. Peterson has but very little to say, is of a shrinking disposition and appears in constant fear of an imaginary enemy. "But it's time to change shifts, and the marshal darted into the falling snow. It was on just such a night as that which has just passed that Peterson committed the crime for which he is now paying fierce penalty. The winds were howling in mad fury, snow drifts were heaping themselves about the head of the hill and dancing in riotous glee when a bullet from Peterson's six shooter swept along with the blasts, and pierced the heart of a man named O'Brien. They had been rival applicants for the hand of a young girl on the hill, and while one surrendered his suit in the sepulcher, the other disappeared in the grim vaults of despair. Peterson landed in the jail at a time when it was crowded with characters who had killed their men, and to lift the monotony of prison life, they determined to subject the assassin to a mock trial for his life. This was administered with hideous effect and predicament in which Peterson had placed himself became more horrible. He was found guilty of murder and shut in a cell by the inmates of the jail, was condemned to hang by the neck until dead, in just ten minutes after sentence was pronounced by a prisoner who was himself held for murder. Those proceedings are said to have been carried out with such realistic effect that Peterson thought them genuine. The shock was so severe that he emerged from the cell a maniac and was a few days later so adjudged. There were a number of other cases in the asylum from this locality, the names of who escaped the memory of the marshal.
Peterson, John
Fairplay Flume 8-31-1906 On Monday, John Peterson was adjudged insane by a jury in the County Court and taken to the State Insane Asylum by Sheriff Packer on Wednesday. A. Carlberg made the affidavit of insanity and Olof Nelson was appointed as his conservator. The examination was conducted by County Attorney O'Malia and Attorney Smith was guardian ad litem. Peterson has been a tie chopper around the timber camps in the county for several years and is reported worth several thousand dollars. Some time ago, relatives in Wisconsin were advised of his condition and they sent a man to take him home, but he refused to go. For several weeks he has wandered around town in an irresponsible manner and of late has caused a little trouble. So it was thought best to have him properly cared for.
Peterson, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 58 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: bakery worker source: 1920 census
Peterson, John
admitted 6-12-1915 from Teller, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Peterson, John A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 44 marital:M place of birth: Sweden occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Peterson, John S.
patient race W gender M age 40 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation laborer source 1910 census
Peterson, Louis
patient race: W sex: M age: 56 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Peterson, Maria
patient race: W sex: F age: 68 marital:W place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Peterson, Maria
Rocky Mountain News 3-24-1897 Adjudged Insane Central City, March 23 In the county court this morning a jury of six adjudged Mrs. Maria Peterson of Black Hawk, insane and she will be taken to the asylum to-morrow. The family has been in the county only a few weeks, coming from Washington, D. C. They resided at Black Hawk years ago.
Peterson, Maria
Denver Evening Post 3-24-1897 Mrs. Maria Peterson was adjudged insane at Central City last night.
Peterson, Marie
patient gender F race W age 52 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Peterson, Mary
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status S place of birth Denmark occupation servant source 1910 census
Peterson, Mildred
Pueblo Indicator 8-16-1941 - State Hospital Feeds 5,000 - Institutions can buy all kinds of kitchen equipment built to order, but it can't get cooks that way. Consequently the Colorado State hospital is starting its second class of apprentice cooks and plans to make it a regular feature, with two classes a year. The hospital feeds 5,000 persons three times a day from nine kitchens. Cooks accustomed to smaller kitchens are lost in mass meal production. The apprentice cooks all receive six months' training and experience before becoming full-fledged cooks. In the new class are Mrs. Mildred Peterson, Mrs. Irene Harris, Miss Lata Schroyer, Mrs. Helen Cermak, Miss Bessie Bellitti, Mrs. Jane Queen, Mrs. Genova Chandler and Mrs. Arlene Fjelstad.
Peterson, Otheli
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Peterson, Peter
Peterson, Peter died 7-17-1898 buried 7-18-1898 Roselawn Notes: age 35y, resident of Rye, Co., informant John Peterson, Dr. Work cost $20.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Peterson, Tracy
patient gender F race W age 73 marital status Wd birthplace Denmark source 1930 census
Petroviak, Andrew
patient gender M race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Petrovich, Kate
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:. place of birth: Russia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Petrovitch, Steve
Pueblo Indicator 2-11-1928 - Rico - Steve Petrovitch of Rico, slayer of two men, was found incurably insane by a jury in West Side Court in Denver, and will be sent to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. The jury returned its verdict in five minutes after hearing testimony from alienists who have had him under observation since Jan. 14. Petrovitch is charged with shooting to death Pete Ulivitch and George Radovitch at Rico, Dec. 4. Note: This must be the same guy that we have in the 1930 census listing of Petrquick.
Petrovitch, Steve
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Yugoslavia source 1930 census
Pettee, Eliza
patient race W sex F month of birth . year of birth 1845 age 55 marital M place of birth New York occupation housekeeper source 1900 census
Pettee, Eliza
Rocky Mountain News 9-10-1896 Surrendered to the County Mrs. Pettee was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday. She has been unbalanced for years, was once in the Nebraska asylum, and her husband has kept her in a private place of treatment for some time. He is unable to pay her expenses longer and asked the county to relieve him of her care. Both are aged.
Pettee, Eliza
Denver Evening Post 9-10-1896 Was Found Insane Mrs. Pettee, an aged woman, was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and ordered committed to the Pueblo insane asylum.
Pettet, A.
patient race W gender M age 69 marital status . place of birth New York occupation laborer source 1910 census
Pettie, Anderson
Rocky Mountain News 7-18-1897 Tussle With a Madman Police Officers Have an Ugly Experience in Jail With an Indian At the city jail office last evening about 7 o'clock there occurred a fierce fight between a prisoner and several officers. The prisoner, who is a tremendous half-breed Cherokee Indian named Anderson Pettie, alias Harry Sylvester, was beaten and choked and compelled to give up possession of a long-bladed pocket knife, which he intended to use upon the policemen. Pettie is the man who thirteen years ago slashed ex-Policeman John Connors with a razor and nearly ended that officer's life. The fight occurred at Cole's circus, which was showing at Thirty-second and Curtis streets on June 29, 1894 (1884). On the way to the patrol box the prisoner pulled a razor and drew it across the face of the policeman, marking him for life. The conduct of Pettie yesterday indicates that he is insane. About 6 o'clock he entered the rooms of Attorney W. W. Cooke at 1409 Larimer street, which he found unlocked and unoccupied. The attorney is the owner of a pup coyote, a gentle little brute but a few months old. The animal was kept in a box on the back porch. Pettie opened the box, removed the coyote and placed it in the sink. Then taking all the ice he could find in the refrigerator he piled it about the helpless animal, which is no larger than a cat. When the coyote became still with cold the half-breed wound a piece of baling wire about its neck and started downstairs dragging his catch behind him. He also appropriated a cuspidor and a cane. Attorney Cooke met the burglar at the door. He recognized his property and called upon Officers Bowman and Cummings, who were passing, to arrest the man. Pettie made no resistance till he reached the jail office. While he was standing in front of the desk he quickly reached in his pocket and drew a knife with a spring blade. He was attempting to open the weapon when the officers attacked him. There was a desperate fight and for a time it looked as though the prisoner would succeed in getting his knife in shape for use. Sergeant McNeill and Jailer Lausten took a hand in the matter with Bowman and Cummings. The sergeant received a kick in the chest which sent him across the floor and the prisoner struggled like a madman. Finally after a tussle lasting about five minutes Pettie was choked into submission and dragged into a cell. A charge of burglary was put against him by Attorney Cooke. About 9 o'clock last night Pettie attacked Jailer Batie while being transferred from a front to a rear cell. When the cell door was opened he sullenly obeyed the order to come out. Go ahead, ordered the jailer. You can't bluff me, I'm from Missouri, answered Pettie, who thereupon attempted to close with the officer. The latter dealt him a blow that sent him a distance of ten feet. This unexpected treatment brought the vicious prisoner to his senses. Like a whipped dog he went into the cell to which he was assigned. Pettie's mistress, Lindy Martin, is a bad character and is noted for fighting. She bears several scars on her neck, resulting from knife wounds. The police fear that should Pettie be released and allowed to remain in the city he may kill someone.
Pettie, Anderson
Denver Evening Post 7-19-1897 Arrested Anderson Pettie Purloined a Pet Coyote Anderson Pettie, a negro, was arrested last night for stealing a young coyote from W. W. Cook of 1409 Larimer street. When Pettie was taken to the city jail he made a desperate attempt to cut the officers with a long knife. He was knocked down and dragged into a cell. Pettie is the man who cut Officer John Connor with a razor ten years ago, for which he received five years in the penitentiary. He is believed to be insane.
Pettie, Anderson
Rocky Mountain News 7-23-1897 Pettie Supposed to Be Insane Anderson Pettie, the half-breed Indian, who has been giving the city jail officers so much trouble of late, was removed to the county jail Tuesday. He made an attempt to assault the county jail guards and was thrown into the dungeon. He is thought to be insane.
Pettie, Anderson
Denver Evening Post 7-23-1897 War Dance A Half-Breed Indian Prisoner Indulges in It and Is Locked in a Dark Cell Adolphus Pettiet, the half-breed Indian who attempted to steal a coyote last week and keep it as an ornament, is showing the prisoners at the county jail what a man who is only half an Indian can do. He became so violent this morning that the guards were obliged to place him in a cell and lock him up. Pettiet has a dance which might properly be termed a cross between the wild Plute and the ordinary polka. The only music needed to execute it with is the hideous yell which he emits himself and this is so weird and discordant that it has the effect of chasing the other prisoners into a group in the corner. This morning he ordered the whole detachment in his corridor to move out while he danced, but they couldn't do it, and he began to take them to task for their failure. He is believed to be insane, and will be tried in county court within a few days.
Pettie, Anderson
Rocky Mountain News 8-2-1897 Robbed By Colored Thugs Two young men were attacked
The police say there is a very tough gang of negroes on Market street. One of them was killed by a policeman two years ago while resisting arrest, and another of their number, Anderson Pettie, is now in the county jail for burglary and assault to kill. Pettie is regarded by the police as being the most desperate criminal in the city. The toughest members of the gang are usually to be found on the hog walk, a part of the street where none but negroes loiter. Officers are obliged to keep close watch of the crowd of thugs. Some of the negroes make a few cents now and then by playing the banjo or singing in the dives, but most of them live in idleness.
Pettie, Anderson
Rocky Mountain News 8-16-1897 Two of the Very Worst Alike in color, disposition and bloody reputation, Anderson Pettie, a prisoner at the county jail, and William Robb, a convict at the penitentiary, stand as representatives of Colorado's worst type of criminals. Pettie is confined in the dungeon at the jail and during most of the time is utterly beyond control. A commission has been appointed to inquire into the sanity of Robb, who, crazed with confinement, has attempted his life and the lives of others since he has been incarcerated in the state prison. The two men are birds of a feather and both have reigned at different times as rulers of the Market street Hog Walk. Pettie and Robb each carved a policeman, marking him for life. It was in the summer of 1884 when Pettie slashed Officer John Connors across the face with a razor. He had been caught in the act of robbery at a circus tent. At this time Pettie was only 17 years of age, but had previously served a term in the penitentiary for larceny. Again in 1886 he was convicted of highway robbery and sent up for five years. In the penitentiary Pettie fought his fellow prisoners regularly once or twice a week. Once he caved in a convict's head with a ten-pound stone which he picked up from a rock pile. He was strung up by the thumbs, douched with water, confined in the dark cell, but none of these measures would tame his murderous disposition. He was released in 1890, and in that year, it is claimed, he shot a man named Thornton at Colorado City. There was not good evidence against him and he was never held to answer the complaint. Pettie then drifted into the Indian territory, where his mother, a Cherokee woman, lived, and last year he came to Denver again and was arrested for vagrancy. One evening three weeks ago he entered the law office of W. W. Cooke and stole a live coyote, a bird cage and a walking cane. He was arrested and at the city jail pulled a knife on the officers. After a hard struggle he was subdued and later he was bound over to the district court for burglary, and an information was filed against him for assault to murder, the policeman who arrested him being the complaining witness. Warden Conley at the county jail says that Pettie is the worst prisoner he has ever had under his charge. The man cannot be tamed, although measures have been taken to bring him to his senses. Twice a week Pettie becomes half crazy and will fight any living thing. The convict, Robb, is said to be of the same breed as Pettie part Indian, part white and part negro. Like Pettie, he is a native of Kentucky
Pettie, Anderson
Rocky Mountain News 8-17-1897 Is Alleged to Be Insane Warden Conley Takes Steps to Have a Vicious Ex-Convict Committed Warden Conley of the county jail filed a complaint with County Attorney Twitchell yesterday charging Anderson Pettie, the vicious ex-convict, with insanity. Pettie has been confined in the county jail for several weeks awaiting trial for burglary and assault to kill. He is the man who, in 1884, slashed a police officer with a knife. He has served three terms in Canon City penitentiary. His prototype, William Robb, is at the penitentiary and his sanity is being inquired into. Robb also slashed a policeman. At the county jail Pettie becomes violent every few days and on several occasions has attempted to attack the guards. It is believed that he is entirely irresponsible during these spells.
Pettie, Anderson
Denver Evening Post 8-31-1897 In Flames County Jail Prisoner Anderson Pettiet, a Half-Breed Indian, Sets Fire to His Bedding This morning Anderson Pettiet, the half-breed Indian and negro took the warpath at the county jail and for a few moments there was a scene resembling Custer's last battle. Pettiet has a disposition of the barb-wire variety and is serving a sentence for babying his disposition by allowing it to steal a coyote and knife a policeman. It is said that he is insane, but those acquainted with him believe insanity is feigned. In order to make things interesting this morning he built a fire in his cell and soon the flames were wrapping up the bedding and cot. L. W. George, the guard, saw smoke issuing from the cell and hastened to the door. Put that fire out! he yelled to the dancing half-breed. Go to h---, indecorously replied Pettiet, as he kept on with the dance. In a moment the guard saw that hasty action was necessary and without waiting to summon help, opened the cell and rushed in. Pettiet would not permit him to extinguish the flames and soon a rough and tumble fight ensued, in which the crazed Indian lacerated the guard's fingers fearfully with his teeth. George Sanders soon appeared on the scene and after administering a severe beating to Pettiet, succeeded in freeing him from the guard. He is now in the cooler, where he must atone for his wild actions and will remain there until thoroughly subdued.
Pettie, Anderson
Rocky Mountain News 9-1-1897 Twilight Magnifying Glass Jail Encounter Exaggerated Into a Sensational Scene An exaggerated and distorted account of a small scrap at the county jail appeared in last evening's papers. Anderson Pettie, the half-breed Indian who has been confined in jail for about a month and who is believed to be insane, applied a match to a small paper bag Monday night and refused to obey an order to put out the flames. He was dragged from his cell and placed in the cooler by Guards Sanders and George. During the struggle Pettie caught hold of one of George's fingers with his teeth, but did not break the skin. The prisoner creates a disturbance almost every day. Warden Conly has filed a complaint against him charging insanity.
Pettie, Anderson
Denver Evening Post 11-15-1897 Pettiet on Trial Half-Breed Cherokee Accused of Knifing Officer Cummings with Intent to Kill Anderson Pettiet, the half-blood Cherokee who is charged with the larceny of a coyote to be used to ornament his home, is on trial in the criminal court today for a greater offense that of knifing Officer James Cummings with intent to kill. Pettiet was declared insane about two months ago, when he was building fires in his cell at the county jail and dancing war dances to keep his cell mates from sleeping. Since that time it is claimed that he has entirely recovered and his trial was taken up in its regular order today. His defense is that the assault was provoked by the officer.
Pettit, Andrew
Pettit, Andrew born 1840 died 1/17/1912 buried 1-20-1912 Roselawn Notes: born New York, age 71y, could find no relatives, Dr. A.P. Busey cost $5.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Petzoldt, Mary Winder
Mary Winder Petzoldt, on January 23, 1947, was committed to, and the following day entered, the Colorado State Hospital as an insane person from Arapahoe county. Source Colorado Case Law
Peveler, Bertha M.
patient gender F race W age 28 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pevler, Bertha Mae
Blakesburg Excelsior (Blakesburg, Iowa) 10-10-1957 - Bertha Mae Pevler - Bertha Mae, daughter of David and Clara Thomas, was born Sept. 30, 1900 at Wray, Colorado, and passed away at the State Hospital in Pueblo, Colorado September 28, 1957 at the age of 56 years, 11 mos. and 28 days. She had been a patient there 32 years. Her girlhood and young married life had been spent in and around Wray and she was a member of the Christian Church of that place. On November 8, 1918, she was united in marriage to Chase W. Pevler, who survives. Two daughters were born to them, Mrs. Beulah Bruhn of near Blakesburg and Mrs. Leona Harr of near Albia. Also surviving are 10 grandchildren. Preceding her in death were her parents and one granddaughter. Services were held Thursday, October 3 at 2:00 p.m. at the Knedler Funeral Home in charge of the Rev. O. R. Roberts of Blakesburg. Burial in Blakesburg cemetery. Pallbearers were Floyd Glosser, James Smith, Frank Barnett, Noah Stocker, Richard Glosser and John Huber.
Pew, Anna Vandyke
Anna Vandyke Pew, died 8-20-1899, buried in Ft. Collins (burial could have been on family property, one mile west of the city)
Pew, Anna Vandyke
Fort Collins Weekly Courier - August 24, 1899 - Died on Sunday, August 20th, 1899, at the insane asylum, Pueblo, Anna Pew, wife of K. P. Pew of this city, aged 47 years. Anna Vandyke was born in 1852, in Michigan; came to Fort Collins in 1870, and married K. P. Pew in 1874. In 1890, shortly after the death of her infant son, Mrs. Pew began to break down physically and to show signs of mental derangement. Later she became violent and it was found necessary to send her to the asylum where she has been during the past seven years, incurably insane. The body was brought home for burial, the funeral taking place last Monday forenoon at the family home, one mile west of the city. Rev. L. C. Woodford preached the sermon. A husband and five children, four daughters and a son, survive her.
Peyton, James
Oak Creek Times 4-20-1917 Jas. Peyton Taken to Insane Asylum James Peyton of Oak Creek was taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo Tuesday morning by Sheriff Emory Clark. He was adjudged of unsound mind by a medical commission at Steamboat Springs Saturday and was ordered delivered to the custody of the state by Judge Charles A. Morning. Peyton has acted queer for several years. He rode a bicycle around Oak Creek last summer selling jewelry. He went to Steamboat Springs and during the winter froze his feet badly while making a trip to the mountains. For some time he underwent treatment at the hospital and his hallucinations became more pronounced. He imagined that people were talking about him and he could continually hear voices. [This man also is featured in some articles under the last name of Payton.]
Peyton, James
Steamboat Pilot 4-18-1917 Sheriff Emory E. Clark left yesterday morning for Pueblo, going by way of Denver. He took with him James Payton, who had been adjudged insane and will be incarcerated in the asylum. Peyton had been unbalanced for some time and early in the winter was taken to the hospital, having both feet frozen during a trip in the mountains. His misfortune evidently preyed on his reason and finally he became hopelessly demented.
Peyton, James
Steamboat Pilot 4-25-1917 Sheriff Emory E. Clark returned Friday from Pueblo, where he had been to take Frank Peyton, adjudged insane in Steamboat last week.
Peyton, James B.
Routt County Sentinel 4-20-1917 James B. Peyton Insane Probably as a result of having frozen his feet some weeks ago while on a trip to the Routt county homestead colony on Snake river in Moffat county, James B. Peyton gradually lost his mind, finally becoming apparently a hopeless imbecile. He was adjudged insane at an inquisition held in the County court Saturday, and on Tuesday was taken by Sheriff Clark to the State Hospital for the Insane, at Pueblo.
Peyton, James B.
Routt County Republican 4-27-1917 Here and There Interesting Items Gathered From Various Sources So That The Readers of the Republican May Know James B. Peyton was taken to the state insane asylum by Sheriff Clark last week.
Pezoldt, Franz
patient race W gender M age 36 marital status S place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Pfeiffer, Theodore
patient race W sex M month of birth July year of birth 1861 age 38 marital D place of birth Germany occupation farmer source 1900 census
Pfeiffer, Theodore
Colorado Transcript 2-22-1899 Theo. Pfeiffer, who went suddenly insane in Denver about ten days since, and was subsequently taken to the county hospital, was brought up by Sheriff Lake Sunday, and in the county court Monday was adjudged of unsound mind. He was taken to the asylum yesterday, where it is hoped and believed he will soon recover, as he has never shown symptoms of insanity before. He had started for De Beque, where his wife is stopping at present when seized with the malady.
Pfeiffer, Theodore
Colorado Transcript 4-18-1900 A divorce has been granted in the county court, dissolving the bonds of matrimony theretofore existing between Maggie and Theodore Pfeiffer. The latter is now in the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Pfeiffer, Theodore
Weekly Rocky Mountain News 2-23-1899 Adjudged Insane Golden, Colo., Feb. 21 Theodore Pheiffer was tried in the county court before Judge Mann and declared insane. He was taken to Pueblo to-day.
Pfisterer, William
admitted 11-16-1914 from Rio Blanco, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Phelan, N.J.
Telluride Daily Journal 12-9-1921 Dr. Phelan is Soon to Face Lunacy Board Denver, Dec. 9. Dr. N. J. Phelan was today acquitted of murder in connection with the death of Miss Mary Park, school teacher, from an illegal operation. Alienists testified that Phelan was insane. Lunacy proceedings are to be instituted.
Phelps, E.E.
Castle Rock Journal 5-24-1907 E.E. Phelps, the Colorado Midland conductor who went insane while in charge of his train near Debeque two weeks ago, died as the result of the affliction.
Phelps, E.E.
Basalt Journal 5-25-1907 E.E. Phelps, the Colorado Midland conductor who went insane while in charge of his train near Debeque two weeks ago, died as the result of his affliction.
Phelps, Jennie
patient gender F race W age 60 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Phelps, Jennie
patient race: W sex: F age: 41 marital: M place of birth: Indiananone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Phelps, Jennie
patient race: W sex: F age: 50 marital:M place of birth: Indiana occupation: none source: 1920 census
Phelps, Maggie
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Phillips, E. F.
Rocky Mountain News 3-19-1896 Adjudged Insane Sterling, Colo., March 18 E. F. Phillips, a photographer of this city, was adjudged by a jury to-day as insane, and will be sent on the first outgoing train to a Denver hospital for treatment. It appears that the patient has been brought to his present condition by realizing his inability to provide food for his family and fuel for their comfort.
Phillips, E. F.
Denver Evening Post 3-19-1896 State News Sterling, March 19 E. F. Phillips, a photographer, was adjudged insane yesterday and will be taken to Denver for treatment.
Phillips, George D
admitted 6-5-1901 from La Junita, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Phillips, Isaac
admitted 9-1-1914 from El Paso, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Phillips, Joseph
patient race W sex M month of birth . year of birth 1834 age 66 marital W place of birth Ohio occupation miner source 1900 census
Phillips, Lydia O.
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Phillips, Mrs
admitted 9-15-1899 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Phillips, Phillip
Rocky Mountain News 4-21-1886 Western Waifs Colorado Phillip Phillips, of Webster, who attempted to shoot himself in a saloon at that place about a month ago, had a second hearing before Judge Holland, and was pronounced insane. He will be taken to the asylum at Pueblo.
Phipps, Olive
patient gender F race W age 65 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Picalle, Joseph
patient race W sex M age 25 marital S place of birth Colorado occupation coal miner source 1920 Woodcroft census
Pickel, Daisy
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Pickens, Daniel
Aspen Democrat 11-2-1905 Murderer Adjudged Insane - Cripple Creek, Nov I - Daniel Pickens, the self-confessed murderer of Thomas Walsh who was found dead in his saloon on the corner of Sixth and Harrison streets in Leadville June 6, 1898, was this morning adjudged insane before a jury in the county court. Pickens will be taken tomorrow morning to the Pueblo asylum.
Pickett, Frank L. Mrs.
Colorado Transcript 10-7-1920 Local Paragraphs A hearing in the case of Mrs. Frank L. Pickett, charged with insanity, was heard in the district court room Monday before Dr. Kelly and Dr. Garvin as a lunacy commission. The charge of insanity is brought by Mrs. Pickett's husband, who avers that his wife has become dangerous to herself and others. There were many friends of Mrs. Pickett who took the stand and declared that the woman is not insane. The hearing has been continued until October 12. The Picketts have lived in Jefferson county for many years.
Pickett, Frank Mrs.
Colorado Transcript 10-14-1920 Local Paragraphs In the case of Mrs. Frank Pickett against whom insanity proceedings were brought by her husband, the lunacy commission decided that she was mentally incompetent and Judge Jameson ordered that she be taken to the Colorado state hospital for treatment. Mrs. Pickett has filed notice demanding a hearing before a jury, and the court has ordered a jury venire to appear next Wednesday.
Pickett, Kate B.
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Pickett, Kate B.
patient race: W sex: F age: 48 marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pickford, John F
admitted 2-13-1901 from None Given - Woodcroft Hospital
Pickmeyer, Morris
patient race: W sex: M age: 40 marital: M place of birth: Germany none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Pierce, Carrie
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Connecticut source 1930 census
Pierce, Carrie
patient race: W sex: F age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pierce, Carrie
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status M place of birth Connecticut source 1910 census
Pierce, Carrie L Mrs
admitted 11-3-1899 from Colo. Springs, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Pierce, Ethel P.
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status M birthplace New Mexico source 1930 census
Pierce, Fred
patient, white, male, age 28, single, New York, 1885 census
Pierce, Fred
Boulder County Herald Weekly 11-9-1881 Fred Pierce, formerly of Caribou, was declared insane some time ago. He was taken to Pueblo Asylum last week. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Pierce, Georg
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Pierce, George W.
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Pierce, Myrl
Fort Collins Courier 4-20-1921 William Perry Reeder and Myrl Pierce were adjudged insane Tuesday by physicians in the county court and ordered taken to the state hospital at Pueblo.
Pierce, R Mrs
admitted 4-1-1897 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Pierce, Richard
Telluride Daily Journal 3-2-1907 Richard Pierce, who formerly ran a saloon in Silverton, arrived in Denver yesterday on his way from Arizona to Silverton, totally insane. His son started from Silverton this morning to care for him.
Pierce, Rossman
patient race W gender M age 30 marital status S place of birth Michigan occupation laborer source 1910 census
Pierson, Howard F.
Colorado Transcript 7-31-1901 A report was current some days since that Mrs. Pierson was of the opinion that her husband, who died at the insane asylum, had been foully dealt with. This rumor Mrs. Pierson denied in a letter to the Denver Republican.
Pierson, Howard F.
Colorado Transcript 7-10-1901 Howard F. Pierson, for some time a resident of Golden, was committed to the insane asylum last week.
Pierson, Johana
patient race: W sex: F age: 64 marital:M place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Pierson, Johanna
patient gender F race W age 75 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Pierson, Johnanna
patient race W gender F age 54 marital status M place of birth Sweden source 1910 census
Pigeon, Ada F.
patient gender F race W age 40 marital status M birthplace Mississippi source 1930 census
Pike, Harry
Carbonate Chronicle 5-30-1910 Pike May Escape Punishment Denver, May 23. Harry Pike will probably go unpunished for his assault on Maezelle Ritter last Saturday night. The mother of the wounded girl insists the man is insane, and even should the injuries sustained by Miss Ritter terminate fatally, it is likely the mother would assist Pike in making a defense of insanity. Miss Ritter's condition is improved today. Pike's condition also is favorable. Pike figured in a shooting scrape with his wife in Chicago four years ago, according to a dispatch from that place.
Pillsbury, J.P.
Castle Rock Journal 7-29-1904 Proceedings of County Commissioners As to Allowance of Bills, Letting of Contracts and Granting of Rebates of Taxes and Assessments $25.69, Contingent, R. E. Palm Co. Judge, Fees re Pillsbury insane; $10.00, Contingent, J. W. Farrell, Guardian ad litem Pillsbury insane.
Pillsbury, J.P.
Castle Rock Journal 7-22-1904 - More Local - Rev. J. P. Pillsbury who was adjudged insane here and committed to the asylum at Pueblo on June 30, died at that place on the 14th inst.
Pilon, Annie
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Pinckney, Mrs.
Leadville Daily Herald 12-3-1882 Lynchers Unfortunately Foiled Pueblo, December 2 There was a quiet, but very determined movement on foot last night to lynch the man Pinckney, mentioned in Wednesday's dispatches as so heartlessly maltreating his wife, who has since become a raving maniac. The mob's plans were thwarted by the officers, however, who removed him from the city until an early hour this morning, when he was placed in the county jail for safe keeping. He is now at his Ninth street residence, and states his intention of remaining here and living down the disgrace. Superintendent Thombs, of the insane asylum, says that Mrs. Pinckney cannot long survive; that two weeks will either find her restored or dead. There is still a wonderful feeling among many of our best citizens, and more startling developments are likely to occur at any time.
Pinckney, Mrs. H. K.
Rocky Mountain News 11-30-1882 A Lecherous Husband Deserts His Family For a Loose Woman Pueblo, Nov. 29 A sensation of the most startling nature was developed in this city to-night, when it was currently (?) reported that Mrs. H. K. Pinckney, a most estimable and popular lady, was confined, a raving maniac, at her home on Ninth street. The facts gleaned are substantially as follows: For some months past Mr. Pinckney, who is well known throughout the state, and has held various responsible positions, has been grossly neglecting his domestic hearth. The family consists of a wife and six children, and they have hitherto been considered in the most pleasant of circumstances, the doings of the wayward husband having been hidden under a cloud of pronounced secretness. The sad tale has finally come to light, however, and reveals a history which the pen can not truthfully picture. The attack of lunacy was so sudden and unexpected, it will probably prove of a fatal character. Intense indignation has been excited, and there are strong whisperings of a tar and feather festival.
Pingree, Melissa
admitted 12-1-1914 from Prowers, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Pingree, Melissa
Record Journal of Douglas County 12-11-1914 Mrs. Pingree Taken to Asylum. Mrs. Melissa Pingree, who shot and killed her husband at Lamar last spring, was received at the Woodcroft private sanatorium for the insane in Pueblo.
Pingree, Melissa
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 11-27-1914 Confessed Husband Slayer Insane Lamar. A jury in the District Court here found Mrs. Millie Pingree, tried for the killing of her husband, to be insane.
Pingree, Melissa
Pueblo Indicator 11-28-1914 - Public Discussions - The Intelligent Jury Again - That woman at Lamar (Mrs. Pingree) who telephoned to her husband that an emergency existed and she wanted him to come right home, and then met him at the door and shot him dead, is found by "an intelligent jury" to be insane. For this they had her own admission. This is clearly another miscarriage of justice. The crime had all the ingredients of murder in the first degree, malice aforethought, willful deliberation and lying in wait. How a jury could conclude that a person who could deliberately conceive and carry out such a deliberate, cold blooded murder as that could be insane, is something unprecedented even for a jury. The woman said, herself, that she was crazy and of course they thought she ought to know. Whereas on the contrary it is a well accepted fact that anyone who is really crazy will never admit it. - Critic.
Pinkerton, Eliza
August 26 1893 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitken County) A Pitiable Condition Eliza Pinkerton's Mind Gives Way During Her Recent Troubles From Wednesday's Daily One of the saddest cases upon which the county court has passed judgment for many months was that yesterday when Eliza Pinkerton was tried as to her sanity. Much mention has been made of her case recently in the paper and the case brought against her seducer was continued because of her mental condition. The evidence yesterday was to the effect that she was entirely unable to care for herself, not even being able to dress herself, and her mind wandered from one subject to another constantly. It is impossible to converse with her or to get answers to common questions; she does not recognize her immediate friends and relatives and has shown in disposition to be violent at times. For five weeks her mind has been failing, but during the past few days she has been growing rapidly worse and an application was made to the county court to have her confined in an institution where she could be properly cared for and receive the treatment she so much needs. Dr. Ramsey testified that she was suffering with puerperal mania, the great exciting object being the birth of her illegitimate child on the 12th. He stated that he thought her case in which a cure might be effected; 95 per cent of such cases were cured. Miss Pinkerton has always borne a most excellent reputation and stands high in the estimation of a large circle of friends. Mrs. Catherine Hart was appointed to take Miss Pinkerton to the asylum for the insane in Pueblo, where she will be placed immediately.
Pinkerton, Eliza
Rocky Mountain Sun 8-26-1893 Local and State News Eliza Pinkerton was adjudged insane and was sent to the Pueblo asylum.
Pinkerton, Eliza
Aspen Weekly Times 8-19-1893 A Sad Case A pathetic case is reported from East Aspen. Friends of Miss Eliza Pinkerton have taken steps to have her sent to the hospital for the insane at Pueblo. A short time ago this young woman gave birth to a child and about the same time filed a complaint against John Finnessy for seduction. The child lived but a few days and the trouble which the young woman has been passing through has robbed her of reason. The girl seems to be hopelessly insane and the charitable ladies who have interested themselves in her behalf have been compelled to lock her in her room at times. It is to that end that she may receive proper medical treatment that her friends are endeavoring to have her sent to Pueblo. Friends of the girl express themselves in no mild terms against the one who is responsible for her destruction and their statement of the case, if true, will bring to her the deepest sympathy. As the case comes up for trial today The Times withholds further comment as to its merits.
Pinkerton, Eliza
Rocky Mountain News 8-23-1893 Her Story a Sad One Aspen, Colo., Aug. 22 Eliza Pinkerton was adjudged insane in the county court to-day. Miss Pinkerton's story is a sad one. A short time ago she gave birth to an illegitimate child, and the fact that her seducer forsook her is stated to be the cause of her derangement.
Pino, Plenio
patient gender M race Mex age 32 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pino, Plino
Pino, Plino died 07/21/1934 buried 07/24/1934, residence Walsenburg, notes: 39 years, demented, died in Insane Asylum St. Mary's Death Records, no marker
Pintacella, Louis
Steamboat Pilot 7-9-1919 Prisoner Was Violent Insane Man Gave Officer Much Trouble on Trip to Asylum Undersheriff William Kitchens returned last week from taking Louis Pintacella to the state insane asylum at Pueblo, and it was a job that very few men would care to undertake as the prisoner was violently insane and under ordinary circumstances two men should have been sent with him, but undersheriff is himself so ____ that he managed it alone and this saved expense to the county. Right at the beginning the problem presented itself of how to get Pintacella out of his cell in the Steamboat jail. He refused to dress or to come out. Kitchens volunteered to bring him out and Sheriff Neiman acted as doorkeeper while the undersheriff went into the cell and at once had to grapple with the insane man and used his terrific strength. Around the cell the men struggled until they went down together, with the big officer on top, and the handcuffs were soon put on the demented man and he was bodily carried to a waiting automobile. He gave trouble the entire trip, but the officer landed him safely in the state institution at Pueblo. Undersheriff Kitchens is a man of powerful size and is not to be trifled (?) with. When he joined the state constabulary a special uniform had be be made for him on account of his size. Also he stood among the highest of the thirty-six who passed the physical test out of 280 examined by the state medical men. Note: The print quality on this article was poor.
Pintacella, Louis
Routt County Sentinel 6-27-1919 Is Dangerous Lunatic Louis Pintacella, an Italian who recently came here from Oak Creek and had for a short time been employed by Street Commissioner H. G. Griffin on the town work, was taken in custody Tuesday night. During the evening he had threatened the life of Mr. Griffin, and later he created considerable disturbance at the Stukey roming house. The Lunacy commission, consisting of Drs. Willett and Kerhaghan, examined the man Wednesday, finding him insane, and upon its recommendations, Judge Morning of the County court ordered Pintacella committed to the State Hospital for the insane, at Pueblo.
Pintacella, Louis
Routt County Sentinel 7-11-1919 Local News Undersheriff W. H. Kitchens had a trip that was full of experiences last week when he went to Pueblo to deliver Louis Pintacelle to the asylum. The Italian, who had been working on the streets in Steamboat before becoming violently insane, fought practically continuously from the time that he was taken out of the jail at the court house until he reached the asylum. From Denver to Pueblo it was necessary to place him in a baggage car.
Pintacella, Louis
Routt County Republican 7-4-1919 Louis Pincella, an Italian from Oak Creek, was committed to the state insane asylum last week before the County court.
Pintacella, Louis
patient race: W sex: M age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Piontek, Anna
Pueblo Indicator 3-18-1939 - Notice of Adjustment Day - Estate of Anna Piontek, an Insane Person, No. 7056. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them for adjustment to the County Court of Pueblo County, Colorado, on Monday, the 10th day of April, A. D. 1939. Signed, Conrad Wawrzyczny, Conservator of said Estate. First Pub., March 11, 1939; Last Pub., April 8, 1939.
Pippert, Josie
patient gender F race W age 33 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Pippin, John
gender m age 33 occupation farmer birthplace Maryland source: 1880 census
Piquard, Leona
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Piscopo, Rose
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status Wd birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Pisnko, Michael
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Pitcher, Thomas
Hugo Range Ledger 1-19-1918 Thos. Pitcher, a resident of north of Limon was adjudged mentally incompetent by the lunacy board, Drs. Chas. Lieber and F. W. Lloyd, in the county court last Sunday morning, and Judge Hedlund ordered the patient taken to the state asylum at Pueblo.
Pitt, William J.
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status Wd birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pittman, Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Pittman, Lula
patient gender F race W age 49 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Pitts, Ida
patient race B gender F age 48 marital status M place of birth Tennessee source 1910 census
Pitts, Ida
patient race: B sex: F age: 57 marital:M place of birth: Tennessee occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pitts, Mary
Carbonate Chronicle 12-2-1889 A Very Sad Case Mrs. Mary Pitts Adjudged Insane After an Impartial Trial A Charitable Deed Done by the Ladies of the Relief Corps A very sad case came to the notice of the Ladies' Relief corps yesterday, and with their usual charitableness succeeded in having the patient taken care of. Mrs. Mary Pitts, of 126 East Tenth street, has, for the past few days, shown signs of mental derangement and, in the absence of her husband, the eldest daughter sought assistance from members of the Relief corps. When they visited the house yesterday morning they found Mrs. Pitts walking backward and forward in one of the rooms, in an almost nude condition, carrying a child, about 22 months old, in her arms, and it was also very scantily clad. The poor woman would answer no questions, simply moan and say this is terrible, this is terrible. Taking in the situation Miss Smith, president of the relief corps, and Mrs. Shea appeared before Judge Phelps and requested him to take some action in the matter as to the woman's sanity. Judge Phelps summoned the following jury: Messrs. Staley, Palmer, Tumlan, Cale, Chapin and Evans, and Mrs. Pitts was brought before them last evening. Miss Katie Pitts testified, that when she returned home last Thursday, she found her mother acting in a very strange manner, and had her removed from the house she was then living in, to the one the family at present occupy. For the last ten days her mother's malady became worse and she would walk backward and forward in one of the rooms for hours, carrying the baby, which was 22 months old; she would not sleep, nor would she eat anything; would take no interest in her family or in her household duties, and talked about the world coming to an end. The witness testified that she had never acted in such a manner before. Dr. F. F. D'Avignon testified that he was called yesterday to see Mrs. Pitts and from the manner in which she acted, the vacant stare of the eyes, he concluded that she was insane. Other witnesses corroborated the above testimony, and the jury, after retiring to the sheriff's room for a few moments, returned with the verdict that the woman was insane. By the kindness of Dr. John Law a room in St. Luke's hospital was given to Mrs. Pitts, until the authorities at Pueblo could be heard from. It is a very sad case and the children are left in a nearly destitute condition. Those who are willing to lend a helping hand the Ladies' Relief corps will be glad to hear from them. The daughter, Miss Katie Pitts, is about 17 years of age, and has done everything in her power to keep her mother and assist her younger brothers and sisters, but the little money that she had saved up has all been expended. The father, Martin Pitts, so the children believe, is at Newcastle or Cardiff, working at the coal mines, but they have not heard from him for six weeks.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 11-30-1889 Meeting With Success The Pitts Family Being Well Taken Care of by the Martha Washington Assembly Homes Provided for the Children The unfortunate condition of the Pitts family has enlisted the sympathy of many of the charitable people in the city, and Mrs. C. H. S. Whipple, president of the Martha Washington assembly, who has interested herself in behalf of the family from the beginning, has met with a great deal of encouragement. The Cheap store gave her fourteen pairs of socks and the assembly bought seven pairs of shoes for the children, and Mr. Fred Butler, of the Palace of Fashion, gave a suit of underwear for Mrs. Pitts. The children are well taken care of and Mrs. Whipple consulted Rev. Father James Brown, as to the advisability of sending some of them to St. Vincent's home, in Denver, where they would receive a good education. The reverend gentleman willingly consented to send some of them to Denver and in a few days they will start for their new home. Mrs. Whipple deserves a great deal of credit for the interest she has taken in the unfortunate mother and helpless children.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-3-1889 County Commissioners Last evening at the regular meeting of the county commissioners
Judge Phelps explained to the commissioners the necessity of procuring an asylum for the two insane women, Mrs. Pitts and Mary Anderson, as the one at Pueblo is full and can receive no more patients at present. Action was deferred until the county attorney could be consulted on the matter.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-24-1889 County Commissioners Last evening the Board of County Commissioners met
The Catholic Orphan Asylum, of Denver, was allowed $50 per month for the maintenance of the Coffey and Pitts children.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-5-1889 Without a Purpose
The county commissioners have not as yet decided what will be done with Mrs. Pitts and Mary Anderson.
Pitts, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 8-27-1890 Want a Home Two boys, named Jim and Richard Pitts, aged 9 and 10 respectively, were left with Secretary Thomson of the Humane society yesterday by W. H. Hohm, with the request that they be provided with a home. There is a very sad story connected with the lads. They formerly lived at Aspen, but their father deserted his family six months ago and in a short time their mother was sent to the insane asylum. There are four boys and two girls in the family, the oldest girl being only 20, while the youngest is a boy of 2 years. The two boys mentioned above were sent to a Mr. Brown, near Elitch's garden, three months ago and they are now very anxious for a home. They have been placed in the nursery until Secretary Thomson can hear from Aspen.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-10-1889 Lake's Unfortunate Poor The Two Insane Women Will be Sent to Jacksonville, Illinois for Treatment in the State Insane Asylum at That Place At the meeting of the county commissioners last evening there were present Commissioners Irwin, Jones, Dodge, Younger, Otterbach, Attorney Parks and County Clerk Dale
The main business coming before the board was the pauper matter. It was stated that there was no room at the Pueblo insane asylum for Mrs. Mary Pitts, and Mary Anderson, the two insane women, the first of whom is at St. Luke's hospital and the latter in the county jail. An appropriation was made for the purpose of sending the two women to the Illinois state insane asylum at Jacksonville and they will be taken there as soon as possible
The commissioners also made arrangements to have seven of the Pitts family sent to St. Vincent's orphanage in Denver.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-11-1889 Will Go East Under Sheriff Loomis Will Accompany the Three Insane Women to Illinois This evening Under Sheriff Loomis will accompany Mrs. Mary Pitts, Mary Anderson, and Mary Doyle, to the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois. This institution is a private one, and was used by Lake county before the state institution at Pueblo was built. It is one of the first in the country and the best of care is taken of all patients sent to them. At one time, in 1883, Lake county had three insane people within its walls, and in all, the county has had twenty-three patients sent to the institution at different times. Dr. Law will also accompany.
Pitts, Mary
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-11-1889 Curbstone Comment Father James Brown Five of the Pitts children have already gone to St. Vincent's home in Denver. They will be well taken care of, educated, and when old enough to leave, will be able to struggle with the world. I received a little help from charitable people in the city, for which I return thanks.
Pitts, Mary E.
Rocky Mountain News 8-27-1897 Girl Causes Arrest of Her Mother Child Says She Has Been Cruelly Beaten Little Mary Pitts, an attractive miss of 14 summers, who lives at 1235 Arapahoe street, caused the arrest of her mother, Mary E. Pitts, yesterday. The child claims that she has been cruelly beaten. The mother is said to have been released from an insane asylum seven years ago and since then has spells of temper. Officer Kovsky arrested Mrs. Pitts on the charge of being drunk and creating a disturbance. Last Tuesday she appeared at headquarters and wanted her child locked up for running away. At this time, the police say, she was under the influence of liquor.
Piza, Joe (Steve)
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Plank, Frank E.
patient race W gender M age 40 marital status M place of birth . occupation miner source 1910 census
Plateurv, Henry
patient race: W sex: M age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Belgium occupation: none source: 1920 census
Plateuw, Henry
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Belgium source 1930 census
Platt, Ella
patient race: W sex: F age: 35 marital:M place of birth: England occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pleasant, C.
patient, black, male, age 38, single, Missouri, 1885 census
Pleis, Mary
patient race W gender F age 70 marital status M place of birth Germany source 1910 census
Plith, John
patient, male, white, age 36, single, born Austria, 1930 Woodcroft census
Plott, Steven
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Plucheck, Joseph
patient race: W sex: M age: 76 marital:D place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Plut, Martin
Rocky Mountain News 12-14-1890 Adjudged Insane Leadville, Colo., Dec. 13 Martin Plut, a laborer, was to-day adjudged insane in the county court and he will be sent to Pueblo as soon as there is room there to receive him.
Poage, Irvin
admitted 6-4-1914 from Boulder, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Poehls, Lena
patient gender F race W age 37 marital status M birthplace Minnesota source 1930 census
Pogar, Paul
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Pohlson, Hannah
patient race W sex F age 56 marital M place of birth Sweden source 1920 Woodcroft census
Pohoreni, John
Pohoreni, John age 37y resident of Glennwood Springs, Co., single, laborer, no death date given, no cemetery given, son of John Phoreni and Annie Joli both born Austria, Dr. Hubert Work, cost $175.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Poindexter, Ella M.
patient race: W sex: F age: 45 marital:M place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Poindexter, Ella M.
Pueblo Chieftain July 26, 1920 Poindexter, Ella M., aged 46 years, died at a local hospital July 25, 1920. Body at Whiton's.
Poje, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 54 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Poland, William F.
Rocky Mountain News 11-21-1896 Two Insane Patients William F. Poland, who has been a resident of Colorado for about fifteen years and was at one time superintendent of bridges on the Santa Fe, was brought to the city yesterday and committed to the county hospital as insane. Poland has lived in Denver for five years at 1522 Central street, North Denver. Some time ago he went back to West Virginia to visit his former home and while there was afflicted with insanity. A. C. Hitzler was made guardian ad litem
Poland, William F.
Rocky Mountain News 11-24-1896 Two Insane Citizens Judge Steele yesterday heard two insanity cases. The first was that of William F. Poland, of North Denver, who became insane while visiting his old home in West Virginia. The verdict was insanity, and Poland was ordered returned to the county hospital and from there taken to the state asylum
Polinski, Justin
patient gender M race W age 60 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Polinski, Justin
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:M place of birth: Russia occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Polkinghorn, Ethel
patient race W gender F age 26 marital status S place of birth England source 1910 census
Polkinghorn, Ethel
Rocky Mountain Sun 11-19-1898 Before a jury in county court yesterday, Ethel Polkinghorn, aged 15, was adjudged insane and committed to the asylum at Pueblo. The girl's case is a sad one and the inevitable step taken yesterday was deferred as long as possible in the hope of relief. She had suffered with epilepsy, due to an injury, from early childhood. Lately her affliction became aggravated until it was reluctantly decided that the wisest course would be to send her where she could have expert attendance. The girl's mother made the complaint.
Polkinghorn, Ethel
Denver Evening Post 11-24-1898 Deaths Not Reported Sheriff Fisher has returned from Pueblo, where he went in charge of Ethel Polkinghorn, who was committed to the asylum last week.
Polkinghorne, Ethel
patient race W sex F month of birth . year of birth 1883 age 17 marital S place of birth England source 1900 census
Pollard, Edward
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital:M place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pollard, Eliza
patient race:W sex:F age: 52 marital: M source: Dr. Works 1900 census
Pollard, Eliza
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 11-22-1900 Mrs. Eliza Pollard of Pueblo, suicided on the 15th, by hanging herself to the banisters of the stairway. She was demented.
Pollard, Eliza Mrs
admitted 3-16-1900 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Pollard, J.R.
Georgetown Courier 7-29-1880 County Commissioners Doings Ordered that the Treasurer charge to the Contingent fund the sum of $55 advanced to John C. DeVotie, sheriff, for transportation of J. R. Pollard, insane pauper to Pueblo.
Pollard, John
Central City Daily Register-Call 7-27-1880 A Wretched Sight In one of the north side cells of the old jail there is incarcerated one of the most wretched, miserable specimens of humanity that it has ever been the lot of a reporter to gaze upon. As Deputy Sheriff Duke opened the door of the cell in which the unfortunate wretch is confined, the reporter started back aghast at the terrible sight. Standing before him with nothing but a pair of old overalls to cover his nakedness, stood what was once a man, one who, even from his present incoherent ravings must at one time (have) been possessed with a more than ordinary degree of intelligence. His eyes bore the unmistakable evidences of insanity, while in the centre of his forehead gaped a horrid wound, from which the blood was trickling. His hands were covered with putrid sores, and he presented a sight horrible to look upon. His supper was handed to him and he crouched down in the door of the cell with an idiotic laugh upon his countenance, and uttering a sort of gibberish that no one seemed to understand. His hair was matted, and great festering sores obnoxiously protruded through the little bald spots. He ate voraciously, and for a moment or so was very quiet. Then he burst out with a frightful oath and began abusing those who had brought him to his present deplorable condition. He wildly and idioticly (sic) bewailed his sad fate, and unstintingly cursed the parties who brought him there. What is your name? asked the reporter. The wild stare left the plate of food and fastened itself upon the newspaper man. The meat and biscuit dropped from the nerveless hand, and a minute elapsed ere the wild man spoke. My name, said he in a firm voice, is John Pollard. I was out on a pleasure trip with some friends, and it began to snow, when the 'devoted' left me with my hands in a pair of handcuffs. Oh, I shall get even with them. I intend to take the law against them. Who hurt your head? That man there, pointing to Deputy Sheriff Duke. You struck me five times through those holes in the door, and when I ran from you I couldn't get my head up right in the corner and one of the stones hurt it. Say, mister, there isn't a piece of bed clothing in this room. Now, there was Dr. Williams, he thought a great deal of me. I'm a sailor, and I came from California in the ship Humboldt, from Australia, but I'll get even with these rascals yet. He continued to rave in this manner until the reporter left. Deputy Sheriff Duke says that he tears his bed clothing into shreds and pokes the pieces out through the holes in the door. His real name is John Pollard, and he is from Clear Creek county. He is confined in the old jail until room can be made for him at the asylum, which is now crowded to its utmost capacity.
Pollock, Segundo
patient gender M race Mex age 50 marital status M birthplace New Mexico source 1930 census
Polter, Hannah
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status Wd birthplace New York source 1930 census
Ponder, James
patient gender M race Neg age 83 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pope, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 40 marital: S place of birth: Austria none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Pope, Henry R.
patient race W gender M month born October year born 1854 age 45 marital status M place of birth England occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Pope, Henry R.
patient race W gender M age 55 marital status M place of birth England occupation laborer source 1910 census
Pope, Henry R.
patient race: W sex: M age: 65 marital:M place of birth: England occupation: none source: 1920 census
Popesil, Grace
patient, female, white, age 49, married, born U.S., 1930 Woodcroft census
Pople, Harry H
admitted 8-17-1915 from Boulder, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Popovich, Mane
patient race: W sex: M age: 29 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Popow, Max
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Popow, Max
patient race: W sex: M age: 42 marital:S place of birth: Russia occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Porter, Julia
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Porter, Moses M.
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Porter, Norman
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Wyoming source 1930 census
Porter, Pearl
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Porter, Sarah
patient race: W sex: F age: 21 marital: M place of birth: Missourinone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Porter, Walter
patient gender M race Neg age 39 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Porter, William H.
Colorado Springs Gazette 3-26-1909 Taken to Asylum Bound to a Board Insane Man Makes Desperate Fight Runs Amuck at Court House and Tears Padding From Cell and County Jail Bound on his back to a plank with coils of rope wound about him from his toes to his chin, William Porter, who was judged insane in the county court yesterday, was taken to the Work sanitarium in Pueblo last evening. Porter, who has been making things lively for the police department for several days, started in it today to clean out the county court and sheriff's office and for 15 minutes just after the jury had brought in a verdict of insanity, he held half a dozen officers at bay, threatened the life of County Judge J. E. Little, ran the jurymen from their box and a large crowd of spectators from their seats, and was finally overpowered in a rough-and-tumble battle with Sheriff George G. Birdsall, Deputies Harry Pinnock and A. L. Taylor and Police Officer Henderson. Henderson had a narrow escape from serious injury when the crazy man hurled a heavy cuspidor at his head with terrific force and un-erring aim. The officer hardly had time to protect himself with a chair. Rough Hours at Jail Before the insane man could reach for another weapon, the officers were upon him, and after a struggle he was overpowered and taken to the county jail. No sooner was he placed in the padded cell than he started in to tear the padding from the walls, and once more the officers had to overpower him by force. This time he was roped to a plank and stretched out on the floor, where he was left until the arrival of the train from Denver, on which he was taken to Pueblo. The nature of Porter's especial brand of insanity has been puzzling the police and sheriff's officers ever since he was taken into custody by Officer Henderson several days ago, after a fierce fight in which he bit the policeman's thumb and left some bad scratches on his face. At times the man appears to be perfectly sane and talks quite rationally. Says He Will Get Even I won't stay in Pueblo long, he said to Sheriff Birdsall as he was being taken to the county jail. I'll be real good for a while and then give them the slip. When I do get back here some people had better look out. And I'll go after them right the next time I get a chance. Porter is declared by the officers to be one of the most dangerous and powerful men ever handled in this city, in spite of the fact that he has a wooden leg and only one arm. He is not more than five feet, four inches in height and weighs less than 100 (?) pounds. He is well known about this city, where he has lived for the last 10 years, having been employed for a time as porter at the Alta Vista hotel. In recent years he has made a living by __lting cards on the street and ____ ____ a popcorn stand at the corner of Tejon and Kiowa streets. Porter is apparently fairly well educated and is a skillful penman.
Porter, William H.
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 9-29-1910 Insane Patient Declines To Leave Pastor's Home - Colorado Springs, Sept 23 How to get rid of an undesirable guest is a problem which the Rev. W.H. Lee of the People's Mission is trying to solve. The guest is William H. Porter, who has returned to the mission after being released from the insane asylum at Pueblo and sent, at the expense of the state, to Omaha. Porter is a cripple with a wooden leg and under the law, it is said, cannot be declared a vagabond. The mission people claim that he is able to work, but prefers to be their star guest and do nothing. Porter, at the time he was adjudged insane a year ago, created a scene in stripping himself of his wooden leg and trying to clean out the court room with it.
Porter, William N.
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Potoso, James
admitted 3-8-1914 from Logan, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Potoso, James
Fairplay Flume 3-20-1914 - James Potoso, who is insane, was brought to Pueblo from Sterling by the sheriff of Logan County. The prisoner was place in Woodcroft sanitarium, the insane asylum being crowded. Potoso several months ago killed a relative, but was not tried for murder, the facts showing he was insane. He is declared to be violently insane.
Potter, Hannah
patient race: W sex: F age: 56 marital:W place of birth: Denmark occupation: sewing source: 1920 census
Potter, Marie
patient race: W sex: F age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Canada occupation: none source: 1920 census
Potter, Norman
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Wyoming occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Poulos, Andrew
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Greece source 1930 census
Poulson, Harold
Pueblo Indicator 12-12-1936 Harold Poulson, 37, escaped from the State Hospital last Sunday and going 15 miles up the Fountain river, hung himself to a tree. The sheriff's office and the coroner pronounced it a case of suicide.
Powell, Daniel
patient race: B sex: M age: . marital:. place of birth: Alabama occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Powell, James S.
Denver Evening Post 6-17-1897 Will Be Tried for Insanity James S. Powell, Ben Dennison, Margaret Gross, Mike Kiefer and Amos J. Ford will be tried in the county court tomorrow on the grounds of insanity.
Powell, James S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-18-1897 Five Insanity Cases on Trial All to Be Heard in the County Court This Afternoon At 2 o'clock this afternoon five insanity cases will be heard in the county court. Yesterday Judge Steele appointed C. A. McMillen guardian ad litem of Amos J. Ford, J. A. Rush of James S. Powell, C. C. Dorsey of Ben Dennison, R. M. Snavely of Margaret Gross, and T. E. McIntyre of Mike Keifer. The last named are all charged with being lunatics.
Powell, James S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-19-1897 Four Persons Found Insane A jury in the county court found Margaret Gross, a German woman, insane yesterday afternoon. She was sent to the county hospital. She will be transferred to the asylum later. The same verdict was rendered in the case of James S. Powell, Ben Dennison and Mike Keifer.
Powell, John
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status Un birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Powell, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:. place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Powell, Manie S
admitted 6-27-1914 from Ouray, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Powell, Mary B.
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status S birthplace New York source 1930 census
Powell, Maud H.
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Powell, Rose
patient, female, white, age 65, widowed, born Missouri, 1930 Woodcroft census
Powers, Joe
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 10-4-1900 County Court. Oct. 1. Joe Powers of North park tried on charge of lunacy. Jury found him not guilty.
Powers, Lydia
patient gender F race W age 79 marital status S birthplace Michigan source 1930 census
Prashag, Paul Mrs.
Boulder Daily Camera 8-7-1892 Mrs. Paul Prashag, the unfortunate who occupies the insane section cell in the county jail, was very uneasy yesterday, stripping herself completely of her clothing two or three times. Unless soothed to sleep, she is a raving maniac.
Prashag, Paul Mrs.
Boulder Daily Camera 8-6-1892 Is Violently Insane Lyons Lady Runs in a Nude Condition Across the Field Brought to Boulder A Raving Maniac A sad case is that of Mrs. Paul Prashag, whose dementia was mentioned in these columns a few days ago. Accompanied by Dr. Matthews of Lyons and a son and daughter the lady was handed over to Sheriff Jester yesterday. Dr. Matthews came on the train and made complaint before County Attorney Campbell and Judge Rogers will issue the proper orders today. The son was compelled to capture his mother this morning after a hard run, the poor lady having entirely stripped herself of clothing. She encountered a barbed wire fence in her run across the field and cut her body considerably. On the way to town it was necessary to tie her in the wagon. After she had been placed in the cell for the insane, Mrs. Prashag picked the lock in some mysterious way and was rapidly getting out of jail when the sheriff captured her. Later she went to sleep. The husband is in Europe but is expected in ten days. The Prashags own a farm bought of Joshua Chapman, formerly known as the Tom McCall place near Hygiene.
Prashag, Paul Mrs.
Aspen Daily Leader 8-7-1892 Over the State Colorado News Briefly Compiled as Gathered for the Leader Mrs. Paul Irastag, while insane, ran away from her home at Lyons in a perfectly nude condition. She was rescued by her son and brought to Boulder, where she is confined in the county jail. [There is another article about this same lady, but she is listed as Mrs. Paul Prashag.]
Prather, Mrs. J.
Rocky Mountain News 10-24-1895 Back to Pueblo Yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff Granger of Pueblo came to the city and left at noon with Mrs. J. Prather and her 4-year-old child in custody. About a week ago Mrs. Prather escaped from the Pueblo hospital and came to Denver to see the healer. She is slightly demented.
Pratt, Effie
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pratt, Effie
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Pratt, Evelyn
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status S birthplace New York source 1930 census
Pratt, Harry D.
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Vermont source 1930 census
Pratt, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 84 marital:. place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Praugh, Nellie M.
patient race W gender F age 53 marital status M place of birth Pennsylvania source 1910 census
Preall, Collins C.
patient race W gender M age 40 marital status S place of birth . occupation steelmaker source 1910 census
Preall, Collins C.
patient gender M race W age 60 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Preall, Collins C.
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Premozich, A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 44 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Prendergast, Helen
patient gender F race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Prendergast, Helen
patient race: W sex: F age: 24 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Prentice, Evaline
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status S place of birth Kentucky occupation servant source 1910 census
Prentice, Evaline
Rocky Mountain News 6-15-1888 The Courts County Court Probate In lunacy, Eveline Prentice; trial; verdict of lunacy; judgment on verdict.
Prentice, Evaline
Rocky Mountain News 6-15-1888 Local Brevities Eveline Prentice, a young colored girl, was examined in the County court yesterday for lunacy. She proved to be a harmless idiot and will be taken to the asylum at Pueblo to-day.
Prescott, Louisa
patient race W gender F age 42 marital status S place of birth New York occupation dress maker source 1910 census
Prescott, Louise
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:S place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Presill, Tom
patient gender M race W age 59 marital status S birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Preston, James L.
patient race: W sex: M age: 23 marital:S place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Price, Dick
Durango Democrat 3-3-1907 Dick Price, Jr., and John Owens passed through yesterday from Silverton to Denver in response to a telegram advising that Dick Pierce, Sr., a well-known saloon man of Silverton, had arrived in Denver in an insane condition from Phoenix, Ariz. The demented man will probably be brought back to Silverton.
Price, Hugh E.
Leadville Daily Herald 10-8-1882 The Junk Shop Hugh B. Price was placed in the county jail on Thursday night on a charge of insanity.
Price, Hugh E.
Leadville Daily Herald 10-17-1882 Adjudged Insane Unfortunate Young Men Said to be Bereft of Reason Yesterday afternoon Judge Gunnel was occupied in adjudicating on the sanity of Hugh E. Price, of England, and John Jalindo of France. In the first instance Price was put on the stand and testified in his own behalf. He gave an account of his doings, his place of birth and education and very positively asserted his sanity. He located correctly several of the prominent mines here and stated that at one time he was engaged in the assay office of the old Grant's smelting works. His manner and appearance was peculiar, however, and it was really a subject of wonder by the spectators what verdict the jury would bring in, as the man appeared to be the living embodiment of contradictions. After several minutes in the jury room the six returned and handed the court the verdict of insane. Price is but twenty-seven years of age, well educated and connected in England, and in all probability he will fully recover his reason after a proper course of treatment in a suitable hospital
The commissioners will now have to issue orders to have both these demented men taken to proper institutions.
Price, Mr.
Rocky Mountain News 1-20-1883 - A Sad Case - Dean Hart yesterday called the attention of the authorities of this county to the pitiable condition of an insane Englishman named Price. He says the poor fellow is confined in the Lake county jail, and the authorities of that county refuse to do any better for him. The state authorities can not receive him into the asylum there, as all the wards of that institution are crowded to overflowing. The Arapahoe authorities cannot do anything for him, as they already have several insane persons confined in the county hospital and one or two in the jail under the charge of Sheriff Spangler.
Price, Nettie
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status M birthplace New York source 1930 census
Price, William R.
patient gender M race W age 35 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Pride, Edith
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Priess, Floyd W.
patient gender M race W age 22 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Prince, Joe
Summit County Journal 7-26-1902 Joe Prince, of Robinson, was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court the other day and sent to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. Prince followed mining, but a few years ago was heaving coal at Dickey.
Prince, Joseph
patient gender M race W age 66 marital status S birthplace Canada - Eng source 1930 census
Prince, Joseph
patient race: W sex: M age: 55 marital:S place of birth: Canada occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Prince, Joseph S.
patient race W gender M age 45 marital status S place of birth Canada occupation miner source 1910 census
Prior, Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status Wd birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Prior, Richard
Rocky Mountain News 7-14-1888 Disordered Minds Two Strange Cases of Lunacy to be Tried To-Day Two strange cases of lunacy are now before the County court. Richard Prior is the victim of the wildest delusions. He was some time ago attacked by inflammatory rheumatism. The disease at one time threatened to attack him, but he went to Glenwood Springs and took a series of baths, which seemed to avert this danger. But the disease seems to have gone to his brain. A few days ago he became so bad that his friends were compelled to seek the aid of the authorities. He claims that he is the victim of medical malpractice. He says the doctor put iodine in his medicine. His case will be disposed of this morning. Victor Hen some weeks ago indulged extensively in the vagary of hiring outfits from one livery stable and returning them to another. He was finally arrested for this and criminal prosecution commenced. But his strange actions excited a question as to his sanity and his mental condition is to be investigated. He is detained meantime in the county jail.
Prior, Richard
Rocky Mountain News 7-15-1888 The Courts County Court Probate In lunacy of Richard Pruen; verdict of lunacy; judgment on verdict; guardian ad litem allowed $15.
Proctor, Walter V.
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital: W place of birth: Missouri none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Proda, Dominci
patient gender M race W age 55 marital status S birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Proffitt, Ione
admitted 2-18-1914 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Prosser, Benjamin
patient race W gender M age 28 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation miner source 1910 census
Prosser, Benjamin
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Prosser, Benjamin
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Provo, Gladys
patient gender F race W age 27 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Pruitt, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital: M place of birth: Illinois none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Prumebaum, Pauline
patient race W gender F age 27 marital status S place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Prune, Pauline
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Prunebaum, Pauline
patient race: W sex: F age: 37 marital:S place of birth: Ohio occupation: kitchen help source: 1920 census
Prunty, Jesse
patient gender M race W age 40 marital status M birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Prunty, Jesse
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Kentucky occupation: none source: 1920 census
Pryor, A.M.
Fairplay Flume 4-23-1885 A. M. Pryor, who was recently convicted of rape at Colorado Springs, has been pronounced insane.
Pryor, A.M.
Fort Morgan Times 4-23-1885 A.M. Pryor, who was recenlty convicted of rape at Colorado Springs, has been pronounced insane.
Puckett, Ethel
patient gender F race W age 40 marital status S birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Puckett, Ethel
patient race: W sex: F age: 36 marital:M place of birth: Arkansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Puckett, Ollie F.
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pudge, Samuel
patient race W gender M age 46 marital status S place of birth England occupation laborer source 1910 census
Puetz, Mary
patient gender F race W age 60 marital status Wd birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Pugh, Kate
Colorado Transcript 11-18-1909 Mother and Crazed son in Pitiful Plight. Living under most deplorable circumstances in a squalid hut in Clear Creek canon, twelve miles from Golden, Humane Officer E. A. Ranson Saturday found an aged woman and her demented son. The woman has been identified as Mrs. Kate Pugh, of Central City, and it was the fear that her unfortunate son would be sent to the insane asylum that prompted her to wonder from her home. Railroad men had notified the State Humane society, and Officer Ranson left Golden Saturday morning to investigate. He had little trouble in finding the place, and as he pushed open the door of the hovel a most pitiful sight greeted his eyes. The mother, who is past sixty years of age, and her crazed son were hovering over an old lard can in which was smoldering a small fire of chips, affording the only means of warmth. The room was filled with smoke, and the mother and son had barely enough clothing to hide their nakedness. Gunny sacks were hung up at the windows, and in lieu of a door a piece of corrugated iron propped up, the only shelter against the biting blasts. Although inured by years of experience to scenes of squalor and hardship, Officer Ranson will never forget the sight which met his gaze as he stooped to enter that hut on the mountain side. He did what he could to administer to the pair, and without waiting for a train, walked the twelve miles back to Golden and reported to Sheriff Heater what he had found. The sheriff immediately took steps toward relieving Mrs. Pugh and her son from their pitiful plight, and early Sunday morning they were brought to Golden. Mr. and Mrs. Heater did everything possible to bring them comfort, and after they had been given food and raiment their appearance was greatly changed. The authorities at Central City were notified and on their advice Sheriff Heater took the aged woman and her son to that city Sunday evening. It is said that Mrs. Pugh was once a prominent society woman of San Francisco. Her husband was a graduate of Oxford. At the time of his death he possessed a considerable amount of property in Central City. It was the wish of the father and mother that their son be sent to England to be educated at his father's alma mater, but a fall when a mere lad caused him to lose his mind. He was sent to the insane asylum, but as he was entirely harmless he was released upon the entreaties of his mother, who promised to care for him. She feared that the boy's derangement would take a dangerous form and that the authorities of Gilpin County would again take him to Pueblo. Rather than be separated from his, she chose to make herself an exile and a virtual fugitive. Mrs. Pugh owns residence property in Central City valued at about $10,000, it is said, and in the house which she left to become a wanderer over the hills, the library alone is said to be worth $2,000. This property has been lying idle. She has a married daughter living in Denver who has time after time attempted to get the mother to live with her and let the boy be cared for in a sanitarium, but she would not listen to any plan that would take the boy away from her.
Pullen, George
Hugo Range Ledger 8-13-1921 George Pullen, who escaped from the Pueblo insane asylum and returned to northern Lincoln county, was taken in custody by Sheriff Tom Williams last Sunday. An attendant from the asylum came to Hugo Monday night, and took Mr. Pullen back to Pueblo last Tuesday.
Pulvermiller, Conrad F
admitted 6-11-1901 from Durango, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Puntar, Matt
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Puntar, Matt
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:M place of birth: Austria occupation: stable helper source: 1920 census
Purcell, Sadie
Denver Evening Post 12-23-1898 On Any Old Grounds Colorado Springs, Dec. 23 Sadie Purcell was adjudged insane in the county court this morning and was committed to the asylum at Pueblo.
Purdue, Mary
patient gender F race W age 31 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Purdy, Grace
patient, female, white, age 50, married, born W. Virginia, 1930 Woodcroft census
Puriatt, Eliza
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: Belgium occupation: none source: 1920 census
Purtell, Thomas
Purtell, Thomas died 11/6/1907 buried 11-8-1907 Roselawn Notes: age 45y, informant Frank Purtell of Rantoul, Illinois, Dr. A.P. Busey cost $20.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Pusey, Willis B.
patient race W gender M age 34 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
Pusey, Willis B.
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Pusey, Willis B.
patient race: W sex: M age: 44 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: bakery worker source: 1920 census
Putt, Reuben S.
Rocky Mountain News 11-7-1889 Governor Cooper Makes Room Georgetown, Colo., Nov. 6 Owing to a telegram having been received by Sheriff Mingle from the superintendent of the insane asylum at Pueblo that no room could be made, Mr. Putt of this place was not taken to that institution until to-day. A peculiarity of this matter is that when an interview was had with Governor Cooper, strange to say, the room was immediately made. Will some one explain?
Putt, Reuben S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-1-1890 Clear Creek Items Georgetown, Colo., May 31 Reuben S. Putt, who was adjudged insane here last winter, died in the asylum at Harrisburg, Pa., lately.
Pyatt, S.C.
Routt County Sentinel 5-24-1907 A Craig resident named Pyatt was adjudged insane in the county court last week. He was taken to Pueblo by Sheriff Farnham for treatment.
Pyatt, S.C.
Steamboat Pilot 5-22-1907 Sheriff Farnham last week took Mr. Pyatt of Craig to the asylum at Pueblo, he having been adjudged insane by the county court.
Pyatt, S.C.
Steamboat Pilot 3-13-1907 Judge Morning came down yesterday from Yampa on his way to the county seat to hold a term of county court. Besides some probate matters, one Mr. Pyatt of Craig will be tried for lunacy.
Pyatt, S.C.
Steamboat Pilot 3-13-1907 The Pyatt lunacy case which was to have been heard before Judge Morning Monday at Hahns Peak failed to materialize. Mr. Pyatt has improved so materially that he has been taken from Craig back to his ranch near there, with hopes of recovery.
Pyatt, S.C.
Yampa Leader 5-25-1907 Sheriff E. A. Farnham was in Yampa Monday, returning from Pueblo, where he had been to place S. C. Pyeatt in the asylum. A lunacy inquisition was held by Judge Morning in the county court last week upon Mr. Pyeatt, who is 71 years old, and who has been residing on a homestead about four miles south of Craig.
Pyeatt, Samuel C.
patient race W gender M age 73 marital status M place of birth Arkansas source 1910 census
Pyle, John
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1855 age 45 marital status M place of birth England occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Pyle, John
patient race W gender M age 54 marital status M place of birth England occupation farmer source 1910 census
Pyle, John
Rocky Mountain News 2-4-1892 Adjudged Insane Four Unfortunates Committed in the County Court Yesterday The county court yesterday afternoon presented the appearance of an insane asylum. Four unfortunates were adjudged by as many juries to be incapable of managing their affairs, and orders were made committing them to the asylum at Pueblo. The proceedings attracted a very large, very noisy and unduly curious crowd. Henri Murat, who had been delivered up by his bondsmen, who had him released from jail where he was sentenced for sixty days for vagrancy, took the stand and told the jury a jumbled up story about killing dogs, which he proposed to eat. George F. Whitney was another demented man. He claims to have no relatives here, but his friends claim that he has a sister, Mrs. Jennie Skinner, living at Woodstock, Conn., who, it is thought, is not aware of the brother's pitiable plight. Mary Toohey and John Pyle were also found to be mentally deranged.
Pyle, John
Rocky Mountain News 12-15-1891 Courts and Clients Briefs John Pyle, who has been released from the county hospital, was found, although a charity charge, to have $502.45 on his person. He was yesterday adjudged insane.
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