Pueblo County, Colorado
Insane Asylum Patients
Saavedra, Rafael M.
b. 2 Jul 1870 d. 12 May 1924, Colorado State Hospital, Pueblo, CO; 53 yr 10 mo 2 da; resident of Carr, CO. for the last few years; was probate judge of Union Co., NM, 1912-1917, source: online
Sabin, John
patient race W gender M age 47 marital status W place of birth Indiana occupation laborer source 1910 census
Sabo, Joseph J.
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Europe source 1930 census
Sacamona, Joe
Creede Candle 7-21-1917 Tuesday, Joe Sacamona, who has been in jail here on the charge of murder, was tried before a lunacy commission. It is thought that he brooded over the act he committed and the loss of his wife until he became mentally unbalanced. The commission reported him insane, and Sheriff Russell took him to Pueblo. (Center Post-Dispatch).
Saccamanno, Joe
patient gender M race W age 40 marital status M birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Saccamanno, Joe
patient race: W sex: M age: 30 marital:M place of birth: Italy occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sackett, E.H.
Daily Journal 3-31-1916 Sackett Found Insane by Jury - E.H. Sackett of this city (Leadville), who was tried in the district court at Leadville the first of the week for killing Dr. G.P. Rider at Twin Lakes on Feb. 9 was last night adjudged insane by the jury which heard the evidence in the case. This was the report received by the Jouranl this afternoon direct from Leadville. Local people last night received brief telegrams stating that Sackett has been acquitted and the news spread about the city within a short time. The Journal is indebted to the Leadville Herald-Democrat for its information today. In our telephoine conversation we learned that the defense of Sackett was confined to witnesses, some 15 or 20 in number, all of whom testified to matters and happenings which would lead to the belief that Sackett was insane. Dr. Delehanty, the alienist retained by the defense, stated on the stand that he had made a careful examination of Sackett and he pronounced the man to be suffering from hypo-mania. The jury which heard the evidence in the case went out last evening at 5 o'clock after hearing the closing arguments of the prosecution and the defense and the instructions of the court. At about 9:30 the jurors filed back into the court room with their verdict which declared that Sackett was insane, which in reality is an acquittal oin the murder charge against him. Judge Cavender, who presided at the trial, recommended following this verdict that Sackett be placed in a private sanitarium. Following the announcement of the verdict Sackett was remanded to the custody of Sherriff Harry Schraeder. Up to 2 o'clock this afternoon nothing had been done toward sending Sackett to any asylum, but it is believed that some action will be taken within the next day or two.
Sackett, E.H.
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 4-7-1916 – “Not Guilty but Insane,” Verdict – Leadville – “Not guilty, but insane,” was the unique verdict returned by the jury which tried E. H. Sackett on a charge of murdering G. P. Rider of Wilmette, Ill., at Twin Lakes.
Sackett, Ed H.
Telluride Daily Journal 4-5-1916 – Sackett Taken to Sanitarium – H. M. Sackett, of South Haven, Mich., a brother, was given into custody by Judge Cavender in the district court yesterday morning of Ed H. Sackett, the Telluride tram contractor declared insane by a jury Thursday after he had been tried on the charge of murder of Dr. G. P. Rider, of Wilmette, Ill., at Twin Lakes, on the night of Feb. 9. Sackett's brothers declare it would be impossible to keep their brother in confinement at an asylum unless he was made to understand that the court retains jurisdiction over him. Under the arrangements made therefore, Sackett will be kept at the Mt. Airy sanitarium Twelfth and Clermont streets, Denver, until the court accedes to requests for his release. Sackett's family will bear the expenses of his care, it was agreed. H. M. Sackett left the city with his brother yesterday morning. It is possible Sackett may be taken to a sanitarium at a lower altitude than Denver later on. At present the State asylum at Pueblo is filled, it is understood here. Under the legislative provisions defendants found insane, as in Sackett's case, are ordered confined in the criminal ward of the state asylum, but no appropriation for their care there is made, it is said, and the provision therefore cannot be carried out literally. – Leadville Herald-Democrat.
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 4-3-1916 – How Rider Was Killed – Trial of Edward Sackett Begins in District Court – Witnesses Describe Tragedy at Twin Lakes – Defense Is Insanity – Was Ed. H. Sackett, Telluride tram contractor, insane on the night of February 9 when Dr. G. P. Rider, of Willmette, Ill., a stockholder in the Twin Lakes Mining and Milling company, received the fatal revolver shot which caused his death two days later? Sackett's counsel, not yet having made any statement to the jury, did not declare in the district court yesterday that he was insane at that time, but throughout their cross-examination, practically each witness was sounded regarding the outward appearance of the contractor on the night of the shooting and their opinion of his nature, whether peculiar or otherwise. Before a crowded courtroom, District Attorney Barney L. Whatley called fourteen witnesses for the prosecution and built up the testimony which the defense will endeavor to refute today. Five more witnesses are still to be called for the prosecution, the district attorney said last night, the defendant's counsel will then make their opening address to the jury and call their witnesses. It is highly possible all testimony will be completed by adjournment time this afternoon. The expected delay in empanelling jurymen unchallenged by either side did not arise. The defense used but three of the peremptory challenges permitted in murder cases, and twelve men had been sworn by noon. These are Thomas Goodbarn, P. P. Peyer, Fred Swanson, Fred L. Cretney, Tim Gorman, Frank Doublecheck, William P. Briel, Charles G. Lofgren, Samuel Fearnley, A. G. Flinchbaugh, Otis Richmond, John Hancock. A special venire of fourteen jurymen was called after the first venire of forty had been exhausted. The fourteen were John Hancock, T. D. Loomer, P. J. McKenna, J. A. Milner, Peter Mulock, W. J. Orr, Ed. Sehrt, William Kissel, John Hepburn, Roy Stewart, Raymond McLean, Fred Cretney, Charles G. Lofgren and Otis Richmond. During the hearing, Sackett, the defendant – a middle-aged man, nicely dressed, nearly bald, with a cropped brown mustache – listened closely to the story of each witness, as he sat at the table of his counsel. His wife, daughter, son and brothers with friends and acquaintances, who are expected to appear as character witnesses today, are in the city from Telluride, and sat in the courtroom with the spectators throughout yesterday's session. Sackett was worried about his pay from the Twin Lakes Mining and Milling company for the construction of a tram line from the Gordon-Tiger mine to the mill at Twin Lakes, the testimony of H. M. Shepard, mine superintendent for the company, indicated. Shepard, the chief witness of the day for the prosecution, had been approached by Dr. Rider, the late stockholder, on the afternoon regarding the title of the company to the ground being operated. “We haven't any more title to that ground than the man in the moon,” Shepard said Rider told him. “I'm going to Denver tomorrow to see about it.” The defense's objection to further testimony on this point was sustained. After supper, Shepard saw Sackett at the Lane home at Twin Lakes, when Sackett dropped in at 7:30 as he was talking with the family. Hearing them talk about the title to the ground, Sackett said, “What's this, a blow up?” Shepard told him, he said, that a flaw had evidently been discovered in the title, and Sackett asked how it would affect his payment. Shepard replied it would affect Sackett probably no more than it would his own back salary. Sackett later told him the company's debt to him was $3,158, the witness thot. Later in the evening Shepard was playing a game of cards in the office of the Twin Lakes, or “Twin Peaks,” hotel with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Martin, managers of the hotel, and James King, a resident of the mountain village. Dr. Rider can in and sat down at Mrs. Martin's left, and Sackett coming in, was also watching the game. At about 9:15 the Martins and Dr. Rider went to their rooms. Shepard picked up a newspaper and sat down to read. Sackett entered into a conversation with him and again asked what the question of title had to do with payment of his bill, and asked also how much Rider and Van Deventer, another stockholder, had put into the mining venture, telling him how much the company owed him for the contract. They talked a while longer and Sackett asked if Rider had gone to bed, the witness said. Sackett then remarked, Shepard continued, “he guessed he'd go to see about it,” and left the office. Shepard heard bits of conversation then at Rider's door. “It's me, Sackett, I want to get in,” and mumbling of voices which he could not clearly distinguish. The witness, a short time later, heard a door crash open and heard Sackett's voice asking, “When can I get a settlement?” There was a pause, and then Sackett said, the witness continued, “The hell you don,” or something like that. “I am after that settlement.” The next sound Shepard heard was two shots in rapid succession, he said. He dropped his newspaper and ran towards the sound. He met Dr. Rider coming thru the hall, his hands pressed over his stomach. James King ran out of his room and with his assistance Shepard helped Rider to his bed, as the latter asked for a doctor. On the way down the road to the telephone office, to call a doctor from Leadville, Shepard stopped at the house of G. W. Boyce, manager of the company, and notified him, and then went on and called Dr. H. A. Calkins and Sheriff Schraeder. He saw Sackett standing at the south end of the hall not (?) helping Rider. “I asked him,” he said, “Ed, for God's sake, what have you done?” “What did he reply, if anything?” the district attorney asked. “I killed the s___ ____,” the witness said Sackett answered. On the afternoon of the shooting at the mine, Shepard said answering a question, he and Perry Lane were talking about the pay roll affairs, and Sackett said, “I'll have a settlement tonight, or I'll get the whole bunch of them. I'll fill one full of lead and the rest can't get away.” He talked once with Sackett after telephoning to Leadville after the shooting. Sackett asked him if the doctor was coming. When Shepard said he had called one, the contractor replied, the witness testified, “It won't do any good. That man has no more chance than a snowball in hell. I knew what I was shooting.” He described the tram line for the district attorney – a tram about 3,890 feet long, two standing cables, arranged so that the loaded bucket would pull back the empty one to the mine, at one or two places, 250 or 300 feet above the ground. He could not identify the revolver in Sackett's hand, he said, not having examined it closely that night. On cross examination by L. W. Allen, of Telluride, Sackett's lawyer, Shepard said the contractor had told him of difficulties obtaining pay for investments in Wyoming. He was asked if Sackett ever impressed him as being peculiar, on this day or at other times. “The only thing that really surprised me,” he said, “Ed is one of the most profane men I ever heard. He had very little to say.” He explained this more fully later by saying that on this day, Sackett did not use profane language so frequently and was not so communicative. Regarding his view of Sackett at the end of the hall after the shooting, he said, “He was the most foolish looking man I ever saw. He was looking down at Rider; the gun was hanging in his hand.” He saw Sackett in the office later after the affair, sitting in a rocking chair with his feet cocked on another. “Was there anything unusual, anything that impressed you as unusual as he sat there during this period?” “No, I don't think of anything – Yes, there was one thing. At one time I thot he went to sleep.” About 8 o'clock in the evening, Sackett went to Fred Olson's “bachelor's” cabin, about 150 feet down the street, Olson testified. Olson was in bed. When he let Sackett in, the contractor said “he wanted to borrow a gun to kill a dog with.” Olson showed him an automatic revolver – a .30 caliber on a .38 frame – and explained use of the safety catch to him. Sackett left with the gun and Olson went back to bed. A minute or two afterward he heard a shot, he said, and got up and put more wood on the fire. In less than five or ten minutes, he continued, Sackett came back. “Did you get your dog?” Olson asked, he said. “Yes I got one of them,” Sackett answered, he went on, and turned and went out after laying the gun on the table. There were five loaded shells in the gun, Olson thot, when Sackett took it; three loaded ones when he came back. Sackett had seen the gun once before in January, he said, when he called to have a shoe repaired. On Attorney James T. Hogan's cross-examination, Olson said Sackett seemed quiet when he borrowed the gun, tho he “usually never seemed short of conversation.” George W. Hamilton, an employe of Sackett, entered the hotel twenty minutes after the shooting, after visiting at Joseph Stolk's at 9:50, he said. Stopping to get a drink of water from a bucket in the hall, he said, he saw Sackett sitting back of the stove and King in front, and heard the former say, “I got one of the ____ ____ ____ ____.” King motioned to Hamilton to come near and said, “He's killed Dr. Rider.” One cold day at Frank Anderson's cabin, Hamilton said, Sackett asked him if he had been “beat” out of money at the Bwlehcogh (?) mine, and then said, “'I've been beat several times. I'll get the next outfit that gets me,' or something to that effect.” He made no actual threats against the Twin Lakes company, he said. Hamilton, on Attorney Allen's cross examination, said he had thot Sackett was “peculiar” while he worked for him. He was “changeable” in moods and profane, he said. On re-direct examination, he said Sackett seemed to be quick tempered. When the sheriff came early in the morning and Hamilton showed him Sackett's room, when the contractor had gone, Sackett said to the sheriff, “Take me on out and hang me. I done it,” according to the witness' testimony. Charles J. Griffith, of Aspen, who was also working for Sackett, heard Sackett make remarks about “getting even” with the company, but considered them as indicating legal action. In making a splice in a cable one day, Sackett jerked the cable out of Joseph Stolk's hand and began the work himself, and soon cut the splice out entirely when ten minutes more of Stolk's work would have mended it, the witness said. He thot at this time, he said, that Sackett was “flighty” and “dangerously vicious apparently.” At times Sackett was “hilarious” he continued, and “changed his moods” rapidly. He gave this testimony on cross examination. Harry Lane and Warren Dodge know nothing of the actual events on the night of the shooting. At 10:30 in the evening after the shooting, Sackett “seemed wildly excited” and a “wild expression” was on his face according to George W. Gilman, an employe, who saw him at that time. Pete Foxall, the last witness of the day, a boy now living twenty miles below Buena Vista but then at Twin Lakes, said he heard Sackett remark once that he had been “beat out” of money and would not be treated so again if he could help it. He thot Sackett had a bad temper and had heard him “fly off the handle a good many times.” James King, one of the first witnesses, believed Sackett “seemed greatly excited” at the time of the shooting and at times was also apparently depressed and in a “deep study.” After Mr. and Mrs. Martin went to bed that night, Martin testified, he heard a ____ ____ and woke up, then hearing voices rumbling in the hall tho he could make out no words. Mrs. Martin ran out first, as he followed. Sackett declined to give up the revolver when they asked for it, he said. He had heard Sackett make no threats. On cross examination he said the lock on Dr. Rider's door was such that a “very light push would push it open. The catch was very loose. I had threatened to fix it several times but had not got around to it.” Sackett had seemed to him, he said, to be a nervous highstrung man whom a little agitation would excite. “Some days he was full of fun,” he testified. “Others he seemed moody, and seemed to have something on his mind.” He saw the contractor standing near the hall door after the shooting, the gun hanging at his side, and Sackett “seemed to have a wild look on his face.” Dr. R. J. McDonald, who saw Dr. Rider after he was brot to Leadville the following day and also his body after his death, February 11, said death was caused by a wound, apparently made by a bullet, which passed thru the diaphragm and liver and out at the back, and by pneumonia. The pneumonia was caused by the bullet wound, he said. A statement, written by Sackett at the county jail of his own volition and published in the Herald Democrat at his request two days after the shooting, was submitted by the district attorney as his second exhibit. Dr. H. T. Pershing, of Denver, an expert on insanity, sat next to the district attorney's chair all day, and Dr. Edward Delehanty, also of Denver, called by the defense, sat near the defendant's table. They will testify today, it is expected after the case is resumed at nine this morning.
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 4-3-1916 – Family Say He's Crazy – Astonishing Mental Condition of Ed Sackett as Revealed by Relatives – Father Was Religious Fanatic – Uncle Also 'Flighty' – “It's insanity, that's all,” declared H. M. Sackett, 59, oldest brother of Ed. H. Sackett, the Telluride tram contractor on trial in the district court charged with the murder of Dr. G. P. Rider, February 9, when he told on the witness stand how his brother had once chased a negro porter down the main street of Telluride on a Saturday night, firing at him with a revolver. The porter had knocked Sackett down in a quarrel of some sort, he said, and Sackett, becoming at once gloomy and melancholy, had obtained a gun and started after the negro in the crowded Saturday night street, regardless of whom he might hit in the crowd. This brother, who is a mechanical engineer living near South Haven, Mich., was the last witness of the day for the defense, and like others, residents of Telluride, called to the stand thru the day, gave testimony by which the defendant's counsel seek to establish that Sackett was insane on the night of February 9, when he shot the stockholder of the Twin Lakes Mining and Milling company in the latter's room in the Twin Lakes hotel. District Attorney Barney L. Whatley finished the direct testimony of the state early in the morning by introducing a dying statement obtained from Dr. Rider by Deputy District Attorney E. A. Bond at St. Vincent's hospital early in the morning of the day Dr. Rider died, February 11. This evidence would seek to show that the decedent charged Sackett with breaking into his room and firing at him. The defense then began putting in its testimony, all given by relatives or acquaintances of Sackett, all but one residents of Telluride. H. M. Sackett, the last witness of the day, lived at Telluride from 1898 to 1903. He saw his brother, the defendant, in 1876, 1885, and 1891 when the brother came to Trenton, N. J., to serve as a foundry apprentice under his older brother, and later. Ed was high-strung and nervous even as a boy, he said. He once looked him up in Denver when the defendant was working in a shop there. As he entered, he said, his brother was in a frenzy of rage. “I never saw a more diabolical looking man than he was at that moment,” he said. “You couldn't tell whether it was man or devil.” His brother explained, he said, that the spindle of the lathe was crooked and would not work properly. “From what you know of engineering, was it a reasonable explanation?” I. W. Allen, of Telluride, the defendant's lawyer, asked. “Yes, a very reasonable explanation.” He had always known his brother was subject to varying moods of depression and melancholy, or jubilation and exuberance, he said, then telling of his quarrel with the negro porter. He did not know directly of his ancestry beyond his father and mother, he told the court. There were thirteen children in his father's family. His father was subject to melancholy and periods of great elation, he continued, and was extremely excitable. He had seen him become highly jubilant when he would jump over fences, shout and halloo. The father was then fifty years old, and the son thot these actions were “ridiculous.” After the death of a brother in 1865, his father became devoutly religious, to the point of “insanity,” he said. After they moved to Decatur, Ill., when they had a little money, he went on, the father developed ideas which the church did not like and very abruptly, two months later, he left the church and denied all religion. Thereafter the father talked religious beliefs at all times in a way which was “simply awful.” Once in 1876 when his father held a concrete making contract, he became so frenzied over a religious argument that he went raving down the street, shouting at the top of his voice, and attracting people to the windows of the residences along the street. Claudius Sackett, his uncle, was considered “rather flighty,” also, the witness said, “at times all wrong, insane.” A daughter of this uncle was melancholy, too, he added, and was subject to melancholia. Since the shooting at Twin Lakes, February 9, the witness testified, he had thot of other relatives who didn't “seem right.” If the shooting had not occurred, he would not have thot of them, he added. Claudius Sackett died of Bright's disease at the age of 81, and his father died of old age, the witness testified on cross examination, during which he said he believed his brother should be confined in an asylum. Attorney Allen asked Mrs. R. T. Stewart, step-daughter of the defendant, for her view of her step-father's mental state. “These are our own ideas,” she said. “I think he's crazy.” She related in detail various episodes which happened to give her this belief, some of them having occurred when she was keeping books for Sackett at Telluride, where he was working as a contractor and as a foundry manager. On one occasion in a fit of rage, while he was constructing a pipe line down the mountain to their house, he threw himself into a trough of water and cursed and raved she said. At another time after a mining leasing venture had not turned out as he had highly hoped she related, he wrote a note to the family and a few minutes later they found him about to attempt suicide. The district attorney asked her if she could recall anytime when Sackett had these alleged strange periods, if they came on without any provoking cause. She recalled only one instance. He had always been troubled about money matters, she said, and seemed to have a fear he would be dependent in his old age. Her belief that he is insane dates from eight or ten years ago, she said, and not from the time of the shooting. She had believed it was dangerous to allow him to go without restraint since he attempted suicide as she related. Asked if she believes at this time that the defendant is a menace to himself and others if allowed at large, and if he should be restrained, she said, “I think he should.” Mrs. Stewart, who has been married four years, said at first her step-father had been much interested in her and then suddenly became indifferent. At different times he had been violently enraged about the house, she testified further, and no one knew just how to take him. Fits of melancholy and jubilation, a wild automobile ride thru the mountains in the night without headlights to catch a train, rages in which he broke up furniture, and his own fear of him, were prominent in the testimony of Henry Sackett, 27, a stepson, regarding the defendant's mental condition. “I've thot he was insane,” he said, and later he added, “In the last three years, I've thot so often.” This belief was a permanent one, he told on cross examination. Once in the election campaign of 1912 he saw Sackett become violently enraged after an argument in front of a bulletin board. Sackett was in varying moods and at home they had to be careful not to anger him, the stepson said. He related a dispute he had with the defendant over a fishing trip the witness wanted to take while he was working at the foundry. Two years ago when he failed to receive monies he expected from a lease, the defendant was depressed abnormally for a day or two, the witness said. Since the Twin Lakes shooting he had thot frequently that Sackett is not safe at large owing to his alleged insane mental state. O. M. Sackett, an older brother of the defendant, also related incidents of a somewhat similar nature. After a leasing failure in 1909 when Sackett was abnormally depressed, the brother said, the witness offered to assume half of his liabilities and they would then share in what profits might arise in proportion. The defendant refused this offer, saying he was so far in debt he would never retrieve. He believed his brother is insane during his alleged frenzied moments, but he did not consider himself competent to judge whether the insanity is permanent or otherwise, he said on cross examination. On re-direct questioning he believed the defendant should be restrained at times. Playing sluff in a Telluride saloon, Sackett would have fits of rage whether he won or lost according to Charles Kearney, a Telluride bartender before January 1 last. He said Sackett was not a drinking man. Once when he asked him to drink after a game, the witness said, Sackett approached the bar and apparently not seeing it, walked straight against it. Sackett authorized his bank to honor checks for his son and daughter, then cancelled the authorization in a _______ then gave the authority again on another of occasions, said C. D. Waggoner, cashier of the bank. Other witnesses were M. R. Harman, Robert E. Hogan, George W. Tallman, Eli Morsel, T__ Dempsey and Mrs. _. _. Nichols. During the cross-examination of all these witnesses, the district attorney asked if Sackett's alleged abnormal periods resulted with or without provoking cause. The defense is expected to complete its testimony today. Dr. Edward Delehanty, of Denver, is the expert on insanity retained by the defendant. Dr. H. T. Pershing and Dr. George A. Moleen, also of Denver will go on for the prosecution as expert witnesses in the rebuttal testimony. The courtroom was crowded yesterday by a greater number of spectators than on the opening day, Monday. Many of them stood at the back of the room and extra chairs were provided for some.
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 4-3-1916 – Has Sackett a Normal Mind – Dr. Pershing, for People, Believes He Has – Alienists for Defense Call Dr. Rider's Slayer Hypomaniac – Trial To Close Today – Is Ed. H. Sackett subject to hypomania, or other forms of insanity? Is Sackett normal and was he so on the night of February 9 when Dr. G. P. Rider, of Willmette, Ill., was shot in his room at the Twin Lakes hotel? Alienists in the district court yesterday divided the third day of Sackett's hearing on a murder charge with antipodal opinion on these questions. One found the Telluride train contractor normal; another found him sane and gave explanations of why the acts which the defense would declare are evidence of insanity, are those of a normal person, if not those of the average person. Dr. Edward Delehanty, of Denver, called by the defense in the morning session, affirmed Sackett during and since his examination March 9 has impressed him as being a hypomaniac. Dr. H. T. Pershing, also of Denver, a graduate of the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania and a lecturing professor at the medical school of the University of Colorado, took the stand late in the afternoon for the prosecution. He described hypomania and mania in terms which a lay mind could readily understand. The latter is a milder form of the mental disease, he said. “The conditions of mania are somewhat similar to intoxication by champagne,” he said, and explained that the patient is subject to great exuberance, good feeling, followed by depression, disconnected ideas, an inclination to form fantastic decorations of paper or drawings. Hypomania may begin with depression and end with depression. It may come in periods, not dependent on good or ill fortune, and is usually caused by unimportant occurrences, which may effect fits of rage. The condition may last for three or four weeks, even a shorter or longer period, and the patient may then become normal, the physician said. “Have you examined the defendant in this case?” asked District Attorney Whatley. “I have.” “Where did this examination take place?” “I examined him, March 17, at the sheriff's department at the county jail.” When the doctor went there with the district attorney, Sackett said he didn't know that he had any objections to examination, but since he was in the hands of his attorneys, he referred the doctor to them. Both were out of town, Sackett believed, but they called Attorney James T. Hogan and were allowed to make a physical examination, Dr. Pershing said. “When we told Mr. Sackett what we were there for there was a slight agitation evident,” the witness said. “His breathing seemed to quicken.” Dr. Pershing said he examined the defendant physically very thoroly (thoroughly), enumerating the tests made. The district attorney asked if the examination disclosed evidence of insanity. “It did not; it did not disclose disease of any kind.” Dr. Pershing had heard all of the testimony given, he said. His attention to the statements on the stand was evident later on cross-examination when he reminded Attorney Hogan that he did not believe statements cited had actually been given. “My opinion is that the evidence does not indicate that he is insane,” he declared, and a few minutes later he said the evidence did not show that the patient has hypomania. He found there is evidence that the patient is subject to exuberance and depression, but at no time to any greater extent than a normal person, he said. He believed there were inconsistencies in the evidence if it were to (have) shown hypomania, he testified. He did not think a hypomaniac could construct a tram line successfully and remain on the work continuously, as Sackett is said to have done. Sackett's attitude at all times, as brot out in the evidence, he believed, was not indicative of mania in any form. A letter and a statement written by Sackett for publication were recalled to his mind. Both of these, he thot, argued consecutively, the defendant had stated he wished to correct a false statement which had appeared in some paper, the writer's mention of his act showed a realization of the seriousness of it, and the way events were mentioned was logical. To the question, “Is there anything in quick temper or anger to indicate insanity?” Dr. Pershing answered in the negative. He thot the evidence showed Sackett was subject to anger, but he did not believe it was insane anger and thot rather it may have been habitual. “Hypomaniacs I've happened to know were rather moderate in their anger,” said Dr. Pershing, who said he had probably treated 2,000 cases of insanity. The district attorney asked the witness if he thot on the night of February 9 Sackett realized the difference between right and wrong. “I believe he did.” He was asked if he thot that at that time the defendant possessed will power sufficient to tell him to do right or wrong. “I believe he did.” On cross-examination by Attorney Hogan, Dr. Pershing, who was a firm, straightforward witness, was asked if he believed normality was indicated by the testimony of Eli Morsel regarding Sackett or by Mrs. Thos. W. Martin's testimony about Sackett's facial expression after the shooting, and the witness said neither of these indicated abnormal mental state. When the attorney started to ask if H. M. Shepard's testimony that Sackett dropped to sleep after the shooting indicated abnormality, the prosecution objected and the court, sustaining the objection, declared Shepard had qualified his statement and had added an opinion which really meant the contrary. When the testimony of M. R. Hanson was mentioned, the attorney inferring that Sackett's alleged resulting rage was brot on without cause, Dr. Pershing recalled that the testimony had actually shown there was a cause for the rage, tho perhaps not sufficient, and the attorney corrected himself. Dr. Pershing said Chas. Kearney's testimony regarding Sackett's acts in his saloon did not indicate an insane mentality, but a normal condition. “By normal man, understand,” he said, “I mean 'not insane' and not 'the average man.'” Sackett's alleged rages over trouble with his stepson, over card games whether he won or lost, Dr. Pershing believed could occur in a sane man and were “consistent with” a normal mind. A normal man might chase a dog which had bitten him two blocks thru a city street to shoot it, as Sackett was alleged to have done once in Denver, the witness said. A normal man might also change instructions to his bank about honoring checks of his children as Sackett is said to have done, Dr. Pershing also believed. Attorney Hogan mentioned Kearney's testimony as saying that Sackett had stood in his saloon all night on one occasion, tapping his leg with a folded newspaper till the paper was in shreds. Objection arose. The court looked up Kearney's testimony and declared that witness had not made such a statement. The court then ruled that the names of witnesses in connection with testimony given in ___ _____ should be omitted. A normal man might have an attitude like Sackett's alleged one toward his step-daughter, Dr. Pershing said, as cross-examination was resumed. He might also rage at mention of the name of a brother, as witnesses said Sackett had done, Dr. Pershing again saying “normal” in this connection meant “not insane.” He might rave about a defective piece of machinery and might also search peculiarly for pipe or eye glasses in his home, the witness said. Attorney Hogan started to read a typewritten question apparently hypothetical, to the witness, and the court sustained the district attorney's objection that it was a repetition and out of order. On re-direct examination, Dr. Pershing further explained his meaning in using the word “normal” as indicating a mental state “not insane.” The court adjourned then until 9 o'clock this morning. The attorneys will agree on the instructions to the jury, it is understood, before court resumes this morning. Directly opposed to this testimony was that of Dr. Delehanty, who occupied the stand in the morning and after direct examination replied at length to District Attorney Whatley's cross examination. Dr. Delehanty also described hypomania and mania giving much the same description. Regarding Sackett's condition, however, his view was diametrically opposed to Dr. Pershing's and he declared Sackett is insane. He believed the defendant may have known what he was doing on the night of the shooting but had a reason which was not comparable to an ordinary reason of a normal person. Sackett's trip to Fred Olson's to borrow a gun might have been made, he said, to secure the weapon to commit suicide as Sackett said in a written statement. A normal person, after committing a crime, would feel regretful and would wish to apologize, he said. When Dr. Delehanty examined Sackett at the county jail, March 9, he testified, the defendant wept, raged and otherwise acted strangely. Sackett was talkative, explosive, exuberant, depressed at different periods in an irrational manner since and during this examination, Dr. Delehanty also affirmed. In the first examination Sackett began to tell about his family and his personal affairs, saying he had suffered from scarlet fever at the age of three, had been out of school from the ages of 7 to 14 on account of nervousness, had nightmares. Sackett had been arrested twice, he told Dr. Delehanty, the latter said, once at Telluride for chasing a negro with a gun after a quarrel. The defendant related also that he had followed his brother from Telluride to Salt Lake to “get even” after a quarrel. Once after he had ordered his workmen to stop work on a tram at the Ophir mine, Telluride, on account of trouble over pay from the company, Sackett discovered his men hired by the company the following day, Dr. Delehanty said the contractor told him. Sackett said he assaulted one of them telling the crew they had no right to work for the company. Sackett, the examination disclosed, Dr. Delehanty said, is physically normal with the exception that his blood pressure is low. On cross examination of a searching ____, Dr. Delehanty reaffirmed his opinion that Sackett is insane. Attorney Hogan, who related how Sackett flew into an alleged rage Sunday at the jail when H. M. Sackett, his brother, was mentioned. Dr. H. A. Calkins, Dr. A. J. McDonald and Dr. B. F. Griffith, who was called to examine Sackett at different times, also testified, giving their opinions that the defendant is insane. When Freeman J. Loomis, a cell mate of the defendant was brot to court on instruction of the defendant's council, the court sustained the prosecution's objection to his appearance as a witness on the ground that Sackett might have assumed apparently abnormal attitudes and behavior since his incarceration for an assumed purpose. Loomis was therefore not permitted to testify. J. R. Angle, local manager of the Western Union Telegraph company, was called to identify telegrams which passed between Sackett and G. W. Royce, manager of the Twin Lakes Mining and Milling company, of which Dr. Rider was a stockholder. Mrs. Allen Raymond, of Chicago, a sister of the defendant, the other witness of the morning, gave information about the family somewhat similar to that given by relatives Tuesday. Her father was obsessed by religious mania, she said; her brother, Ed., now 42, was born when her mother was 40 years old and suffering from nervous disorders. The family was eccentric, she said, one sister never spoke a word for thirty years, a grandfather was peculiar, and Ed as a child was excitable and nervous. It is expected the case will go to the jury this afternoon.
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 4-3-1916 – Jury Declares Sackett Insane – Prisoner Turned Over to Sheriff for Further Proceedings – Man Who Killed Dr. Rider Officially Pronounced a 'Hypomaniac' – Ed. H. Sackett, Telluride tram contractor, is insane in the opinion of the jury which for four days listened to the evidence in the case in the district court. The jurymen, after considering for a judgment since 3:30 in the afternoon, reported its findings in the court at 9 o'clock last night. As a knock sounded on the jury door, bailiffs hurried to call Judge Cavender, lawyers in the case and relatives of the defendant, and to bring Sackett from the county jail to the courtroom. The jurymen filed in, Fred L. Cretney, foreman, handed a paper to the court. The paper announced “not guilty,” and the court sent them back to follow the instructions by determining whether Sackett is sane or insane. When the jury returned the form was written (with) “insane.” The jury was: Fred L. Cretney, foreman; Otis Richmond, Thomas Goodbarn, P. P. Peyer, Fred Swanson, Tim Gorman, Frank Doublecheck, William P. Briel, Charles G. Lofgren, Samuel Fortney, A. G. Flinchbaugh, John Hancock. _____ disposition on the case, now that a jury has declared the contractor insane, Judge Cavender remanded Sackett into the hands of the sheriff. The contractor will now be delivered at an asylum or sanitarium for the insane where he will be under guard. Just what the procedure will be to effect this disposition, was not determined last night. It is possible arrangement will be made by which Sackett will be restrained at a private institution, tho this was not certain. District Attorney Whatley said he had prepared papers necessary to pass the insanity case thru the county court, which would then order Sackett taken to the state asylum or a similar institution. The court and the district attorney will decide this point this morning, it is understood. The prosecutor made no comment on the case after the judgment was returned. In the case which began Monday last, the defense relied entirely on the plea of insanity, bringing relatives of the defendant from Telluride, his home town, South Haven, Mich., and Chicago to testify to alleged irregular actions in the family and of Sackett which would support the defense's contention. An alienist, Dr. Edward Delehanty, of Denver, was called as expert witness and declared Sackett is insane, describing him as a “hypomaniac.” As testimony against this contention, the prosecution called in Dr. H. T. Pershing and Dr. George A. Moleen, both of Denver, who as expert witnesses said Sackett was sane and normal, their testimony being given as rebutting evidence and Dr. Moleen giving his yesterday morning. The prosecution contended that Dr. G. P. Rider of Willmette, Ill., a stockholder of the Twin Lakes Mining and Milling company, was fatally shot in his room at the Twin Lakes hotel on the night of February 9, by Sackett who demanded settlement for a contract by which he had constructed a tram line from the Gordon-Tiger mine to the mill. It further claimed thru witnesses that Sackett borrowed a gun from a resident, went to the room and shot Rider and then returned the gun. It contended that Sackett at the time of the shooting and at other times was sane. The defense, having its argument entirely on the plea of insanity, made no attempt to refute these charges save by endeavoring to show that they were accountable for by the contention that the defendant was insane at the time. In instructing the jury, the court prescribed a finding of sanity or insanity, and if the former were found, instructed jurors to determine whether the defendant was guilty of first or second degree murder or manslaughter. If first degree murder was returned, the jury was instructed to determine the sentence, hanging or life imprisonment. The requirement of “reasonable doubt,” in the state law covering insanity cases was specifically set forth, the court explaining that if reasonable doubt was found to exist the jury would find in favor of the defendant, or find insanity. District Attorney Whatley and Deputy District Attorney E. A. Bond made the arguments for the prosecution, reviewing the testimony at length, recalling that their alienists had declared Sackett sane and contending that Sackett's actions during the night of the occurrence and since had shown he was sane. They maintained that a hypomaniac or other insane man could not successfully construct a tram line, as Sackett had done, and which demanded mental equilibrium, and insisted that an insane man could not sit thru the hearing just ended as Sackett had sat. Attorneys L. W. Allen, of Telluride, and James T. Hogan made the arguments for the defense contending that Sackett was insane.
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 4-10-1916 – Expert Evidence High Priced – Two Alienists for State Cost Lake County $1,100 – What Taxpayers Must Pay to Learn That Sackett Was a 'Hypomaniac' – One hundred dollars a day and expenses was the charge levied against the county by Dr. H. T. Pershing and Dr. George A. Moleen, both of Denver, when they appeared as expert witnesses for the prosecution last week in the case of Ed. H. Sackett, who was charged with the murder of Dr. G. P. Rider, February 9, and who a jury declared in the district court, Thursday last, is insane. Their bills came before the county commissioners last night, and were allowed in full. District Attorney Barney L. Whatley petitioned the board for permission to hire them before the case came to trial. The bills and fees in connection with the Sackett case now total $1,649.60. This amount was ordered paid last night. All bills are now in with the exception of that of the court reporter. Here is the way the total is distributed: Dr. H. T. Pershing, fee for 6 days attendance, $600.00; Dr. H. T. Pershing, expenses for 6 days, $52.00; Dr. George A. Moleen, fee for 5 days attendance, $500.00; Dr. George A. Moleen, expenses for 5 days, $51.65; Fees of 12 jurymen for 4 days, $120.00; Fee for stenographer as allowed district attorney by statute in such cases, $30.20; Fees of district court clerk, $65.00; District attorney's charges in connection with the case, $100.00; Deputy sheriff's fees in case, $10.00; Three witnesses fees at $14.35 each, including mileage, $43.05; Witness fee, $11.05; Witness fee for local physician, $10.75; Witness fee, $10.00; Two witnesses fees at $9.35 each, $18.70; Two witnesses fees at $6.85 each, $13.70; Three witnesses fees at $2.50 each, $7.50; Total - $1,649.60…
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 7-10-1916 – Sackett Violently Insane – Ed. H. Sackett, a Telluride tram contractor, who was declared a hypomaniac by a jury in the district court here, March 30 last, after he shot and killed Dr. G. P. Rider, of Willmette, Ill., February 9, has become violently insane and has been removed to an asylum at Pueblo. This information was conveyed in a letter from Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver, an alienist who testified for the defense, in a letter to Dr. A. J. McDonald of this city, who also testified that he believed Sackett's mind was not normal. During one of his frenzied minutes at the Mt. Airy sanatorium of Denver recently, according to Dr. Delehanty, Sackett fractured the skull of one of the attendants. His removal to Pueblo followed. Sackett, who constructed a mine tram for the Twin Lakes Mining and Milling company at Twin Lakes last winter from the Gordon-Tiger mine, shot and killed Dr. Rider, a stockholder of the company, with a revolver he borrowed from Fred Olson. Sackett went to Rider's room in the Twin Peaks hotel after the stockholder had gone to bed. The shooting followed a demand for payment for the tram contract, Sackett claiming that Dr. Rider jumped from the bed and started towards him. Sackett went on trial in the district court here March 27. The defense established that he suffered from hypomania. Dr. Delehanty was the alienist employed by Sackett's family. Dr. H. T. Pershing and Dr. George A. Moleen, both of Denver were called in as alienists in the prosecution by District Attorney Whatley. Both of these experts declared Sackett was normal mentally, tho possibly not constituted mentally as the average person.
Sackett, Edward H.
Carbonate Chronicle 1-1-1917 – Local Chronology, 1916 – March 27, 1916 – Trial of Edward Sackett for killing Dr. G. P. Rider begins in district court. March 28, 1916 – Relatives of Edward Sackett testify that he was insane. March 30, 1916 – Jury declares Sackett insane.
Sackett, Edward H.
Routt County Sentinel 4-7-1916 – Slayer of Miner Declared Insane – Leadville. Edward H. Sackett, a Telluride contractor, was declared insane by the jury before which he was tried for the killing of Dr. G. P. Rider of Wilmette, Ill., at Twin Lakes, on the night of Feb. 9.
Sackett, Edward H.
Colorado Transcript 1-17-1924 – County Court News – Edward H. Sackett was adjudged insane and was taken to the state hospital at Pueblo by Colonel Taylor.
Sackowitz, Ada
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sage, Frank
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sage, John
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 3-9-1904 – The trial of John Sage on the charge of insanity was in progress Thursday in county court. Sage was tried in the district court during the September term on the charge of shooting into W.P. Bosworth's house and found guilty of disturbing the peace. He was sentenced to ten days in the county jail and on the expiration of his sentence was discharged. He has since made threats against Mr. Bosworth, and his friends believe him to be insane. Later.—The jury found Sage insane and he was committed to the asylum a Pueblo.
Sage, John
patient race W gender M age 55 marital status S place of birth Iowa occupation laborer source 1910 census
Sage, John
patient gender M race W age 75 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Sage, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 65 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sage, Lena
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sage, Lena
patient race: W sex: F age: 24 marital:S place of birth: Massachusetts occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sage, Lena M.
patient race W gender F age 14 marital status S place of birth Colorado source 1910 census
Saint Clair, Robert
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:M place of birth: Ohio occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Saint, J.
Rocky Mountain News 1-9-1889 – Pueblo Paragraphs – Colonel J. Saint, formerly mayor of Chivington and a prominent soldier in the Union army, died in the state insane asylum today as the result of the opium habit.
Sais, George
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 12-5-1906 – George Sais was on Friday adjudged insane in the county court and was taken to the Pueblo asylum by Deputy Sheriff Whitaker this morning.
Saiz, Gavino
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Saiz, Gavino
admitted 3-23-1914 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sakis, Gus
Pueblo Indicator 5-12-1932 Notice Of Adjustment Day – Estate of Gus Sakis, a mental incompetent No. 5526. 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 4th day of April, A.D. 1932. Signed R.R. Williams, Conservator of said estate. First publication March 5, 1932. Last publication April 2, 1932.
Salazar, Manuel
patient race: W sex: M age: 72 marital:M place of birth: New Mexico occupation: none source: 1920 census
Salazar, Minora
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1857 age 43 marital status W place of birth Mexico occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Salazar, Policiano
patient gender M race Mex age 38 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Salazar, Ventura L.
patient gender F race W age 26 marital status M birthplace New Mexico source 1930 census
Salgado, C. N.
patient gender M race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Salorio, Teresa
patient gender F race Mex age 23 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Salsbury, Floretta M
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 42 marital status D place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Salsbury, Floretta M
admitted 5-8-1900 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Salsbury, Nona
patient gender F race W age 46 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Salsbury, Nona
patient race: W sex: F age: 35 marital:M place of birth: Nevada occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Salvan, P.
12-25-1908 Ouray Plaindealer - Sheriff Hobson returned from Pueblo Friday after depositing P. Salvan in the insane asylum. He was very abstreporous and was the worst patient to handle here and at the asylum ever taken from this city.
Salviccio, Guiseppe
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status S birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Sammon, Hugh
patient gender M race W age 77 marital status Wd birthplace Ireland source 1930 census
Sammon, Hugh
patient race: W sex: M age: 68 marital:W place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Samora, Elija
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:. place of birth: Mexico occupation: none source: 1920 census
Samora, Ramon
Samora, Ramon born 1850 died 8/15/1912 buried 8-29-1912 Roselawn, resident of Archuleta County,farmer, married, Notes: age 62y, informant Alcedio Rubert, Dr. Hubert Works, cost $25.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Samuel, Q.
patient, white, male, age 27, single, Iowa, 1885 census
Samuels, James
adjudged insane and sent to the asylum February 12, 1896
Samuels, Joseph
patient gender M race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sanches, Panta De Leon
admitted 11-28-1914 from Huerfano, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sanchez, Edward
patient gender M race Mex age 26 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sanchez, Lizzie
patient gender F race Mex age 37 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sanchez, M.
patient, white, male, age 25, single, California, 1885 census
Sanchez, Manuel
patient race Mex gender M month born . year born 1857 age 43 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Sanchez, Manuel
patient race W gender M age 52 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation farmer source 1910 census
Sanchez, Manuel
patient race: W sex: M age: 62 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sanchez, Pablo
patient race W gender M age 32 marital status S place of birth Mexico occupation section man source 1910 census
Sanchez, Pablo
patient race: W sex: M age: 42 marital:S place of birth: Mexico occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sancier, Victor J.
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:S place of birth: France occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sand, Christine
Castle Rock Journal 11-23-1900 - Colorado Notes - Mrs. Christine Sand of Golden, who shot her neighbor and friend, Mrs. V. B. Mitchell, was tried in the County Court for insanity. The first jury disagreed and a second venire was ordered. The second jury promptly declared the woman insane and she will be taken to the asylum at Pueblo. Mrs. Mitchell is on the road to recovery.
Sand, Christine
Colorado Transcript 11-21-1900 – Word was brought to town Thursday evening last of a shooting scrape east of town and Sheriff Barrick went down and arrested a Mrs. Sand for the shooting of her neighbor and friend Mrs. Mitchell. It appears that Mrs. Sands went to the home of her neighbor, rapped at the door, and when it was opened by Mrs. Mitchell commenced shooting with a revolver. Four shots were fired, three of which took effect in the head, breast and arm. The assault was a mystery to every one, as the ladies had always been the best of friends, and their friends all believed it a case of insanity. Mrs. Sand was brought before the county court on Saturday, and after a thorough trial of the case before a jury she was declared insane and the court ordered her confined in the asylum at Pueblo.
Sand, Christine
Fairplay Flume 11-23-1900 – Mrs. Christine Sand of Golden, who shot her neighbor and friend, Mrs. V. B. Mitchell, was tried in the County Court for insanity. The first jury disagreed and a second venire was ordered. The second jury promptly declared the woman insane and she will be taken to the asylum at Pueblo. Mrs. Mitchell is on the road to recovery.
Sand, Marquerite
patient gender F race W age 22 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Sandberg, Ludwig
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status D birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Sanders, Charles
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 7-25-1913 – Man Victim Of Peculiar Brainstorm – “They're Pumping Soft Blood Into My Veins” – Charles Sanders Taken In Custody When Found In Elkhorn Rooming House In Fit Of Insanity- Drove Away Imaginary Foes With Mallet. (from Saturday's 5 o'clock Edition.) Obsessed with the notion that someone is pumping “soft blood” into his veins. Charles Sandens is in the custody of the county and is under treatment for insanity at the county hospital. The notion he has is a peculiar one to say the least. He is not violent but a number of individuals believed he was dangerous. The hallucination caused the man to do everything he could think of to drive away the spirits which were threatening him with damage. Being a big, healthy Swede, the thought of having “soft blood” pumped into his veins played havoc with his brain. With a croquet mallet he decided to drive the spirits away and this attracted attention and subsequently the entire police force and sheriff's office. Sandens has been stopping at the Elkhorn rooming house. Of late he has been acting strangely and this morning he seized a mallet and started an insistent pounding on the window sills of his room. The noise was rather annoying and the wild look in his eyes gave sure sign that it was not safe to tamper with him. When the officers of the law were called, five men, brave under most any other circumstances, did not care to tackle the big man, especially while he had that croquet mallet in his hand. He looked dangerous and the men preferred to await for an opening before rushing into danger. Dr. B. A. Gooding, the city physician, and Dr. T. C. Taylor, county physician, were sent for. The former arrived on the scene first. He walked into the room and asked Sandens what the trouble seemed to be. Sandens opened up a line of conversation immediately and when the mallet was safely tossed onto a bed the officers entered the room. The demented man was not long in telling his story. He came here about three years ago and last year worked in the beet fields. He has not been working much this year and during the past day or two his funds have become exhausted. This has preyed upon his mind until the form of dementia referred to above took possession of him. He was turned over to Dr. Taylor and the physician made further inquiry into his troubles.
Sanders, Charles
patient race: W sex: M age: 59 marital:. place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sanders, Lester
patient gender M race W age 55 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sanders, Lester
patient race: W sex: M age: 45 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sanders, Lester
admitted 11-14-1900 from Trinidad, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sanders, Louise
patient gender F race W age 65 marital status Wd birthplace New York source 1930 census
Sanders, Louise
patient race: W sex: F age: 54 marital:W place of birth: New York occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sanders, Nathan P.
Rocky Mountain News 1-13-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – In re Nathan P. Sanders, lunatic; trial before jury.
Sanders, Nathan P.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – The following cases are set for trial to-day: In re. N. P. Sanders, as to restoration to reason.
Sanders, Nathan P.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – The following business was transacted yesterday: In re. N. P. Sanders and W. B. Howard; set for hearing March 8 as to whether they have been restored to reason.
Sanders, Nathan P.
Rocky Mountain News 3-9-1893 – Restored to Reason – Two remarkable cases were yesterday presented to the county court. William B. Howard, who was committed to the insane asylum November 15 last, was found to have been fully restored to reason. N. P. Saunders, adjudged incompetent on January 18, was declared possessed of his rational faculties. Saunders told a News reporter that his life was a complete blank for ten weeks. On February 1 he first realized his condition, but did not then know where he was. A jury declared that Mrs. Mary Ann Baker was insane and she will be sent to Pueblo. Her malady has a suicidal tendency.
Sandey, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 12-24-1892 – Court Briefs – Charles Sandy was yesterday declared insane by the county court, and George A. Corbin appointed guardian. His particular form of lunacy consists in imagining that spirits give him verbal directions as to his conduct.
Sandey, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 12-24-1892 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Miller – The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy, Charles Sandey; George A. Corbin appointed guardian ad litem; S. S. Abbott enters appearance for the people. Trial, verdict lunacy; judgment on verdict, guardian allowed $15.
Sandey, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 2-6-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – The following business was transacted Saturday: In re Charles Sandy, lunatic; order awarding custody of lunatic to G. M. Allen.
Sandey, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 2-10-1893 – His Mind Unbalanced – Charles Sandey, through his attorney, entered a nollo contendere in the West side court yesterday and withdrew his former plea of not guilty. He was accused of forging the name of Louis Purcell to a check for $14 on the Colorado National bank. By order of the county court, he was examined as to his mental condition last December and was adjudged insane by Dr. Eskridge. The prisoner was afflicted with a chronic form of monomania and caused much trouble to the officials at the county jail. He was released yesterday and will be taken East under the care of a custodian.
Sandnes, Indeborg
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Norway source 1930 census
Sandnes, Indiborg
patient race: W sex: F age: 31 marital:M place of birth: Norway occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sandor, Bella
patient gender M race W age 52 marital status S birthplace Hungary source 1930 census
Sandor, Bella
patient race: W sex: M age: 42 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sandoval, Leona
patient race W sex F month of birth . year of birth 1849 age 51 marital M place of birth New Mexico occupation housekeeper source 1900 census
Sandoval, Leonor
patient race W gender F age 60 marital status M place of birth New Mexico source 1910 census
Sandoval, Pedra
patient race: W sex: F age: 29 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sandrock, Mary E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 81 marital:W place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sands, Henry V.
patient gender M race W age 37 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sands, Henry V.
patient race: W sex: M age: 26 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sands, Max
Rocky Mountain News 9-16-1887 – Sent to the Insane Asylum – Governor Adams has directed the warden of the penitentiary to turn over to the state insane asylum Max Sands, a convict serving three years in the penitentiary, who has been adjudged insane by the examining physician.
Sands, Samuel
patient gender M race W age 76 marital status D birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Saner, Julia F.
patient race: W sex: F age: 37 marital:W place of birth: Colorado occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Sanford, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sanger, Matthew L
admitted 4-8-1914 from Crowley, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sangh, Paul
patient race W gender M age 35 marital status S place of birth Hungary occupation laborer source 1910 census
Sangi, Paul
patient race: W sex: M age: 45 marital:S place of birth: Hungary occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sanguenetti, A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 71 marital:M place of birth: Italy occupation: none source: 1920 census
Santarelli, Nicoletta
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Sapirus, John
patient race W gender M age 35 marital status . place of birth . source 1910 census
Sarello, Barney
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital: S place of birth: Italynone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Sarvela, John
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Finland source 1930 census
Sasher, Mrs.
Carbonate Chronicle 6-6-1910 – Insane Over Comet – Denver, June 1. – Mrs. Sasher, 50 years of age, a resident of Cripple Creek, who came to Denver Monday to put flowers on the graves of those dear to her, became insane last night through the belief that the coming of Halley's comet meant the end of the world, and had to be confined in the matron's quarters of the city jail for the night. Mrs. Sasher was wandering about the neighborhood of Twenty-sixth and Marion streets from 6 o'clock in the evening until she was taken into custody about 12 o'clock. At every house where she called she asked admittance, saying that if the comet were going to bring the world to an end she did not wish to see the doom of all living things. While being taken to police headquarters in the automobile patrol wagon Mrs. Sasher became violent.
Sasse, Mary S.
patient gender F race W age 46 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sasse, Mary S.
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sato, I.
patient gender M race Jp age 52 marital status S birthplace Japan source 1930 census
Sauer, Joseph
patient race W gender M age 36 marital status S place of birth . occupation laborer source 1910 census
Sauer, Joseph
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: laundry helper source: 1920 census
Sauer, William
Rocky Mountain News 1-2-1893 – The “Bogie Man” Burglar – Sauers a Likely Candidate for a Snap in Warden Smith's Pen – The noted William Sauers is once more in jail. He was arrested yesterday by Detectives Allison and Holland for burglary and embezzlement. Not long ago he was sent to the county jail to await trial on the charge of burglary. He feigned insanity, told some terrible tales of his adventures and was finally sent to the county hospital for treatment. That was just what he desired and a few days ago he evaded the attendants and escaped. Once again in the city he returned to his old vocation – that of a burglar and all around crook. On Saturday night he stole a great coat from the house of Dr. Cooper, 310 Fairview avenue. He also on the same day forged the name of John D. McGilvray on a check for $50 and passed it on Andrew Walker of 2560 Blake street, and when searched he had another check for $50 signed with John D. McGilvray's name, likewise a forgery. The practice of criminals pretending to be insane to escape punishment is becoming very common and in Arapahoe county has very successfully kept several men out of the penitentiary.
Sauer, William
Rocky Mountain News 12-5-1892 – Is It The Old Dodge? – Or Is William Sauer, Accused of Petty Larceny, Really Insane? – Chief of Detectives Sam Howe has had a great many peculiar experiences in his duty of running down and capturing local malefactors, but yesterday an incident occurred in his office which was rather startling and unique in its way. A man who had been arrested on the charge of burglary became suddenly insane while he was being searched. His name was William Sauer, a poor fellow who once earned a precarious livelihood doing odd jobs in restaurants and saloons. He was arrested by Detectives Allison and Peterson on the charge of burglary. It was a clever bit of work on the part of the detectives. In the morning Dr. C. P. Conroy related to Sam Howe that some one on Saturday night had entered his office at 630 16th street and carried away a black cutaway suit of clothes and some shirts. Sam detailed Allison and Peterson to find the burglar and about 4 o'clock they saw the suit stolen from Dr. Conroy, entering a second-hand store at Nineteenth and Lawrence streets on the back of William Sauer. He was bent upon the mission of disposing of the stolen shirts. Allison followed him in and touching him on the shoulder told him that Chief Howe was dying to see him. Sauer took the matter calmly and accompanied the detective to the city hall. Brought before the astute chief, Sauer answered all questions in a perfectly rational way and seemed very confident that he could explain everything and secure his release. The case was too clear against him, however, Dr. Conroy's clothes were on his back and the chief ordered that he should be stripped and attired in a new garb. When Sauer heard this order his countenance changed. He either saw that he was a sure candidate for the pen or he became actually insane. He began to weep and fell down on his knees and begged to the chief to spare him and release him from the power of his enemies. He became maudlin in his manner and not another rational word could be got out of the man. “Three little spirits told you that I took those clothes,” he said, “they are always persecuting me.” “What spirits?” asked the incredulous chief. “Oh, you know, you know; the spirits of those children I once murdered. They follow me everywhere?” “What children?” ventured the chief. “Oh, you know,” was the only answer Sauer would give, and he continued his wandering talk. “I was a Presbyterian once, but I shook them and became a Theosophist. My soul will return to earth in some dreadful form. Oh, I must not die in jail. All souls come back. Before my present life my soul was in a bishop's body, but I fell and am now in a lower sphere. I have now fallen again, and my soul will go in a dog when I die. Oh, save me from the three spirits.” Of course, the chief could not listen to this kind of talk all night and had the man locked up in the jail. Did the man suddenly become insane or is he playing a simple trick to escape punishment, is a question the chief can hardly decide. It was a clever bit of acting if the man was playing the old insane dodge. He threw himself into the part to perfection. He transformed himself in a minute from a man with all his senses to an idiot and he kept the part up in jail crying and preaching theosophy to his fellow unfortunates. He has evidently a smattering of theosophy, knowing just enough about the old religion to confuse his mind. Who the three little spirits are is a mystery. Sauer says that he was once in good circumstances. Perhaps then he held a position of trust and ruined three little children and he imagines that their abstract spirits are following him in his downward course, haunting him to destruction. Deputy Sheriff Tom Clark happened to be in the detective's office when Sauer was brought in. He had just returned from Canon City, and said that Sauer's behavior reminded him of a negro who was a few days ago convicted of burglary and taken to Canon City. “Once behind the bars,” said Clark, “the fellow pretended to be insane and became violent. He was taken to the Pueblo insane asylum and on Saturday made his escape. He was all right and played the game to get out of the pen. This fellow is trying the same dodge, I think.” “I suppose he is,” replied Chief Howe.
Saul, William
Yampa Leader 6-27-1913 – Phippsburg Doings – William Saul was adjudged insane and sent to the asylum at Pueblo last week by the County Court.
Saul, William
Steamboat Pilot 7-9-1913 – In County Court – Judge Morning has received a letter from William Saul, recently sent to the insane asylum, in which he reports great improvement and makes inquiry in a rational way regarding his effects and mail.
Sawhill, Robert B.
patient race: W sex: M age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Saylor, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 38 marital: M place of birth: Kentuckynone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Sayre, Hattie B
admitted 8-12-1914 from El Paso, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sayre, Hattie B.
Colorado Springs Gazette 1-21-1915 – The funeral of Mrs. Robert H. Sayre was held yesterday afternoon from the residence, 1332 North Tejon street. Interment was in Evergreen cemetery.
Scales, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 4-10-1886 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – Estate of George Scales, lunatic; inventory filed, examined and approved.
Scales, George
Rocky Mountain News 12-27-1885 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – People vs. George Scales; lunatic on trial.
Scales, George
Rocky Mountain News 3-9-1886 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – Estate of George Scales, lunatic; Maggie A. Scales appointed conservator.
Scalva, John
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status Un birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Scanlan, Richard
patient gender M race W age 57 marital status M birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Scaro, John
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Scava, Mary
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1863 age 37 marital status M place of birth Italy occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Scava, Mary
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status M birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Scava, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 56 marital:M place of birth: Italy occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schaaf, Louis
Rocky Mountain News 4-15-1887 – The Courts – County Court – In recomplaint for inquisition of lunacy against Louis Schaaf; William T. Jenison appointed guardian ad litem.
Schaaf, Louis
Rocky Mountain News 4-15-1887 – Local Brevities – The county commissioners filed information for lunacy in the County court yesterday against Louis Schaaf, whose peculiar exploits were detailed in The News yesterday, and Jacob Cherney, who lives at 1110 Willow Lane, and who is said to be quite a violent lunatic.
Schaaf, Louis
Rocky Mountain News 4-21-1887 – Schaaf Will Get to Pueblo – Schaaf, the lunatic who was released by the county court and arrested the same day for violence toward his wife and various peculiar actions, was tried for lunacy in the county court yesterday and adjudged insane. He was ordered sent to Pueblo. The case of another man, Chernier, was continued by consent. Chernier, was at one time believed to be as violently insane as Schaaf.
Schaaf, Louis
Rocky Mountain News 4-14-1887 – Lunatic Schaaf Caged – He Creates Havoc Among His Household Goods – Louis Schaaf, a diminutive little German, resides with his family at No. 448 Twenty-fourth street. For some time past he has acted very queer, abusing his wife and acting as no sane person would. Last night he had one of his usual insane fits, but it was a great deal more violent than usual. He seized a chair and began breaking up the household goods into kindling wood. His wife endeavored to pacify him, but of no avail, and he became so violent that when the opportunity presented she locked him in a room and then sent for the police. Sergeant Inman responded, and was told by the man's wife, upon entering the house, to be careful or Schaaf would hit him with the chair he still held in his possession. The sergeant unlocked the door and entered. Schaaf stood in the center of the room, clothed only in undershirt and drawers, a wild glare was in his eyes; his hair disheveled, and an uplifted chair firmly grasped in his hand, ready to make battle with the intruder. Sergeant Inman advanced, and wrested the chair from the lunatic's hands, compelled him to dress himself, and then took him out to the patrol wagon, thence to headquarters. When Schaaf stood in the examination room at the jail he seemed dazed; his weak, watery blue eyes wandered restlessly about the room as he was being searched, and he submissively followed the jailor to a cell and shrunk out of the glare of the gaslight as if it was a thing to be dreaded. His sanity will be inquired into to-day.
Schaaf, Louis
Rocky Mountain News 4-19-1887 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – In re. People vs. Louis Schaaf; lunacy; set by stipulation for trial April 20.
Schaaf, Louis
Rocky Mountain News 4-21-1887 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – People vs. Schaaf; lunacy; trial, verdict of insanity and decree accordingly; W. T. Jenison, guardian ad litem, to receive $15 attorney's fees.
Schack, Albert
patient gender M race W age 32 marital status D birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Schafer, Conrad Jr.
patient gender M race W age 34 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Schafer, Mary
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Schafer, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:S place of birth: Russia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schaffer, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 16 marital:S place of birth: Russia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schalk, George
patient gender M race W age 68 marital status S birthplace California source 1930 census
Schaller, Frederick M.
patient race W gender M age 71 marital status M place of birth Germany occupation farmer source 1910 census
Schalles, May
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Oklahoma source 1930 census
Scharf, Herrick
patient, male, white, age 42, single, born Florida, 1930 Woodcroft census
Schatt, Joseph
patient race: W sex: M age: 26 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Scheffler, Albert
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Scheffler, Albert
patient race: W sex: M age: 34 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Scheidmantle, Nettie
patient race: W sex: F age: 44 marital:S place of birth: Texas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Scheidt, Rachel
patient gender F race W age 18 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Schell, George W.
patient race: W sex: M age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schenk, Emma L.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1852 age 48 marital status S place of birth Michigan occupation servant source : 1900 census
Schenk, Emma L.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Schenk, Emma L.
Rocky Mountain News 11-17-1894 – Struggled to Escape – An Insane Woman Too Much for Bailiff Murray – Emma L. Schenck, a single woman, about 40 years old, was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court yesterday. When the trial was over and the unfortunate woman was being placed in the elevator cage, she declared that an attempt was being made by her enemies to place her in jail. She made a desperate effort to escape. So violent were her struggles that it became necessary for Bailiff Murray to call for assistance. The patient will be taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo this morning.
Scherer,
Denver Daily Times 12-22-1873 Scherer, the insane man brought up from Pueblo, was taken this morning to the county hospital.
Schermann, Otto
patient gender M race W age 52 marital status M birthplace Czechoslovakia source 1930 census
Schernke, M.
patient, white, female, age 48, single, Germany , 1885 census
Schiller, William A.
patient gender M race W age 75 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Schiller, William A.
Bayfield Blade 2-9-1911 – William A. Schiller of Durango was adjudged insane in the county court last Thursday, and taken to Pueblo Friday.
Schiller, William A.
Weekly Ignacio Chieftain 2-9-1911 – Some Local Items – William A. Schiller of Durango was adjudged insane in the county court last Thursday, and taken to Pueblo Friday.
Schlappkell, C.
patient, white, male, age 39, single, Germany , 1885 census
Schledemantle, Nettie
patient race W gender F age 34 marital status S place of birth Texas occupation milliner source 1910 census
Schleimer, Joe
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Schleimer, Joe
patient race: W sex: M age: 30 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Schless, John
patient gender M race W age 63 marital status S birthplace Czechoslovakia source 1930 census
Schless, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 52 marital:S place of birth: Bohemia occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Schless, John
Yuma Pioneer 12-13-1912 – The third person to be adjudged insane within a few weeks time was taken to the state insane asylum at Pueblo last Tuesday evening by Deputy Sheriff Bolender. The insane unfortunate this time was John Schless, who has a homestead about twelve miles north of Laird, where he has made his home. He lived alone, being a bachelor, and while being considered queer by his neighbors, was not considered to be mentally unbalanced until about two weeks ago, when some strange actions were noticed which caused some to doubt his sanity and led them to report his case to the authorities.
Schlicher, Mary
patient gender F race W age 66 marital status M birthplace New York source 1930 census
Schlicher, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 56 marital:M place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schlicker, May E.
patient race W gender F age 46 marital status M place of birth New York source 1910 census
Schlitt, Christina
patient gender F race W age 57 marital status D birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Schlosinger, Mary E.
Rocky Mountain News 8-16-1890 – Cranks and Liquor – Those Were the Subjects that Occupied Most of the Time of the County Court – Four Unfortunates Found to Be Badly Off About Various Subjects and Committed – Lunatics and liquor men held the boards at the county court yesterday afternoon. Three men and one woman were alleged to be insane and by the decision of the four juries so declared. None of the quartet looked prepossessingly intelligent and it did not take any jury but a minute to come to a decision… Mrs. Mary E. Schlesenger, whom the police arrested the other evening as a vag and was the toughest case tackled. She looked as if she had suffered greatly. Her face was pinched and pointed and badly scarred, while her dress and general appearance betokened neglect of her person. Her husband, a well dressed gentleman, when called said that it was lately that his wife had gone insane. Their relations had always been pleasant until then, but now she believed that someone was pursuing her and threatened to take her own life, which he thought she was liable to do if left alone at any time. Dr. Eskridge said it was a very bad and, perhaps, hopeless case of melancholia. The woman was very excitable and imagined that someone was after her all the time. She pointed out some boys who chanced to pass the window of the police matron's room while the doctor was examining her as her enemies. She stood in constant fear of life. The doctor had gone out for a moment and when he returned he found her evidently preparing to leap out of the window to the ground. The doctor thought she was dangerous to herself.
Schlosinger, Mary E.
Rocky Mountain News 8-17-1890 – Briefs – The relatives of Mary E. Schlosinger, who was adjudged insane Friday, yesterday obtained permission from Judge Miller to keep her in the city a few days in the hope that she will improve.
Schlumpf, Godfrey
Rocky Mountain News 12-3-1891 – Briefs – A jury in the county court yesterday found Godfrey Schlumpf insane and incapable of managing his own affairs. The testimony showed that Schlumpf had some property in Iowa; that his guardian sold the same, and the proceedings had in the court here were principally for the purpose of legalizing the transaction in regard to the Iowa realty.
Schluter, Henry
Greeley Tribune 2-6-1896 – Tuesday afternoon four able bodied men entered the court house, having in charge a man bound hand and foot. The prisoner was Henry Schluter, who has been ranching on the Big Thompson. He is a fine, robust young fellow, between 25 and 30 years of age, but within a few days became violently insane on religious questions; so violent, indeed, that he was dangerous. While in fits of frenzy he possesses a strength almost superhuman and his friends were obliged to bind him to prevent bloodshed. Schluter was examined Wednesday morning in County court and the jury brought in a verdict that he was insane and Judge Smith consigned him to the asylum at Pueblo, Sheriff Clark and assistants conveying him there last night.
Schluter, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 2-5-1896 – Violently Insane – Greeley, Colo., Feb. 4 – Henry Schlatter, a young farmer, was brought into town from the Big Thompson country violently insane to-day. He had been attending a series of revival meetings, in consequence of which his mind has given way. He will be tried before Judge Smith in the county court for lunacy to-morrow.
Schluter, Henry
Denver Evening Post 2-5-1896 – State Happenings – Greeley, Feb. 5 – Henry Schlatter became violently insane yesterday because of worriment over religious subjects.
Schluter, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 2-6-1896 – Pronounced Insane – Greeley, Colo., Feb. 5 – Henry Schluter was convicted of insanity in the county court to-day, and was taken to Pueblo by Sheriff Clark this evening. The poor man proved to be a veritable maniac, and it required the united strength of four men to overcome him.
Schluter, Henry
Denver Evening Post 2-6-1896 – State Happenings – Greeley, Feb. 6 – Henry Schluter was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and ordered to Pueblo.
Schmeckebier, August O.
patient race W gender M age . marital status . place of birth Germany occupation laborer source 1910 census
Schmede, Sadie
Rocky Mountain News 1-3-1891 – The Courts – County Court – Judge Miller – The following cases are set for trial to-day: Lunacy, Sadie Schedie.
Schmede, Sadie
Rocky Mountain News 1-4-1891 – Life's Darker Side – Very Affecting Scene at the Examination of Lunatics in the County Court – A very affecting sight was witnessed in the county court yesterday during the examination into the mental condition of George L. House. The latter, besides being deranged, is in the last stages of consumption and is hardly able to walk. He was led to a seat next to Ellen Christianson, who was waiting to be examined as to her sanity. Her expressionless eyes lighted up when he sat down and assumed a look of the deepest sympathy. She took the poor fellow's cold, stiff fingers in her hands and vainly endeavored to put a little warmth in them. Then she smoothed his thin hair and held his hand until both she and he had been adjudged lunatics and were led away. Immediately after, L. K. Mills, a tall, handsome man, dressed in a neat fitting business suit, was declared to be a lunatic. Mills is a native of Ohio, where he has a wife and grown children. He came to this city about two weeks ago, and in three days spent $300. His insanity is due to excessive drinking. His family were notified of his condition but have failed to do anything for him. He will be sent to the state insane asylum along with the other insane ones. Sadie Schroede was also adjudged insane by a jury in Judge Miller's court yesterday. She is a girl 17 years old, and her disease is due to apopletic fits which have affected her during the past ten years.
Schmede, Sadie
Rocky Mountain News 1-4-1891 – County Court – Judge Miller – The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy, Sadie Schmede: same as order above (verdict of lunacy; judgment upon verdict; guardian allowed $15).
Schmidt, Antonio
Steamboat Pilot 5-29-1907 – Adjudged Insane – Antonio Schmidt, held in the county jail on the charge of burglarizing the house of John Ottenburg of Sage creek, will not have to stand trial before the District court. Last week he was adjudged insane in the county court and will be taken to Pueblo as soon as room can be found for him in the state institution. Schmidt was known to be “buggy” all along. When arrested he chewed up a number of $5 and $10 bills. The silver watch taken from the Ottenburg house was found on his person. Since he was confined in the county jail his insanity has increased if anything. He has the “talking to himself” habit in a considerable degree and sits in a corner and giggles. The three other prisoners in the county jail will be mighty glad when he is gone. His malady became so manifest, “the bats in his belfry” so plain, that an inquisition was held in the county court, with the result, as above stated, of his being remanded to the state insane asylum.
Schmidt, Antonio
Steamboat Pilot 6-5-1907 – Sheriff Farnham was in Steamboat last night on his way to Hahns Peak where he goes to take Schmidt to the asylum at Pueblo. Schmidt was bound over for burglary but has since been adjudged insane.
Schmidt, Clem
Rocky Mountain News 10-24-1895 – Verdict Rendered – Coroner's Jury Held That Schmidt Fired at Hertz Feloniously – Cripple Creek, Colo., Oct. 23 – The main facts as brought out by the coroner's jury today which sat in the case of Joseph Hertz, who was shot and killed early this morning by Clem Schmidt, as published exclusively in The News, were that the shooting occurred at the place and in the manner related in these dispatches. The witnesses called testified as to the inoffensive nature of the deceased, and that he died soon after the shot was fired, denouncing his assailant as a crazy fool. The bullet wound in the breast caused internal hemorrhage and death followed. Schmidt's own story was something of a nightmare, claiming he was fighting robbers, and heard wagons hauling away plunder and shots being fired, and thought he was threatened with being shot. He admits being confined three months in the insane asylum at Pueblo. He was taking a doctor's prescription, of which chloral was the prominent ingredient. The jury found that Joseph Hertz came to his death from the effects of a shot fired from a gun in the hands of Clem Schmidt, and that the shot was fired feloniously.
Schmidt, Eng.
patient, white, female, age 19, single, Missouri, 1885 census
Schmidt, Erma
patient gender F race W age 24 marital status S birthplace Oklahoma source 1930 census
Schmidt, Helena
patient race: W sex: F age: 54 marital:M place of birth: Germany occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Schmidt, Herman
patient gender M race W age 30 marital status S birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Schmidt, John P.
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Schmidt, Tillie
patient gender F race W age 36 marital status Un birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Schmidt, Tillie
patient race: W sex: F age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Schmilts, William
admitted 3-5-1914 from Weld, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Schmiltz, William
patient gender M race W age 65 marital status Un birthplace Poland source 1930 census
Schmiltz, William
patient race: W sex: M age: 47 marital:. place of birth: Poland occupation: engine room helper source: 1920 census
Schmolz, August
patient race: W sex: M age: 63 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Schnabel, William H.
patient race W gender M age 36 marital status M place of birth Pennsylvania occupation clerk source 1910 census
Schnabel, William H.
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:D place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: store room helper source: 1920 census
Schneeberger, Dave
Creede Candle 7-14-1906 – W. O. Cox filed an information against Dave Schneeberger charging him with breaking into his cabin and stealing the contents therein and at his preliminary hearing Schneeberger plead guilty of the charge but that he done it to get even as some one broke into his cabin some time ago and stole his things. The value of the stuff taken from Cox was $56 according to the complaint which makes the case grand larceny which would send Schneeberger to a term in the penitentiary. About a month ago Schneeberger was taken into custody on a charge of insanity and after being treated about three weeks was released. He had about $500 and this he has squandered in all sorts of old traps and wagons, horses, cows and an interest in John Zang's lease in the Krutzer Sonata claim. For the claim he goes to Denver and purchased two new ore cars when they had one that was capable of hauling out all the ore he had. He had purchased five wagons, old contrapsions from a buckboard up to ore wagons, and he has bought up all the old harness in the country, and many other queer things he has done evidencing that he is still mentally unbalanced and in view of this parties acquainted with the circumstances and with the man's past reputation were averse to seeing him sent to the penitentiary on a charge for a crime that he would not have done had he been in his right mind. Schneeberger has resided in the district since 1892 with the exception of the time devoted to two trips to the old country and he has always been known as an upright, honest and hard working man and always had employment in the mines until recently when his queer actions created suspicion as to the safety of having him in the mines and he was refused under ground employment. Several offered to sign a charge of lunacy against Schneeberger and which Fred Birdsey did and the unfortunate man was taken before the county judge Wednesday and a jury of six pronounced him mentally unbalanced and unresponsible for what he might do after a trial in which his own actions were evidence that he was not of right mind. The unfortunate man will now be taken to Pueblo where he will receive treatment and probably recover from his affliction which is so much better than have him go to the penitentiary and serve a term for grand larceny from which there would be no alternative if pronounced sane since he acknowledges the crime, but laboring under the delusion that he had a right to do it. And should he recover he will most certainly appreciate and thank those who made it possible for him to avoid a brand upon his name that would to him forever hang.
Schnegalsberg, Conrad
Schnegalsberg, Conrad age 54y, died 2-1-1900, buried 2-5-1900, cemetery not listed assume Asylum cemetery, informant Pueblo County Welfare, Dr. Works, cost $3.85.
Schneider, G.
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Schnell, Godfrey
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Schnell, Henry
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Schnell, Henry
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schneller, Maria
patient race W gender F age 49 marital status M place of birth Germany source 1910 census
Schneller, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:M place of birth: Germany occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Schneller, Mary
Colorado Transcript 3-29-1917 Ten Years Ago This Week: Mrs. Hary Schnellar was adjudged insane in county court and was sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Schneller, Mary
Colorado Transcript 3-28-1907 – In county court last Friday Mrs. Mary Schneller was found insane and ordered sent to the asylum at Pueblo. For the past year she has shown signs of insanity, and been held at the county farm. Last Wednesday she escaped from the farm and walked all the way to Golden clad only in her night dress. She went to her former home on the North side, where she was found by the authorities next morning. Her malady seems to be of a harmless nature, but it was thought best by the jury that she be taken to the asylum, where proper care could be taken of her.
Schnieder, Hubert
patient gender M race W age 70 marital status S birthplace Belgium source 1930 census
Schnittler, Grace E
admitted 2-27-1914 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Schoen, Laura L.
patient race W gender F age 47 marital status M place of birth America source 1910 census
Schoen, Laura L.
patient race: W sex: F age: 57 marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: sewing source: 1920 census
Schoenberg, Jacob
Denver Evening Post 8-19-1896 – Court Briefs – Jacob Schoenberg is being examined as to his lunacy in the county court this afternoon.
Schoenberg, Jacob
Rocky Mountain News 8-20-1896 – Rabbi Adjudged Insane – Jacob Schoenberg, who was at one time a prominent rabbi in Cincinnati, was adjudged insane yesterday afternoon in the county court. Schoenberg is old and feeble, and for some time past has been entirely irresponsible. He was handed over to the custody of his friends.
Schoenberg, Jacob
Rocky Mountain News 8-20-1896 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele – 4392 – People vs. Jacob Schoenberg, alleged insane, verdict insane.
Schoenberg, Jacob
Denver Evening Post 8-20-1896 – Adjudged Insane – Jacob Schoenberg was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and ordered to Pueblo.
Scholes, Orrin Hubbard
Holyoke Enterprise 8-13-1942 - County Pioneer is Buried Here - O.H. Sholes Dies at Pueblo; Body Brought Here for Services - Funeral services were held at the Colver Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon for Orrin Hubbard (Dick) Sholes, long time resident of the Holyoke territory, who died Saturday at the state hospital in Pueblo. The services were in charge of B.H. Schrader, pastor of the Church of Christ, and burial was made in the Holyoke cemetery. Mr. Sholes, son of Orrin J. and Sarah Sholes, was born at Prophetstown, Illinois March 9, 1865 and came to Phillips County in his early manhood and had made his home here since that time. For many years he owned a number of fast horses and several seasons he followed the eastern racing circuits with his harness horses. His ranch was located southwest of Holyoke. Surviving are one brother, E.L. Sholes, of Prophetstown; a grandson, Bruce Sholes, Omaha, Nebraska; two granddaughters, Mrs. Verna Logan and Mrs. Martha Row, Des Moines, Iowa.
Scholl, Carrie
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status Wd birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Scholl, Frank
Rocky Mountain News 11-22-1883 – Sheriff Ebey, of Red Cliff, has taken Frank Scholl, better known as “Punch,” to the Jacksonville, Ills., insane asylum.
Scholpp, Fred K.
patient race W gender M age 24 marital status S birthplace Oklahoma occupation shoe salesman source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Scholz, Matilda A.
patient gender F race W age 61 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Schonlau, William Mr
admitted 8-8-1899 from Rocky Ford, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Schoon, Louise
admitted 3-8-1915 from Washington, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Schoonmaker, Addie
patient race: W sex: F age: 58 marital:S place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schoonover, Lillian
admitted 5-24-1914 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Schoonover, Minnie
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Schoonover, Minnie
patient race: W sex: F age: 37 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schott, Joseph
patient gender M race W age 37 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Schoubye, Harry
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status S birthplace New York source 1930 census
Schrader, Fred
Telluride Journal 10-8-1903 Well Known Prospector Insane. Special to the Journal. Durango, Oct. 2 – Fred Schrader, an old time prospector in this vicinity and quite well known throughout the San Juan, was yesterday adjudged insane and was this morning taken out to the asylum at Pueblo. He has been confined in the hospital here for the past two weeks. His present condition of insanity is the result of an accident which he sustained several years ago when he was run over by three horses and a wagon. His case is considered entirely hopeless.
Schrader, Fred
Durango Democrat 10-3-1903 – Fred Schrader was taken to the Pueblo insane asylum by Undersheriff Thompson yesterday.
Schrader, Harold V.
patient gender M race W age 29 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Schreiber, Ferdinand
Rocky Mountain News 9-13-1884 – Insane Schreiber – Yesterday Sheriff Krudel, of Greeley, brought to Denver a crazy man named Schreiber. The man has been for some time in the Weld county hospital, and quite sick, but has recovered sufficiently to be removed. He was turned over the the Chairman Bates yesterday.
Schreiber, Ferdinand
Rocky Mountain News 10-11-1884 – The Courts – Probate – The People vs. Ferdinand Schreiber; lunacy; trial by jury; verdict, insane.
Schreiner, Barbara
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status M place of birth Germany source 1910 census
Schriver, F.
patient, white, male, age 37, single, Germany , 1885 census
Schroeder, Anna
patient gender F race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Schroeder, Frederick
Rocky Mountain News 6-12-1890 – Declared Insane – Three men who have been charges on the county for some time past were yesterday declared lunatics before Judge Miller and a jury in the county court, and were ordered to be taken to the state lunatic asylum at Pueblo. They were Charles Moran, Frederick Schroeder and Robert Swainson. Moran was a religious fanatic. He is possessed of the hallucination that he is God and that he has been sent here to banish sin. Schroeder until very recently was a regular attendant at the court house. He made its corridors his headquarters. A disease from which he has been suffering for several years has affected his brain. Swainson is effected with melancholia. He shot himself some time ago in an attempt to commit suicide, and his great desire seems to be to attempt this act again. All three men were taken to Pueblo last night.
Schroeder, Theodore
patient race: W sex: M age: 73 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schryver, Ernest C.
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Schryver, Ernest C.
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Schuck, John B.
Rocky Mountain News 2-25-1881 – County Court – The following orders were made by the court: In the matter of the lunacy of John B. Schuck – judgment of lunacy nunc pro tunc as of October 30, 1879.
Schuck, John B.
Rocky Mountain News 2-25-1881 – County Court – The following orders were made by the court: In the matter of the lunacy of John B. Schuck – judgment restoring to reason nunc pro tunc as of November 21, 1879.
Schuck, John B.
Rocky Mountain News 2-25-1881 – County Court – The following orders were made by the court: In the matter of the lunacy of John B. Schuck – judgment of lunacy nunc pro tunc as of October 30, 1879.
Schulenburg, Mary
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status D birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Schulk, Addie
Rocky Mountain News 7-12-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – The following business was transacted yesterday: 3269, in re. lunacy Addie Schnik; G. S. Steinck appointed guardian ad litem; order for venire; set for trial July 12.
Schulk, Addie
Rocky Mountain News 7-12-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – The following cases are set for to-day in the county court: 3269, in re lunacy, Addie Schulk.
Schulk, Addie
Rocky Mountain News 7-12-1893 – Will Be Tried for Lunacy – Addie Schulk will be tried for lunacy to-day in the county court. She is the woman who was taken sick on the train, about a month ago, while on her way from California to some point in the East which has never been discovered. She has been in the county hospital ever since. D. Reese, who has been in the county jail for a month, will come up for the same purpose.
Schulk, Addie
Rocky Mountain News 7-13-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – 3269, People vs. Addie Shuck; lunacy; trial to jury; verdict of insanity; G. L. Stenick, guardian ad litem, allowed $15; defendant ordered to be confined in county hospital till further order of court.
Schulk, Addie
Rocky Mountain News 7-13-1893 – Loss of Reason – Pitiful Scenes at Lunacy Trials Before Judge Le Fevre – Late yesterday afternoon the county commissioners received a telegram from Joseph Schulk, Maitland, Mo. The message read: “Will start for Denver to-morrow; stop trial.” The message, received in Denver at 2:30 p.m., and not delivered till 5, came too late to stop the trial referred to. The man's unfortunate sister, Addie Schulk, had already been adjudged insane in the county court. She is in a pitiful condition, and the scene that ensued upon her entrance into the court room was a painful one. Two attendants were needed every moment to hold her in her chair, and she cried, moaned, shrieked and sang alternately. Her brother will arrive in Denver to-day and take her to friends in Maitland. It is not likely that she can live long. No expert was necessary, either, in the case of D. Reese, who has been in the county jail a month. His face was of a ghastly pallor, and he muttered incessantly. Sam Berry was appointed his guardian. Thomas Morrison has lived in Denver for twelve or fifteen years, and is well known here. He has been a bartender. About four weeks ago his reason partially left him while he was rooming at 1117 Fifteenth street, and he has been very violent at times since. He understands a good deal, however. When Dr. Eskridge testified that he had paresis of the brain, he remarked with much energy that he never had anything of the kind. Frank Ellis was appointed his guardian.
Schulk, Addie
Rocky Mountain News 7-21-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – In re. Addie Schulk, lunatic; county commissioners ordered to turn lunatic over to Joseph Schulk, her brother, to remain in his custody until further order of court, with permission to remove her from the state.
Schulman, Louis
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:M place of birth: Russia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schultz, Alma
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Schultz, Alma
patient race: W sex: F age: 33 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schultz, Charles
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 4-20-1917 – Chas. Schultz Dies In Insane Asylum—Word was reecived [sic] here this morning of the death of Charles Schultz in the State Hospital for Insane at Pueblo. He died yesterday. Schultz was taken from a rooming house on February 5, 1915. He was violent and feared that he would be attacked and insisted he was pursued. The disposition of the remains was left with the county officials.
Schultz, Charles
died 4-19-1917 buried Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.
Schultz, Henry C.
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Schultz, John
Rocky Mountain News 8-13-1894 – Suicide at Cripple – The Wife of Joseph Grenhauser Shoots Herself Through the Heart – Notifies Her Husband and Selects Her Burial Clothes – Cripple Creek, Colo., Aug. 12 – Annie, the wife of Joseph Grenhauser, the proprietor of the Cripple Creek slaughter house, located two miles west of town, shot herself through the heart about 7 o'clock this evening. The woman has been acting very queerly for some time. This morning she told her husband that she intended to kill herself and busied herself all day writing letters and selecting the clothes she intended to be buried in. She requested her husband to go to the spring for water and as soon as he left the house she ended her life. Death was almost instantaneous. Grenhauser was the dead woman's second husband. Her first was John Schultz, who died in the Pueblo insane asylum about three years ago. In addition to valuable real estate owned by the deceased in Denver and Leadville, she had $5,000 in the Bi-Metallic bank and $200 on her person. Her total possessions were estimated to be worth $30,000.
Schultz, Katherine
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status M place of birth Germany source 1910 census
Schultz, Katherine
patient gender F race W age 64 marital status M birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Schultz, Katherine
patient race: W sex: F age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Germany occupation: sewing source: 1920 census
Schultz, William
Oak Creek Times 5-3-1918 – Sheriff Emory Clark passed through Oak Creek Saturday morning, having in custody William Schultz, an Oak Creek rancher, who was recently adjudged insane and whom he was taking to the state institution at Pueblo. [This man is also featured in some articles under the last name of Schulz.]
Schulz, John G.
patient race W gender M age 22 marital status S place of birth Kansas occupation farmer source 1910 census
Schulz, John G.
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Schulz, John G.
patient race: W sex: M age: 37 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Schulz, William
Steamboat Pilot 4-17-1918 – Farmer Claimed Insane – Sheriff Emory E. Clark went on the railroad speeder to Oak Creek yesterday to take into custody William Scholtz, a ranchman on Morrison creek, whom neighbors claimed had gone insane, driving his wife and children from the ranch with a gun, and giving other symptoms of lunacy. He was brought to Steamboat last night and lodged in the county jail to await a hearing by the county lunacy commission. [Other articles spell his last name as “Schulz.”]
Schulz, William
Steamboat Pilot 4-24-1918 – Committed to Asylum – William Schulz, the Morrison creek ranchman who was taken into custody by Sheriff E. E. Clark last week, was given a hearing Friday before the Routt county lunacy commission and was adjudged insane. Schulz became unbalanced and drove his family from the ranch, using a gun and threatening them with death. Neighbors notified the sheriff and Schulz was brought to Steamboat. As soon as a train is assured to Denver he will be taken to the asylum at Pueblo.
Schulz, William
Steamboat Pilot 7-17-1918 – William Schulz, the Oak Creek ranchman who was adjudged insane and taken to the asylum last spring, died at that institution last week. His mental breakdown was caused by ill health of many years standing.
Schulz, William
Routt County Sentinel 4-19-1918 – Alleged to be Insane – William Schulz was brought to Steamboat by Sheriff E. E. Clark Tuesday from his ranch on lower Morrison creek, and is in jail, awaiting an inquisition into his sanity. It is alleged that he had become violent and had been pursuing his wife and children with a gun, threatening to kill them. Schulz was formerly a shoemaker at Oak Creek, where he worked in the day time, and at night was employed as shot firer at the Moffat mine.
Schulz, William
Routt County Sentinel 7-19-1918 – Among Our Neighbors – William Schulz of Morrison creek died at the State Hospital for the Insane at Pueblo last week. He was committed to that institution only a few weeks ago. For several years Schultz was a shoemaker at Oak Creek and was employed as shot firer at the Oak Hills mine.
Schulz, William
Routt County Sentinel 4-26-1918 – Committed to Asylum – An inquisition in lunacy was held in the county court this week in the case of William Schulz, a ranchman in the lower Morrison creek valley east of Oak Creek. Upon the findings of the Lunacy commission he was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Pueblo, to which he will be taken by Sheriff Clark, probably today.
Schulz, William
died 7-12-1918 buried Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo., buried under William H. Schultz
Schuster, Katherina
patient gender F race W age 36 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Schutz, Aaron
patient race: W sex: M age: 58 marital: W place of birth: Germanynone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Schwach, Eugene
patient race: W sex: M age: 60 marital:W place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schwakivitach, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 63 marital:M place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Schwan, John
Rocky Mountain News 8-16-1890 – Cranks and Liquor – Those Were the Subjects that Occupied Most of the Time of the County Court – Four Unfortunates Found to Be Badly Off About Various Subjects and Committed – Lunatics and liquor men held the boards at the county court yesterday afternoon. Three men and one woman were alleged to be insane and by the decision of the four juries so declared. None of the quartet looked prepossessingly intelligent and it did not take any jury but a minute to come to a decision. The first man tried was John Schwan, a laborer about 40 years of age. County Attorney LeFevre conducted the prosecution. The first witness was Schwan's brother. He testified that some time ago his brother had been arrested near Twentieth and Larimer streets. Since then he had not been in his right mind and rather violent at times. The insane man claimed that three policemen had beaten him on the head so that it was just like sausage, and the brother thought that was the cause of his insanity. He has a wife and two children and owned two lots on Blake street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second steets, with a shanty on one in which the wife lived. The witness thought they were worth about $1,200 to $1,500, and were unencumbered. The witness had tried to take care of his brother, but found it difficult. Before this they had not spoken, but when his brother got into trouble he had done all he could for him, and as far as his judgment went he could not take care of himself. Before his trouble three months ago he had never known his brother to be out of his head. Mr. Ford, of the county jail, testified that while Schwan was in the jail he was excitable and carried off all the paper he could lay his hands on. Deputy Sheriff Inman testified he had found Schwan lying on the ground asleep beyond the Argo smelters. He was naked, having only a narrow band around his waist. He did not manifest any intelligence until he came to the smelter, and it was with some difficulty his name was learned. Dr. Eskridge, called as a medical expert, testified he had examined Schwan with reference to his mental condition and found him physically in an apparently good condition. There were no indications of his having been beaten by any one. The doctor had been told by the man that he had two wives and eleven children, and pointed out some of the prisoners at the jail as his children. His memory seemed very bad, but not hopelessly so. Cases of this kind, he thought, generally resulted in recovery in about 75 per cent.
Schwan, John
Rocky Mountain News 9-11-1890 – He Always Growls – Peter Magnes Says He Will Go To Law to Stop Voting Money to Conventions – Peter Magnes had another bout with his fellow commissioners and a committee, who were after an appropriation, at yesterday's meeting of the board… His Report – Immediately after he flashed the report of his investigation of the condition of the four Arapahoe county insane persons confined at the Pueblo jail. It was as follows: “Pursuant to instructions of the board I proceeded to Pueblo on the 4th instant and immediately went to the county jail, where the insane patients from Arapahoe county are confined, and made a careful inspection of their clothing, quarters and food with the following results: Clothing: Four patients were dressed in new, clean clothing. I conversed with them and they stated that they had everything they needed except tobacco, which I directed the jailor to furnish, giving him money therefore. One patient, John Suanx, was violent and had torn off all his clothing and could not be prevailed upon to keep his garments on. Another patient was unable to converse rationally and I could not learn anything from him. I examined his limbs and neck but could not find anything to complain of. Cleanliness and quarters: The patients were as clean as they could be kept with the conveniences at hand. The rooms were upstairs, high, airy and clean and the best the building contained. I carefully inspected the food furnished and was satisfied that there is no cause for complaint. The four patients with whom I conversed had no fault to find. General Treatment: I could only judge of that from my conversations with the four who were comparatively rational, and hearing no complaints, I report the general treatment satisfactory. Under existing circumstances I report that the complaints are without serious foundation. If the two more violent patients could be taken into the state asylum the other four could be well cared for until they can be admitted. I also visited the asylum, and must express my gratification at the general air of comfort and happiness pervading the building. It seems that the only thing needed is additional room for the accommodation of the unfortunates now confined in the jail. The superintendent informs me that the asylum was full, and he could not give me any definite idea when the others could be admitted. I found other insane patients from other counties in the Pueblo jail, owing to the crowded condition of the asylum. – Peter Magnes. At the conclusion of the reading of this the commissioners, tired over the morning's work, adjourned until to-day, when this report will be thoroughly discussed.
Schwartz, Bernard
Rocky Mountain News 4-22-1887 – Goes Back to Pueblo – Idaho Springs, April 21 – B. Schwartz, an old-time resident of Idaho, became insane yesterday. This was but a return of an old affliction that has appeared at times for years. Mr. Schwartz was at one time reported cured at Pueblo, but was not so. He will probably be sent back to Pueblo.
Schwartz, Bernard
Rocky Mountain News 1-15-1885 – Mountain Matters – Idaho Springs – Bernard Schwartz was arrested again yesterday by Sheriff DeVotie on complaint of his insanity. Schwartz has been confined in an insane asylum before.
Schwartz, Ruth
patient gender F race W age 18 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Schwendinger, Joseph Mrs.
Aspen Tribune 9-3-1897 – Adjudged Insane – Mrs. Joseph Schwendinger Again Committed to an Asylum – Mrs. Joseph Schwendinger was yesterday adjudged insane by a jury in the county court and as soon as arrangements can be completed will be committed to an asylum at Pueblo. The state institution at that place is at the present time overcrowded and unable to receive the unfortunate woman, but word has been received that there is a private asylum located near the state asylum and attended by the same corps of physicians, that is in a position to care for her and Mrs. Schwendinger will be sent there until such time as she can be cared for in the state institution. The name of the private asylum was not known to the court, hence the order of commitment was not made out yesterday. Pueblo has been wired for the desired information and in all probability the necessary papers will be filled out today and sheriff Strawbridge will leave with the patient for the asylum this evening. Mrs. Schwendinger's affliction is of several years standing, this being the third time it has been found necessary to commit her to the asylum for the insane.
Schwendinger, Joseph Mrs.
Rocky Mountain Sun 6-8-1895 – Adjudged Insane – Mrs. Joseph Schwendinger was yesterday adjudged insane in the county court. Mrs. Schwendinger was some time ago an inmate of the asylum for the insane at Pueblo, but returned to Aspen in what was considered a cured condition, but recently her malady took a turn for the worse resulting in an order for her recommittal. Sheriff Hayes will leave for Pueblo today with the unfortunate woman.
Schwendinger, Mary
February 10,1894 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitken County) ADJUDGED TO BE INSANE The trial of Mrs. Mary Schwendinger in county court yesterday upon the question of her sanity resulted in the court finding her insane. Mrs. Schwendinger is the victim of a peculiar and distressing form of insanity. She told the jury yesterday that she had a sister who had become insane, but that she, herself was perfectly sane. She says she don't know how long she will remain so if her present trouble continues. She says that for three weeks past a twin brother of her child has been fastened underneath her house and has been crying continually to be helped out. She knows that he is hungry and cold and that if she can't get him out and feed him his cries will drive her mad. She seems to suffering all the misery that these circumstances, if true, would cause her. Mrs. Schwendinger's neighbors and friends speak very highly of her as a quiet, inoffensive woman and on most subjects appears to be sane. The unfortunate woman will be taken to Pueblo for treatment at the asylum for the insane.
Schwendinger, Mary
November 23 1895 Aspen Weekly ( Aspen, Pitken County) Mrs Mary Schwindinger was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court yesterday morning. The unfortunate woman will be taken to a private asylum in Pueblo this morning by Sheriff Strawbridge and her son Gus. The state asylum is so overcrowded that this patient cannot be received there. In this private asylum, however, the patients are treated by the physicians of the state institution.
Schwendinger, Mary
patient race W gender F age . marital status . place of birth Germany source 1910 census
Schwendinger, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: Germany occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Schwendinger, Mary
Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitkin County) June 8 1895 The County's Insane - One Patient Recommitted, Another to be Returned From Illinois - In the county court yesterday an order was issued by Judge Johnson recommitting May Schwendinger to the Pueblo asylum. The unfortunate woman was sent to that institution about a year ago and returned to her friends recently in a more normal mental condition. Her mania again manifested itself and grew worse until the legal action of today was deemed advisable. Sheriff Hayes started this morning with Mrs. Schwendinger for Pueblo. When he has delivered her over to the asylum authorities, he may proceed to Jacksonville, Ill asylum and bring from that institution Charles Fitzgerald of this county and place him in the Pueblo Asylum. Fitzgerald has been kept at Jacksonville, at Pitken's county expense, for nearly three years because there was no room for him in the Colorado asylum. Word has been received by county commissioners from Pueblo, that there is room there for more insane patients since the new asylum wing has been completed. The commissioners therefore ordered that Fitzgerald be changed and instructed the sheriff to make the transfer as soon as possible.
Schwendinger, Mary
admitted 9-3-1897 from Butte, Montana - Woodcroft Hospital
Schwindinger, Mary
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 47 marital status M place of birth Germany occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Schwindinger, Mary
Aspen Weekly Times 10-5-1895 – Cured By Schlatter – As Aspen Woman Who has Received Mental Benefits – Mrs. Swendinger, wife of Joe Swendinger, the Cooper avenue barber is reported to have been partially if not wholly cured of derangement of mind by Schlatter, the Messiah, who is said to be working wonderful cures upon people in Denver. Mr. Swendinger was not seen last night by The Times representative, so that the particulars of the miracle could not be ascertained. A friend of his stated, however, there was no doubt that the lady in question had received material benefit from a visit to the Messiah. Mr. Swendinger arrived home from the capital Saturday night. As soon as he became convinced that Schlatter's cures were possible on some subjects, as vouchsafed by the newspapers, he had started on a journey to Denver. On the way he stopped at Pueblo and there secured his wife from the state insane asylum where she had been for several months. The trip bore good results, the woman's symptoms improving immediately after Schlatter had laid his hand upon her.
Schwindinger, Mary
Aspen Weekly Times 9-4-1897 – Mrs. Mary Schwindinger was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court yesterday morning. The unfortunate woman will be taken to a private asylum in Pueblo this morning by Sheriff Strawbridge and her son Gus. The state asylum is so over-crowded that this patient cannot be received there. In this private asylum, however, the patients are treated by the physicians of the state institution.
Schwindinger, Mary
5 October 1895 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitken County) AN ASPEN WOMAN WHO HAS RECEIVED MENTAL BENEFITS Mrs. Swendinger, wife of Joe Swendinger, the Cooper avenue barber, is reported to have been partially if not wholly cured of derangement of mind by Schlatter, the Messiah, who is said to be working wonderful cures upon people in Denver. Mr. Swendinger was not seen last night by The Times representative, so that the particulars of the miracle could be ascertained. A friend of his stated, however there was no doubt that the lady in question had received material benefit from a visit to the Messiah. Mr. Swendinger arrived home from the capital Saturday night. As soon as he became convinced that Schlatter's cures were possible on some subjects, as vouchsafed by the newspapers, he had started on a journey to Denver. On the way he stopped at Pueblo and there secured his wife from the state insane asylum, where she had been for several months. The trip bore good results, and the woman's symptoms improving immediately after Schlatter had laid his hands upon her.
Schwyhart, Henry
admitted 5-22-1901 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Scott, Al
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Scott, Bertha
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Scott, Bertha
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: laundry help source: 1920 census
Scott, Duane W.
Scott, Duane W. age 5y, residence 3rd & Main, son of Frank E. Scott died 11-30-1899 shipped to Trinidad, Co. Dr. Hubert Work
Scott, Ella A.
Rocky Mountain News 6-1-1895 – She Attacked M'Intire – Order for Removal of Mrs. Elsie Scott, Who Is Violently Insane – Application was made to Judge Steele of the county court yesterday for the removal of Mrs. Elsie Scott from St. Anthony's to the county hospital. The woman is now a raving maniac and extremely violent. About a month ago she began her unseemly actions by making a personal attack on Governor McIntire in the latter's private office. Since her trouble her husband has been taken ill and is now in a critical condition. He was not aware of the order made yesterday for the removal of his wife and believed that she was improving.
Scott, Ella A.
Rocky Mountain News 8-2-1895 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele: Call for to-day: People vs. E. A. Scott, lunacy.
Scott, Ella A.
Denver Evening Post 8-2-1895 – Delusions of Lunatics – The Peculiar Case of Mrs. Scott in the County Court To-day – Two lunacy cases were tried in the county court this morning. The defendants were Ella A. Scott and Charles Drummond. The case of Mrs. Scott was peculiar. In court she appeared very dignified and quiet. She gave no evidence of insanity. The testimony was that for the past year she had had strange delusions. She believed that she was a close relation of Queen Victoria and that everything printed in the newspapers was for the purpose of personally attacking her. She lives at 205 South Grant avenue and lately has been very prejudiced against those of her neighbors who belong to the Methodist church. She also believes that Governor McIntire is no longer governor, but an attorney named Collier is in his place. Since Mrs. Scott has been in the hospital she has been neat and clean and has used no violence towards anyone. The jury returned a verdict of insanity. Charles Drummond, a lad who had been feeble minded since birth was adjudged insane.
Scott, Ella A.
Aspen Weekly Times 1-26-1895 – She Was Insane – Denver, Jan. 21. – A Mrs. Scott, an insane woman, called on Governor McIntire this morning and demanded that he wire the president “a piece of her mind.” (In) the conversation that followed she became enraged and struck Secretary Brewer. She was arrested and locked up.
Scott, Ella A.
Rocky Mountain News 1-23-1895 – To Her Friend Grover – An Insane Lady Appeals to the Executive – Calls Upon Governor McIntire – On Her Second Visit She Encounters Clerk Gothe Outside the Entrance and Smites Him In the Face – Governor's Office Experiences the Unhappy Sensations of Treating with a Crank in Search of Office – Mrs. Scott, a lady about 50 years of age, is tired of waiting for an interview with his excellency, the governor, and announced yesterday that she would telegraph to her friend, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, for the protection which she declared was guaranteed her by the fundamental law of the land. The discovery that Mrs. Scott was crazy as a bed bug and that like all demented people she was insistent for her alleged rights created no little consternation at the governor's office yesterday morning, and it was finally determined to send for the police. Before the arrival of the officers the subject of all the trouble suddenly disappeared. Who the strange visitor is and what her purpose, if she has a definite one, in calling on the governor daily is what the attaches of the gubernatorial department would like to find out. Governor McIntire takes the matter very coolly, however, and when informed by Private Secretary Brewer of the queer antics of the caller, told the colonel to act as his judgment dictated in the matter. The woman first called at the state house on Monday. She said that she wished to see the governor, and was informed by Victor E. Gothe, the clerk to whom she spoke, that she would have to wait until her turn came. To the surprise of those present in the room Mrs. Scott gave an artistic skirt dance performance, and then, turning to the young clerk, said: “I have been insulted in the governor's office, and I shall telegraph to Grover Cleveland, president of the United States and demand protection.” Nihilist Hats – Visions of dynamite bombs floated through the mind of the private secretary, and he endeavored to reason with the strange woman of whose antecedents, and business with the governor, he succeeded in ascertaining nothing. She said her name was Mrs. Scott, and that was the extent of the information that could be secured. While the private secretary was out, Mrs. Scott disappeared, but she was promptly on hand yesterday morning when the long line was formed before the door of the great dispenser of official patronage. Mrs. Scott took her seat at the side of the secretary's desk, and she remained there until the time allotted the visitors had expired. The governor went to attend a session of the state land board, and still Mrs. Scott waited. The unwelcome caller said nothing, and when the clerk asked her if she wished to see the governor, she simply stared at him. The evidences of insanity were more marked than on the previous day, and Private Secretary Brewer called a council of war to determine what should be done in the emergency. It wouldn't do to allow her to see the chief executive. Her mania might take the form of shooting at the head of the state, or she might have a playful notion of blowing to atoms with dynamite the capitol building. “Looks just like a woman who came into the railroad office where I was working in Chicago,” said Gothe. “She didn't do a thing but commence to shoot at the chief clerk.” Superintendent Clark of the county hospital was called by telephone and asked as to whether he had lost any of his insane patients. He answered he had not. Secretary Brewer then approached the demented woman and said: “Madam, I am sorry, but you will probably have to call again at 2 o'clock, the governor will not be in until then.” “Who asked to see the governor?” said Mrs. Scott. “You mind your business and wait till I ask to see the governor, will you.” That settled it, and a message was sent to the police department to take the caller into custody. Mrs. Scott quietly disappeared before the patrol arrived. Mrs. Scott is a prepossessing woman in appearance, rather tall, dressed in a suit of brown, she does not appear to the casual observer to be at all demented. Returned at Two O'Clock – Mrs. Scott was promptly on hand when the hour of reopening the governor's office arrived at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to dispel any illusion that might have heretofore existed as to her sanity. She stood in front of the door to the main office, and when Clerk Gothe began to unlock the door, the woman struck him in the face, and followed this with several other blows. She got inside the door which stood partly ajar. Governor McIntire was talking with his stenographer, and the woman made a break in the direction of his excellency. The governor beat a hasty retreat, sought the seclusion of his private office, and slammed the door after him. Several bystanders caught her and she was forced to a seat. Senator Locke was sent for, and he came at once from the senate chamber. He was requested by Private Secretary Brewer to examine her. “Can I do anything for you, madam?” inquired the senator. The answer was a stinging blow in the face. Messengers were sent for the sheriff, and Mr. Gothe went to the county court and made a complaint for lunacy against Mrs. Scott. The woman was removed to the county hospital.
Scott, Ella A.
Rocky Mountain News 2-20-1895 – Violently Insane – Struggle of a Demented Woman with the Police Surgeon – Last night E. A. Scott of 205 South Grant avenue notified the police that his wife, who has been insane for some time had become violent. Surgeon Walker was sent to the house with the ambulance and Mrs. Scott was taken to the county hospital. She struggled violently and smashed the surgeon's spectacles. Some time ago Mrs. Scott created a scene at the state capital building.
Scott, Ella A.
Denver Evening Post 2-20-1895 – Mrs. Scott, the insane woman who made things lively at the state house recently, is now at St. Anthony's hospital.
Scott, Ella A.
Rocky Mountain News 8-3-1895 – Freaky Set of People – Insane Cases in the County Court Develop Interesting Phases of Dementia – Mrs. Elfia A. Scott, a prepossessing looking lady of about 35 years, handsomely dressed, appeared in the county court room yesterday morning, accompanied by another lady. It developed that Mrs. Scott was present for the purpose of being tried as to her sanity. She has delusions, imagines that she is Queen Victoria, and that she furnished the newspapers with columns of interesting matter regarding the affairs of state. She will be remembered by the public as the woman who created a sensation in the state capitol building last winter by appearing in Governor McIntire's office and refusing to leave until taken away by the patrol wagon. It was represented in court that she was a woman of some property, and that because of her delusions she was unable to take care of her affairs. The jury pronounced her insane and she was taken to the county hospital, and will eventually go to the asylum.
Scott, Enos
patient gender M race W age 66 marital status S birthplace Michigan source 1930 census
Scott, F. W.
Yuma Pioneer 4-14-1905 – F. W. Scott, recently from Greeley, was brought to Wray from Yuma Wednesday, charged with being insane.
Scott, F. W.
Yuma Pioneer 4-14-1905 – F. W. Scott Declared Insane – F. W. Scott, who recently purchased and moved onto the Huey ranch, has been acting queer for some time and last Monday was taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff Tuttle and brought to town. Mrs. Scott was telegraphed for and she came down from Greeley, Tuesday, and endeavored to get Scott go home to Greeley with her. Scott would not do so unless the spirits told him it was alright, and as he could not get the proper connection with the spirit world on that proposition, he refused to go. Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Scott returned to Greeley, and on Wednesday evening Tuttle took Scott to Wray, where a complaint was filed against him in the County Court, charging him with being insane. A jury was called and Dr. McGill and Dr. Barr examined Scott as to his medical condition and found him off his balance, and the other witnesses testified to his peculiar actions, so that the jury brought in a verdict of lunacy. Judge Hendrie, however, determined to hold him at Wray for a few days, to see if the attack would not wear off. Scott is an ardent believer in Christian Science, and that coupled with recent financial troubles, has unbalanced him. It is hoped that he may recover under the treatment of the Wray physicians, and that it may not be necessary to take him to the insane asylum.
Scott, F. W.
Yuma Pioneer 4-21-1905 – What They Are Doing At Wray – Sheriff Johnson took F. W. Scott to Pueblo and placed him in the Insane Asylum last Saturday.
Scott, Frank
patient gender M race Neg age 62 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Scott, Fred W.
Wray Gazette 4-14-1905 – Declared Insane – Fred W. Scott, who located northeast of Yuma last fall, coming there from Greeley, was brought to Wray Wednesday evening by deputy sheriff Jeff Tuttle, and arraigned in the county court on the charge of insanity. The hearing was held yesterday forenoon, and after hearing the evidence the jury returned a verdict to the effect that he was mentally unbalanced. Believing that there is a possibility of his trouble being only temporary, Mr. Scott will be kept here for a season to see if he will not improve, his aberration seems to be along Christian Scientist lines.
Scott, Fred W.
Wray Gazette 4-21-1905 – To the Asylum – Sheriff Johnson went up to Pueblo last Saturday where he placed Fred W. Scott in charge of the authorities at the state asylum for the insane. It was first intended to keep Mr. Scott here and treat him, but, after consideration it was decided that he could be the better treated at the asylum, and the authorities here acted accordingly. It is the hope of all that his trouble will prove to be only temporary.
Scott, Fred W.
Wray Gazette 5-19-1905 – Official Proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners – County Clerk's Office, Wray, Colo., May 8, 1905 – An adjourned term of County Commissioners met in county clerk's office Monday, May 8 at 9 a.m… Er. Thos. Barr services People vs. F. W. Scott, $5.00; Dr. E. D. McGill, services People vs. F. W. Scott, $5.00; J. S. Hendrie People vs. F. W. Scott, $18.00 (?); J. W. Sheedy constable People vs. F. W. Scott, $8.40; T. C. Jennings guarding F. W. Scott, $21.00; T. C. Jennings juror People vs. F. W. Scott, $2.65; R. Lumbard juror People vs. F. W. Scott, $2.65; John Galbreath juror People vs. F. W. Scott, $2.65; Elmer Lapham juror People vs. F. W. Scott, $2.65; O. N. Shields juror People vs. F. W. Scott, $2.65; F. Armstrong juror People vs. F. W. Scott, $2.65; J. W. Sheedy witness People vs. F. W. Scott, $1.20; E. L. Waters witness People vs. F. W. Scott, $11.00; Geo. Aney witness People vs. F. W. Scott, $10.10; T. J. Tuttle witness People vs. F. W. Scott, $9.20; T. J. Tuttle dept sheriff People vs. F. W. Scott, $21.50; W. F. Johnson sheriff People vs. F. W. Scott, $145.45…
Scott, Frederick W.
Wray Rattler – 4-14-1905 Frederick W. Scott, of Yuma, Colo., was brought before Judge Hendrie Thursday, who empanelled of jury to enquire into his sanity. He was adjudged insane but will be detained in Wray for a time under a doctor's care to better consider his condition.
Scott, George
Durango Democrat 6-25-1901 – Insane at San Francisco – The following query was received by the Democrat last evening from the Rocky Mountain News. “Who is Mrs. Mary A. Scott of Durango, now insane in San Francisco? She had funds deposited in Bank of Durango.” Mrs. Scott is a woman about sixty years of age, and has lived on a ranch near Fort Lewis for many years. She has been twice married and is now a widow. Has two sons – one, Lewis Scott, about thirty years of age, now living near Fort Lewis, while the other son is in the Philippines. Mrs. Scott also has two married daughters, one supposed to be living in Denver, while the other married Harry Davis of Hesperus. Her last husband was George Scott, who was corral boss at old Fort Lewis when the troops were stationed there, and held the position up to the time the post was abandoned. He was sent from La Plata county to the asylum at Pueblo some time previous to 1890, and died while an inmate there. Both Mr. and Mrs. Scott were known to all old-timers in the southwest. Mrs. Scott sold her ranch some three or four months ago, for a tidy sum which she deposited in the First National Bank of Durango, receiving therefore certified checks, which she afterward cashed through the International Trust company of Denver. No one here knows anything of her movements since leaving, beyond the fact that she went to Denver. There is still money on deposit here in the name of the son in the Philippines which was placed there by his mother. Mrs. Scott is supposed to have been fairly well off. She was accounted as eccentric, but no one thought her demented or likely to become so.
Scott, Hugh R.
patient gender M race W age 83 marital status Wd birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Scott, Ida D.
San Juan Prospector 11-23-1912 – Dentist's Wife May be Insane – Boulder. – Mrs. Ida D. Scott, wife of Dr. Ira Scott, disappeared. No word was received from her until a letter, apparently the product of a rambling mind, was received by Dr. Scott from Memphis, Tenn.
Scott, Jason
9 May 1891 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitken County) Local And Personal - Some of the relatives of Jason Scott, who is now being taken care of by the county, have written to the officials of Aspen that they will send for Scott and take him back to his home in Kansas right away, hence he will not be sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo as was intended
Scott, Mary
patient gender F race W age 79 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Scott, Nancy
Boulder County Herald Weekly 4-14-1886 – Nancy Scott, colored girl, was found insane by a jury. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Scully, Vincent
pupil race: W sex: M age: 18 marital: S place of birth: Illinois source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Seabaugh, J. A.
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Seaholm, Lars R.
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status D birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Seaholm, Robert
Durango Wage Earner 6-25-1908 – Denver, June 25. – In a fit of acute melancholia, brought on by constant brooding over financial losses in mining deals, Robert Seaholm, 33 years of age, attempted suicide today by braining himself with a hatchet, and though he had tried to cleave his skull in two was not successful. He inflicted ten deep scalp wounds. Discovering he could not accomplish his purpose Seaholm after an unsuccessful search for another weapon, rode to the city hall and begged the police surgeon to dress his wounds and remove him to the hospital. He is now at the county hospital an inmate of the insane ward. He presented a horrible sight as he rode through the streets to the city hall.
Seamond, William
Boulder Daily Camera 2-20-1896 – Local News – An unfortunate man named William Seamond, the unhappy possessor of the hallucination that he had been hypnotized and has been at various times the absolute slave to the dictates of some hypnotic force, compelling him to go or come at its will, was adjudged insane in the county court today and will be taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo. Mr. Seamonds was an intelligent witness in his own behalf, having a clear intelligence as to the purpose of the investigation and broke down completely and wept when the jury found him insane. Hon. Junius Berkley appeared for the county and O. A. Johnson for the insane man.
Seamond, William
Boulder Daily Camera 2-21-1896 – Local News – Sheriff Dyer left this afternoon for Pueblo in charge of the insane man, William Seamonds.
Seaney, Roy
patient race: W sex: M age: 24 marital: S place of birth: Pennsylvanianone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Seanhoff, Edward
patient race W gender M age 37 marital status S place of birth Ohio occupation laborer source 1910 census
Seara, Mary M.
patient race W gender F age 46 marital status M place of birth Italy source 1910 census
Sease, Apolonia
Pagosa Springs News 8-27-1891 – Mrs. Apolona Sease was declared insane in the county court on Monday, and application will be made for her admission to the state insane asylum.
Sease, Apolonia
Pagosa Springs News 9-17-1891 – Mrs. Apolona Sease was taken to the state insane asylum at Pueblo last Saturday by her husband.
Seavy, Alvin
patient race: W sex: M age: 59 marital:S place of birth: Wisconsin occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sebastian, Emma L.
patient gender F race W age 72 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sebbach, K.
patient, white, female, age 26, married, Sweden, 1885 census
Seberie, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 45 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Seckner, Florence
admitted 8-23-1900 from None Given - Woodcroft Hospital
Sedlock, F. J.
Denver Evening Post 12-12-1898 – An Insanity Commission – It Is to Investigate the Condition of Four Convicts – Governor Adams this morning appointed a commission in lunacy to inquire into the sanity of Levi Hurtley, Ellen Deardoff, James Bolton and F. J. Sedlock, all penitentiary convicts. The commission is composed of Drs. F. N. Carrier, T. H. Craven and J. W. Rambo, the first two of Canon City and the latter of Florence. Hartley is violently insane and is dangerous, the prison officials say. Before he entered the penitentiary he was an inmate of the state insane asylum at Pueblo. He was sent to the penitentiary for attempting to kill J. Keiser of Delta, whom he had followed here from Missouri to murder, he said. Mrs. Deardoff is a Boulder woman who was formerly in the insane asylum. Dr. Thombs discharged her as cured. She was sentenced to the penitentiary for burglary. Bolton is from Denver. He is serving fourteen years for robbery.
Sedlock, F. J.
Denver Evening Post 12-20-1898 – Four Insane Convicts – They Are Sent to the Pueblo Asylum for Treatment – Drs. J. W. Rambo, Thomas H. Craven and F. N. Carrier, the commission in lunacy appointed by the governor to inquire into the sanity of four prisoners in the penitentiary, made their report this morning. The four convicts were all declared to be insane. They are: Levi Hartley, James Bolton, Ellen Deardoff and F. J. Sedlock. Upon receipt of the report Governor Adams issued an executive order providing for the transfer of the prisoners from the penitentiary to the insane asylum. On their recovery they are to be sent back to Canon City to serve out their terms.
Seeley, Louie
Weekly Ignacio Chieftain 6-7-1918 – Louie Seeley pleaded guilty in the District Court at Boulder to the charge of murdering Fred E. Bill, postmaster and Moffat road station agent at Crescent, on the night of Feb. 16 last. In extenuation for the crime, Seeley declared he was temporarily insane at the time.
Seeley, Louis
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Seeley, Louis
Colorado Transcript 2-5-1920 – Local Paragraphs – Louis Seeley, Golden young man who was sent to the penitentiary for life for the murder of the postmaster at Crescent, Colo., several months ago, was adjudged insane last week, and it is likely that he will be transferred from the pen to the state asylum at Pueblo.
Seibel, Johnnie
Durango Democrat 7-18-1908 – Sheriff Clarke returned from Pueblo yesterday where he went with Johnnie Seibel, who was adjudged insane.
Seibel, Johnny
Telluride Daily Journal 7-16-1908 – Johnny Seibel, well known in Telluride, was on Tuesday adjudged insane in a Durango court and ordered taken to Pueblo. He has been ill for several years.
Seibert, Celia
patient gender F race W age 66 marital status M birthplace New York source 1930 census
Seibert, Celia
patient race: W sex: F age: 55 marital:M place of birth: New York occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Seidler, John
San Juan Prospector 6-9-1906 – Colorado News Items – John Seidler, a packing house employe at Denver, went insane and attacked numerous people. He was arrested by Policeman Higdon, who had to club him into submission. But the demented man died at the county hospital from injuries received in one of his fights.
Seifert, Luella Mrs
admitted 6-10-1897 from Del Norte, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Seigfried, Mrs.
Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitkin County) June 12 1897 Declared Insane - Del Norte, Colo. June 10. Mrs Seigfreid, wife of Matt Seigfreid, prominent ranchman, has been declared insane and has been taken to the Pueblo asylum She has eight children one of them being only six weeks old.
Seipert, Frederika
admitted 12-10-1914 from Rio Grande, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Selbine, Sullivan
patient gender M race W age 60 marital status Un birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Selbine, Sullivan
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:. place of birth: Italy occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sell, Fannie
patient race W gender F age 48 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Sell, Fanny
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1861 age 39 marital status M place of birth Missouri occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Sells, Fannie
patient race: W sex: F age: 58 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sena, Jose M.
patient gender M race Mex age 32 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sena, Jose M.
patient race: W sex: M age: 20 marital:S place of birth: Mexico occupation: none source: 1920 census
Senate, Sarah
patient race W gender F age 58 marital status M place of birth . source 1910 census
Senate, Sarah
patient race: W sex: F age: 68 marital:M place of birth: Ireland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Senior, Arthur J.
patient gender M race W age 29 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sennett, Carrie
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sennett, Carrie
patient race: W sex: F age: 33 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sennett, William
Rocky Mountain News 8-8-1883 – Mountain Mention – Central – A man named William Senate, a resident of Nevadaville, was placed in jail Monday, charged with being insane. Among other dangerous things he threatened to kill his wife. He is a brother-in-law of Captain James Noonan, the mining superintendent of Nevadaville. Note: There is another article from a few weeks later with his last name spelled as Sennett. Another article lists his last name as Bennett.
Sennett, William
Rocky Mountain News 9-1-1883 – Mountain Mention – Central – William Sennett, on trial by jury in the County court, yesterday was adjudged insane. He will be sent to the State Insane asylum at Pueblo. He has a wife and family in Nevadaville.
Sennett, William
Rocky Mountain News 9-5-1883 – From the Mountains – Central – William Bennett, who was adjudged insane in the county court last Friday, was taken to the state insane asylum Monday.
Sera, Nombres
patient gender M race Mex age 31 marital status S birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Serdakis, Mike
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status S birthplace Greece source 1930 census
Serpino, Pasquale
source: WWI Draft Registration, born Italy
Serry, Lelia
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Serry, Lelia
patient race: W sex: F age: 35 marital:M place of birth: Nebraska occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Serry, Lelia
admitted 4-15-1915 from Fremont, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Service, Charles
patient gender M race W age 76 marital status S birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Sessions, Mrs.
Buena Vista Democrat 2-10-1887 – Attempted Suicide – Last week in a fit of temporary insanity, Mrs. Sessions, wife of Mr. Sessions who at present is stopping here, and who with her husband lived here in olden days made a desperate attempt to commit suicide in Denver, cutting her throat in a horrible manner. She is now at the hospital insane but on the road to recovery.
Sessions, Mrs. Horton V.
Rocky Mountain News 2-3-1887 – Wanted to Die – Mrs. Horton V. Sessions Cuts Her Throat While in Bed – Mrs. Horton V. Sessions, the wife of a musician now engaged at Buena Vista, lay on a bed in the rear second story of a dilapidated house on Nineteenth, near Wazee street, at 12:30 o'clock this morning, with a deep gash in her throat and her hands clasped over her breast, waiting to die. Half a dozen Italians clustered about the small room and gazed at her while she dabbled her hands in the blood that flowed from the jagged aperture in her neck. The woman had cut her throat before midnight and the police were notified half an hour afterwards. When they entered the room, which is reached by a dark and narrow passage and a rickety flight of stairs, the woman looked up and smiled faintly, and it was the smile and expression that came to her eyes that told the motive of her act – insanity. The room in which she lay was very small, hardly six feet in length or breadth. The furniture was of the plainest quality and in many instances broken down and in need of repair. A kerosene lamp stood on a small stand, and threw a faint light over a most horrible spectacle. A Terrible Spectacle – The bed upon which the woman rested was a rickety pine affair, but the linen was clean and fresh. Near the right side of the bed at an angle from the door lay the woman, and at first sight it seemed as though a corpse had been prepared for burial. Once accustomed to the light, however, the restless grey eyes, difficult breathing and streams of crimson blood showed that the woman was yet alive. Her hands, smeared with blood, lay clasped on her breast, covering an ordinary table knife, the bloody appearance of which gave evidence of the part in the act it had taken. The woman's night dress, the bed clothing, her hair, face and arms were smeared with blood and as the officers entered the room, she reached one slender and nicely formed hand up to a horrible gash in the left side of the neck, from which the blood was flowing copiously to the bed and then dropping in clots to the floor. The gash in the neck was about two inches long and looked as if it had been sawed, as the flesh hung down with irregular edges, and about which the blood was beginning to clot. I Cut My Throat – “How did she do this?” asked one of the officers. “I did it with this knife!” and the eyes rested on the officers as the poor being drew the knife from its hiding place and hugged it to her bosom as if to keep it. One of the officers took it and the woman returned her hands to their former position, and watched the group around the lamp. “What is her name?” was asked. “My name is Sessions,” and the woman spelled it out. “My husband is a musician. I wish you would telegraph him. He is at Buena Vista.” “What did you do this for?” “Because they,” and the eyes wandered wildly about the room, “they, my enemies followed me here, and said wicked things about me. I cut my throat, see,” and her hand sought the terrible gash. “I Want to Die.” – She closed her eyes for a moment and then started up again, and strained her eyes at a fancied sight. “Well, you may get well.” “No, no; I don't want to. I want to die. I must die.” The woman's wound was then examined, and Dr. McLauthlin sent for. Francisca Bassca, an Italian, who with his wife and four children, one infant who was sleeping in an adjoining room to that occupied by Mrs. Sessions occupies the second floor, knew Mrs. Sessions six years ago. Her name is Horton V. Sessions. Her husband is a musician, and lived here until a short time ago, when he went to Buena Vista. He formerly played in the orchestra at the Palace theater. Mrs. Sessions, who is about 35 years of age and quite pretty, came up from Buena Vista yesterday morning and went to Bassca's house, where she since remained. Yesterday she went out and while gone took some morphine. She was sick last night and Mrs. Bassca gave her a white silk handkerchief to put around her head. This she wore last night. She retired about 11 o'clock last night and about midnight called out to Mrs. Bassca. “Come here I have cut my throat.” Mrs. Bassca went into the room and then summoned help. She says that Mrs. Sessions acted queerly, and talked of her enemies yesterday when she came. Mrs. Sessions has no relatives here as far as is known. Her husband has been notified. Will Recover – Dr. McLauthlin dressed the woman's throat and stitched up the gash. While he was doing so she conversed rationally directing that her effects be given to her husband. She did not display a sign of insanity, and frequently talked about her attempt. She was taken to the county hospital at 3 o'clock this morning, and at last accounts was resting easily. Dr. McLauthlin thought that her chances for recovery were good.
Sesson, Irwin
patient race W gender M age 25 marital status S place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Setopoke, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 57 marital:S place of birth: Poland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Setopoke, George
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1862 age 38 marital status . place of birth Poland occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Setopoke, George
patient race W gender M age 47 marital status . place of birth Poland occupation laborer source 1910 census
Sevatinjot, Andrew
patient gender M race W age 36 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Sevcik, Ferdinand
admitted 5-2-1915 from Las Animas , Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sewell, Catherine O.
position Daught gender F race W age 10 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sewell, Cecil A.
position Son gender M race W age 4 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sewell, Frank
patient race W sex M month of birth September year of birth 1845 age 54 marital S place of birth Arkansas occupation laborer source 1900 census
Sewell, Frank
Rocky Mountain News 9-26-1891 – Violently Insane – Debeque, Colo., Sept. 25 – Frank Sewell, a prominent ranchman of Roan Creek, was taken to Grand Junction to-day by Constable McAdams. He has recently become violently insane. He imagined that a couple of his neighbors were trying to kill him to get his ranch, and he was guarding the road with a Winchester, but was taken into custody before he had done any harm.
Seyba, Annie
patient race W gender F age 31 marital status . place of birth Colorado source 1910 census
Seybert, Charles
patient gender M race W age 30 marital status S birthplace Oklahoma source 1930 census
Seymour, Willard L.
Holyoke Enterprise 8-5-1926 - W. L. Seymour Passed Away In Pueblo Sunday - Willard L. Seymour passed into the great beyond Sunday at the state hospital at Pueblo, at the age of 57 years and 3 days. He had been failing for some time, and his wife went to Pueblo to be with him just before then end. The body was returned to Holyoke for burial, and funeral services were held at the Christian church yesterday afternoon. Rev. R.J. Church delivered the funeral sermon. The remains were placed in the Holyoke cemetery, with Colver Brothers in charge of the body. Surviving relatives in Holyoke are the widow, Mrs. Cova Seymour, and a son, Bert. Willard L. Seymour was born July 29, 1860 in Monmouth, Illinois. He resided at this place until he was 17 years of age when he moved to Iowa, and after two years to Peabody, Kansas. He came to Holyoke in 1914. He married Cova Wilson December 25, 1892, to which union two children were born, Bert Seymour of Holyoke and Mrs. Freda Dowlin of Brockton, Iowa. Those who survive him are, his widow, the two named children, four sisters and one brother, also three grandchildren.
Shadbolt, Clare
patient gender F race W age 79 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Shaeffer, Frank J.
Aspen Weekly Times 6-5-1897 – An Alleged Lunatic. He Escapes From the Hospital and Registers at a Hotel – Denver, June 3. – Late last night Frank J. Shaeffer, who has been an inmate of the county hospital for the past two months, dangerously insane, escaped from that institution, and came to town. He appeared at the Windsor hotel early this morning, registered, and was assigned to a room. Later he was taken into custody, and was arraigned this afternoon in the county court for trial as to his sanity. Shaeffer was sergeant-at-arms to the house during the Tenth General Assembly. He formerly conducted the Canon City Clipper.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Rocky Mountain News 6-4-1897 – F. P. Sheafor Declared Insane – A jury of six in the County court yesterday found Frank P. Sheafor insane, unable to handle his own property and dangerous to himself and others.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Rocky Mountain News 6-6-1897 – Frank Shaefor Becomes Violent – He Escapes From the Insane Asylum at Pueblo and Creates a Street Sensation – Pueblo, Colo., June 5 – Frank P. Sheafor of Denver, who was brought to the insane asylum Thursday night created a sensation near the Mineral Palace early this morning. Clad only in his underclothing, and with an ax which he brandished most threateningly he chased every one off the street who happened to be out about sunrise. Captain Overmeyer of the police who was acquainted with Mr. Sheafor succeeded finally in pacifying him and inducing him to go back to the asylum in the police patrol wagon. Sheafor was committed to the asylum Thursday night and showed very decided signs of improvement and he was not put in the ward for violent patients where those who need constant watching are kept. In some manner he managed to get out about 4 o'clock this morning and proceeded to make things quite lively.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Denver Evening Post 4-24-1897 – Believed to Be Insane – Ex-Sergeant-At-Arms Frank P. Sheafor's Strange Actions – “I have no God but Ingersoll – I am a common felon – I want you as associate counsel – for God's sake do something for me.” This incoherent medley fell from the lips of Frank P. Sheafor, formerly editor of the Canon City Clipper, sergeant-at-arms in the house during the tenth general assembly and well known as a political and business man in all parts of the state. Last night about 8 o'clock J. E. Bangs and his wife, who reside between Sixteenth and Seventeenth on Tremont street, left their home for the theater and left T. W. Bangs, a brother of the husband, in the front parlor with orders in an informal way to collect room rent in the sum of $3.50 from Sheafor in case he came in. The testimony in Justice Crane's court this morning went to show that the younger Bangs did as directed when the man came in. Sheafor had but 50 cents, however, and went over to the drug store on the corner opposite for the purpose of securing an accommodation loan of the amount of the balance. When he returned, he handed Bangs the amount and just as he left to go upstairs, demanded a receipt. Taken Violently Wild – “Yes, sir, I will make you out one,” said Mr. Bangs, at the same time reaching up in the secretary for a visiting card, intending to write it on the back of it. The two then entered into a wordy war as to whether Bangs would take the receipt in full upstairs to Sheafor or not. Without warning the latter interrupted the discussion by drawing a big revolver and beating the latter over the head with it. So dangerous was the assault that Bangs' head this morning shows a vicious scalp wound. Sheafor then dropped the gun and struck his victim in the face with his fist, leaving a bad mark about the eye. Mr. Bangs saw at once that something was wrong with the man's mind and rushed out, locking the door after him. At Sixteenth and Glenarm he notified Officer Arthur Martyn, who at once repaired to the scene of the trouble. When he reached the house Sheafer was just getting out, and at once began to apply the most violent epithets to the officer. He was deprived of his gun and taken to the patrol box, where he renewed hostilities by striking the officer in the jaw. Said He Was an Officer – “You have no right to arrest me!” he shrieked. “I am a special officer and one in higher authority than you are!” All the way to the station he fought to be released and required the energetic attention of the patrol officers. First he was thrown into the bull pen, but friends who knew him well interceded, and he was removed to a room in the matron's department. Here he at once renewed hostilities by taking the blankets from his bed, crowding them into the closet bowls and flooding the entire apartment up stairs. Pitiable Scene in Court – When Sheafor came into court this morning before Justice Crane his eyes glared peculiarly and under his right eye a discoloration was to be seen as a result of his trouble last night. He insisted upon appearing as his own attorney and admitted everything testified to by the prosecution. When he was sworn to testify he eyed Judge Crane closely and said: “Now, Judge, is this oath you gave me according to the constitution of the United States?” “Yes, and the state of Colorado,” was the response. “I want to say,” continued Sheafor, “that my associate counsel, Judge Abbott, will ask me the questions and I will answer them.” There was a moment's quiet in the court room and then Judge Abbott arose and with plain emotion said: “No, your honor, I am not counsel in the case, but I have seen enough to know that this is not the same Frank as of old. At first I thought he had been drinking, but now I believe his mind is deranged. I want to ask the court a favor that the matter be put over, and believe the county commissioners should be notified to have an examination made as to his sanity.” Judge Crane concurred in the suggestion and the matter was continued, pending the investigation. Out Driving Yesterday – Acquaintances of Sheafor are at a loss to account for his strange predicament and although some attribute it to excessive drink during the last day or two others say that he has not drank to excess. About four years ago Mr. and Mrs. Sheafor suffered the bereavement of the loss of their little boy, upon whom they bestowed every possible gift and affection. Since that time both have been constant mourners and, neighbors assert, appear like different people. At times Frank has shown plain signs of despondency, although it never before assumed the violent form that it did last night. Last winter the two operated a cigar stand on the second floor of the capitol building and were popular with members of the legislature. Immediately after the close of the session Frank, his wife, Mrs. M. J. and J. W., his brother, a Colorado Springs attorney, and formerly a member of the Kansas general assembly, incorporated the Sheafor Capitol Cigar company, with headquarters immediately above the Denver club building on Seventeenth street. An attachment was issued against a part of the stock a day or two ago and this new trouble might have influenced the man's mind. Yesterday afternoon he drove up in front of police headquarters and asked the officers out to take a drink with him, but upon their refusal drove away at a rapid pace. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sheafor are well known in the city, the former having worked on the daily papers at times as a reporter. Many regrets were expressed at the unfortunate man's condition and his friends in court were a unit in hoping that the attack was but temporary.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Rocky Mountain News 4-25-1897 – Frank P. Sheafor Insane – Popular Public Character Seized With Violent Mania – Frank P. Sheafor, well known in Denver as the ex-sergeant-at-arms in the lower house of the Ninth and Tenth general assemblies, was arrested on a charge of assault and now lies in the county jail awaiting trial on that charge, and will in the meantime be tried for insanity. His examination for assault was commenced yesterday in Justice Crane's court, and from the man's actions there it was given as the general opinion that Sheafor was mentally unbalanced. His arrest occurred on Friday night at 9:30 o'clock, after he had made an attack on W. T. Bangs at 1645 Tremont street. Officer Arthur Martyn had much difficulty in subduing Sheafor, and taking him to the city jail. Sheafor several years ago conducted the Canon City Clipper and was well known in that town. He has lately been running a cigar store at 424 Seventeenth street.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Rocky Mountain News 4-26-1897 – Frank Sheafor's Condition – Failed to Recognize His Brother and His Case Seems Hopeless – Frank Sheafor, who was placed in the county jail in an insane condition on Saturday night, was yesterday removed to the county hospital. His brother, John Sheafor, arrived from his home at Colorado Springs, on Saturday evening and announced that everything in the way of a cure will be tried on his brother, but is fearful that the malady may prove permanent. Sheafor does not recognize his brother except as a friend in need of divine aid, and insists on getting down on his knees and praying for him. His brother says the man has been insane for nearly six months. He has done things which his friends have wondered at and attributed to drink. Of late he has developed a mania for buying every manner of article and things which he could not possibly need. He bought several step-ladders, which he said were for use in his cigar store on Seventeenth street. One of those was so long he could not possibly get it inside the door, and when he discovered his foolishness he simply laughed. He has bought several horses and saddles which he scarcely used at all. He became quite violent when taken to the hospital yesterday and continually exhorted the bystanders to adopt religion.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Denver Evening Post 4-26-1897 – At the County Hospital – Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Frank P. Sheafor is now confined in the county hospital, having been declared insane by County Physician Clark. He does not recognize his brother, John W., who is here from Colorado Springs, and is admonishing everyone to cling to and accept religion.
Shaeffer, Frank P.
Denver Evening Post 4-29-1897 – Glances at Our Neighbors – Colorado – Cripple Creek Citizen: Frank P. Shaefor, formerly editor of the Canon City Clipper and more recently sergeant-at-arms of the Colorado legislature, has been adjudged insane. It is only surprising that Mr. Shaefor has retained his mind as long as he has, after associating with two Colorado legislatures.
Shafer, A.O.
Greeley Tribune 10-12-1899 – A. O. Shafer has lived in Greeley for several months, part of which time, he worked at the Colorado house. Last week his actions were queer and finally he was arrested as being insane. Monday his case was tried in County court, a jury adjudged him of unsound mind and Tuesday he was taken to the State asylum at Pueblo by Sheriff Elliott.
Shafer, Alvin O.
Shafer, Alvin O. age 47y, died 8-26-1900, removed to Missouri, informants Jerry Hogan & Fannie Shafer of 621 E 13th, Pueblo, Dr. A.P. Busey, cost $95.00
Shafer, Wm. O.
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1853 age 47 marital status S place of birth Kentucky occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Shaffer, Catherine
Carbonate Chronicle 1-1-1917 – Local Chronology, 1916 – January 14, 1916 – Catherine Schafer (was) taken to Woodcroft sanitarium.
Shaffer, Catherine H.
patient gender F race W age 57 marital status M birthplace Massachusetts source 1930 census
Shaffer, George C.
patient gender M race W age 57 marital status Un birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Shaffer, Rebecca
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1861 age 39 marital status M place of birth Ohio occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Shaffer, Rebecca
patient race W gender F age 48 marital status M place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Shaffer, Rebecca
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Shaffer, Rebecca
patient race: W sex: F age: 58 marital:M place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shaffer, Rebecca
Rocky Mountain News 12-21-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3452 – Rebecca Shoffer, lunacy; order for venire, subpoena, etc.; set for hearing December 21, 2 p.m.; Geo. Simmonds appointed guardian ad litem.
Shaffer, Rebecca
Rocky Mountain News 12-22-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: Rebecca Shaffer, lunacy; same (motion for hearing this day vacated).
Shaffer, Rebecca
Rocky Mountain News 1-18-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3480 – Rebecca Shaffer, lunacy; trial to jury; verdict of insane; order of confinement in county hospital until removed to asylum; Ella Patterson to accompany lunatic to asylum; J. H. Jack, guardian ad litem, allowed $5.
Shaffer, Rebecca
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Shaffer, Rebecca
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Shaforth, Otto
patient race W gender M age 51 marital status . place of birth Germany occupation miner source 1910 census
Shak, Chas.
patient race W sex M month of birth March year of birth 1862 age 38 marital S place of birth Indiana occupation cook source 1900 census
Shankee, Minnie
Colorado Transcript 8-5-1896 – Minnie Shankee, aged 17 years, a resident of Coal Creek, was adjudged insane in the county court last Monday and ordered sent to the asylum at Pueblo.
Shanks, Archie
patient gender M race W age 57 marital status D birthplace Utah source 1930 census
Shanley, Augusta
Denver Evening Post 8-7-1896 – Eight Insane Cases – Judge Steele's Docket for the Day – Spectators in the county court this morning witnessed a most pathetic scene. Eight insane cases were on the docket for trial… The other cases will be tried this afternoon, nearly all of them are insane over religion. They are Gusta Shauly, Theresa Miller, Hannah Olson, O. R. Thompson, Alice Farrell, Samuel Haesslip and Kate Godfrey.
Shanley, Augusta
Rocky Mountain News 8-8-1896 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele: 3288 – People vs. Augusta Shanley, alleged insane; ordered committed to county hospital, thence to the asylum.
Shanley, Augusta
Denver Evening Post 8-8-1896 – Sent to the Asylum – In the county court yesterday afternoon Rosa Woaudflur, Alice Farrell, David R. Thompson and Mrs. Augusta Shanley were found insane and ordered committed to the Pueblo asylum.
Shanley, Augusta
Rocky Mountain News 8-8-1896 – Séance With the Insane – County Court Occupied With the Examination of Men and Women With Wheels – About a dozen feeble minded inmates of the county hospital were taken to the county court yesterday for trial as to their sanity. At the afternoon session a woman who is mentally irresponsible took off her shoes in court. Mrs. Shanley, bound in straps and whose hands were encased in leather muffs shouted: “What are you doing that for, you poor old fool? We'll have decency here. Do you understand we'll have decency here.” With that Mrs. Shanley broke out into laughter, loud and long… Mrs. Augusta Shanley, who lost her reason through domestic troubles, and who was brought to court in straps and muff, was found insane.
Shanley, Augusta
Denver Evening Post 8-6-1896 – Mrs. Gusta Shanly was to have been tried for insanity in the county court today, but her husband appeared and asked that she be released in order to take private treatment.
Shanley, Augusta
Denver Evening Post 8-6-1896 – Mrs. Gusta Shanly was to have been tried for insanity in the county court today, but her husband appeared and asked that she be released in order to take private treatment.
Shapter, Edward
Denver Evening Post 9-8-1899 – Uncle and Nephew Face Each Other in Court – Six men are sitting as jurors in the county court to determine the mental condition of Edward Shapter; is he able to care for his property? is the question they must answer. His nephew, Charles Pillar, instituted the inquisition. Shapter is an aged Englishman; the nephew is relatively a young man and also English. He is Shapter's only relative in America. Shapter has been in Denver since 1883 and made his money by holding on to real estate. Several years ago he was stricken with paralysis and withdrew from active management of his property, conferring power of attorney upon his nephew. They have become estranged and the falling out first came into public notice two months ago, when Pillar filed a complaint in the county court declaring that his uncle was insane, and requesting that the court order a formal trial with the view of having a conservator appointed. The next event was the revocation of the power of attorney. The uncle alleged that the nephew had mismanaged his property and converted most of it to his own use. He demanded an accounting and also a return of the property alleged to have been taken. Pillar answered this suit by denying the accusations and putting in a counter claim for about $3,000, stating that he had paid out of his own pocket large sums for taxes and other things, besides having for years cared for his uncle, who was so helpless that he had no use of his hands. Some years ago Shapter made a will in which Pillar was the sole heir. He wishes now to change his will and charges that the nephew by the inquisition into his sanity, plans to thwart this step so that no damage can be effected. In law an insane man can't alter or make a will. Pillar, in turn, declares that his course is wholly disinterested; that he is being actuated solely by the desire to conserve his uncle's best interests, and that designing persons have him under their control and plan to loot him. The persons against whom this charge is made are at present taking care of Shapter and are women. Shapter does look a physical wreck, but his mind seems to be bright. His paralysis is like a form of palsy. The nephew yesterday afternoon testified about his uncle's mental shortcomings. His testimony went to show that he had taken the utmost care of his uncle for ten years past, washing and dressing him and performing the most menial services. The uncle's mind was a tottering wreck. “He could not count $50 in $5 bills in a week, if ever,” he said. Mrs. Buell, with whom Shapter lived for some time, testified to mental lapses of Shapter, saying one day he had appeared from his room all ready for travel, saying: “Well, I'm all ready to go to Kansas City. Are the rest ready?” Nobody had had any plans of going away, nor had Shapter announced any such intentions. Armour C. Anderson, who is jointly accused with Pillar of having taken certain of Shapter's property, testified to personal relations with Shapter, helping his in his physical infirmities. Asked whether in his opinion Shapter was mentally competent to take care of his property, he said: “I do not think he is at all capable; he can't count money for one thing, and never knows how much is due him.” Anderson denied on cross-examination that he had any relations with Pillar except in a business way, although he admitted owning certain real estate with Pillar. He said he had known Pillar before he had made the acquaintance of Shapter. “Shapter has been failing in mind, more or less, ever since I have known him,” said Pillar in response to questions. “Who is attempting to influence him now?” said G. A. Smith, Pillar's attorney. “Mrs. Harriet Corbett,” he answered. “How do you know that?” asked Attorney McNeil. “She drives him about, collects rents, etc., and generally takes care of him.” He then left the stand. Mrs. J. C. Shaw, daughter of Mrs. Corbett, testified to his physical disabilities and mental weakness. She said that he had to be constantly under Mrs. Corbett's care. At night he would wake and seemed not to know where he was. Frequently he would imagine that he was being kidnapped. “He generally hands his pocketbook to Mrs. Corbett when he wants change,” she said. “He would lose thread of conversation invariably and lose interest in the conversation,” she added in explanation why she thought Shapter mentally incompetent. “Are you of the opinion that he is so insane or distracted in mind as to be incapable of safely conducting his business affairs personally?” asked Attorney Smith. “I do,” she said. She had known him five years. Dr. Eskridge next testified to Shapter's mental competency. He said that he had examined him, especially his ability to do arithmetic. He had asked him how old he was and that Shapter had replied that he was born in 1835. He had then asked him to subtract 35 from 99 and his answer had been 32. He had also asked him to count various sums of money and invariably he counted wrong. Shapter simply could not count and the fact was not due to any visible defect. It was mental incapacity. “He is insane. There is no doubt about that,” Dr. Eskridge said in conclusion.
Shapter, Edward
Shapter, Edward
Shapter, Edward
Denver Evening Post 9-13-1899 – Found Edward Shapter Insane – Verdict of the Jury Leads to Appointment of a Conservator – Edward Shapter is so insane as to be incapable of taking care of his estate, according to the verdict of the jury in the county court before whom his mental competency was inquired into. A conservator of the estate, which amounts to about $17,000, will now be appointed, and is presumed that Shapter's nephew, Charles Pillar, and the insane man's housekeeper, Mrs. Harriet Corbett, are now both happy, as they professed to be much concerned about the alleged attempts of either to rob the old man, who is almost helpless in his palsy.
Shapter, Edward
Denver Evening Post 7-15-1899 – For His Own Protection – A petition has been filed in the county court asking for an inquisition into the sanity of Edward Shapter of 2815 Curtis street who is said to be insane. The petition is signed by Charles Pillar and declares that Shapter owns jewelry, diamonds, money, notes and credits and real estate in Arapahoe county which he may lose unless the county court protects him. To this end he must first be officially declared insane.
Shapter, Edward
Denver Evening Post 7-18-1899 – Not Insane Without Contest – Edward Shafter is not going to be declared insane without a contest. He has engaged Attorney McNeal to defend him and the attorney has entered his appearance in the county court. An inquisition into his sanity was asked for Saturday, it being alleged that Shafter, who has much jewelry, money and real estate, is not competent to take care of it, and that he is in danger of losing it.
Shapter, Edward
Denver Evening Post 8-7-1899 – Charge Against a Woman – The day of the inquisition into the sanity of Edward Shapter was fixed this morning in the county court for August 24. The inquisition promises to be a most eventful trial according to the allegations already filed in the proceedings and the public will undoubtedly be entertained in the struggle of Shapter to retain his property and rights as a sane man, and that of the other side of the litigation, his nephew, Charles Pillar, who says his uncle much maligns him and is ungrateful to boot in his efforts to preserve his property from the clutches of designing persons. Pillar and Armour C. Anderson, who is accused with him, filed his answer today in the district court to the suit brought there several weeks ago, in which Shapter sues Pillar and Anderson for property he alleges they have unlawfully taken from him when Pillar acted as his manager, and for an accounting. Anderson enters specific denials, saying he has none of Shapter's property and bid in on real estate only three times and that at Shapter's request. Pillar answers in similar strain, denying any wrong-doing or illegal acquisition of property, and putting in a counter claim for $2,500. It is charged that the suit is a conspiracy between Shapter and others in which the “others” are trying to bunco Shapter. “The others,” George A. Smith, Pillar's attorney, says is Mrs. Hattie Corbett, who is Shapter's housekeeper at a salary of $80 a month. The attorney says he expects to prove that Shapter is Mrs. Corbett's prisoner at the present time and altogether under her influence. To save his property it has become necessary to invoke the law, Shapter being in reality insane.
Shapter, Edward
Denver Evening Post 7-19-1899 – Uncle Replies – Edward Shapter Promises a Scandal Against His Nephew – The attempt of Charles Pillar, asking the county court to declare his uncle, Edward Shapter, insane, is developing into a sensation. Pillar caused a petition to be filed Saturday asking for an inquisition into his uncle's sanity, declaring it was highly necessary as Shapter was a very wealthy man, owning most desirable real estate, had valuable mortgages, possessed high-priced jewelry and had much money in the bank. All this he was in danger of losing through mental incompetency, Pillar alleged, and hence the need of the county judge's supervision in Shapter's affairs. Yesterday afternoon Shapter filed a suit in the district court against his nephew, seemingly letting the cat out of the bag in the insanity proceedings, by accusing his nephew of having despoiled the uncle of nearly all his wealth through an implicit confidence he had had in him to the degree that he had made him general manager of all his affairs, a trust Pillar has abused, it is alleged, by stealing everything he could lay his hand on belonging to Shapter. Armour C. Anderson, who is declared a secret agent of the nephew, is made a defendant. The complaint avers that eight years ago Shapter owned valuable real estate in Denver, also certain money notes, secured by mortgages, aggregating many thousand dollars, and also had money on deposit in the bank. The real estate was improved, in good repair, rented well, had no encumbrance upon it and yielded an ample surplus. He became ill, and remaining so retired from business, the complaint continues. He entrusted everything to Pillar, “who bears the relation of nephew and only kinsman and whom plaintiff had in many ways befriended. On May 12, 1894, the entire business affairs of Pillar (Shapter), the plaintiff charges, were placed in Pillar's care, Shapter having implicit confidence in the honesty, disinterestedness and fidelity of the defendant Pillar,” and he gave him written power of attorney wherein he was authorized and empowered to take possession of the real estate and to sell and convey it at such prices and terms as he might deem proper. All the notes and the money in the bank were at the same time entrusted to him, it is averred, but as the complaint states, Shapter took no receipt, and so is unable to state definitely the aggregate or by item, what, in respect to money or notes, Pillar took. But plaintiff says they aggregate many thousand dollars. He declares he gave his own affairs no further thought, supposing his nephew was faithfully performing his services, paying taxes and assessments on the real estate among other things, but in April last, his suspicions having been aroused, he requested his nephew to render an accounting. This he did, it is declared, but the statement was wholly devoid of details and ended by the assertion that Shapter was indebted to Pillar in the sum of $2,500, and that he, Pillar, owned (owed) nothing. An investigation, the complaint continues, revealed that Pillar had systematically omitted to pay taxes and assessments on the real estate, which in consequence was repeatedly sold, to the damage of Shapter of $2,300; that Pillar had taken all the assignments of the certificates of sale to himself or in the name of Armour C. Anderson for his own benefit and which Pillar now owns. The years are 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896 and a portion of 1897. That the real estate had been permitted to dilapidate, its rental values thus diminishing; that he had collected large sums of money to his own use on securities aggregating $5,500; that Anderson has come to hold much of the property in his own name through a secret understanding with Pillar and that a large amount of rent money has been lost through Pillar's delinquencies, and other allegations. The suit demands an accounting from Pillar and with special reference to notes held from John H. Boyle, D. W. Davis and M. A. Saley, for a lien on all the property Pillar and Anderson have acquired, and on all property securing the notes he still has in his possession. Shapter has removed Pillar from power as attorney of his estate and has appointed Attorney McNeal to succeed him. Yesterday he also filed with the county clerk lis pendens on the following property held in Pillar's name: Lot 21, block 22, Hyde Park; lots 1 to 20, block 2, Windsor Heights; lots 49 and 50, block 13, Elyria; lots 28 and 29, block 4, Ivanhoe; lots 6 and 7, block 6, Elyria; lot 36, block 9, Capitol Hill terrace; lots 3 and 4, block 1, Washington terrace; lots 13 and 14, block 3, Pleasant Hill. Lis pendens has also been placed on Anderson's property. The inquisition anent Shapter's sanity will be ordered immediately in the county court. It promises to be the most sensational suit tried for some time in the court house – if Pillar will care to have it prosecuted. Shapter lives on Curtis street, near Twenty-eighth street. Both men are well known in Denver.
Sharky, Antone
patient gender M race W age 66 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Sharp, A. E.
patient gender M race Neg age 51 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sharp, A. E.
patient race: B sex: M age: 40 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sharp, Charlotte E
admitted 7-7-1915 from Texas (Pueblo Co Order) - Woodcroft Hospital
Sharp, Earl
patient gender M race W age 55 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Sharp, Earl
patient race: W sex: M age: 45 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sharp, Melinda
Boulder News and Courier 4-22-1881 – Melinda Sharp was adjudged insane 19 Apr 1881. Middle age. Sent to county hospital. A soldier's widow. Has been subject to epileptic fits since childhood. She lived on upper Left Hand Creek for some time. Source also references article in Boulder County Herald Weekly 4-20-1881. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Sharp, William
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Sharpe, A.N.
Boulder News 7-27-1899 – A. N. Sharpe “who lives near Valmont was taken in custody 25 July 1899 on grounds of insanity and is now awaiting an inquest.” Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Shaughnessy, Patrick
patient race: W sex: M age: 64 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shaughnessy, Patrick
Carbonate Chronicle 7-20-1914 – Aged Miner Adjudged Insane – Obsessed by the belief that he was the keeper of secret passages to immense mineral deposits, Patsy Shaughnessy, an aged and decrepit miner of the Leadville district, was brought into County Judge Allen's court yesterday afternoon for examination regarding his sanity, and was adjudged insane. Shaughnessy, who is over sixty years old, has been failing in health and mentality for a number of months. When the county officials deemed it advisable to pass upon his sanity, City Marshal McEachern went in search of him yesterday, finding him finally in a vacant cabin in East Eleventh street. When the marshal addressed the feeble old miner, Shaughnessy confided to him that he was in the cabin to guard a shaft under the floor which led to immense veins of ore. This same delusion has obsessed Shaughnessy for many months. Frequently of late he had made the same confidence to other friends in stopping them on the street or in their places of business to pass the time of day. Dr. B. F. Griffith, county physician, and Dr. H. A. Calkins were called as medical examiners yesterday at the hearing. Marshal McEachern, Justice of Peace Stephen Connors, Constable M. C. Dwyer, and William Horrigan were subpoenaed at witnesses. Each of them had known the aged miner for years, and had frequently been the confidants for his insane obsessions. The jury sitting at the hearing was composed of Julius Mahake, Stephen Connors, William Horrigan, M. J. Kilkenny, E. W. Reeme, and Sol Hecht. Shaughnessy's examination was the second in the county court within the week, Christopher C. Stockton having been adjudged insane Tuesday. It is not yet known what arrangement can be made to care for the two wards. Communication with the authorities at the state insane asylum at Pueblo disclosed, Tuesday, that the institution is filled to a crowded condition, and is unable to receive more patients. It is probable the two aged men will be kept temporarily at the county hospital.
Shaughnessy, Patrick
admitted 7-21-1914 from Lake, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shavers, Ferdinand
Summit County Journal 5-1-1920 – Centennial State Items – Ferdinand Shavers, 84 years old, who is said to be the last surviving member of Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard, seriously wounded Undersheriff Dan Lehan at Gunnison when the veteran, it is believed, went suddenly insane. Shavers carried a butcher knife, which he was waving wildly, when the undersheriff attempted to halt him. The veteran immediately attacked Lehan with the knife, cutting him severely about the face and shoulders. Shavers then dashed down the street, shouting loudly, but was finally captured by sheriff's officers and citizens.
Shaw, Albert / Ralph
Boulder News 3-31-1898 – Albert/Ralph Shaw, a young man from Longmont, was declared insane 30 Mar 1898 in county court. Source states that this article shows first name as Albert. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Shaw, Albert / Ralph
Boulder News 5-19-1898 – Albert/Ralph Shaw was taken to asylum 17 May 1898 by Sheriff Thompson. Source states that this article shows first name as Ralph. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Shaw, Albert R.
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1868 age 32 marital status S place of birth New York occupation painter source : 1900 census
Shaw, Bert
Longmont Ledger 4-1-1898 – Dr. C. F. Andrew decided that Bert Shaw, who has been in a very serious condition at his uncle's, Ralph Shaw's, must be taken to Boulder yesterday, where he was tried for lunacy and adjudged insane. He will be taken to the Pueblo asylum.
Shaw, Charles
Summit County Journal 12-1-1917 – Dreams Man Is Dead; Finds Body. Pueblo. – A dream led Mrs. Charles Shaw of Independence, Kan., to hurry to Colorado in search of her husband, who had gone to Cripple Creek. She found his body in the insane asylum here, where he died. In her dream, she says, she saw him lying murdered, beaten to death.
Shaw, Charles
Pueblo Chieftain – November 23, 1917 – Charles Shaw, age 41 years, died at a local hospital yesterday afternoon. The remains are at Davis & Vories.
Shaw, Ella
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Shaw, Ella
pupil race: W sex: F age: 22 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Shaw, Ella
patient race: W sex: F age: 38 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Shaw, Henrietta
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1867 age 33 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation schoolteacher source : 1900 census
Shaw, Henrietta
patient race W gender F age 42 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation school teacher source 1910 census
Shaw, Henrietta
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:S place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shaw, Henrietta Miss
admitted 5-30-1897 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shay, Dennis
patient race W gender M age 41 marital status S place of birth Ireland occupation miner source 1910 census
Shay, William
patient race W gender M age 49 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
Shay, William
patient race: W sex: M age: 58 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Shea, Patrick
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1865 age 35 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania source : 1900 census
Shea, Patrick
patient race W gender M age 44 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania source 1910 census
Shea, Patrick
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Shea, Patrick
patient race: W sex: M age: 54 marital:S place of birth: New York occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Sheboter, Peter
patient gender M race W age 38 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Sheboter, Peter
patient race: W sex: M age: 27 marital:S place of birth: Russia occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sheldon, Albert F.
Sheldon, Albert F. born 1851 Wisc., carpenter, widower, residence Denver, died 12-3-1912, shipped 12-3-1912 via Wells Fago Express, paid by Mrs. Page Burdick 3240 Bryants St. Denver, Dr. A.P. Busey, cost $80.00
Shellenberger, Edward
admitted 7-12-1900 from Salida, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shelley, Adam
Rocky Mountain News 11-2-1896 – Amid Scenes of Horror – County Hospital Is Crowded With Insane Citizens – … 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. The county hospital never was intended for a lunatic asylum. Never was built with the idea that under its walls would be sheltered at one time, a score and a half insane, ranging from the white-haired old lady who is simply “off” at times, to the wild, destructive maniac in whose diseased brain is moulded only a desire to kick, bite, glare and make a “large noise.” A reporter for The News took in the whole works yesterday, through the kindness of Dr. Simon, a member of the medical staff… A few steps down the hallway, a locked grated door on the left opened into a light and airy room fitted out with about half a dozen cots. The apartment was quiet as death, only the heavy breathing of the occupants breaking the silence. As the lock clicked and the party entered, two heads were raised displaying a pair of haggard eyes looking askance at the doctor who had disturbed them. Whole Room Full – “Hello, Shelly,” called out Dr. Simon cheerily. A form turned partly over, grunted and turned back again. This was M. D. Shelly, who was taken from the Randall house on Larimer street a week or so ago suffering with the hallucination that enemies were trying to poison him. He seemed to be disinclined to be interviewed. “Let me alone,” he growled. “If I would tell you how I felt you would not take it that way and that's all there is to it.” “All right, Shelly,” replied the doctor… This ward contains both paranoia and dementia patients, with an occasional imbecile. Both are, as a rule, quiet, and this accounts for their being all in one ward. Occasionally, however, a nurse comes out second best when visiting one of them…
Shellhamer, E.J.
Durango Democrat 11-16-1909 – Sheriff Clarke departs this morning for Pueblo with Mr. Shelhamer, who was adjudged insane in county court yesterday.
Shellhamer, E.J.
Creede Candle 12-11-1909 – Shellhamer Insane – Word has been received here that E. J. Shellhammer, who used to run a saloon in Bachelor, has been sent to the Pueblo asylum from Silverton.
Shellhauser, Edgar J.
patient race W gender M age 44 marital status M place of birth Kansas occupation miner source 1910 census
Shelly, Adam
Denver Evening Post 11-17-1896 – He is Very Eccentric – Hospital Physicians Puzzled Over a Peculiar Case – In the course of a few days a lunacy patient, now confined at the county hospital, will be arraigned in the county court for trial, whose apparent sanity will doubtless puzzle Judge Steele and the jury who will decide his fate. In fact while the corps of physicians are fully convinced that their eccentric patient is mentally incapacitated, they admit that very probably they will have some difficulty in convicting the man of insanity. He who will make a determined effort to resist incarceration in the state insane asylum is Adam Shelley, whose life has always been passed in narrow channels. The man originally came from Troy, New York, and pursued the occupation of a painter. While rooming at 1955 Larimer street he evinced eccentricities which convinced his friends that he was irresponsible. Days would pass when Shelley would notice nothing and speak to no one but wander aimlessly around the block, oblivious to his surroundings. His condition continued until on the 24th of October last it was deemed advisable to place him under restraint. Soon after his reception at the hospital the attendant physicians pronounced Shelley a paranoiac – one who while demented, chafes at detention, and regards it simply as a scheme to encompass his ruin or do him great personal injury. He early evinced his suspicion of his surroundings by refusing to eat the food prepared for him. He had no hesitancy in declaring that his meals were poisoned and for quite a while never ate a particle of food until he had convinced himself by a personal examination that it contained no poison. Shelley finally abandoned this delusion and at present dines like other reasonable patients. His imagination is at present fired with the belief that he is kept locked up by some one who wishes to harm him. The unfortunate passes hours in sullen silence behind grated doors. At intervals he feigns sleep although perfectly conscious of what is transpiring around him. When aroused by an attendant he will converse pleasantly and in a manner so rational that one unacquainted with his affliction would be speedily convinced that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty. Shelley is exceedingly suspicious and reticent in the presence of strangers and skillfully avoiding all attempts at conversation, refers his visitors to the hospital physicians. He will probably exert himself to convince Judge Steele that he is as sane as Mark Hanna.
Shelly, Adam
Rocky Mountain News 1-5-1897 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele – People vs. Adam Shelly; found insane.
Shelly, Adam
Rocky Mountain News 1-5-1897 – Insane Over Medicine – Two Men Committed by Judge Steele for Insanity – Judge Steele had two cases of insanity before him yesterday afternoon. Adam Shelley, who thought strange people were putting drugs in his bed to kill him and give him headaches and after he was taken to the county hospital complained of a rush of gases, so strong that he was obliged to hide his head under the blankets to avoid their force, was speedily found insane and ordered sent to the county hospital until taken to Pueblo.
Shelton, Albert
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Shelton, Andrew W
admitted 3-12-1914 from Otero , Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shepard, Clara E.
Denver Evening Post 5-16-1896 – Adjudged Insane – Mrs. Samuel W. Shephard was adjudged insane in the county court to-day. Her husband and sister, who appeared against her, testified that the woman was subject to fits of insanity during which she would take off her clothing and destroy them.
Shepard, Clara E.
Rocky Mountain News 5-18-1896 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele: 4309 – People vs. Clara E. Shepard; adjudged insane.
Shepard, George
Colorado Transcript 3-10-1910 – Perhaps the most troublesome prisoner ever lodged in the Jefferson county jail is George Shepard, who was adjudged insane some time ago and ordered to the asylum. As there is no room in the state institution, he must remain here, much to the discomfiture of the other prisoners and the sheriff. Some believe that Shepard is not really insane, so cunningly does he contrive schemes to get the best of the officers, and only the most careful watching prevents him carrying out his designs.
Shepard, George
Colorado Transcript 3-17-1910 – George Shepherd, the insane prisoner at the county jail, is still causing considerable trouble. The commissioners at their meeting last week ordered Sheriff Heater to at once take him to the asylum, but as the authorities at Pueblo refuse to take charge of him owing to the crowded condition of the institution that order seems to be something of a joke. Sheriff Heater is more than anxious to get rid of his troublesome boarder, but can not turn him loose again.
Shepard, George
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status M birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Shepard, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Washington occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Shepard, Levi N.
Shepard, Levi N. age 77y 9m 15d, residence 905 W. 12th St., died 3-13-1900, shipped to Georgetown, Co., accompanied by relatives, Dr. Hubert Work, cost $95.00
Shepard, Mrs.
Glenwood Post and Weekly Ledger 5-8-1897 – Sheriff Reeder of Grand Junction passed through Glenwood the first of the week on his way to Pueblo in charge of one Mrs. Shepard, who was adjudged insane at that place.
Shepard, Sara Mrs
admitted 5-4-1897 from Fruita, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sheperd, Clara Mrs
admitted 9-26-1896 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shepherd, Farish
Rocky Mountain News 2-15-1889 – Crazed by a Railway Accident – A melancholy lunacy case was presented to Judge Miller and a jury yesterday in the person of Farish Shepherd, a lady some 28 years old, whose relatives were desirous of having her sent to the Pueblo asylum. It appeared that a few months ago Miss Shepherd was injured in a railway accident, and has since been under medical treatment at St. Luke's hospital. The injuries she sustained affected her brain, and she has been suffering under the delusion that her head was cut off and new eyes inserted. She is also in constant fear that people with whom she comes in contact are going to poison her. After hearing the testimony the unfortunate lady was declared insane. She will be taken to Pueblo by Under Sheriff Herman Weber to-day.
Shepherd, George
Colorado Transcript 1-22-1920 – Do You Remember? – Items Conned from The Transcript Files of Former Years – Ten Years Ago This Week – George Shepherd, sentenced to the penitentiary four years previous was returned to the county by the ___ authorities, who declared the ____ a dangerous lunatic. He was adjudged insane and taken to the asylum at Pueblo.
Shepherd, James E.
patient gender M race W age 27 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Shepherd, Mr.
Durango Wage Earner 3-8-1906 – Mrs. Wommer Insane – Yesterday evening Mrs. Henry Wommer of Pine river was brought to the court house for detention by the sheriff, and was placed in the insane ward. Her mother, Mrs. Andrew F. Hartman, of Pine river, says the young woman first manifested symptoms of insanity last Sunday, but that she had reason to think it only temporary. Undersheriff Smelcer had an experience with her last night which he will not forget. She is very stout, and when she laid hold of the jailer he found it difficult to loosen her grasp. She sings and raves, using language which she was never heard to use before. Sometimes she appears to know her mother, and at other times she drives her away. Her brother-in-law, Frank Wommer, appears to exercise more influence than any of those who have been about her. She is aged 27 years, the same age of her father when he became insane and died. Both were injured about the head by being thrown from horses. She will be adjudged insane and sent to Pueblo. Her father's name was Shepherd.
Sheppard, George
patient race W gender M age 44 marital status M place of birth Kentucky source 1910 census
Sheppard, Max
patient gender M race Neg age 66 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Sheppard, Max
patient race: B sex: M age: 56 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Shepperd, Lucy
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Sherer, Grace
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Sherer, Grace
patient race: W sex: F age: 42 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Sheriff, Della
patient race W gender F age 47 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Sheriff, Della
patient race: W sex: F age: 57 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sherill, Grover Augustus
Hugo Range Ledger 5-20-1922 – Will Receive a Goodly Sum – Thru the Efforts of Congressman Timberlake, the Service Record of Grover A. Sherill, Deceased, Is Corrected – The editor of the Ledger received a letter from Hon. Chas. B. Timberlake, our good representative in Congress, last Friday morning which brought cheer and everlasting gratitude into the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hawthorne, foster parents of Grover A. Sherrill, also known as Homer L. Gunn, who passed away at the State Insane asylum at Pueblo, last December and was buried in Evergreen cemetery, near Hugo, on Christmas day. The letter briefly stated that a sum amounting to about $3400, had been allowed by the Veteran's Bureau to the estate of the young man, and would be paid to the administrator of his estate. This means that the blight on the record of the young man while a member of the U. S. navy has been removed, and his name restored to good standing. Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne had come into Hugo last Friday morning, expecting to leave for Houston, Texas, where they expect to reside, when they received the news from Washington and as it was necessary to take out administration papers on Grover's estate they delayed their departure until Saturday morning. In this connection, a short history of the case will prove interesting to our readers. Grover A. Sherrill was born at Fallstown, Texas, Nov. 23, 1887, where he grew to manhood. When fourteen months of age, his mother died and his oldest sister, Mrs. W. A. Hawthorne, took him in charge, caring for him as though her own child. On Sept. 5th, 1912, he enlisted in the U. S. navy, advancing to a first-class fireman, being honorably discharged with an excellent record, after four years service, in September, 1916. He came home to visit his foster parents and other relatives in Texas. In July, 1917, shortly after the United States became involved in the World's war, he re-enlisted in the navy, but served only a short time, when he was placed in a naval hospital in England, afflicted with a private disease; later, he was brought to an army hospital in New York City, where he received his discharge from the navy, on October 11, 1918, his discharge paper stating the cause as “his own misconduct.” He came home to his foster parents in Texas, and to them claimed that his condition was due more to the ill-treatment received in the English hospital, than it was to the disease. Later he came with Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne to their new home in Colorado, where they located on a farm a few miles northwest of Hugo. His condition grew worse slowly until he became helplessly bedfast over a year ago, unable in mind to know even those near and dear to him. Last summer, thru the kindness of Mrs. S. M. Crosby, sister of Mrs. Hawthorne, the aid of the editor was called into the case. Mr. Miles, the editor of the Ledger, immediately communicated with Mr. Timberlake at Washington, who asked for a full detailed statement of the case with affidavits, etc., at the same time, expressing grave doubt as to success in getting the claim allowed, under the circumstances of the last discharge paper. However, Mr. Timberlake as usual gave the matter active attention, going personally to the Veterans' Bureau and urging careful consideration of the case, his efforts finally proving successful. In the meantime, the young man was adjudged insane before County Judge Hedlund and the lunacy commission in the county court last August, and taken to the state asylum at Pueblo where he passed away on December 21, 1921. As a result of Mr. Timberlake's invaluable services in this case, assisted by the editor, Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne will now receive the compensation due the young man from the government during his life time, for their faithful care of him during his over two years of helplessness, and all claims will be paid by the Veterans' Bureau. The editor of the Ledger feels justly proud of the part he had in the case, for against great odds, we have been able to assist in righting what we believed to be a wrong, and at the same time gave our services gratuitously and willingly helped Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne, whom we believed worthy of every effort we might put forth in their behalf, for if the young man had committed offense, he himself paid the penalty with his life. Our County Judge, Hon. P. O. Hedlund has also did his part in aiding Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne, and is entitled to full credit for his part in the case. However, without Mr. Timberlake's aid, we feel that our local efforts would have resulted only in failure, so to him we extend our sincere thanks for his noble efforts in this very worthy cause.
Sherill, Grover Augustus
died 12-21-1921 buried Evergreen Cemetery, near Hugo, Colo. - Also known as Homer L. Gunn
Sherill, Grover Augustus
Hugo Range Ledger – December 24, 1921 – Died at Pueblo – A message was received here Wednesday noon by Mrs. S. M. Crosby and her sister, Mrs. W. A. Hawthorn, announcing the death of their brother, Grover A. Sherrill, who was taken to the State Asylum from Hugo last August. The body will be shipped to Hugo, and the funeral will be held Sunday (tomorrow) afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, from the M. C. Jones undertaking parlor in Hugo. Grover A. Sherrill was born at Fallstown, Texas, Nov. 23, 1887, where he grew to manhood. At Dallas, Texas, Sept. 5, 1912, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served four years with a good record, being discharged Sept. 16, 1916, classed as a “fireman of the first class.” In July, 1917, he re-enlisted in the navy and served only a little over a year when he was discharged for physical disability. From that time, he has steadily failed in health, both in mind and body, and the end came not unexpectedly. He leaves a brother and two sisters, all residing northwest of Hugo, to mourn his death. To them we extend our sincere sympathy in their bereavement. Hugo Range Ledger – January 14, 1922 – Card of Thanks – We wish to express our sincere thanks to the citizens of Hugo and the ex-service young men who so kindly assisted us at the funeral of our beloved brother, Grover A. Sherrill. Mrs. S. M. Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hawthorn, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sherill.
Sherill, William B.
Fort Collins Courier 5-27-1922 – Lunacy Charge Made In Automobile Case – An affidavit charging lunacy has been filed in the Larimer county court against William B. Sherill. The latter is the young man who recently was arrested at Cheyenne and held upon a charge of taking a Cadillac automobile owned by Clark Rogers of Fort Collins and which machine it is stated was found in the possession of the young man by Cheyenne officers. The affidavit in the action charging lunacy it is stated was signed by Sherill's mother Mrs. Effie M. Lutz.
Sherill, William B.
Fort Collins Courier 8-17-1923 – Woman Fined For Contempt – At a hearing in the Larimer county court Friday forenoon, Mrs. Effie Lutz was found guilty upon a charge of contempt of court and Judge Jay H. Bouton fined her $100 and costs. Mrs. Lutz will stand committed to the county jail until the amount is paid. The origin of the case dates back several years when the woman's son, William B. Sherrill, was charged with the larceny of an automobile owned by Clark Rogers which was recovered at Cheyenne. Before the hearing in the young man's case the mother instituted lunacy charges in the Larimer county court and a commission found that the young man was mentally deranged. The court, at the mother's request, paroled Sherrill to her custody upon her agreement to place him in the Mt. Airy sanitarium near Denver. This, it appears she failed to do. The young man while at liberty, is said to have committed other offenses and upon his recent arrest was brought back to Fort Collins. The arrest of the mother followed shortly afterward. Sherrill is now being held to answer the original charge made against him, the alleged theft of the Rogers car. Judge Bouton has revoked the order which was made to cover his commitment to Mt. Airy Sanitarium. At the hearing Friday County Attorney George H. Shaw and Deputy District Attorney W. H. Winslow, the latter at the court's request, represented the prosecution and Attorney Fancher Sarchet was counsel for Mrs. Lutz.
Sherlock, Chester
Denver Evening Post 4-6-1895 – He Lost His Reason – The Sad Case of a Well-Known Pueblo Merchant – Chester Sherlock, an insane patient at St. Joseph's hospital, escaped at 9 o'clock last night and wandered through the city bareheaded, finally reaching his home, 1431 South Fifteenth street. Sherlock was a prominent business nam of Pueblo until six months ago, when he began acting queerly and complaining of pains in his head. His wife and sister decided to bring him to Denver for better medical advice. He soon became so violent that they were afraid for their lives. He developed a mania for recklessly spending and giving away money and during the past few weeks has succeeded in getting rid of several hundred dollars. This week he became convinced that he was a large cattle dealer and at once made all sorts of contracts for live stock. A complaint was made for his detention, pending an investigation as to his sanity. His friends did not wish him taken to the county hospital and an order was made for his conveyance to St. Joseph's. Deputy Sheriff Eberol succeeded in getting Sherlock to accompany him to the hospital yesterday afternoon on the pretext that there was a man there who wished to sell live stock. On arriving at the institution Sherlock became unruly and refused to take off his overcoat or go to any of the wards. He is a very large, powerful man and all attempts to use force were futile. Later in the evening he announced his intention of leaving, and when a guard interfered he promptly knocked him down. He made his way to the street, scattering attendants and nurses all along the the hallway. After wandering about for several hours he reached his home and quietly went to bed. This morning he would not leave his room. Another attempt will be made to-day to place him in safe keeping. Mr. Sherlock is well known in Pueblo, where he was a prosperous merchant.
Sherlock, Chester
Denver Evening Post 4-15-1895 – Town Talk – Chester Sherlock, the Pueblo merchant who is thought to be insane, will be tried as to his sanity in the county court this afternoon.
Sherlock, Chester
Denver Evening Post 4-16-1895 – Sherlock is Insane – A Plan to Make Millions in Investments Was the Cause – The Pueblo business man, Chester Sherlock, was late yesterday afternoon adjudged insane by a jury in the county court. The story of his troubles that led to the loss of his mind on the stand yesterday, was practically the same as was reported several days ago exclusively in the “Evening Post.” He possessed wealth and was the head of a successful business but became crazed over plans for an immense cattle deal.
Sherlock, Chester
Rocky Mountain News 4-16-1895 – Crazed by Cattle Boom – Chester Sherlock Sent to the Insane Asylum – Planned to Make Millions – Unfortunate Influence of the Boom in Live Stock on the Brain of an Impressionable Young Man – Imagines That He Is on the High Road to Wealth and Importunes His Friends to Stake Him for a Deal in Cattle, Which, He Gravely Assures Them, Will More Than Treble Their Investment and Make All of the Interested Parties Happy for Life – Chester Sherlock was yesterday adjudged insane by a jury in the county court and ordered taken to Pueblo for treatment. The case is a peculiarly sad one. Sherlock is possessed of the hallucination that he is able to make millions in successful cattle dealing. Less than two months ago he was living quietly with his wife in their little home on South Fifteenth street. He was a devoted husband and fond of domestic life. One day he came home and while seated in his home his wife noticed that he exhibited signs of great mental disturbance. He would sit and hold his hands and laughing to himself, and at times aloud, without any apparent cause. It was about the time of the sudden rise in cattle, and Sherlock's mind seemed to run on the subject. He conceived the hallucination that now was the time to make a fortune in buying and selling large herds of beef cattle, although he had never owned a steer in his life. His wife had to listen to the great schemes his disordered mind formulated for growing rich in the cattle business. At times he would become quite violent in talking over the matter, until she became alarmed and applied to friends for advice. Upon their counsel Sherlock was removed to St. Joseph's hospital about a week ago, but instead of improving he grew restive and violent under the restraint, and a warrant was sworn out charging him with lunacy. At the trial yesterday he sat quietly in court, most of the time with his head reclining on his wife's shoulder, apparently in a doze. When the court asked him if he desired to testify, he jumped up with alacrity and walking hastily forward raised his hand high above his head and took the oath. It is not usual to swear persons charged with insanity, but Sherlock insisted upon the formality. On the witness stand he immediately started off in an incoherent manner to tell what he could do if he only had $1,000. By buying and selling cattle, he declared, it would be but a short time before he would become a millionaire. Finally, in a resigned, plaintive tone he said that perhaps it would be better for him if he were treated for his mental disorder, seeming, for the moment, to realize that all was not well with his mental faculties.
Sherlock, Howard
patient gender M race W age 20 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Sherman, Edna M.
patient gender F race W age 26 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Sherman, Francelia
patient gender F race W age 72 marital status Wd birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Sherman, Francelia
patient race: W sex: F age: 61 marital:W place of birth: Tennessee occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sherrill, Grover A.
Range Ledger May 33, 1922 The editor of the Ledger received a letter from Hon. Chas. B. Timberlake, our good representative in Congress, last Friday morning which brought cheer and everlasting gratitude into the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hawthorne, foster parents of Grover A. Sherrill, also known as Homer L. Gunn, who passed away at the State Insane asylum at Pueblo, last December and was buried in Evergreen cemetery, near Hugo on Christmas day. The letter briefly stated that a sum amounting to about $3400, had been allowed by the Veteran's Bureau to the estate of the young man and would be paid to the administrator of his estate. This means that the blight on the record of the young man while a member of the U. S. navy has been removed, and his name restored to good standing. Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne had come into Hugo last Friday morning, expecting to leave for Houston, Texas, where they expect to reside, when they received the news from Washington and as it was necessary to take out administration papers on Grover's estate they delayed their departure until Saturday morning. In this connection, a short history of the case will prove interesting to our readers. Grover A. Sherrill was born at Fallstown, Texas Nov. 23, 1887, where he grew to manhood. When fourteen months of age, his mother died and his oldest sister, Mrs. W. A. Hawthorne took him in charge, caring for him as though her own child. On Sept. 5th, 1912, he enlisted in the U. S. navy advancing to a first-class fireman, being honorably discharged with an excellent record after four years service in September 1916. he came home to visit his foster parents and other relatives in Texas. In July, 1917, shortly after the United States became involved in the World's War, he re-enlisted in the navy but served only a short time when he was placed in a naval hospital in England afflicted with a private disease; later, he was brought to an army hospital in New York City where he received his discharge from the navy on October 11, 1918 his discharge paper stating the cause as “his own misconduct.” He came home to his foster parents in Texas and to them claimed that his condition was due more to the ill-treatment received in the English hospital than it was to the disease. Later he came with Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne to their new home in Colorado where they located on a farm a few miles northwest of Hugo. His condition grew worse slowly until he became helplessly bedfast over 3 years ago, unable in mind to know even those near and dear to him. Last summer, thru the kindness of Mrs. S. M. Crosby, sister of Mrs. Hawthorne, the aid of the editor was called into the case. Mr. Miles, the editor of the Ledger, immediately communicated with Mr. Timberlake at Washington who asked for a full detailed statement of the case with affidavits etc., at the same time, expressing grave doubt as to success in getting the claim allowed, under the circumstances of the last discharge paper. However, Mr. Timberlake as usual gave the matter active attention going personally to the Veterans' Bureau and urging careful consideration of the case, his efforts finally proving successful. In the meantime, the young man was adjudged insane before County Judge Hedlund and the lunacy commission in the county court last August and taken to the state asylum at Pueblo where he passed away on December 21, 1921. As a result of Mr. Timberlake's invaluable services in this case assisted by the editor, Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne will now receive the compensation due the young man from the government during his life time for their faithful care of him during this over two years of helplessness and all claims will be paid by the Veterans' Bureau. The editor of the Ledger feels justly proud of the part he had in the case for against great odds, we have been able to assist in righting what we believed to be a wrong and at the same time gave our services gratuitously and willingly helped Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne, whom we believed worthy of every effort we might put forth in their behalf for if the young man had committed offense he himself paid the penalty with his life. Our County Judge, Hon. P. O. Hedlund has also did his part in aiding Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne and is entitled to full credit for his part in the case. However, without Mr. Timberlake's aid, we feel that our local efforts would have resulted only in failure so to him we extend our sincere thanks for his noble efforts in this very worthy cause.
Sherrod, John L.
Denver Evening Post 1-27-1899 – Complaint About Asylum – Attorney General Campbell has received a letter from John L. Sherrod of Fruita, Colo., which is expected to raise the question of whether the insane asylum investigation shall not be reopened. The writer states that he was in the asylum for two months during 1895, and that an attendant named Denny at that institution abused inmates terribly. In one instance, says Sherrod, Denny beat and kicked a man brutally and the next day the patient was dead. Another example of the same kind is related by Sherrod in which an old man was kicked in the groin and died in a short time afterward. The writer of the letter was sent to the asylum on account of the excessive use of whisky and narcotics.
Sherry, R. Allen
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Sherry, R. Allen
patient race: W sex: M age: 48 marital:M place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sherwood, Jesse
patient race: W sex: M age: 36 marital:M place of birth: Utah occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Shevlin, Anna
patient gender F race W age 62 marital status S birthplace Ireland source 1930 census
Shevlin, Emma
patient race W gender F age 35 marital status . place of birth Illinois occupation laundress source 1910 census
Shevlin, Emma
patient gender F race W age 55 marital status Un birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Shevlin, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 45 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shideler, Luella
patient race: W sex: F age: 31 marital:W place of birth: Nebraska occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shidler, Frank
Weekly Ignacio Chieftain 10-14-1921 – Frank Shidler, father of Mrs. Otto Benning, was found to be insane by an examining board at Durango last week and was taken to the state hospital at Pueblo this week. Andy Nichols accompanied him there.
Shields, Charles Mrs.
Telluride Daily Journal 2-24-1898 – An Insane Wanderer – On Saturday morning Mrs. West, Western Union operator, who occupies rooms on the same floor with the office, was awakened by some one uttering a scream in the hallway. She supposed it was some late visitor to the dental office, which is on the same floor, undergoing the operation of having a tooth extracted, and so dropped off to sleep. Later she was partially awakened by sobbing sounds in the hall, but again fell asleep. About 5 o'clock she was thoroughly awakened by hearing sobs and cries in the hall and so at once investigated. In the hall she found a woman crying and moaning. She took her into her room and refreshed her with a cup of tea and finally learned that her strange visitor's name was Mrs. Charles Shields and that her home was in Telluride. She did not know how nor why she came to Salida nor why she left home. Mrs. West soon saw that the woman was demented, though at times she was rational. In the morning the authorities were notified. Marshal Hays personally knew the lady and her husband and immediately notified the latter. He left at once for Salida, arriving Sunday night, and took his wife to Pueblo, where he will have her committed to the state insane asylum. The lady had stolen away from home and no one knew where she had gone. She could not herself tell how she came here nor what her object was. Mr. and Mrs. Shields are eminently respectable people of Telluride. Mrs. Shields was in the wreck of the narrow gauge train near Cotopaxi a few months ago, and it is thought her mental derangement may be the result of the shock then received. – Salida Mail. – The only Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shields of which the Journal can learn, are still in Telluride, or were a day or two ago. The “eminently respectable people” live at the dago dance hall down in Hell's Half Acre, where the husband and head of the family officiates as night herder of the handpainted coryphées, while Mrs. Shields industriously contributes her share to the support of the family by dancing at a bit a dance. However there may be another family of Shields.
Shields, Eva
patient race W gender F age 17 marital status S place of birth Colorado source 1910 census
Shields, Eva
patient gender F race W age 37 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Shields, Eva
patient race: W sex: F age: 27 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shields, Luella
patient race W gender F age 35 marital status M place of birth Iowa occupation housekeeper source 1910 census
Shields, Luella
patient race: W sex: F age: 61 marital:S place of birth: California occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shields, Luella M.
patient gender F race W age 82 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Shimburg, Mrs.
Rocky Mountain News 1-10-1883 - Georgetown - Sheriff DeVotie leaves this week for Jacksonville, Ill., with Mesdames Shimburg and Currier, recently adjudged insane by the County court.
Shimedee, D.
patient race Jp gender M age 28 marital status S place of birth Japan occupation laborer source 1910 census
Shimick, John
patient race W gender M age . marital status . place of birth Bohemia source 1910 census
Shine, Cora E.
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Shinn, Edwin
patient race: W sex: M age: 71 marital:W place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shipman, Nellie
pupil race: W sex: F age: 25 marital: S place of birth: United States source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Shively, W.T.
Silverton Standard 4-29-1905 – W. T. (Billy) Shively, who for a number of years was in Silverton, his avocation being that of a bartender, has gone insane. He is at present in Prescott, Arizona, but will be sent to Durango, Colo., where some of his relatives reside.
Shively, William
Durango Democrat 5-9-1905 – Insane Man Captured – For some days past Under Sheriff Nagle has been receiving reports that a bare-footed and coatless insane man had been seen at various times in the neighborhood of Government Springs. The man would mysteriously disappear, and no one had any idea of his hiding place. He obtained food once or twice from a lady rancher in that vicinity. Under Sheriff Nagle was getting ready to go out and scour the country in search of the unfortunate man when he was brought into Prescott Saturday evening last by R. W. Coughlin. Mr. Coughlin was riding along the road when he saw the footprints of a barefooted man. He followed the tracks until he overtook the man. He called “hello” twice before the man spoke asking, “Is this the right hand road?” and Coughlin told him it was. The man did not know where he was going, but said he had had a dream about Kirkland and knew where that was. The man's name is William Shively and he has an Eagles' card from Silverton, Colo. The man's feet are swollen and scratched, but he says they do not hurt him. When given food at the county jail Saturday evening he ate most ravenously for about an hour and fifteen minutes. He now thinks that he is about twenty miles from Prescott, and says that he will buy himself shoes and clothes when he gets there, so as to be presentable; says someone stole his hobnailed shoes. It is supposed that a trunk at the Johnson house belongs to him. It will be examined in order to find out. He is about thirty years of age. – Prescott Times.
Shively, William
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital: S place of birth: Coloradonone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Shless, John Joseph
Wray Rattler – 12-12-1912 – Another Adjudged Insane – The third person to be adjudged insane within a few weeks time, was taken to the state insane asylum at Pueblo last Tuesday evening by Deputy Sheriff Bolender. The unfortunate this time was John Schless, who has a homestead about twelve miles north of Laird, where he has made his home. He lived alone, being a bachelor, and while being considered queer by his neighbors, was nor considered to be mentally unbalanced until about two weeks ago, when some strange actions were noticed which caused some to doubt his sanity and led them to report the case to the authorities. He was brought to Wray a week ago last Friday and was held ten days before being brought into court to prove his sanity. His trail was held last Monday in the county court before a jury of six. The following men composed the jury: Peter Cuney, A.J. Packer, John McGee, J.E. Smith, D.B. McGinnis, and Harvey McGee. His attitude in the trial proved that he was really insane and the jury brought in a verdict to that effect, and that the safety of the community was endangered by his being at liberty.
Shless, John Joseph
Wray Rattler – 12-12-1912 John Schless, an old man of foreign extraction living about two miles north east of Laird, was upon complaint of some of his neighbors arrested on a lunacy charge several days ago and taken to Wray where he was tried this week and adjudged insane.
Shless, John Joseph
Wray Rattler – 8-15-1918 United States Land Office, Sterling, Colo., in the estate of John Joseph Shles, insane, conservator to prove up land claim. Conservator M.M. Bulkeley. A.F. Brown, Registrar.
Shoble, Elsie
patient gender F race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Shoble, Elsie
patient race: W sex: F age: 23 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Shock, Charles Westley
admitted 12-2-1898 from Trinidad, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shock, Etta J.
patient race W gender F age 47 marital status M place of birth Iowa source 1910 census
Shoemaker, Henry
Fort Collins Courier 7-24-1923 – Henry Shoemaker was adjudged insane in the county court Monday and will be committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Pueblo on Tuesday.
Shoemaker, John
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1873 age 27 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Shoemaker, John
patient race W gender M age 36 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation laborer source 1910 census
Shoemaker, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 62 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shoemaker, Mary
gender f age 33 occupation housekeeper birthplace New York source: 1880 census
Shoemaker, Mrs. Al
Georgetown Colorado Miner 2-7-1880 – Insane. Sheriff De Votie started last Wednesday morning to Pueblo, with two patients for the State Insane Asylum. These were both females. Mrs. E. L. Nash, of Empire, and Mrs. Al. Shoemaker, of this city. Mrs. Nash's mania manifested itself upon occasions, only, when she would become wild and unmanageable. Mrs. Shoemaker's ailment seemed to manifest itself altogether in melancholy and absent mindedness. Mr. Shoemaker accompanied the party.
Shook, Etta
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shook, Etta Mrs
admitted 3-19-1901 from Washinton Co. - Woodcroft Hospital
Shorp, Earl
patient race W gender M age 34 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
Short, Cordelia
patient gender F race W age 76 marital status M birthplace England source 1930 census
Short, Cordelia
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: England occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Short, Elfia A.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1854 age 46 marital status M place of birth Canada source : 1900 census
Short, James
Rocky Mountain News 12-4-1894 – Three Men Adjudged Insane – Patrick Rohan, Daniel Myers and James Short were yesterday adjudged insane by the county court. These men have been confined in the county hospital for some time past, but no improvement in their condition appearing they will be sent to the asylum.
Short, James
Rocky Mountain News 2-15-1895 – An Affidavit Mill – False Notarial Certificates Attached to Sheriff's Bills – Bogus Attestations on Which Vouchers Were Issued – Clerk Davidson Acted as Notary and Was Apparently a Convenient Tool – Deputies Signed the Bills and Never Asked Troublesome Questions – Burchinell Makes a Personal Claim for Conducting Lunatics to the Insane Asylum – At a brief session of the senate investigating committee last night was revealed a new phase of crookedness in the bills of the sheriff's office. For conveying lunatics to the asylum a bunch of bills as rendered by deputies and one by Sheriff Burchinell were in the hands of the committee… Deputy Sheriff Murray – John Murray, deputy sheriff for the past three years, was sworn. He testified that he had been one of the bailiffs in the county court under Burchinell. The custom was to take one insane patient to the asylum at a time in 1894, as in the preceding year with the exception of July 1893. Then Mr. Nichols was away and Tommy Anderson proposed to show just how the transfer should be done. He put four guards in charge of eleven insane. “Only two got away on the train,” said the witness, laughing at the recollection. Mr. Anderson managed to round up the others in time for the afternoon train… In taking patients to Pueblo five cents mileage was charged for the 128 miles going and the same for returning. “Ten cents for the round trip going and coming, was it not?” asked Mr. Stevens, presenting a voucher. Mr. Murray put on his glasses and looked at the bill. He said he did not make out the bills, simply signed them. The writing on that particular bill was in Davidson's hand. An expense bill of Dec. 4 for James Short and Patrick Rowen was produced. The fee bill was for conveying each prisoner $13.10, and mileage for officer $12.80, a total of $25.90…
Short, James
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: James Short, December 4… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Short, James
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Short, John
Littleton Independent 3-30-1900 – John Short, aged 62, was last Thursday found insane by a jury in the county court, and Robert Cassell will act as conservator for the old man. Mr. Church of this place has taken care of Mr. Short for eighteen years, and recently he read that the lunatic's father had died and left a fortune and that his ward was entitled to a portion of it.
Shorter, James
Fort Collins Courier 3-1-1894 – Thursday, Feb. 15, two inmates of the insane asylum, Jas. Shorter, aged 21, and Willie Murphy, a lad of 15, escaped from the insane asylum by breaking the lock on their door and letting themselves to the ground from an outside window. The latter was sent up from Idaho Springs, and was soon to be released. He is a bad boy and has served time in the reform school at Golden. – Pueblo Journal.
Shoup, Clarence
patient race W gender M age 23 marital status S place of birth Ohio occupation laborer source 1910 census
Shoup, Clarence
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Shoup, Clarence
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Shown, Maud Miss
admitted 6-7-1900 from Crow, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shrader, S.H.
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Shryock, Samuel
admitted 2-25-1899 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shubeck, Paul
Kit Carson County Record 5-4-1911 By twisting their clothes into a rope A.J. Stearn and Paul Shubeck, insane patients at the county poor farm at Pueblo, escaped.
Shull, L. M.
Denver Evening Post 10-21-1899 – Is Probably Insane – Boulder, Oct., 21 – A jury in Judge Atwood's court is investigating the sanity of Justice Shull of Longmont, who claims his aged wife has been guilty of infidelity and accuses a young man. Since forming this belief he has abused his wife and threatened to kill her. Dr. Eskridge of Denver and Dr. Giffin of Boulder, after hearing the evidence, testified that they believed the man was too insane to be allowed at large and that in a certain fit he might kill somebody. Neighbors of Mr. Shull testified that they saw nothing out of the way in his actions, but believed his accusations against his wife evidence of an unsound mind.
Shull, L. M.
Denver Evening Post 10-22-1899 – Turned Down the Experts – Boulder, Colo., Oct. 21 – This town doesn't want any of the expert testimony of Dr. Eskridge of Denver, or even Dr. Giffen of this town, when there is a good, voluble Longmont man on the other side of the question. Such an individual was on trial today in the county court in the matter of his sanity and he won out easily. His name is M. L. Shull, and his wife and son say that he has illusions that his wife is unfaithful to him, and believing him dangerous, they asked an inquisition into his sanity, in the hope of having him sent to Pueblo. The doctors, in expert testimony, said that undoubtedly Shull was insane and a danger to lives in general. Shull, however, made a surprisingly good witness in his own behalf, talking very rationally, and the jury rejected the testimony of the doctors and let Shull go out of court a sane man.
Shull, L.M.
Boulder News 10-26-1899 – L. M. Shull was charged with insanity in county court. “He is an old and well known citizen and has for a long time occupied the office of justice of the peace. He charged his wife, an old lady, with infidelity and threatened her life which everybody said was preposterous and in other things he had strange conceptions, though in business and all ordinary affairs he was perfectly sane.” Two doctors said he was really insane and liable to do some dreadful deed at any time. His friends say he is naturally nervous and excitable. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Shultis, Martin
Telluride Daily Journal 11-18-1899 – Martin Shultis, a pioneer of Ouray, died in the Pueblo insane hospital a week ago today.
Shultis, Martin
Ouray Herald 11-16-1899 – Martin Shultis – Martin Shultis, one of the oldest residents of Ouray, died Saturday at the Pueblo insane asylum. He has been failing rapidly for months and his death was not unexpected. His son, Ross, went to Pueblo Saturday, and took charge of the remains which were shipped to North Prairie, Wis., for burial.
Shultz, Charles
Fort Collins Weekly Courier - April 20, 1917 – Chas. Schultz Dies In Insane Asylum—Word was received here this morning of the death of Charles Schultz in the State Hospital for Insane at Pueblo. He died yesterday. Schultz was taken from a rooming house on February 5, 1915. He was violent and feared that he would be attacked and insisted he was pursued. The disposition of the remains was left with the county officials.
Shultz, Charles
admitted 2-5-1915 from Larimer, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Shulz, John
patient, male, white, age 57, married, born Minnesota, 1930 Woodcroft census
Shulze, Edward
Rocky Mountain News 8-9-1890 – Thought It Was Gold – A Leadville Man Who Imagined That the Mountains Were Gold – Leadville, Colo., Aug. 8 – Mrs. Shulze is a German woman, living in Georgia gulch. She raises garden truck, which she sells to the miners in the neighborhood, and though hard working and industrious, she makes what might be called a very comfortable living. For a long time past her husband, Edward Shulze, has been very ill, and within the last week he has given every sign of insanity. His hallucination takes a very peculiar form. He imagines that every stone is a chunk of gold, and he is laboring under this delusion. He goes out into the street, loads his pockets with rocks and brings them into the kitchen. Wednesday morning Jailer Cameron saw a man in the rear of the jail picking up stones and putting them in his pocket. Thinking that the fellow was bent on mischief, Mr. Cameron went out and arrested the man. At that time it was supposed that he was drunk. Yesterday morning, however, Mrs. Shulze came to the jail with an officer and stated that the man was her husband, and that he was insane. In the afternoon the matter was brought up in the county court before Judge Hall on an application of Mrs. Shulz to have her husband sent to Pueblo. A jury was empaneled and after listening to the evidence given by Mrs. Shulze and two other women, who lived in the neighborhood, they rendered a verdict adjudging the man insane. He will be sent to the asylum at Pueblo at once.
Shur, Mary
patient gender F race W age 20 marital status S birthplace Maine source 1930 census
Sibbet, Samuel Jr.
patient race W sex M month of birth . year of birth 1880 age 20 marital S place of birth Colorado source 1900 census
Sibbitt, Earl
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Siberia, John
Castle Rock Journal 7-1-1904 – John Siberia a Russian Jew about 30 years of age from Happy Canon this county, was adjudged insane by a jury in Judge Palm's court on Tuesday morning and was taken to the asylum at Pueblo in charge of sheriff R. S. Alford and Charlie Phillips. He was a renter on the Meinig ranch. Meinig, it will be remembered was the man who some weeks ago committed suicide by wading out in a reservoir as far as could and then shot himself, making death doubly certain.
Siberie, John
patient gender M race W age 55 marital status Un birthplace United States source 1930 census
Sician, Dominicio
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status Wd birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Sick, Paul
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:S place of birth: Ohio occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Sides, John Charles
patient, died 1922, husband of Ruby Sides.
Siebold, Pearl
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status M birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Siebold, Pearl
patient race: W sex: F age: 49 marital:M place of birth: Kentucky occupation: none source: 1920 census
Siebold, Pearl
patient race: W sex: F age: 42 marital: M place of birth: Kentucky none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Sieffert, Ida B.
patient race W gender F age 40 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Siegel, Josephine
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1914 – Escaped From Hospital – Josephine Seegel, an inmate of the county hospital, who is an epileptic had to be taken in charge by the sheriff's department yesterday when she left the hospital and became temporarily deranged, probably due to “treating” of drinks which some of her friends are thought to have given her. It is thought she will regain her normal condition in a short time. [This lady later was sent to Woodcroft. There are several articles from 1915 which spell her name as “Siegel” instead of “Seegel” here.]
Siegel, Josephine
Carbonate Chronicle 2-8-1915 – Adjudged Insane – Josephine Siegel, an inmate of the county hospital, was adjudged insane by an examining board in the county court yesterday afternoon. She will be taken to the Woodcroft sanatorium at Pueblo probably today, to be confined there until there is a vacancy in the state asylum. The Siegel woman came to Leadville from Montana, and until a few months ago had lived in a cabin in Stringtown. She has been subject to epileptic attacks, and was addicted to strong drink, the examining physicians, Dr. B. F. Griffith and Dr. J. A. Jeannotte, testified. Both believed her mental condition was seriously disordered, and that the safety of her own person and her neighbors required care and confinement at an institution where she could be constantly watched. She is a woman about 37 years old and without relatives here so far as known. Mrs. E. B. Perkins, matron at the county hospital, was another witness called at the examination by County Attorney Clarke. Attorney R. D. McLeod was appointed by the court as representative of the Siegel woman. Those on the jury board were George H. Marsh, foreman, John McGowan, Jerry Simmons, Richard Owens, James Murray and George Sawyer.
Siegel, Josephine
Carbonate Chronicle 2-8-1915 – Taken To Pueblo – Sheriff's Deputy John Murray left for Pueblo yesterday with Josephine Siegel, a county ward, who was adjudged insane in the county court, Monday. She will be cared for at the Woodcroft sanatorium until there is a vacancy in the state asylum.
Siegler, Arthur R.
patient gender M race W age 27 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Siems, Otto
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status S birthplace South Dakota source 1930 census
Siems, Otto
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: South Dakota occupation: cord helper source: 1920 census
Siepert, Frederica
San Juan Prospector 12-12-1914 – Mrs. Siepert Insane – Mrs. Frederica Siepert widow of the late August Siepert was tried and adjudged insane before Judge White in the county court Wednesday of this week. She was taken to Pueblo on the evening train by sheriff and Mrs. Goad. This old lady has been mentally unbalanced for some time, but has become much worse since her husband's death. One of her hallucinations is that her two sons, whose whereabouts she does not know, are fighting with the Kaiser in the present European war.
Sierk, Chris C.
patient gender M race W age 62 marital status S birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Sierk, Chris C.
patient race: W sex: M age: 52 marital:S place of birth: Nebraska occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Sierk, Christopher C.
patient race W gender M age 42 marital status S place of birth Nebraska occupation miner source 1910 census
Sierk, Christopher C.
Longmont Ledger 12-3-1909 – Judged Insane – Christopher C. Sierk, who shot Detective Thomas W. Hennesey at the Albany Hotel, Denver, has been adjudged insane and was insane at the time of the crime. Such was the result of the jury trial, the verdict being rendered Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Siek was sent with three other insane men to the State asylum. His delusion was that men were his enemies and foes were every where about him and that he was in special danger whenever he was in Denver.
Sigmund, August
patient gender M race W age 57 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Sigmund, August
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Silberman, Rosa
Denver Evening Post 10-26-1896 – Crazed From Hunger – Mrs. Rachael Silberman Suddenly Becomes Insane – Mrs. Rachael Silberman, a widow of 42, afflicted with a chronic disease and rendered desperate by hunger, suddenly became insane early this morning in her apartments at No. 1337 Eleventh street. Her peculiar actions, accompanied by a terrific noise, alarmed the other occupants of the house, who summoned the police. When Patrol Wagon Driver McLean arrived he found the woman barricaded in her room. With assistance he burst open the locked door and entered, finding Mrs. Silberman gibbering in an insane manner. The forlorn creature presented an uncanny sight. She was nearly nude and besmirched with blood which welled from several ugly cuts in her hands. She had made a frenzied attack upon the windows with her naked hands, which she had demolished. The unfortunate was made presentable and taken to police headquarters. Placed in a cell, she quickly tore much of her clothing to tatters. When addressed she refused to recognize anyone and remained speechless. The woman is evidently insane. Mrs. Silberman has resided at her recent place of abode for the past three months, and for two years lived next door. She is extremely poor. Although her two sons, youths of 16 and 18, are willing to work, they have long been idle, being unable to obtain any employment. In the interim the little family has been menaced by actual starvation. Late last week Mrs. Silberman was obliged to petition the county for relief. She was given a sack of flour and a small quantity of coal. The supplies were quickly consumed and the family are said to have eaten nothing yesterday.
Silberman, Rosa
Rocky Mountain News 10-27-1896 – Crazed by Starvation – Rosa Silberman Added to the County Insane – After living for several weeks with her two sons, with barely sufficient bread to keep body and soul together, Mrs. Rosa Silberman, 42 years of age, living at 1337 Eleventh street, went violently insane yesterday and is at present confined in a guarded room at the county hospital. The mother and her sons have been on the verge of starvation for some time, and it has not been an infrequent occurrence for them to divide a tiny crust of bread between them. Indeed, it is said that the unfortunate woman has ofttimes subsisted on water alone. Mrs. Silberman has been a resident of Denver for over a year, and before taking up her abode in a dingy little apartment in the attic of 1337 Eleventh street, lived in a room next door at 1143 (?). Ever since Denver has been her home the woman has fought a fierce battle with actual starvation. The relentless face of poverty has stared at her continuously, and fortunate indeed she was when given a cup of coffee. A month or so ago the county commissioners were appealed to and gave her some flour and potatoes, but it is claimed by those who know her that others got away with the supplies before she had fairly opened them. Her sons, Morris, aged 17, and Abraham, aged 15, have been unsuccessful in obtaining any kind of work, and their mother has suffered the same fate. About 10 o'clock Sunday night Mrs. Silberman came down stairs to sit by the bedside of Mrs. D. Simon, who lives at 1339 Eleventh street. Mrs. Simon states that she muttered to herself and constantly shook her head as if determined to do something desperate. At 2 o'clock yesterday morning footsteps were heard up stairs and a Mrs. Esther Englander and Mrs. Simon rushed to the room. The unfortunate woman refused to be comforted and paced the floor excitedly. Five hours later she tore her clothes from her body and with nothing on her person but a chemise, thrust her hands through window panes, cutting the members badly. Her sons became frightened and ran from the room, fearful she would kill them. The police ambulance was summoned and Mrs. Silberman was conveyed to the city hall. Here she again tore her clothes from her body and proved anything but innocuous. Later she was removed to the hospital. Neighbors assert that Mrs. Silberman's mind has been devoted considerably to religion and that she compelled her sons to go through ridiculous performances to gratify her wishes. One night not long ago, it is said, the family lacked even a light. Mr. Simon last month purchased a few groceries for the distressed mother and they were greedily consumed. Morris, the eldest son, left last night for Cripple Creek in an attempt to secure work. Mrs. Silberman, whose husband died fourteen years ago, has a brother who runs a second-hand store at Twentieth and Larimer street, who is also in straitened circumstances. “Our hospital is fast being converted into an insane asylum,” was the moody message received over the 'phone last night from an official at the county hospital. “We often get in three a day, and the different wards are being rapidly monopolized by lunatics. I don't see what we are going to do if this influx of daft people continues.”
Silberman, Rosa
Rocky Mountain News 11-2-1896 – Amid Scenes of Horror – County Hospital Is Crowded With Insane Citizens – … 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. The county hospital never was intended for a lunatic asylum. Never was built with the idea that under its walls would be sheltered at one time, a score and a half insane, ranging from the white-haired old lady who is simply “off” at times, to the wild, destructive maniac in whose diseased brain is moulded only a desire to kick, bite, glare and make a “large noise.” A reporter for The News took in the whole works yesterday, through the kindness of Dr. Simon, a member of the medical staff… After leaving the office in the front part of the old building yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock, Dr. Simon led the way back through a hall to a small room on the right, not over well lighted or ventilated by a couple of small windows. Nothing whatever, not even a chair, occupied the room proper. In each of the four corners, however, was a fair-sized door made of wiring about the size and strength of that used in the construction of flower stands. Bolts locked by padlocks fastened the doors and prohibited the unfortunates behind them from gaining their liberty. Back of these screen doors were rooms, cubby holes, in fact, about 6x6 feet. In them were iron bedsteads. “Well, Rosa, how are you feeling today?” asked Dr. Simon, placing his face to one of the doors and peering in. Horrible Scenes – Out of the gloom within slowly appeared a haggard creature (?) with disheveled hair and wild, ferocious-looking eyes. A canvas jacket covered the upper part of her body, and a leather muff into which were tied her hands prevented the use of her arms. Gluing her face to the grating and showing two rows of discolored teeth, the figure began her rambling. “Good, I'm all right. Nothing 'smatter me. Say, doctor, take me – have? Well, ha, ha, when my goin' out? Say-!” “This is Rosa Silberman,” explained Dr. Simon. “She was brought here only a few days ago. Her great accomplishment is the destruction of everything portable or breakable. Before she was brought here by the police surgeon, she smashed in the windows of her room and seemed bent on tearing her clothes from her body. This is the reason we have to put that canvas jacket and muff on her. They say that she went daft through hunger. Poor woman.” “Hungry? Ah, you're of no-“ broke in the woman, who had in the meantime made frantic efforts to thrust her feet through an inch hole in the grating. “For a time she would not eat,” continued the physician, “and we were forced to run a tube through her nose down into her stomach to prevent her starving to death. After that, and when she saw the tube coming, she agreed to swallow nourishment.” The other three corner cells were occupied respectively by Edith Waite, Kate Godfrey and Cecelia Manson. All of them were muffled, so to speak, to protect them from doing violence to themselves. “This room has been fitted up for the accommodation of patients afflicted with mania, who have to a degree quieted down,” said Dr. Simon. “They are not to be trusted, however.” It is plainly evident that the room was never intended for frenzied occupants…
Silberman, Rosa
Denver Evening Post 11-11-1896 – Most Pathetic Case – Mrs. Richard Silberman is Pronounced Incurably Insane – Among the many patients confined in the insane quarters at the county hospital the case of Mrs. Richard Silberman is especially pathetic. On the morning of October 26 the old lady, a widow of 50, created a panic among the residents of 1337 Eleventh street, where she was a tenant. They were awakened early by the sound of crashing glass and incoherent mutterings. When the police arrived it was necessary for them to force an entrance into the old lady's room. She resented the intrusion and resisted with all her strength. Placed in the city jail Mrs. Silberman speedily denuded herself of nearly every article of clothing. She was then removed to the county hospital. Here the forlorn creature occupies a little cell in an apartment containing four. Her three neighbors are all as demented as she. In the same apartment sits Mrs. Mary Knowland, a chattering idiot, whose senseless gorgon continues unceasingly. Kate Godfrey is another occupant in this abode of lunacy. At intervals she fumes and rages and when calm expatiates to her companions upon the great benefit of converting the hospital into a huge sporting resort. The woman thus coins imaginary thousands daily. Celia Manson, an angular, treacherous looking woman of 35, completes the trio of lunatics with whom the widowed Jewess hourly comes in contact. Deprivation and intense mental worry have brought her where she is. Before her brain succumbed to the strain, Mrs. Silberman experienced the direst misfortune and the most abject poverty. Oft her two sons, both minors, for months unable to secure employment, endured the pangs of intense hunger. Since her reception at the hospital, the old woman seems to entertain a pronounced aversion to both her boys. While visiting her as frequently as possible, the sight of them throws the demented mother into a terrible rage. She becomes violent and abusive, and, loosening the vials of her wrath, utters execrations so horrid that they are relieved when the time of their visit expires. Left alone, the unfortunate occasionally amuses herself by tearing her clothing to shreds. At intervals she pursues imaginary enemies with fiendish ferocity. It is improbable that the clouded brain will ever be relieved, as she is regarded as practically incurable.
Silcott, Cuba
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Silva, Marquerita
patient gender F race W age 36 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Silva, Sabiro
patient gender M race Mex age 32 marital status S birthplace Mexico source 1930 census
Silverman, Eva
patient gender F race W age 65 marital status M birthplace United States source 1930 census
Silverman, Eva
patient race: W sex: F age: 55 marital:M place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Simeoni, John
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Simington, Charles
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status Un birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Simington, Charles
patient race: W sex: M age: 29 marital:. place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Simmonds, Minnie
patient race: W sex: F age: 47 marital:M place of birth: Massachusetts occupation: none source: 1920 census
Simmonds, Minnie M.
patient race W gender F age 37 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Simmonds, Minnie M.
patient gender F race W age 57 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Simmons, Henry White
admitted 8-9-1915 from El Paso, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Simmons, John R.
patient gender M race W age 73 marital status M birthplace England source 1930 census
Simmons, L.
Simmons, L. died 4-11-1899 Buried Roselawn 4-12-1899 Notes: age 38y, informant O.T. Simmons, McCarthy Funeral Home Dr. Work cost $45.00
Simmons, Leolie
admitted 1-27-1899 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Simms, Lillian
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… 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: Lillian Simms…
Simms, Lillian
Rocky Mountain News 11-2-1896 – Amid Scenes of Horror – County Hospital Is Crowded With Insane Citizens – … 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. The county hospital never was intended for a lunatic asylum. Never was built with the idea that under its walls would be sheltered at one time, a score and a half insane, ranging from the white-haired old lady who is simply “off” at times, to the wild, destructive maniac in whose diseased brain is moulded only a desire to kick, bite, glare and make a “large noise.” A reporter for The News took in the whole works yesterday, through the kindness of Dr. Simon, a member of the medical staff… The second floor of the old building contains a miscellaneous assortment of the daft, all women. When the top of the stairs was reached yesterday a good scene for the impressionist was presented… Miss Allen and Lillian Simms, the latter with mouth wide open, raised their heads quickly as the visitors entered the hall. In an instant both had scooted away… “This is a miscellaneous lot,” said Dr. Simon. “None of them are very troublesome, but a good watch is necessary. You notice each has her peculiarity. We allow them the freedom of the hall and they roam through it all day. We are forced to do this, as the ward is too small to allow them to stretch their limbs within. They flit to and fro often not saying a word to each other for hours. Should they be allowed this liberty? Well, not exactly, but circumstances sometimes alter cases.” …
Simon, Andrew
patient race W gender M age 49 marital status M place of birth Austria occupation coalminer source 1910 census
Simon, Goldie
patient race: W sex: F age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Simon, Morris
patient gender M race W age 56 marital status D birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Simon, Morris
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:D place of birth: Germany occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Simonson, Henry
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Simonson, Henry
patient race: W sex: M age: 28 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Simpson, A.
Telluride Journal 12-12-1912 – To Pueblo – Undersheriff Ince came in last night from Cortez with A. Simpson in custody. The man Simpson had been committed to the insane asylum from Montezuma county and Undersheriff Ince accompanied him to Pueblo, leaving on the morning train. Mr. Simpson is quite an elderly man, who has been suffering with a mild form of insanity for some time past, it finally becoming necessary to commit him to the state insane asylum.
Simpson, Charles L.
Rocky Mountain News 11-10-1889 – Brave in His Mind – A Thrilling Encounter Which is Said to Have Occurred Between a Citizen and Footpads – Charles L. Simpson told a thrilling story of how he was held up on Holladay street some nights ago by two masked and muscular high-way robbers, and his pockets rifled of $600 in good gold. Released from their marauding grip, he gave chase and winded the bold, bad men in the space of four blocks. It was his time to howl, and felling them to the earth, he recovered not only his original $600, but in a spasm of vengeance took from their pockets $300 more. So Simpson was the gainer. Simpson is a lunatic. He told the brave story thus to Judge Miller in the county court yesterday afternoon. That was not all. He was rich – had more money than most moderate minded people care for. Didn't know how to invest the vast sums. And he was a man-killer; had been in many desperate frays and killed more men than he could count on his fingers. Judge Miller committed the crazed brain to the state asylum. Simpson's story is a sad one. He was at one time a good workman, an engineer in regular standing in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. His engine ran on the Burlington road, and at the time of the big strike he went out with the others. His anxiety about the results of this move culminated with crashing force in the death of his father. The succession of misfortunes has permanently unsettled his mind.
Simpson, Helen
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Simpson, Helen
patient race: W sex: F age: 44 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Simpson, Helen F.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1875 age 25 marital status S place of birth Indiana occupation housework source : 1900 census
Simpson, Helen H.
patient race W gender F age 34 marital status S place of birth Indiana source 1910 census
Simpson, Jack
Steamboat Pilot 6-29-1921 – Undersheriff Kitchens left today for the state hospital at Pueblo with Jack Simpson of Haybro, adjudged insane last week in the county court. They were taken as far as Wolcott by Sheriff Neiman in his car and they caught the Denver and Rio Grande there. K. Johnson of Oak Creek was also taken along. He goes to Lamar to straighten up matters over a car purchase. Sheriff Neiman returned to Yampa from State Bridge. Mrs. Neiman went to Yampa on the train this morning.
Simpson, Jack
Routt County Sentinel 7-1-1921 – Local News of the Week – Jack Simpson of Haybro was last week adjudged insane, in the County court. Undersheriff Kitchens left Wednesday, to take him to Pueblo.
Simpson, Jack V.
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Simpson, Marie
patient gender F race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Sims, Howard H.
patient gender M race W age 32 marital status M birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Sims, Uhla
Dillon Blue Valley Times 6-20-1914 – Uhla Sims and John Kochevar, both of whom are insane patients, escaped from the county poor farm at Pueblo.
Sims, Ula B.
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:. place of birth: Arkansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sinrod, Hattie
patient race: W sex: F age: 47 marital: M place of birth: Iowanone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Siote, Rafaela
admitted 3-24-1898 from Trinidad, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sipe, Lodie
patient race: W sex: M age: 40 marital: S place of birth: Tennesseenone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Sirokman, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 31 marital:. place of birth: Alabama occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sisco, Thomas A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:M place of birth: Arkansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sisneros, Lupita
patient gender F race W age 31 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sisson, Edward
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 3-24-1911 A jury in the county court this afternoon adjudged Edward Sisson insane and he will be committed to the asylum at Pueblo.
Sisson, H. A.
Denver Evening Post 7-18-1896 – Town Talk – H. A. Sisson, formerly manager of the Albany hotel, is confined in the St. Agnew's insane asylum, San Jose county, California. As his malady is inherited his condition is regarded as hopeless. Sisson was very popular during his residence here.
Sisson, H. A.
Rocky Mountain News 7-18-1896 – In an Asylum – Sad Fate of a Well Known Denver Hotel Man – Friends of H. A. Sisson, for five years manager of the Albany hotel, will be grieved to learn that Mr. Sisson has become an inmate of St. Agnew's insane asylum, San Jose county, California. Latest reports claim that the disease is hereditary and there is no hope of the recovery of the patient. The first symptoms were apparent four months ago, being brought on by over work and worry over financial affairs. Mr. Sisson was one of the most popular hotel men Denver has ever known and left a wide circle of friends when he departed for the Pacific coast. He engaged in the fruit business and afterwards assumed the management of the Echo Mountain house and the Alpine tavern on Echo mountain. He resigned his hotel position last January.
Sisson, Irvin
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 9-7-1904 – The trial of Irvin Sisson, charged with insanity took place on Friday before Judge Mills of the county court. The jury returned a verdict finding him insane. Sisson was committed to the Woodcroft asylum in Pueblo.
Sisson, Irwin
patient race: W sex: M age: 35 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Skaggs, Jennie A.
Fort Collins Courier 8-14-1919 – Insane Woman Causes Commotion in Court – Jennie A. Skaggs, judged to be insane today and ordered to Pueblo, caused no small amount of commotion in the county court room this afternoon during the hearing and after the findings had been made on her case. It was one incessant stream of talk and her husband, Charles Skaggs, was the one upon whom she laid her principle stress. She stated “absolutely he is going to die on September 29, 1919,” and that she knows because she is the “first lady of the land”. After Doctors Halley and Taylor had signed the documents she started out after the papers. She succeeded in getting hold of the official complaint and tore it to bits, at the same time warning her husband and Deputy Sheriff Halligan that she would not allow any such nonsense to be carried on in her presence. When Mr. Skaggs was called out to sign another complaint she followed and came close to getting hold of it but she was ordered taken to a cell while the transaction took place. Deputy Sheriff Halligan and Mr. Skaggs accompanied her to their home near Masonville late this afternoon and will return to take her to Pueblo in the morning. One year ago last Feb. 9th, Jennie Skaggs was sent to Pueblo from this county on the same charge. For some reason which the court here is unable to understand she was released by Pueblo and returned to her home. Since her return she has caused her husband continual fatigue and embarrassment on account of her actions and it finally became unbearable for him.
Skaggs, Jennie A.
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Skalla, William
Kit Carson County Record 8-3-1911 Skalla Adjudged Insane – The trial of William Skalla, who has been confined in the county jail for the past two weeks on a charge of insanity, was held before County Judge Haynes, Wednesday. Skalla has been acting somewhat queer for some time and about two weeks ago he took the liberty to fire five shots at a neighbor named Thompson, whom he imagined had done him some injury. He was arrested and a preliminary hearing had before a justice of the peace at Vona and the man was brought to Burlington by Constable Alexander and lodged in the county jail. At the trial Skalla manifested but little interest in the proceedings and declined to take the stand in his own behalf and said near the close of the hearing, that as soon as the trial started, he would get a lawyer and “do something”. The jury found the man insane as charged and he was ordered confined in the state asylum at Pueblo. Atty. P.B. Godsman was appointed guardian ad litem and Atty. Louis Vogt represented the state. The unfortunate man is about 40 years of age and has a family.
Skankee, Minnie
patient race W gender F age 30 marital status S place of birth Minnesota source 1910 census
Skanker, Minnie
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1879 age 21 marital status S place of birth Minnesota source : 1900 census
Skaro, Joe
patient gender M race W age 35 marital status S birthplace Yugoslavia source 1930 census
Skelton, Elmer H.
patient race: W sex: M age: 36 marital:. place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Skere, Frank
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status Un birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Skere, Frank
patient race: W sex: M age: 34 marital:. place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Skettenring, John
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 11-13-1894 – Is Found Insane. A jury of six, in Judge Nash's court yesterday, found John Skettenring, at one time a musician in the old Rocky Mountain Theater, insane. He will be taken to Pueblo today.
Skinder, Mark
admitted 4-16-1914 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Skinner, Alice
patient gender F race W age 40 marital status D birthplace Washington source 1930 census
Skon, Alma
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Skredle, Jacob
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital:M place of birth: Bohemia occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Skuda, Emma
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1854 age 46 marital status M place of birth Bohemia occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Slater, Anna
patient race: W sex: F age: 46 marital:D place of birth: Bohemia occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Slater, James M
admitted 1-13-1915 from Prowers, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Slaughter, Leo
patient gender M race Neg age 38 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Slaughter, Leo
patient race: B sex: M age: 28 marital:. place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Slavich, Frank
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Slavich, Steve
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Slick, Mattie
Wray Rattler – 3-5-1914 Mrs. Slick Sent To Sanitarium – The trial of Mrs. J.H. Slick, whose mind became deranged the first part of last month, was held Saturday at the Slick home in West Wray as the afflicted lady was not able to be taken to the courthouse. The jury found her insane and she was committed to Work's sanatorium at Pueblo, with the privilege of being taken to the St. Lukes' hospital at Denver for observation. She was taken to Denver the first of the week by Undersheriff Johnson, accompanied by Dr. McGill, and Mrs. Mary Staininger as lady attendant. She was taken to the hospital in Denver and after an examination was operated upon and there is strong hopes for the recovery of her health and also her normal mental condition. Mrs. Slick became deranged the second of February last, while driving in the country with her husband, and her physical exertions on that day during her violence prostrated her and she has been very ill ever since. Complaint was filed the day following derangement, but the trial was postponed because of her physical condition. She will remain in the hospital at Denver until the results of the operation have been ascertained.
Slick, Mattie
admitted 3-30-1914 from Yuma, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sliger, Nell
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status M birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Slinde, Oren
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Smart, Charles Willard
San Juan Prospector 6-1-1907 – Says Father Is Insane – Denver. – A contest between father and daughter, in which Mrs. Emma Thompson is trying to prove that her father, Charles Willard Smart, eighty-four years of age and one of Denver's oldest printers, is incapable of managing his own property, is on trial before Judge Carlton Bliss in the District Court. Mrs. Thompson is trying to have deeds made by her father, in which he conveyed one-fourth of his property to his wife, set aside on the ground that Mrs. Charles Willard Smart No. 2 was and is a spiritualist medium and that her father has been subjected to undue influence. Mr. Smart's first wife died twenty years ago and he married his second wife three years ago. At that time he deeded to his new spouse one-fourth of his property, deeded one-fourth to his daughter, retaining the remaining one-half of his property for himself. As an evidence of his ability to act as his own manager, Attorneys Stair and Brown cited to the court that Mr. Smart certainly must be possessed of all of his faculties because he recently closed with the tramway company a long lease which gives the street railway corporate use of the ground upon which the loop is situated at a monthly rental of $225. It was shown that the ground in question was worth 15,000, and that he is receiving from the tramway a rental equal to six percent on $45,000 valuation.
Smart, Cora B.
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Smart, Hattie E.
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Smart, Hattie E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 34 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smart, Magdalen
patient gender F race W age 36 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Smead, Hattie
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Smead, Hattie
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:W place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smeker, Jack
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Smelkert, J.
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Smeltz, William
Telluride Daily Journal – 2-26-1914 – Insane Bug With Big Knife Is Arrested – Greeley, Colo., Feb. 26. – Parading the streets with a large, ugly looking knife and a common field stone upon which he was whetting the weapon and pausing frequently to draw the blade across his throat in imitation of cutting his own jugular vein, mumbling incoherently and threatening a woman, William Smeltz has been arrested here and thrown into the “lockup.” Smeltz told the sheriff he had killed himself twice, broken his own leg once and committed other acts of violence and that he considered it fun to commit suicide and frighten women by threats of killing them. He told the deputy who arrested him that he intended to give an exhibition of killing himself as soon as a large crowd had gathered to witness the performance.
Smerbel, Paul
patient race: W sex: M age: 67 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smircich, Margaret
admitted 6-18-1915 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Smith, Albert G
admitted 5-28-1899 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Smith, Albert G.
patient race W gender M age 20 marital status S place of birth Alabama source 1910 census
Smith, Albert G.
patient race B gender M age 24 marital status S place of birth Alabama source 1910 census
Smith, Albert G.
patient race B sex M month of birth July year of birth 1889 age 10 marital S place of birth Alabama source 1900 census
Smith, Albert G.
Denver Evening Post 5-18-1899 – Examinations for Sanity – Removal of Certain Persons From the Realm of Reason – Age and youth, the caucasian and the negro, met in the county court yesterday afternoon to be examined for sanity… Albert G. Smith, a 9-year-old colored boy, was declared insane. He is an only child and has suffered from epileptic fits since he was 6 years old. They have come with the frequency of several times a day. His mother said: “He sasses a man as quick as though he was a child. His sass is ungovernable. And he scares me. He fears neither man nor beast, and often he has been brought in bleeding by being run over or something of the kind in the streets. He gets up at midnight, thinking it's daylight, and then he wants to dress himself at that time of day. I am afraid of him. He has threatened my own life. He has said he would kill me.”
Smith, Albert G.
Denver Evening Post 12-19-1899 – Mad Youth Confined – Albert G. Smith has been sent to an insane asylum on application of his mother, Mary A. Smith, to the county court. The youth is demented.
Smith, Alexander
patient gender M race W age 37 marital status S birthplace California source 1930 census
Smith, Alice
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Smith, Alonzo
patient race W gender M month born Unk year born 1865 age 35 marital status S place of birth unk occupation unk source 1900 census Woodcroft asylum
Smith, Alonzo
admitted 6-3-1900 from Gllenwood Springs, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Smith, Arthur
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Smith, Blanch
patient race: W sex: F age: 40 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Smith, Blanch O.
patient gender F race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Smith, Cassius F.
patient gender M race W age 70 marital status Wd birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Smith, Charles F. Mrs.
Colorado Transcript 9-12-1918 – Insane Woman Hangs Self at County Jail – Mrs. Chas. F. Smith, of Edgewater, an insane woman, committed suicide by hanging herself in a cell at the county jail last Saturday morning, using a sheet from her bed for a rope. Sheriff Jones was confined to the hospital at the time, and the body was discovered by Mrs. Jones. Coroner Woods was called at once, and he estimated that the woman had been dead for several hours, she evidently having taken her life during the small hours of the morning. Mrs. Smith tied one end of the sheet to the iron railings and wound the other around her neck. Evidently she climbed up the railings as far as she could, tied the sheet and let herself drop. Her feet were not more than an inch from the floor when discovered. Mrs. Smith was 46 years of age and had lived in Edgewater for many years. She is survived by her husband and one or two children. She has been mentally unbalanced for some time, and last week she grew so violent that she was brought to Golden by Deputy Sheriff Mencimer. She was to have been taken into county court Monday before a lunacy commission.
Smith, Charles G. Mrs.
Steamboat Pilot 9-30-1908 – News has been received of the death of Mrs. Charles G. Smith at the insane asylum in Pueblo, where she was taken a few weeks ago. It has been known ever since she was taken to Pueblo that she was in a precarious condition, she suffering from tuberculosis as well as a general break down. Sympathy will go to the husband and the three little children who are left to mourn.
Smith, Charles G. Mrs.
Steamboat Pilot - September 30, 1908 – News has been received of the death of Mrs. Charles G. Smith at the insane asylum in Pueblo, where she was taken a few weeks ago. It has been known ever since she was taken to Pueblo that she was in a precarious condition, she suffering from tuberculosis as well as a general break down. Sympathy will go to the husband and the three little children who are left to mourn.
Smith, Charles Mrs.
Steamboat Pilot 8-26-1908 – Mrs. Charles Smith was on Monday adjudged insane in the county court and yesterday was taken to Pueblo by Deputy Sheriff Frank Miller and the nurse, Mrs. Bauder. The case is a very sad one, the little two-months-old Smith baby having died last week. Many friends hope for Mrs. Smith's speedy recovery to her normal condition.
Smith, Charlotte
patient gender F race W age 74 marital status Wd birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Smith, Charlotte
Steamboat Pilot 4-14-1920 – Asylum is Pathetic End of Mrs. Smith's Vision of Gold Mine – Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Smith Spent Years of Toil and All Their Property Searching for Golden Treasure Pointed Out in a Dream – It was the sad end of a vision when Mrs. Charlotte Smith, widow of Andrew J. Smith, formerly a well known miner of the Hahns Peak section, was last week taken to the asylum for the insane at Pueblo, after an inquisition of the lunacy commission held before Judge Morning. The story of “Andy” Smith and his wife is one full of pathos. They spent the proceeds of their cattle and ranch and put in years of the hardest kind of toil because Mrs. Smith nearly a dozen years ago had a vision of the source of the placer gold at Hahns Peak. Without question her husband accepted her vision as the truth and his faith in the ultimate success of their mining venture kept him buoyed up thru adversity and days of toil. Mrs. Smith shared her husband's labors and enthusiasm, never doubting the word that had come to her from the unknown that at the north base of Hahns Peak, above the grassy carpet of Little Red park, was wealth untold that would reward them for their years of effort. Broken by toil Andrew Smith sank beneath the load and was laid to rest five years ago. Mrs. Smith came to Steamboat and worked at any kind of labor she could find and notwithstanding the fact that the “Antlers” claims, on which they spent so much work and money, are open to any one who cares to locate, she contended to the last that sending her away was a scheme of those who wanted to secure her mines of untold wealth. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Smith located in Routt county more than 25 years ago. He was from Denmark and she was from Sweden. Ten or twelve miles north of Columbine, on the Snake river road, they took up a claim and developed a good ranch. They were industrious and frugal and soon had accumulated enough to insure a competence during their life time. Then came the vision to Mrs. Smith, always a little “queer” people said. Men had delved for years in an effort to find the source of the gold that is scattered throughout the Hahns Peak basin. As in a dream Mrs. Smith was shown the place and she hastened to tell her husband. The latter accepted her statement without question and together they walked over the hills, the woman being led, as she believed, by an unseen hand. They went thru Little Red park and toward the great peak until finally Mrs. Smith said, “this is the place.” There Andrew started to dig, firm in the faith that there had been revealed to his wife a secret for which man had long sought for but could not find. She came to take care of the cabin and cheer him on, not failing to perform her full share of toil. When their resources ran low they sold their cattle and horses and later on the ranch and all the proceeds went into the dream mine. They called it the “Antlers” group and mining men looked and shook their heads. It was opposed to all systems of mining they had ever seen. For hundreds of feet a tunnel was driven only a short distance under the ground, the configuration of the country being such that no depth was gained. Fortunately it was given to Andrew and his wife to see gold in most of the rock where no one else could see it, whether there was gold or not he would come back to the statement of childlike simplicity and faith, “It is right in here; here is where she saw it.” The tunnel went steadily into the mountain for many years and the resources ran low. Outside aid was sought, men came to look, but it was a story of continual disappointment. Promoters tied up the property, there was court action and finally Andrew Smith, broken with toil, went to his reward. The claims have lapsed back to the government, no one considering them of enough value to set up a stake. But down at Pueblo Mrs. Andrew Smith will remain firm in the faith that there is wealth untold in her dream mine at the northern base of Hahns Peak.
Smith, Charlotte
Routt County Sentinel 4-9-1920 – To be Taken to Pueblo – Mrs. Charlotte Smith, widow of the late Andrew Smith, an old time mining man of the Hahn's Peak district, was yesterday examined by the Lunacy commission, and it was decided that it was best to commit her to the State Hospital for the Insane. Sheriff Neiman, accompanied by his wife, will leave with the patient for Pueblo tomorrow morning, going by way of Wolcott. Mrs. Smith has long been considered mentally unbalanced, and since the recent marriage of her niece, Helene Smith, she is alleged to have made many threats to kill the young lady and her husband, William A. Bassell.
Smith, Charlotte
Routt County Sentinel 4-23-1920 – Local News of the Week – Sheriff C. W Neiman, with his wife and their son, Willis, returned home Wednesday night from Denver and Pueblo. They went out two weeks ago, to take Mrs. Charlotte Smith to the State Hospital for the Insane.
Smith, Dewey
patient gender M race W age 34 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Smith, E. K.
patient, white, male, age 22, single, Nebraska, 1885 census
Smith, Elizabeth
Smith, Elizabeth born 12-17-1837 England, resident of Logan County, Utah, widowed, died 7-24-1912, shipped to Atwood, Co 7-25-1912, daughter of Thomas Whiteley and Anna Robinson both born England, Dr. Hubert Work cost $125.00
Smith, Emma
patient gender F race Neg age 52 marital status Wd birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Smith, Emma Letford
Emma Letford Smith, died about 2-11-1916, buried in Ft. Collins
Smith, Emma Letford
Fort Collins Weekly Courier - February 11, 1916 - Death Summons Mrs. John Letford Smith – Mental and Physical Ailments Combined, Too Intense For Her to Overcome – A telegram from Pueblo received in this city Monday afternoon, conveyed this intelligence that Mrs. Emma Smith, wife of John Letford Smith, had crossed the dark river of death and was now at rest. Mrs. Smith died at the State hospital for the insane in Pueblo of which she had been an inmate for more than five years. Mental disorder began to show in Mrs. Smith some seven or eight years ago. Her trouble gave her family and friends much unrest, though she was in no sense violent or given to making trouble for any one. Her eccentricities were harmless, but they gave the family great cause for uneasiness. A little more than five years ago she was adjudged insane and committed to the State hospital for the insane at Pueblo in the hope that she would recover her mental balance. But this was not to be. She was hopelessly bereft of her reason. In health Mrs. Smith was a very estimable woman, a good housekeeper, a devoted wife, an affectionate mother and a trusted friend, and the loss of her mind caused her family and friends great anguish of heart. Emma Letford was born September 17, 1848, in Surbiton-Kingston, England, where she was educated and grew to woman's estate. She came to the United States in 1880 to be united in marriage with her cousin, John Letford Smith, who met her in Dunkirk, N. Y., where the ceremony was performed November 18, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Smith came at once to Fort Collins and this city has since been the family home. A husband and two children – Dudley of this city and Mrs. Nellie Rainbolt of Lancaster, Mo. (survive). The body will arrive here today for burial and the funeral will be held at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Rainbolt, the daughter, will be unable to attend the funeral.
Smith, Ethel
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status Un birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Smith, Ethel
Colorado Springs Gazette 11-5-1918 - Ethel Smith, who was recently adjudged insane at an insanity hearing in the county court, was taken to Pueblo by Deputy Sheriff John Henderson yesterday. Minnie Wilson was taken to the Work sanatorium in Pueblo for treatment at the same time.
Smith, F D Mrs (Amelia)
admitted 7-14-1900 from None Given - Woodcroft Hospital
Smith, George
patient race W gender M age . marital status . place of birth . source 1910 census
Smith, George
patient gender M race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Smith, George
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:. place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smith, George
Boulder News 5-11-1899 – George Smith was arrested in Denver last week for passing bogus checks. Thought he had suddenly become a great business man and issued checks as if he had thousands to draw on. Contracted for a ranch with a Denver man. He and his brother had a lease on the Weisenhorn Lake resort in Boulder. Declared insane and taken to the asylum in Pueblo 18 May 1899. Source also references article in Boulder County Herald Weekly 5-24-1899. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, George
Boulder County Herald Weekly 9-6-1899 – George Smith “has been cured and is at home again anxious to get work to do.” Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, George A.
patient gender M race W age 78 marital status S birthplace Maryland source 1930 census
Smith, Grace
Rocky Mountain News 12-22-1894 – Insane Runaways – Mrs. McCall and Mrs. Smith, Insane Inmates of the County Hospital, Dash Out Into the Night and Elude Their Pursuers – Two insane patients escaped from the county hospital last night. About 6 o'clock Mrs. McCall, who was sent to the hospital about two weeks ago, ran from the building in the direction of Cherry creek, and disappeared in the darkness before her pursuers could overtake her. About 1 o'clock this morning Mrs. Grace Smith, aged 32, tall, blonde, with short, curly hair, dressed herself in a thin gingham dress belonging to one of the inmates, and taking a blanket from one of the cots, rushed through the hall and out into the night, making her escape. On Wednesday night Mrs. Smith came to the city hall and told the clerk that some persons were turning a search light into her rooms on Eighteenth, near Lawrence, and she was afraid to enter. She had a valise in her hand and spoke without any trace of insanity. An officer was sent to escort her home, and she then demanded that the officer remain there and protect her. The next day she was admitted to the hospital. Mrs. Smith was recaptured early this morning. She said she had left the hospital to get morphine.
Smith, H. E.
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Smith, Harry
Fairplay Flume 5-20-1904 – Sheriff Si Pollock went to Webster Wednesday to bring Harry Smith to Fairplay, where he was tried before Judge White on Friday and pronounced insane. Witnesses testified to the unbalanced state of Smith's mind, the man himself finally being given the stand. No further evidence was needed. The actions of Smith are governed entirely by spiritual advice, he being instructed by his unseen friends to watch volcano craters lest eruptions occur, and many similar fool tasks. He was taken to Works' home at Pueblo Saturday.
Smith, Harry
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Georgia source 1930 census
Smith, Harry
patient race: W sex: M age: 28 marital:S place of birth: Georgia occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Smith, Helen
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status D birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Smith, Henry H.
patient race W gender M age 48 marital status S place of birth Minnesota occupation laborer source 1910 census
Smith, Henry H.
patient gender M race W age 68 marital status S birthplace Minnesota source 1930 census
Smith, Henry H.
patient race: W sex: M age: 58 marital:S place of birth: Minnesota occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Smith, J. P.
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital:W place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smith, J. Rufus
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… 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: J. Rufus Smith…
Smith, James
Yampa Leader 7-20-1907 – James Smith, one of the early settlers on Elk Head creek, between Hayden and Craig, died July 5 at the insane asylum at Pueblo, to which he was committed last year. He is survived by a widow and three brothers, Tom, of Pueblo; Mike H. and Barney, of Craig.
Smith, James
Yampa Leader 6-30-1906 – Around the County – James Smith, aged 64, of Craig, was found to be insane at an inquisition held before Judge Morning in the county court last week. He is a brother of M. H. and Barney Smith.
Smith, James
Pueblo Chieftain – July 14, 1907 – The funeral of James Smith was held at 10 o'clock yesterday morning from the chapel of Linkin and Vories. Interment was in Roselawn cemetery.
Smith, Jessie
patient race: W sex: F age: 28 marital:S place of birth: Nebraska occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smith, John
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Smith, John
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Denmark source 1930 census
Smith, John
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 5-3-1905 – Marshal Richart picked up a demented man Tuesday evening and lodged him in the city jail pending an investigation. He gave his name as John Smith, but his talk was so incoherent that but little could be learned about him. He was found lying on the mil ditch bank and had been there a good part of the day and all through the hail storm in the afternoon. His pockets were filled with scraps of paper, many of which were filled with writing, but nothing to indicate who he was or where he belonged. He is about 42 years of age, and an Austrian by birth.
Smith, John M.
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital: M place of birth: Illinois source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Smith, John M.
Smith, John M. born 6-22-1860 Scotland, residence, Denver, District Supt, Pullman Co., died 12-30-1912, paid by Mrs. James Williams, shipped to Denver accompanied by Mrs. James Williams, Dr. A.P. Busey, cost $75.00
Smith, Josephine
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Smith, Kate
Colorado Transcript 6-8-1905 – Mrs. Kate Smith, wife of a gardener near Arvada, was adjudged insane in county court Tuesday, and taken to the asylum at Pueblo.
Smith, Lula H.
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status Wd birthplace Georgia source 1930 census
Smith, M.G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-27-1894 Mrs. C.W. Renkes a few days since wrote to Dr. Thombs, the kind hearted superintendent of the State Insane Asylum, asking him to give her father any extra care that might be for his good and offering on her own part and that of her sisters and brother to compensate the doctor for such extra attention. In a kindly worded letter in reply, Dr. Thombs says Mr. Smith is doing well and closes as follows: “ As to his recovery, I am of the opinion that he should improve very much and perhaps recover his reason. His age is the only thing against him.Boulder Daily Camera 7-05-1894 Dr. Bond , conservator for M. G. Smith's estate, has received a letter from Superintendent Thombs of the insane asylum, stating that Mr. Smith is much improved.
Smith, Maggie
Rocky Mountain News 10-1-1890 – She is Crazy – Maggie Smith, a singular speciment of humanity not over 15 years of age, was tried in the county court for lunacy. For a long time she has been getting worse and worse. According to the testimony she is the daughter of poor parents, who have been at a loss to know what to do with her for a long time past. She has been in the habit of running away from home and sleeping in streets and alleys, and has been guilty of a great deal of such unnatural conduct. She is a very fleshy girl, with a vacant stare and a perfect indifference to all that goes on about her. When asked what month it was she answered at once, “January.” The jury was not long in determining that her sanity had become entirely extinct.
Smith, Margaret
Boulder County Herald Weekly 12-24-1890 – Margaret Smith was found insane. She had set the Marshall residence near Longmont on fire twice. Arrested in Denver on theft charges. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-4-1894 – Flood In Boulder – The Windows of Heaven Opened and Boulder was Submerged – Many Lives Are in Danger! – And Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property Completely Destroyed – Boulder Creek on a Rampage – And Boulder Receives the Full Effects of it – The Lower Part of the City One Vast Lake of Water – Residents Rescued by Means of Horses and Ropes – The Narrow Gauge Road Destroyed – Marinus G. Smith in Danger of Being Drowned – (From Thursday's Daily Camera). A great flood came roaring down Boulder creek and at an early hour this morning it was a veritable flood. This little stream had widened its course and channel and became a magnificent tumultuous river at points within the city limits. Every vestige of a bridge had been swept away by the relentless torrent, railroad tracks had been torn from their bearings, streets and town lots had been flooded and great loss of life had resulted from the great rise of water. Sixty hours of almost continuous rain had transformed the quiet little stream into a raging river. Boulder canyon was a wild scene of magnificence. The creek had swollen into a river that filled its bed, bowlders crashed and roared, wagon road and railroad bridges, wrenched from their timbers, came crashing down the stream. At Fourth street, the long railroad bridge was twisted into a semi-circle but the rim and rails of the track remaining, while the timbers blocked the track of the stream and sent its waters far out upon low lying land, inundating a wide tract between the south side and Pearl street. Early in the morning, the bridge at Sixth street went, the Twelfth street fine iron bridge had gone and all others, save the Sternberg bridge at the southeast end of the city, had been swept away. Near noon, a large crowd, standing by the home of Richard Gilbert at Twelfth street, saw with awe and amazement the home of Jack Faus make a sudden flip then right itself and sail grandly down the muddy stream. It stopped at the entrance of Beasley's ditch and there stood, solitary and alone, 200 feet from the site upon which it was built. Later a huge tree that had lodged in the stream began to move and then came a wing of the Faus residence, all that remained of the once pretty home. It was wrecked as by a vise, twisted, broke and went into the surging mass-kindling wood and nothing more. While awe-struck people stood watching this inspiring scene, Officer Knapp suddenly appeared and said, “I want men, volunteers, anyone who will go to the eastern part of town to save life.” As if by magic, the crowd dispersed. There were men hurrying to and fro, men on foot and on horseback and the serious work of attempting the rescue of human life was begun again. A dozen or two of men had been working all the morning in saving property and removing women and children and sick men from houses in the low lands. Horses and ropes had been used to assist these people to safe ground - there was no dry land, for everywhere and all the time it rained. The windows of the heaven had been opened and forgotten to be closed. “Tunnel, the milk man, has been drowned,” exclaimed one excited man. The story was that his wagon had been overturned in the eastern part of town and that Harry Newhouse had seen him go down the stream. Then followed another rush for East Boulder. At 10 o'clock J. C. Hankins waded on horse back to the Sternberg ___ ____ along the south side to the Hightown school. He reported strong probability that the structure would go, as well as the home of Mr. Mallinckrodt. Later it was reported that the bridge he had crossed had gone, also – the last connecting link between Boulder north and south. At 1 o'clock Mayor Cowie returned from the canyon. He had been at the head of the old city ditch and reported the water works safe from foremost (?) danger. He said the wagon road and railroad track were a complete wreck. Reports that the reservoir had broken its banks caused the wildest excitement in the morning. The ____ ____ absolutely lacking in foundation ____ ____ been true, it is not clear that such a fact would have wrought any considerable damage. At 2 o'clock the water was still rising, though slowly. From the Bowen hotel to the University hill and south bank of the Boulder creek, was one vast lake, with here and there a small patch of an island. It was reported that many people in “Poverty flats” were in danger and need of rescue, but Mayor Cowie said there was but one woman so situated and she had refused to move. He thought of sending a party to move her by force. The water poured in a steady stream down Railroad street all day. At 16th, Mrs. Hiskey had her furniture out in the yard, ready to move; one door south of them and toward Marine Smith's, stands the home of Wilson, the transfer man. The furniture was moved out and grave fear of the house entertained. The bank had been washed near to the house, twenty or thirty feet having gone and the house stood on an embankment momentarily washing away. Flood notes – While the firemen and volunteers were getting residents of Culver's addition out upon dry land, the entire expanse of country being waist deep in water, Marinus G. Smith could not be prevailed upon to leave his house. He was afraid his imaginary enemies might enter upon possession. The entire place was flooded to the door jams. It was a great place for skiffs. On 15th street, across the creek, in front of Harrison Bailey's house, a cow stood all day, nearly head deep in water. The cow was evidently tied and will, probably, go down the stream. Mr. M. G. Smith was in the second story of his house this afternoon and perfectly helpless to get off his little island. The house is protected by a vast forest of trees, which gather the debris and it may be saved. If it goes, so goes our valued fellow citizen. Marine is Insane – Our Esteemed Fellow Citizen in the Insane Cell – Sheriff Dyer and a party of volunteers succeeded in forcing Marine Smith off from his island Friday. They found him lying on a log and very ugly about going. His idea was that someone wanted to steal his place from him. He had five oyster crackers in several piles and a pail of sugar set out on the ground. This he said was seven days ration, each pile for a day. At the insane cell in the jail, he refused all friends today and would eat nothing, kicking away the nice dishes Mrs. Dyer made for him. Note: Parts of this article were unreadable.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-4-1894 – Marine is on Earth – Marine Smith walked out of the insane cell of the county jail this morning and met and recognized many friends on the street. The old gentleman was quite “flighty” in his talk, but joked about his confinement and his mania that he was responsible for the flood. To a reporter of the Camera he said: “I did a foolish thing when I broke a window in my house. You see I thought I had brought all this flood down on Boulder and then I began to claw in the ground with my finger nails.” And then he smiled a weary, sickly smile and went limping down the street. E. J. Morath was appointed by Judge Wright, conservator for Mr. Smith's estate, pending his recovery or trial for insanity.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-12-1894 – Is Marine Insane? An Inquiry Into the Matter Begun by the County Court – The inquiry as to the sanity of Marinus G. Smith began before Judge Wright in the county court at 10 o'clock today. Hon. H. M. Minor, county attorney appeared for the people and Judge Henderson for Mr. Smith. The following jury was impaneled: J. W. Vinton, H. H. Phillips, H. Stevens, George Hansbrough, H. Green, (and) Joseph Haffner. Mrs. J. B. Tourtellot and Mrs. Renkes, daughters of Mr. Smith were present as witnesses, as were Mr. Renkes, Sheriff Dyer, Schuyler Eldred, County Physician Coman, Dr. Queal and others. Mr. Smith was fairly himself. He prompted his attorney and chuckled intelligently when some of his alleged insane tricks were detailed. He laughed just at the right time and had quite a long lucid interval. Evidence of insanity was pretty conclusive, chiefly as to his mania on the water question. It is scarcely necessary for the Camera to go into evidence so lamentable in its nature, as the story of his being taken from his home place after the flood is familiar to all. Judge Henderson is contesting the case closely. Mr. E. J. Morath, conservator of Mr. Smith's estate pending his mental troubles, is a silent witness to the proceedings.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-15-1894 – Sheriff Dyer left for Pueblo this morning with M. G. Smith, adjudged insane.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-16-1894 – Sheriff Dyer returned from Pueblo to day. He says that M. G. Smith looked upon the asylum as the proper place for him to go; expressed his conviction that he was insane on certain subjects and felt that a few weeks away from Boulder would be for his own best interest. The sheriff left him quite happy at the asylum.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-18-1894 – Executor's Notice – Estate of M.G. Smith, adjudged insane, the undersigned, having been appointed conservator of the estate of M. G. Smith of the County of Boulder and State of Colorado, adjudged insane, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of Boulder county, at the Court House in Boulder at the June term, for probate business, on the second Monday, (being the sixth day in July next,) 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 this 14th day of June, A. D. 1894 (Signed) J. I. Bond, Conservator, First Pub. June 15 - Last Pub. July 6, 1895
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-27-1894 – Marine's Recovery – Dr. Thombs Believes it is but a Question of Time – Mrs. C. W. Renkes a few days since wrote to Dr. Thombs, the kind hearted superintendent of the State Insane Asylum, asking him to give her father any extra care that might be for his good and offering on her own part and that of her sisters and brother to compensate the doctor for such extra attentions. In a kindly worded letter in reply, Dr. Thombs says Mr. Smith is doing well and closes as follows: “As to his recovery, I am of the opinion that he should improve very much and perhaps recover his reason. His age is the only thing against him.”
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-30-1894 – Letter from Mr. Todd – He speaks of Boulderites Now Residing at Pueblo – Pueblo, Colo, June 29, '94 – Mr. V. Butsch, Boulder, Colo. Dear Sir: - I enclose you my check for $4 to apply on this year's subscription as well as next years. I was at the Insane Asylum today and saw our old friend Mr. M. G. Smith, and he wished me to write and have his Tribune forwarded to him in care of the asylum. He is doing nicely, and says he is enjoying life and that he will soon be all right, and the authorities also tell me the same. If you know of any one visiting here from Boulder while he is in the asylum please tell them to call, as he appears to enjoy company of any of the Boulder people greatly. There are several of the Boulder people located here, Aaron Rood with the American Biscuit Co., D. Ramsey is running a jewelry store here, and our old expressman, Mr. Sackett, stands on the corner of the street when he is not busy, but he is nearly always busy. Dr. Ditmar is here, and is doing very well, I guess, as he always does wherever he locates. We enjoy the reading of the Tribune greatly and watch for its coming Saturday night or Sunday morning, as it never fails unless there is a flood and you cannot get the mail off. Yours truly, C. D. Todd.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 7-5-1894 – Dr. Bond, conservator for M. G. Smith's estate, has received a letter from Superintendent Thombs of the insane asylum stating that Mr. Smith is much improved.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder News 6-14-1894 – Marinus G. Smith was adjudged insane 6-12-1894. Erratic for some time. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder County Herald Weekly 10-21-1896 – Marinus G. Smith has returned to Boulder from the asylum in Pueblo in care of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Renkes. He is quite feeble and the asylum wrote to Mrs. Renkes saying he was very ill. She brought him home to spend his last days in his old home. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder County Herald Weekly 10-28-1896 – Marinus G. Smith is recovering and glad to be home. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder County Herald Weekly 11-25-1896 – Marinus G. Smith seems to be losing his mind again. He is very quiet. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder News 7-26-1900 – Judge Jacobs refused the petition to have Dr. I. L. Bond removed as conservator of the estate of Marinus G. Smith. The action was brought on by the prospective heirs of Mr. Smith. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 9-8-1896 – Local News – The council last night determined the University should have a stone walk all the way from Pearl street on 12th and resolved to compel the Gulf road to raise its tracks to grade. The estate of M. G. Smith, insane, will be compelled to contribute. The walk is dangerous and an affront to the eye. President Baker, Professor DeLong, Regent Giffin, Guy D. Duncan and L. C. Paddock addressed the council briefly on the subject and found that body ready to act.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 6-27-1894 Mrs. C.W. Renkes a few days since wrote to Dr. Thombs, the kind hearted superintendent of the State Insane Asylum, asking him to give her father any extra care that might be for his good and offering on her own part and that of her sisters and brother to compensate the doctor for such extra attention. In a kindly worded letter in reply, Dr. Thombs says Mr. Smith is doing well and closes as follows: “ As to his recovery, I am of the opinion that he should improve very much and perhaps recover his reason. His age is the only thing against him.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 10-19-1896 – Local News – Mrs. C. W. Renkes will arrive in Boulder tonight with her father, the aged Marinus G. Smith, who is very feeble and was quite ill at the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 10-21-1896 – Local News – The venerable Marinus G. Smith is once more at his home in this place, quite feeble but able to walk about to a moderate extent. He recognizes his old time friends, but still labors under certain hallucinations as to personal dangers threatening him.
Smith, Marinus G.
Boulder Daily Camera 11-18-1896 – Local News – Mrs. Renkes stated today that her father, Marinus G. Smith, was gradually growing more feeble in mind and failed utterly to recognize his old time friends. His physical strength is suffering in sympathy with his mind.
Smith, Marinus G.
Rocky Mountain News 6-3-1894 – The Damage at Boulder – Fully as Great as First Estimated – Boulder, Colo., June 2 – The account of the flood of Boulder creek, as told in these dispatches yesterday, was not overdrawn. So far as heard from the distress resultant upon it was mildly stated, for accounts of losses accumulate… An old citizen, Marine Smith, who was taken forcibly from his home in a stream by Sheriff Dyer and a force of men last night, is undoubtedly insane. He is in jail, a victim of the flood. His mania is that he is responsible for the awful visitation.
Smith, Mary
Denver Evening Post 10-3-1895 – His Insane Mother – Mary Smith Escapes From Her Son in St. Louis – The county commissioners received a letter several days ago from Joe Smith of St. Louis inquiring about his mother, Mrs. Mary Smith. Last August Mrs. Smith was sent to St. Louis at the expense of the county to her son Joe, who resided in that city. About ten days ago she disappeared from her son's home. The authorities in that city were notified and were trying to locate her. About four days after the occurrence was reported to the St. Louis authorities, Mrs. Smith appeared at the house in North Denver where she had previously lived and caused considerable disturbance. She was arrested and sent to the police station and when she arrived it was found that she was violently insane. She was placed in charge of the police matron where she remained until Monday, when she was taken to the county hospital. While she was under the care of the matron she made life a burden to the other occupants. All night long she would sit on the edge of her bed and cry and scream for her son. She continually asked to be taken to her son who, she said, had been killed during the night in the room adjoining the one she occupied. How she got to Denver from St. Louis without money no one knows, but the probabilities are that she got on a through train at the latter city and on account of her being insane the conductors allowed her to ride. The son will arrive in the city in a day or so and take her back to his home.
Smith, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 10-4-1895 – Tour of an Insane Woman – She Comes From St. Louis Without a Cent of Money – Mrs. Mary Smith, who disappeared from St. Louis some weeks ago, has been found in the county hospital. The woman was sent to her son in St. Louis by the county board several months ago. She dropped out of sight in St. Louis during the last week in September, and how she got to Denver is a mystery. She was found in North Denver last week and was sent to the county hospital. Since her arrival there she has spent her time crying for her son. He is expected to arrive to-morrow and take her home.
Smith, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 9-24-1895 – Her Name Was Smith – “It is enough for you to know that my name is Mrs. Smith,” said a little woman in a very business-like tone of voice, addressing Sergeant Dunnington at police headquarters yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Smith refused positively to give her full name. She was arrested at 321 Bert street and is charged with insanity. She has been affected with an hallucination that she owns the house at 321 Bert street while she lived there only as a boarder.
Smith, Mary A.
Rocky Mountain News 7-3-1894 – Civil Briefs – Mary A. Smith was adjudged insane yesterday. Charles Colvin, adjudged insane hitherto, was remanded to the insane asylum.
Smith, Mary F.
patient race: W sex: F age: 58 marital:M place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smith, Mollie
patient race W gender F age . marital status M place of birth . source 1910 census
Smith, Mrs.
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 3-3-1911 Mrs. John Smith was adjudged insane this morning in the county court and will be admitted to the asylum at Pueblo.
Smith, Mrs. Charles G.
Yampa Leader 8-29-1908 – Around the County – Mrs. Charles G. Smith of Steamboat was adjudged insane in the County court Monday, and was taken to Pueblo by Deputy Sheriff Frank Miller and Mrs. Bauder, a nurse. The case was aggravated by the death of the two-months-old baby of the patient last week.
Smith, Nellie
patient gender F race W age 62 marital status S birthplace Minnesota source 1930 census
Smith, Nellie
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:S place of birth: Minnesota occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Smith, O. E.
patient race: W sex: M age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Wisconsin occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smith, Pete
Brandon News 7-7-1921 – Pete Smith, a well-to-do bachelor-farmer, about 40 years old, was shot by another farmer, George Lammers, also well-to-do, southeast of Sedgwick near the Phillips county line. Smith is thought to be insane.
Smith, Robert
patient, male, indian, age 27, divorced, born Oklahoma, 1930 Woodcroft census
Smith, Ronald F.
Colorado Springs Free Press 3-15-1949 - Bruce Lashes Hospital for Killers' Escapade - Police Chief I.B. (Dad) Bruce lashed out at the incompetency of state hospital authorities at Pueblo last night over two ex-cops, both murderers, who took "french leave" from the institution Sunday on a taxicab joyride with two student nurses to Colorado Springs. "It's a dangerous situation," he warned, adding that we didn't want inmates of the hospital up here – especially convicted murderers." Dr. F.H. Zimmerman, hospital director, identified the two as Frank D. Cowgill, 37, and Ronald F. Smith, 24, both killers committed to the asylum on insanity pleas. Their privileges have been revoked indefinitely for the unauthorized absence, he added. After the nurses were put on the Rock Island Rocket bound for Minneapolis, the pair went on a drinking spree before their return to the Steel City. Bruce made known his feelings about the escapade after it was learned that a friend of Cowgill had driven the pair back to Pueblo Sunday night in time to make the 8 p.m. roll call. Cowgill was committed to the institution after he calmly shot a companion during a brawl in 1946. Smith, a former Grand Junction patrolman, went berserk in the cocktail lounge of the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver and killed a patron in 1946. The anonymous friend of Cowgill said he received a telephone call from the killer shortly after noon asking that he come to the Rio Grande depot. There the friend found Cowgill, Smith and the two nurses on the train, with Smith "affectionately" kissing one of the girls goodby, police were told. The nurses, whose names were not revealed, had been in training at the state hospital but were en route to another hospital in Minneapolis. Cowgill said the four had hired a cab for $12 with part of the fare paid by the nurses. Before the girls left, the four had several drinks in a tavern on Pikes Peak Avenue. After the departure of the nurses, Cowgill, Smith and the friend moved to another tavern on South Tejon Street, where the killers had several more drinks. During the drinking Cowgill urged Smith not to "fall in love" again or "this thing will happen every three month," the friend quoted the killer as saying. Smith was immaculately dressed in sports clothes and paid for most of the drinks in the local taverns. He also repeatedly flashed a cigaret lighter, although such ornaments and matches of all kinds are forbidden at the hospital. During the conversations, Cowgill hinted to the friend that the two had spent the previous night at the Vail Hotel in Pueblo. A check at the hotel showed that if this were true they were not registered under their own names. After having dinner at the friend's house, they were driven back to Pueblo and let off at the Vail Hotel again. Later Sunday night Cowgill and Smith admitted having a "drink or two" during their "day of freedom," Dr. Zimmerman said, but there was no evidence to show they had been drunk. Cowgill was convicted of killing William L. Cross, of Kearney, Neb., in the Denver Union Depot, June 2, 1946. He was found guilty by reason of insanity. Since then several attempts to free him have been turned down. Smith shot Dr. James K. Mullen of Pocatello, Idaho, on Sept., 30, 1946. He served briefly in the state prison before being sent to the hospital for psychiatric treatment. Colorado Springs Free Press 3-18-1949 - Zimmerman Still Investigating State Hospital Pair's Joyride - Denver, March 17 – Dr. F.H. Zimmerman, superintendent of the State Hospital at Pueblo, today notified Gov. Lee Knous that he still was investigating the apparent escapade of two inmate-murderers who were undergoing treatment there. He referred to Frank D. Cowgill, former Denver policeman who shot and killed a Nebraska man as a climax to a drinking spree, and Ronald F. Smith, former Grand Junction policeman who also shot and killed a man in a Denver hotel tavern after "loading" himself on scotch throughout the day. The pair violated their "ground privileges," Dr. Zimmerman informed Knous by letter, when they left the hospital last Sunday and drove to Colorado Springs with two student nurses from Minneapolis, Minn., who were sent to Colorado for further study. The nurses boarded a train at Colorado Springs to return to Minneapolis. Apparently dissatisfied with the reply he had received in answer to a request made by telephone for full details, Knous then wrote Zimmerman another letter which he made public today. "The circumstance that the absence of these two inmates from your institution was not discovered until afternoon of the day following their departure, and that upon information from outside sources, naturally prompts the inquiry as to the adequacy of their supervision and the necessity for taking additional precautions in this connection," the Governor stated in his letter. The Governor said further that "considering the background of these individuals, I am very sure the public as well as myself are concerned in two or three matters not mentioned in your letter." Knous thanked Dr. Zimmerman for the report on the case he submitted and said he wanted the superintendent to advise him further with regard to a detailed report on what precautions would be taken to prevent recurrence of the incident. Dr. Zimmerman said that he had "no knowledge of the escapade until I was called by a reporter in Colorado Springs Monday" regarding the case. An anonymous tipster informed Police Chief I.B. "Dad" Bruce of the pair's presence in Colorado Springs, but before the officer investigated it the two men had already returned to the State Hospital.
Smith, Sam
Rocky Mountain News 3-15-1888 – Florence Notes – Florence, Colo., March 14 – Sam Smith, who was considered at one time one of Florence's most enterprising citizens, died this afternoon, at his home, in this city. About two years ago Sam went into the saloon business here, and a too free use of drink literally ate his insides out, according to certain physician's testimony. Drink had also muddled his brain to a considerable extent. On a recent visit to Pueblo he was arrested for insanity. He was brought home sick last week, which terminated in his death.
Smith, Saphrmia
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Smith, V. R.
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status Un birthplace United States source 1930 census
Smith, Virgil R.
patient race: W sex: M age: 43 marital:. place of birth: California occupation: none source: 1920 census
Smith, W.R.
Littleton Independent 12-2-1904 - Littleton Ranchman Dies in Pueblo, Colorado. Pueblo, Nov. 26. – W. R. Smith, 28 years of age, a well known ranchman of Littleton, died yesterday at the state insane asylum, of paresis. The deceased was well known in different parts of the state and had been in the asylum about three months. The body was taken to Littleton by Mrs. A. Linhart, mother of the deceased. Mr. Smith above refered to came to Colorado when quite young and resided in or about Littleton all his life. He was a very bright man until the last three years, his brain became afflicted which finally caused his death.
Smith, William
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Smith, William L.
patient gender M race W age 35 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Smith, William L.
patient race: W sex: M age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Smith, Willie
patient race W gender F age 25 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Smithson, George
Denver Evening Post 4-9-1897 – A Swing Around the Circle – George Smithson of Ouray, was declared insane yesterday.
Smithton, George
Rocky Mountain News 4-9-1897 – Adjudged Insane – George Smithton of Ouray Taken to Pueblo – Ouray, Colo., April 8 – Deputy Sheriffs Perry Davis and Jim Williams of Ridgway came up from that city Sunday, bringing with them George Smithton, and placed him in charge of Sheriff Benton under the charge of being an insane person. The trial took place in the county court before Judge Hulaniski and a jury. District Attorney Lyman I. Henry represented the people. Mr. Smithton was adjudged insane, and Sheriff Benton left for Pueblo this morning to place him in the state insane asylum. Mr. Smithton has resided in Ridgway for several years and has been regarded as a quiet and respectable citizen. He is a single man and all his relatives live in England. He is rational on all subjects with the exception of having formed an hallucination that persons in Ridgway had conspired to kill him.
Smotherman, Carrio
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Snavel, Robert S.
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1856 age 44 marital status S place of birth Poland occupation miner source : 1900 census
Snavel, Robert S.
patient gender M race W age 74 marital status S birthplace Poland source 1930 census
Snavel, Robert S.
patient race: W sex: M age: 63 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Snavel, Robert S.
Rocky Mountain News 1-16-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3481 – Robert Snavely, lunacy; T. D. Coffy appointed guardian ad litem; order for venire, etc.; set for trial January 16.
Snavel, Robert S.
Rocky Mountain News 1-17-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3481 – Robert Snavel; lunacy; trial to jury; verdict of insane; defendant ordered returned to county hospital until removed to asylum by sheriff; T. D. Coffey, guardian ad litem, allowed $5.
Snavel, Robert S.
Rocky Mountain News 1-17-1894 – An Insane Idea – Escape of a Lunatic from the County Court – Robert Snavel was tried for lunacy yesterday morning. He was perfectly quiet and docile through the trial; so much so that Bailiff John Murray was convinced of his peaceful intentions. He therefore let the lunatic stand calmly by when he arranged the wagon that was to carry him back to the county hospital. Snavel suddenly aroused from his lamblike demeanor and sprinted gaily down Sixteenth street. There was a lively scene for a few moments, half a dozen people joining in the chase. A man named Bartley caught up with him and jumping on his back brought him to the ground. Snavel submitted quietly enough. As he was driving back to the hospital he said despondently to the bailiff: “You're taking me back there for them to poison me;” this seeming to be his fixed idea. Amanda G. Stokesbury, an old lady, was also found insane.
Snavel, Robert S.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Robert Suadel, January 18… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Snavel, Robert S.
patient race W gender M age 53 marital status S place of birth Poland occupation miner source 1910 census
Snavely, Coy F.
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status Un birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Snavely, Coy F.
patient race: W sex: M age: 30 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Snedeker, Christ
patient gender M race W age 73 marital status S birthplace Denmark source 1930 census
Snell, Christina
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Snell, Christina
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Snell, Curt
Greeley Tribune 6-4-1903 - Curt Snell was adjudged insane in the county court Tuesday and was sent to the asylum at Pueblo.
Snell, Curt
Fairplay Flume 7-21-1905 - Sheriff S.W. Packer and Lent Hall went to Pueblo Sunday, the former having in custody Curt Snell of Alma who has been adjudged insane. Mr. Snell has been placed in the state insane asylum at Pueblo, Messrs Hall and Packer returning to Fairplay Wednesday.
Snepp, Joseph
patient race W gender M age 21 marital status S place of birth Kentucky source 1910 census
Snider, Clarence
patient gender M race W age 29 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Snider, Clarence
patient race: W sex: M age: 19 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Snigelberg, Conrad
admitted 8-6-1898 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Snipes, Jesse
Collbran Plateau Voice 5-3-1918 – Notice of Final Settlement – No. 1207 – Estate of Jesse Snipes, Insane. Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of May, A.D. 1918, the undersigned will present to the County Court of Mesa County, Colorado, his accounts for final settlement of the administration of said estate, when and where all persons in interest may appear and object to them, if they so desire. Joel J. Long, Conservator.
Snodgrass, Grace
patient gender F race W age 32 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Snover, Melba R.
patient gender F race W age 23 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Snow, Harry
patient gender M race W age 62 marital status D birthplace Massachusetts source 1930 census
Snuffin, Albert
patient race: W sex: M age: 58 marital:W place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Snyde, Authur M.
admitted 4-8-1900 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Snyde, Authur M.
patient race W gender M month born Unk year born 1865 age 35 marital status S place of birth unk occupation unk source 1900 census Woodcroft asylum
Snyde, Authur M.
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital: W place of birth: United Statesnone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Democrat 1-26-1881 – In the county court yesterday Annie Snyder was tried before a jury to determine the question of her insanity. The evidence disclosed the fact that she was undoubtedly insane, and she was so adjudged, and the proper steps ordered to be taken for her removal to the asylum.
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Democrat 2-9-1881 – Deputy Jailor George Hayden had a hard struggle Monday evening, in the corridors of the jail with the crazy man William Broderick, locked up some days ago. When the time came for locking the prisoners in their cells in the evening Broderick was ordered in with the others but defiantly refused to go. Mr. Hayden courageously seized the madman, but in an instant felt himself in a giant's grasp. He attempted to choke Broderick into submission and in the struggle the latter seized Hayden's hand as a mad dog would and bit him severely. The prisoners, seeing the condition of affairs, came to the rescue of Hayden and with great difficulty succeeded in placing Broderick in a cell. Mr. Hayden was quite uneasy about the bite on his hand, and sucked the wound as though he had been bitten by a rattlesnake. Only slight scars are left, but he will not soon forget his struggle with the madman. There are two insane people now confined in the jail. Broderick and Annie Snyder and it is high time that they were being removed to the insane asylum.
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Daily Herald 1-26-1881 – Local Jottings – Annie Snyder, who was taken up and placed in the county jail several days ago, for roaming through the streets in a demented condition, was yesterday taken before a jury in the county court, and passed an examination. The jury ordered that she be provided for in accordance with the provisions of the statute. She will in all probability be sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo until she recovers her sanity.
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Daily Herald 1-30-1881 – A Demon's Plot – A Mad Woman Attempts Her Guard's Death – Two guards at the county jail narrowly escaped death on Friday night, and their close and frightening proximity to the celestial regions has cautioned them in their dealings with a demented woman, who has been referred to in a previous issue as Annie Snyder. She was rescued some days since by an officer while bare footed in the streets and when she was running hither and thither as if in pursuit of some object that fled like the chaff in the whirlwind. She was taken to the county jail and is now imprisoned until some disposition is made by the county of the shattered mind. In her aberration, or hallucination, she is continually communing with the departed spirits of her parents and a husband, whom she most affectionately appeals to as Phillip. Last evening, about dusk, the reporter visited the county jail and the voice of a woman talking confusedly and irrationally above, attracted his attention. “What is that noise?” inquired the man of the pencil, of Deputy Sheriff Hayden. Amused, the reporter's eyes were opened, the gentleman said that it was only the antics of a crazy woman by the name of Annie Snyder. “Poor thing, she is unable to realize the fact that we are trying to contribute to her welfare when we keep her caged in the house. This is not by fits and starts, but it is a continual noise that is interrupted only when we speak to her. Last night she was lying in her bed, easy and quiet, when every one had retired, and she had not unfrequently swore that she would have her liberty. Last night with a determined effort to escape, she arose from her bed, and going to the door, attempted to force it open. She was defeated in this, but rushing around noiselessly she brought a demented brain into service and summoned from it every spark of invention with which it was possessed. Finally she thought of the gas jet, and going to it turned the deadly element on. She waited until the atmosphere was thoroughly filled with the gas, having sufficient sense to observe the law of self-preservation, and obeying it by holding her head out of the second story window, and when she thought that her victims were dead she gave a hideous shriek that aroused the whole house from their slumbers. They sat up in the beds startled, while their senses were almost benumbed by the deadening influences of the atmosphere which they had been breathing. They were almost gone and the demon of a mad woman stood in a corner yelling and gloating over her imagined conquest. The men managed to get to the window in the rear of the room, and raising it after much difficulty, pushed their heads out and were soon restored by the free and invigorating atmosphere. By this time the draft through the room had dispelled the vitiating element, and lighting the gas they found the woman crouched in the corner, breathing nervously as if she realized the guilt of her murderous attempt. The men were frightened, and called their associates from down stairs. They were afraid to close their eyes for some time, and after discussing various propositions, they concluded to handcuff the woman. Accordingly the cuffs were procured, and the men started towards the woman who was fast retreating with evident knowledge of what was about to take place. She supplicated the mercy of the jailer, and swore that she was neither mad nor crazy. She denied having turned on the gas, and protested her guilt. She said that she had just seen her father, and he had called her to his arms, when she crept noiselessly from her bed and tried to unfasten the door. The guards, she said, wouldn't permit her, and she thought of the death by gas. She contradicted herself frequently and looked at the door with a vacant stare. The reporter at the invitation, walked up stairs and found the woman in bed. She was going through the most exciting demonstrations, and said that she was going upon the stage that night. She said that God had blessed her with three children, whom she intended to put upon the stage. She would then be perfectly happy. At this juncture Jailer Reese Tucker arrived with a bundle of clothing that he had purchased for her. She had torn her clothes into shreds, and laughed and screamed over her triumph. Nothing could be learned of her former residence, save that she was from Arkansas, and that her mother and father would soon rescue her. “What makes you conduct yourself in such a manner,” asked the reporter. “I dunno,” answered the woman. “You see I went to sleep one day and I don't think I've woke up since. Ain't it a good thing though, that we live for ever?” The reporter, although somewhat skeptical upon this revelation, answered yes, and inquired if she was married. She said that she was to be married that night, and confessed with pitiful simplicity that “her Phillip and her” had only been living together. The reporter left the scene of insanity at this juncture and with but little satisfaction. The poor woman is suffering terribly, and some provision should be made for her at once. She cannot be kept in a cell, for, revolting against her imprisonment, she uses all manner of violence against herself.
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Daily Herald 2-1-1881 – Local Jottings – Annie Snyder, the poor lunatic who is confined at the county jail, is not improved at all. It is impossible to keep her clothed, as she tears every vestige of apparel from her in her fits.
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Daily Herald 2-6-1881 – Local Jottings – Annie Snyder, the crazy woman at the county jail, is apparently growing worse daily and the hideous noises of the place are very annoying to both jailer and prisoners.
Snyder, Annie
Leadville Daily Herald 2-9-1881 – A Madman's Rage – … There are now Broderick and Annie Snyder in the jail for insanity, while Carlow is declared to be about on the verge. It may be that the light air has affected these parties in this way.
Snyder, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 11-23-1887 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – In re. People vs. Charles Snyder; inquisition of lunacy; Robert H. Latta appointed guardian ad litem; hearing November 26.
Snyder, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 11-27-1887 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – People vs. Charles Snyder; insanity; verdict of lunacy.
Snyder, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 11-27-1887 – A Strange, Sad Story – C. T. Snyder on Trial in the County Court and Adjudged Insane – Hereditary in His Family and Strange Actions of His Grandfather – A Once Hard Drinker and Smoker Fanatical on Religion – It is a strange story. A reformed drunkard went crazy and yesterday was adjudged insane in the county court. C. T. Snyder's case is a peculiarly sad one, and his wife yesterday related a sad story – almost a pitiful tale – of her husband's unfortunate condition. Sixteen years ago they were married, and during the past five or six years Mrs. Snyder's life has been filled with many cares and burdens. Her husband's mind has been gradually failing since 1882, and about two months ago the indications of his insanity became apparent to all who knew him. He had formerly been a hard drinker and smoker, and when he broke off from his dissipated habits he became fanatical on religious matters. But he continued harmless in his religious ravings and fanaticism until a few weeks ago. One evening at the Hammond meetings he insisted on speaking, and before he could be made to desist proclaimed that he had millions of dollars which he would spend – yes, every cent of it – in the cause of Christianity and temperance. About two weeks ago his symptoms assumed such a serious and dangerous character that he was sent to jail at the solicitation of his wife and friends. But a friend of Mr. Snyder's had him taken out of jail, and has found it a difficult task to restrain him from violence. He suddenly took a freak that all his old whisky bills should be paid, and Snyder sold his horse and buggy for that purpose. It seems that he was afraid to trust himself to go to the saloons alone and took a friend with him, whom he gave the money with which to pay these little bar room accounts. Mr. Snyder is a Pennsylvanian by birth, hailing from Luzerne county, that state. On coming to Denver he associated himself in the real estate business with Mr. George Armstrong, and had their offices in the Graham block. They did a good business and prospered until this affliction came upon Mr. Snyder. It seems that a sister of Mr. Snyder, while visiting in this city, stated to Mr. Armstrong that insanity had long been hereditary in Mr. Snyder's family. And thus his friends here were thrown on their guard and were observant as to his conduct and manner of life. It seems that Mr. Snyder's grandfather, a wealthy distiller in Luzerne county, was afflicted in a manner similar to his grandson. Joining the church, he became fanatical in his views, and one night while returning from prayer meeting, burned his distillery. The result of the trial yesterday is that Snyder is insane and he will be sent to the asylum for treatment. He is nearly 50 years of age and has a wife and three children.
Snyder, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 12-17-1887 – Is He Insane? – Charles T. Snyder was a while ago sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo from this city. There seems to be some question as to his insanity. He writes from Pueblo denying it, and his letter bears all internal evidence of being the composition of a perfectly sane man. The Pueblo Star, in a late issue, says of the case: “There is no evidence of insanity in the composition of Mr. Snyder, nor is there any, it is said, traceable in his lineage. Since here he has been allowed privileges accorded sane men, and he has availed himself of the opportunity to visit many of his old-time friends, among whom is Ed Austin, who was at one time a partner of Mr. Snyder in the grocery and commission business at Denver.”
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 3-14-1888 – The Snyder Lunacy Case – Charles T. Snyder was some time ago declared a lunatic and sent to the asylum at Pueblo. Yesterday his case was again brought before the County court on the claim that his reason has been restored, and the court, after hearing the testimony, so held. Upon this Emma Snyder, the man's wife, filed a petition asking that she have the sole custody of the three children. The court granted a temporary order to this effect, and grant a final hearing in a few days.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 4-27-1888 – The Snyder Divorce Case – Fight in Court for the Custody of the Children – Decision for the Mother – Charles T. Snyder, as is well known, was some time ago committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo as a lunatic. About a month ago, upon restoration to reason, he was released. His wife, Emma T. Snyder, soon afterward commenced suit for divorce in the County court on the grounds of extreme cruelty, and also set out that he was an improper person to have charge of the children, and asked that she have the exclusive custody of the children. The court granted a restraining order, prohibiting Mr. Snyder from interfereing with the mother's care and custody of the children. The defendant, by his attorney Judge Harrington, filed a demurrer, alleging that the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute either a cause of action for divorce or ground for depriving the father of the custody of the children, and upon this made a motion that the restraining order be dissolved. The demurrer and motion was argued yesterday. The court sustained the demurrer in so far as it applied to the divorce, but overruled it as to the rest, and denied the motion.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 6-23-1888 – Wants a Divorce – Mrs. Snyder Accuses Her Husband of Drunkenness and Cruelty – In the County court yesterday the divorce suit of Mrs. L. E. Snyder vs. Charles T. Snyder was commenced, and as the case is being vigorously contested will probably occupy the attention of the court for a few days. The plaintiff's case is founded on the extreme cruelty and drunkenness of her husband. In November last Snyder was adjudged insane and sent to the state insane asylum, but was recently discharged as cured. Mrs. Snyder also asks for the custody of three children, the issue of the marriage.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 11-23-1887 – Bad Case of Lunacy – Proceedings under inquisition of lunacy were commenced in the County court yesterday against Charles T. Snyder, a well-known real estate man of this city. Mr. Snyder, it is reported, has recently become deranged over religious matters, and often imagines himself in awful danger from the devil. The order for taking him into custody was issued yesterday morning and put into the hands of Deputy Sheriff Shrock. The officer had some difficulty in finding him. He had left his home, and where he was wandering no one knew. In the afternoon the officer discovered him at his home, preaching. He lives near Lincoln park, in West Denver. He was taken into custody and will be carefully guarded until after the trial of his case in the County court.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 11-29-1887 – Epileptic Fit – Charles T. Snyder, lately adjudged a lunatic, was attacked by an epileptic fit at the county jail yesterday. Dr. McLaughlin attended him and he quickly recovered. He was to have been taken to the lunatic asylum yesterday, but that was delayed for a day or two.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 11-30-1887 – Local Brevities – Charlie Schuck took Charles T. Snyder down to the lunatic asylum yesterday.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 1-21-1888 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – Estate Charles F. Snyder, lunatic; leave to John A. Perry to withdraw file for twenty-four hours.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 3-6-1888 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – Estate of Charles T. Snyder, lunatic; order issued on superintendent of insane asylum for release of lunatic to the order of George W. Anderson.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 3-6-1888 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – Estate of Charles T. Snyder; in re petition for sale of real estate; William M. McGuire appointed guardian ad litem to minor children.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 3-20-1888 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – Charles J. Snyder, lunacy; leave to B. F. Harrington to withdraw report in five days.
Snyder, Charles T.
Rocky Mountain News 7-8-1888 – County Court – 10069 – S. Emma Snyder vs. Charles T. Snyder; relief; hearing as to terms of decree; judgment on verdict granting plaintiff divorce (order to be filed); matter of custody of children and matter of alimony to remain in status quo; leave to Perry & Carpenter to withdraw files forty-eight hours.
Snyder, Christopher
patient race: W sex: M age: 62 marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Snyder, Daniel
Rocky Mountain News 7-26-1891 – Locked Him Up – Leadville, Colo., July 25 – This section of the state at present seems to be afflicted with an epidemic of insanity. A man named Daniel Snyder was placed in the county jail this morning after being pronounced insane by Dr. Johns. For a long time past Snyder has been leading a hermit's life, residing in a lonely cabin in the hills surrounding Twin lakes, and making a living by prospecting. He has been acting very strangely for the last few weeks, and several residents of that vicinity whose attention had been called to Snyder's strange antics proceeded in a body to his cabin this morning and captured him. He was brought to this city in a wagon and locked up for safe keeping.
Snyder, Daniel P.
patient race W sex M month of birth October year of birth 1835 age 65 marital S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation miner source 1900 census
Snyder, Daniel P.
Leadville Herald Democrat 7-26-1891 – An Old Soldier Crazy – Daniel Snyder, an old soldier and member of Garfield Post No. 9, Grand Army of the Republic, was brought in from Twin lakes yesterday, suffering from insanity. He labors under the hallucination that somebody is going to murder him to get his pension. He is at the county jail.
Snyder, Daniel P.
Leadville Herald Democrat 7-28-1891 – Adjudged Insane – Daniel P. Snyder, who was brought in from Twin Lakes on Saturday, on a charge of insanity was tried before Judge Hall yesterday, and a verdict of insanity rendered by the following jury: J. T. Briggs, James Weir, Thomas McNeill, Tom Timmons, J. C. Stewart and A. Andrews. Dr. Johns testified the insanity of Snyder was caused by nervous prostration, owing to the intense strain and excitement over prospecting for mineral. He also testified that the case was curable. He will be taken to Pueblo as soon as the sheriff receives a message as to the accommodations at that institution at present.
Snyder, Daniel P.
Leadville Herald Democrat 9-19-1891 – Gone to Pueblo – Last evening Deputy Sheriff Horrigan took Dwyer and Schneider to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Snyder, Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Snyder, Fred
patient gender M race W age 40 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Snyder, George W.
patient gender M race W age 80 marital status M birthplace New York source 1930 census
Snyder, Harry E.
patient race W gender M age 26 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania occupation chauffeur source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Snyder, Jacob
patient race: W sex: M age: 71 marital: M place of birth: New Yorknone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Snyder, Melvin H.
patient gender M race W age 52 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Snyder, Mrs. G. W.
patient race W gender F age 46 marital status . place of birth Michigan source 1910 census
Snyder, Mrs. G. W.
patient race: W sex: F age: 56 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Snyoskie, Joseph
Silverton Standard 10-24-1903 Joseph Snyoskie, of Russian-Polish birth, was adjudged insane last Monday in Josiah Watson's court and the following day was accompanied by Sheriff Casad to the Pueblo asylum. Snyoskie had been in San Juan county for the past two years, and from time to time was thought to be demented, which condition was brought on by the fall of rock on his head while at work in a mine some years ago.
Sodan, Thomas
patient race W gender M age 44 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation miller source 1910 census
Sodan, Thomas
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sodan, Thomas
patient race: W sex: M age: 54 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sodan, Thomas
Rocky Mountain News 1-17-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: The following cases will be tried to-day: 3478 – Theodore F. Sodon; lunacy.
Sodan, Thomas
Rocky Mountain News 1-18-1894 – Tried for Lunacy – Two of the Prisoners Declared Not Insane – Three persons were tried for lunacy yesterday morning. Rebecca Shaffer, an old lady, was undoubtedly insane. T. F. Sadon and Rudolph Eggert were both acquitted, their manner in the stand being such as to convince the jury of their sanity. Eggert, however, on the stand, treated his hallucination in a careless manner. He said he had a bad dream when he was sick and out of his head, and it worried him for awhile, but he was all over it now. His manner was so rational that the jury returned a verdict of not insane.
Sodan, Thomas
Rocky Mountain News 1-18-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3480 – Thomas F. Sodan, lunacy; trial to jury; verdict of insane; order of confinement in county hospital until removed to asylum; George Simmonds, guardian ad litem, allowed $5.
Sodan, Thomas
patient race W gender M month born May year born 1865 age 35 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation miller source : 1900 census
Sodan, Thomas
Rocky Mountain News 10-13-1895 – Lunatic on Parole – Thomas Soden, a lunatic, who has been wandering about the city on parole, was recommitted to the Pueblo asylum by Judge Steele yesterday. It was thought that he had been cured, but the old symptoms returned recently.
Sodan, Thomas F.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Thomas F. Soden, January 21… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Soden, Thomas F.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Soegel, Josephine
Carbonate Chronicle 5-9-1910 – To Test Her Sanity – Sheriff Campbell yesterday arrested Josephine Soegel, of 723 Elm street, on complain of relatives who allege that she is insane. The woman was to have been tried in the county court yesterday afternoon but the attending physician wanted time to look at her condition and the hearing was continued until Friday, May 13. The woman is married and has several children.
Sohm, Chrysantia
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 40 marital status unk place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Sohm, Cresentia
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status Un birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Sohm, Cresentia
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:. place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sohm, Cresentia
patient race W gender F age . marital status . place of birth Iowa source 1910 census
Sohm, M C Miss
admitted 3-27-1898 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Solomon, Grace
Rocky Mountain News 12-3-1896 – Captive in Her Father's House – Nude and Neglected Save for the Attentions of a Young Man Who Acts as Her Keeper – In a room over a pawn shop in a business block on one of the most populous business streets in Denver, for the past six months, there has been confined by a rope tied to an ankle and fastened to the wall, a young woman about 21 years of age, nude and without bedding or any of the conveniences of life. The young woman is said to be insane and is confined in the living rooms of the family of J. Solomon, the well-known pawnbroker, at No. 1653 Larimer street. Over the pawnshop, Mr. Solomon, his wife and daughter live. In the largest of the rooms, occupying one corner, which is partitioned off after a fashion, stands the poor girl, bereft of reason, but otherwise appearing in the best of physical health. Fastened to the wall by a rope, which binds one ankle and a wrist, the maiden has for several months passed her time like a wild animal, sleeping on the floor, eating and drinking what is given her, physically alive, but mentally dead. Occupying the same room is the girl's mother and a young man about her age, a member of the family, and Mr. Solomon, who sleeps in the store below. Miss Grace Solomon is the name of the unfortunate girl and her age is given at 21 years. Although weak-minded since birth, it is only during the last year that her mania has taken a destructive turn, and it has been impossible to keep her in clothing or to leave anything destructible within her reach. In a condition that demands the care that only an asylum can give, yet the girl's mother has persistently refused to permit her to be taken away and the condition of the poor unfortunate has become steadily worse until friends who knew of the situation notified the authorities. The attention of the Humane society was first called to the condition of the unfortunate, her condition being absolutely pitiable. Confined in the open room without proper or intelligent care, suffering from cold, as much as such a person can suffer, and exposed to the curious glances of all who might enter, it was certainly a case that called for humane interference. After investigating, Secretary Whitehead notified County Commissioner Wheeler, but that official thought that nothing could be done, as the county had no means to properly care for such a case, and there is no more room in the asylum. That the great state of Colorado and the rich county of Arapahoe is not able to properly care for such cases is a confession that should cause the face of every taxpayer to blush with shame. What a commentary upon boasted civilization. Statement of the Father – J. Solomon, father of the young woman referred to, was seen by a reporter of The News yesterday afternoon and from him was learned the following state of facts: “My daughter Grace was born a little over 21 years ago in Glasgow, Ky., but from her birth we knew something was wrong with her, and we always thought it was because her mother was badly frightened by a very destructive fire which occurred in the town a few weeks before her birth. Gracie grew worse as she grew older, and within the last year she has become very violent; so much so that she destroys all the furniture she can lay her hands on, and absolutely refuses to retain any clothing upon her body. Some years ago her mother fell under the influence of the notorious Dr. Matthews, who masqueraded in this city as a spiritual medium and clairvoyant and who is now doing time at Canon City for defrauding different women of their money and property. She became a constant attendant at his séances and other services and was his faithful follower until the prison doors closed upon him. Later she met Jules Wallace, who completed the work so ably begun by Matthews to the extent that her mind became unbalanced almost as badly as that of our ill-fated daughter, and about seven months ago she actually drove me from home and placed Grace in the condition you now see her.” Uses Scalding Water – “I can never get into their apartments except I find my wife in one of her occasional lucid intervals, and she scalds me with hot water and threatens my life at all other times. I have lost much, nearly all, of my property, but I still have enough to take good care of Grace, yet I do hope the Humane society or the county commissioners can be induced to take her from her mother and put her in an asylum or hospital at my expense, where she can receive proper treatment and experienced and skillful nursing. About three months ago she was examined by Dr. Pershing, but her mother was so wrought up about it that nothing was done.” During this recital Mr. Solomon showed great feeling and emphasized his affection for his family, which is the dominant trait of the Jewish (?) character. From the Humane Society – Secretary Whitehead made the following statement: “Some time Tuesday, complaint was made at our office that a young woman was tied up in a room on Larimer street and had been thus confined for some months past, and after carefully hearing what the complainant had to say I proceeded to investigate. I went to the number indicated and after climbing the stairs with Mr. Solomon we entered first a long, narrow room partitioned off from the main part of the floor by a three-quarter partition. Here we found a young man rubbing some clothes in a wash tub like an ordinary laundress. We passed into the next room, which was a very large one, being all the rest of the floor at the front of the building, and in which were bed and other articles of furniture. At the front of this room was Mrs. Solomon kneeling at a trunk. The moment she heard us enter she turned like a tigress and bounded toward us, brandishing her arms and shrieking out the direst threats of vengeance on her husband, who really seemed frightened by her manner. In one corner at the rear of the room was an article of furniture, something like a wardrobe or locker, standing out about six or eight feet from the wall and about four and a half feet high, with one end resting against the cross partition. From the other end to the wall was stretched a wire and on this was hung a curtain. Mr. Solomon approached this and beckoned me to look behind it. I did so, and standing there as naked as she came into this world was a young woman, stout and healthy looking, apparently about 20 or 21 years of age, who stared at us as any wild animal might and with no more expression in her eyes or face. She was tied with a rope around the ankle. I inquired if the woman received no care and was informed that the young man in the other room occasionally looked after her wants. “I reported the matter to the county commissioners and the matter is now in the hands of Mr. Wheeler, chairman of the board.” Mr. Wheeler was seen at his residence last evening and in response to a request for a statement from him in regard to the matter, said: No Time for Investigation – “I have only known of the condition of this unfortunate woman for two days and have not yet had time to make an investigation, although I intended to do so to-day. I shall look into it the first thing in the morning. You may say for me that had the board known of this case a few days ago, before we cared for the last female patient, we certainly would have had her adjudged insane and sent to the asylum at Pueblo, where she could have been placed in the women's ward and been under the exclusive care and attention of women. As it is now we cannot get another woman into the asylum from this county until there is a vacancy. I do not feel that her condition would be ameliorated much, if any, by placing her in the hospital, as she could not be under the exclusive care of women there, and besides we have no padded cells or any place but a bare room in which to confine her, and she would be much worse off there than she ought to be with her mother, if she is cared for as I know Mr. Solomon is amply able to have her cared for. However, when I have visited her in her present quarters and looked into her condition and investigated her surroundings, I may be of an entirely different opinion, and if I conclude that it is a proper case for the commissioners to act upon you may rest assured that we will not hesitate to do our duty as we see it.” Owing to the absence of Dr. Pershing from the city yesterday he could not be seen.
Solomon, Grace
Denver Evening Post 12-3-1896 – The Solomon Girl – Chairman Wheeler Will Not Interfere in the Case – Chairman Wheeler of the board of county commissioners this afternoon investigated the alleged case of cruelty of J. Solomon, the Larimer street pawnbroker, toward his daughter, Grace. Chairman Wheeler does not believe that the parents are deserving of so much condemnation as has been heaped upon them. His statement is as follows: To the Public – In regard to the highly sensational report of the inhuman treatment of an insane girl in this morning's News, I wish to say that I have carefully investigated the case and find that the girl is insane; that she tears her clothing off from herself and destroys her bedding so that it is necessary to confine her; but it would have to be done anywhere, and I find also that she is in her mother's care, who has devoted her whole time to the afflicted girl ever since she was born, and attends to her with all the devotion that a loving mother nearly always gives the one of her children who most needs her attention. The house is kept warm and comfortable, and day and night she is cared for in an intelligent and proper manner. I find, further, that the parents are able to provide, and do provide, everything necessary to her comfort, and it seems to me to be a case where outside interference is unnecessary and uncalled for. It also seems to me that it is affliction enough for the family, and especially the mother, to endure without having their grief paraded on the outside page of a newspaper in scare heads and to have their conduct to the unfortunate one distorted to make it appear inhuman, when they are doing all in their power to make life as endurable as is possible for one so afflicted. – M. C. Wheeler.
Solomon, Grace
Rocky Mountain News 12-4-1896 – New Lunacy Laws – Officious Exemplar of County Arrogance Poses as a Critic – County Commissioner Wheeler yesterday appeared in a new role. He appointed himself as a special lunacy commission on the sad case of Grace Solomon, the particulars of which were related exclusively in yesterday's News, visited the place of confinement of the poor girl and then issued a pronunciamento to the public to the effect that he had adjudged the girl insane, that he found her nude and without clothes, and in fact, that the statements made in The News were true, but that he thought it better that her mother should continue to take care of her where she was, and that outside interference was unnecessary and uncalled for, and bemoaned the cruel fate of the family which was compelled to seek his volunteer offices. Mr. Wheeler has long paraded before the taxpayers as the watchdog of the county treasury, and has several times locked the safe doors after the money had all been stolen by officials under him, but this, as far as known, is the first attempt to relieve the county court of its duties in looking after alleged insane persons. Heretofore, the county court alone, by the statutes of the state, has had the power of adjudging people insane and determining as to what should be done with them. Become State Charges – Once it is determined that a person is insane, and consequently not able to provide for himself, the state, though the statutes made and provided, assumes that responsibility, and the family of the person has nothing to say regarding it, except to give evidence when required. According to the laws of Colorado, when a case of suspected insanity is reported, it is the duty of the county court and its officers to have the person brought into court and examined, and if found insane, the court determines what is to be done. Heretofore that has been the custom, but County Chairman Wheeler proposes to change all of this, and as grand high Pooh Bah, he will look after the insane people himself. He will determine whether they are really insane, will censure the papers for making any mention of the matter, will decide what is to be done about it. There is no use of keeping a county court any longer, and the statutes might as well be burned; Mr. Wheeler will run things, and money will be saved for the taxpayers. In the unfortunate case of Grace Solomon, which has just been decided by Mr. Wheeler, and, of course, there is no appeal from such an important and officious official, the principal facts have been known among people acquainted with the Solomon family for some time, and while the family had the sincere sympathy of everyone, Mr. Solomon himself was anxious that the girl should be removed to better quarters where she might have proper treatment. He was so advised time and again, and personally importuned the Humane society upon numerous occasions to send an agent to investigate. The agent finally did investigate on Tuesday, and what he saw convinced him that prompt action should be taken. According to custom, he notified the chairman of the board of county commissioners, who, according to his usual custom, even before he made an examination, objected to doing anything, because of the expense to the county. Agent Whitehead kept the matter to himself, and it was only when he was shown that all of the facts were in the hands of The News that he consented to make a statement. County Court Will Act – According to the statutes, the board of county commissioners had absolutely nothing to do with the matter, unless it was to file information with the county court. Agent Whitehead notified the board of the case, as he does of all other cases, that being the channel through which the Humane society usually works, but since Mr. Wheeler has so far forgotten the law of the state and of humanity and decency as to permit things to remain as they are, the society will probably waive ceremony and file information with the county court by its agent. “I looked into the matter to-day,” said Chairman Wheeler last night, “and I believe that Mrs. Solomon is a nice respectable woman and well qualified to take care of the girl. I think the article in The News was totally uncalled for and scandalous.” “It is your opinion, then, Mr. Wheeler, that violently insane people should be cared for by their people at home?” “Yes, if they are able to do so.” “But if a person is violently insane, is there not danger in allowing her to be where she cannot possibly receive proper attention?” “Oh, well, this girl is not violent. She only will not keep her clothes on. She only gets that way once in a while.” “May not a destructive form of mania develop into the dangerous and violent type?” “Oh, I do not think there is any danger of that in this case. Her mother seems to be able to take care of her all right.” “But Mr. Solomon says his wife is not the proper person to take care of his daughter, that she herself is violent at times.” Wheeler Excuses Himself – Mr. Wheeler expressed the opinion that Mrs. Solomon was more sane than her husband, and was of the opinion that his statement regarding his wife was biased because of family dissension. When his attention was called to the fact that Mrs. Solomon had acted very violently when the agent of the Humane society was present, he gave his opinion of the Humane society, which was also not flattering, but intimated that the country would be better off if such a meddling institution was done away with entirely. The fact that a young man was engaged to wait upon the nude girl made no difference to the commissioner's oblique moral view. So long as the girl was there it was all right, and there was no use of making her a public charge. She is tied very loosely and could easily escape if violent, but such an event, which unfortunate, would have to be borne with philosophy, in the opinion of the sapient chairman. The main thing was to save money and expense to the county. That was probably the reason that the matter was not taken to the court, for, in such a case, the court would have to obey the fool laws of the state and take charge of the unfortunate creature. The object of the article in The News yesterday was to call attention of the public to the scandalous affair. That the girl should be insane is unfortunate, but that she should be longer allowed to remain in the condition in which she now is, for the facts as set forth in The News have not been controverted, is not only scandalous, but absolutely criminal.
Solomon, Grace
Denver Evening Post 12-5-1896 – Solomon Girl Case – Chairman Wheeler explained to the commissioners this morning his reasons for investigating the alleged insane case of the Solomon girl on Larimer street.
Solomon, Moses
Boulder County Herald Weekly 2-21-1900 – On 16 Feb 1900 Adolph Hammer found Mr. Moses Solomon lying in a ditch in front of the Brainard Hotel. He often went into the boiler room at the Electric Light Works to sleep. Formerly he dealt in all sorts of old junk in Denver. It is said he has $40,000 in a Denver bank. Supposedly he was arrested in Denver for being a vagrant so he took a policeman to the bank and showed him his money. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Solomon, Moses
Boulder County Herald Weekly 3-7-1900 – Moses Solomon, “the miserly Jew, who has perhaps not washed himself for years,” was declared insane 6 Mar 1900. The doctor stated he was suffering from melancholia brought on by lack of food and lack of cleanliness. He had $32 in his trousers. He owns a mine up Sunshine Canyon called the Cooper. Source also references article in Boulder News 3-8-1900. Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Somers, A.
Fort Morgan Times June 18, 1885 - A Singular Case - An Insane man Jumps from the Train at Corona - The excitement of the week has been the capture, escape and re-capture of stranger who was evidently suffering from temporary insanity or has become permanently insane. The First seen of the lunatic he was wading the river at 5 o'c. Thursday evening, coming from More's sheep ranch on the north side to the hay lands opposite. Later in the evening he rushed into the house of Frank Baker, east of town, and cried out to Mrs. Baker that he was pursued by four men with rifles. From Frank's he crossed over to Ed. Baker's and asked for something to eat with all the appearances of a sane man except his want of shoes and other clothing. When Frank Baker learned of the circumstances he called in some men to help take charge of the fellow and bring him to town. The attempt was unsuccessful and nothing further was done until Friday morning the poor fellow was found lying in the ditch between G. W. Warner and G.S. Redfield's places, his head alone projecting above the water. He was taken up town and dressed in dry clothing. It was decided that he should be taken to Greeley for safe keeping and Constable Lowe attempted to do so that evening, but the deluded wretch broke away at the approach of the train to Deuel depot, jumped in the More & Tracy ditch and hid under the bridge with only his face above the water. When again caught, the train had pulled out and he escaped and when re-captured he was put in a car on the B. & M. track for safe keeping, and kept there until taken to Greeley the following day. The man, from papers found on his person, is supposed to be A. Somers, of Wabash, Ind., a bridge builder by trade, who has recently sold some land near that place and come west in search of more. He has been to several points in Nebraska looking for land to purchase, and had taken the train at McCook for Denver. When near Corona he became possessed of the idea that he was pursued by robbers who were going to murder him, and jumped from the train when it was at full speed. His coat, vest and shoes he threw off as soon as he struck the ground and were found by the section men on Thursday morning. For thirty-six hours he was running wildly over the cactus with bare feet, and in consequence his feet were in a terrible condition from cactus needles and stone bruises. Two hundred and fifty dollars belonging to Somers are reported to be in the hands of the railroad officials, he having given it to the conductor of the Pullman car for keeping a short time before he jumped from the train.
Songer, Ethel
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Songster, Joseph
patient race W gender M age 49 marital status M place of birth Pennsylvania occupation miner source 1910 census
Sonich, Frances
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:M place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sonich, John
patient gender M race W age 71 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Sonneson, Peter
Pueblo Chieftain – October 5, 1901 – The funeral of Peter Soneson, who died in this city Wednesday, will take place today from the undertaking rooms at the corner of D street and Union avenue.
Sonneson, Peter
New Castle Nonpareil 8-9-1900 – Peter Sonneson has been taken to the hospital at Salida. He has what is reported to be gangrene.
Sonneson, Peter
New Castle Nonpareil 6-14-1901 – James Batey, who has been in the southern part of the state for the past six months, returned to New Castle Tuesday. While at Pueblo, he called at Dr. Work's institute, where he saw Dick Davis and Peter Sonneson. The former he describes as strong and healthy, but the latter seems to be losing ground fast.
Sonneson, Peter
New Castle Nonpareil 11-29-1901 - The death of Peter Sonneson, at the insane asylum in Pueblo, is reported.
Sonneson, Peter
buried in Roselawn, date of burial 10-5-1901, age 21
Sonnesson, Peter
admitted 12-8-1900 from New Castle, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Soppi, William
Central City Weekly Register-Call 7-18-1890 – Insane – Sunday evening Deputy Sheriff W. W. Williams took charge of a miner named William Soppi, who lives in Packard gulch, and is insane. It appears that he has a hallucination that some one intends murdering him. Before being taken charge of by Mr. Williams he partially undressed himself for the purpose of jumping down a shaft near by. From his conversation it appears that he has had some love affair which is probably the cause of his mind being deranged. He was committed to the county jail for safe-keeping until such time as his case can be brought before Judge Thomas of the county court.
Soppi, William
Central City Weekly Register-Call 7-18-1890 – Personal – Sheriff Thomas Hooper left Central on this afternoon's train for Pueblo, having in charge William Soppi, the man adjudged insane last evening before the county court. Sheriff Hooper will leave his charge at the insane asylum.
Soppi, William
Central City Weekly Register-Call 7-25-1890 – Personal – Pueblo Evening Star, July 18: The sheriff of Gilpin county arrived in this city to-day with an insane prisoner named William Soppi. The man is a miner and recently became insane. The commissioners consigned him to the state asylum for treatment.
Soppi, William
Rocky Mountain News 7-18-1890 – Local Brevities – The sheriff of Gilpin county arrived in the city last night on his way to Pueblo with an insane prisoner named William Soprix. The man is a miner and recently became insane. The commissioners consigned him to the state asylum for treatment.
Sorenson, Andrena
patient gender F race W age 75 marital status Wd birthplace Norway source 1930 census
Sorenson, Charles
patient race: W sex: M age: 47 marital:. place of birth: Denmark occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Sorrell, Rina
patient race W gender F age 26 marital status S place of birth America source 1910 census
Sorrell, Rina
Aspen Democrat 8-4-1906 Under Sheriff Dwyer, who went to Pueblo several days ago to place Mr. Sorrell, of Rock Creek in the asylum for the insane, returned to his home in the city yesterday via the Grande.
Sorrell, Rina
Aspen Democrat 8-2-1906 Rina Sorrell of Hot Springs, on the Crystal river, was brought before Judge Rogers in the county court yesterday to be examined as to his condition mentally. A jury was selected and the examination of Sorrell conducted. Several witnesses were placed on the stand and testified as to the conduct of the defendant. After hearing the evidence the jury returned a verdict declaring the man mentally incompetent and assigned him to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. If there is no room for him at the state institution he will be placed in Dr. Work's sanitarium which is located near Pueblo.
Soule, Al
Boulder County Herald Weekly 3-3-1886 – Al Soule, formerly of Boulder, is in Denver “in a demented condition.” Source “Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 – 1900,” by Mary McRoberts.
Soule, Joseph F.
patient race: W sex: M age: 64 marital:M place of birth: Maine occupation: none source: 1920 census
Soulen, George
patient gender M race W age 70 marital status M birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Souther, J. H.
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status S birthplace Georgia source 1930 census
Souther, James H.
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1873 age 27 marital status S place of birth Georgia occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Souther, James H.
Denver Evening Post 11-10-1899 – Pueblo Happenings – Pueblo, Nov. 10 – James H. Souther was this morning adjudged insane in the county court and sent to the asylum for the second time.
Southerland, Belle
Rocky Mountain News 3-11-1886 – Minds Diseased – Three lunacy cases are soon to come before the county court. The three persons include two women and one man, and they are now in the county jail. Their names are Belle Sutherland, Tilda Anderson and Anton Steinhaus. Belle Sutherland is a colored woman. She was arrested on Monday and it took four men to keep her in a buggy when she was being removed from her house on South Water street yesterday. It is said that she has lately been yelling and laughing in a manner that disturbed her neighbors at all hours of the night. Her examination for lunacy will probably take place to-day.
Southerland, Belle
Rocky Mountain News 3-12-1886 – Spirit Voices – An Alleged Lunatic Who is Troubled by Voices, Which No One Else Hears – Belle Sutherland, a colored woman, was on trial for lunacy in the County court yesterday. Her trial occupied several hours yesterday afternoon and was conducted before a jury of six persons. County Attorney Mills appeared for the prosecution and R. W. Steele, Esq., for the defense. Drs. McLaughlin and Kimball appeared as witnesses in the case. Belle Sutherland has at present no family here, but claims to have once had a husband. According to the doctor, she is a victim of what spiritualists would perhaps call clairandienes, but to the average mortal her complaint appears to be insanity and there did not seem to be much doubt as to what the verdict of the jury would be. Belle's great delusion seems to consist in hearing voices of men which frighten her, and in her fright she is said to have cried and yelled in all hours of the night and to have greatly frightened her neighbors. She was rather nervous and talked considerably to herself or somebody else during the trial yesterday. The trial was not completed till about 5:30 yesterday afternoon.
Southerland, Belle
Rocky Mountain News 3-13-1886 – Found Insane – The jury in the County court in the case of Belle Sutherland, who was tried for lunacy, decided that the woman was insane and Judge Harrington ordered her to be committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Southworth, Bertha
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status D birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 11-7-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 1962 – Nelson B. Southworth, deceased; hearing on petition for sale of real estate continued until November 20.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 11-21-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 1962 – Nelson B. Southworth, lunatic; hearing on petition of conservator for leave to encumber real estate, and ordered accordingly.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 11-27-1894 – Southworth's Will – Jury Refuses to Admit the Document to Probate – In the county court yesterday an effort was made to probate the will of Nelson B. Southworth, a former resident of Denver, who died in an asylum for the insane at Oak Lawn, N. Y., June 29 last, after an incarceration of several years. The will is dated August 29, 1887, and is witnessed by Hartsville Jones, A. G. Rhoads and Henry Apple, and divides his property to various relatives in different parts of the country. The property consists of several lots, with improvements, in the city of Denver. When placed on the stand yesterday the witnesses to the will were not positive concerning the mental condition of Southworth at the time the will was made. Henry Apple thought that he was sufficiently compos mentis to dispose of his estate, which the other two witnesses thought he was somewhat queer at the time and doubted his absolute soundness of mind. Objection to the probate of the will was filed by Thomas P. Southworth, son of the testator. Under instructions of the court to the effect that at least two witnesses to the will must testify to the soundness of mind of the testator, the jury found against the will and it was refused probate. It was also shown by the testimony that Southworth was adjudged a lunatic and sent to an asylum not a great while after the execution of the will.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 2-19-1895 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele: 762 – Estate Nelson B. Southworth, lunacy; report having been heretofore approved, conservator ordered to turn over property to administrator and be discharged.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 1-10-1891 – The Courts – County Court – Judge Miller – The following business was transacted yesterday – Estate of Nelson B. Southwait, lunatic; conservator's report filed and approved.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 7-8-1891 – The Courts – County Court – Judge Miller – The following business was transacted yesterday – Estate N. B. Southworth, lunatic; report approved.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 9-8-1889 – Local Brevities – Nelson Southworth was yesterday adjudged insane by a jury in the county court. The unfortunate man is, according to the doctors, afflicted with St. Vitus' dance, which has affected his brain. He is the owner of considerable property in Denver. His friends will place him in a private asylum in the East.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 9-11-1889 – Courts and Clients – Court Notes – Mr. Dickson L. Southworth was yesterday appointed administrator of the estate of Nelson B. Southworth, recently adjudged insane.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 7-11-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – Estate Nelson B. Southworth, lunacy; conservator's report approved.
Southworth, Nelson B.
Rocky Mountain News 7-12-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – The following business was transacted yesterday: Estate of Nelson B. Southworth, lunatic; petition to encumber real estate presented and granted; order for publication to non-resident heirs, etc.
Sovich, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 54 marital:M place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sowcoop, Frank
patient race: W sex: M age: 37 marital:. place of birth: Poland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sowers, Mildred E.
patient gender F race W age 23 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Spalti, Florian
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele: 3855 – Estate Florian Spolti, lunacy; ordered that Edward Chase be appointed conservator of said estate on filing bond in sum of $20,000.
Spalti, Florian
Rocky Mountain News 11-10-1896 – Civil Briefs – In the estate of Florian Spalti, insane, an agreement was reached that neither Edward Chase nor Louis Anfenger shall, until the matter is heard, dispose of the property nor perfect title under tax sale.
Spalti, Florian
Rocky Mountain News 4-14-1897 – Spalti Will Contest – Conservator Eager to Have a Decision of the Court – The Spalti will contest was under consideration by the county court last night. Attorneys and witnesses were on hand and progress was made in one of the most knotty legal problems the court has been called upon to solve. Edward Chase, conservator of the estate, was placed on the stand and testified that he was prepared to turn over the property if it can be decided to whom it rightfully belongs. The amount in controversy is about $2,000 and the question at issue is whether the money should go to the estate of Spalti, who has been adjudged a lunatic, or should be placed in the hands of the creditors. No decision has as yet been reached.
Spanevelo, Mike
patient race: W sex: M age: 30 marital:M place of birth: Italy occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Spanner, Carl
patient race W gender M month born May year born 1863 age 37 marital status S place of birth Denmark occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Spanner, Carl
patient race W gender M age 47 marital status S place of birth Denmark occupation farmer source 1910 census
Spanner, Carl
patient gender M race W age 67 marital status S birthplace Denmark source 1930 census
Spanner, Carl
patient race: W sex: M age: 56 marital:S place of birth: Denmark occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Spanner, Carl
admitted 3-27-1898 from Fort Collins, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sparar, Frank
patient race W gender M age . marital status S place of birth Austria occupation coalminer source 1910 census
Sparar, Frank
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Sparks, Ruth M.
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Sparondia, Jovani
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status Un birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Sparondia, Jovani
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:. place of birth: Italy occupation: none source: 1920 census
Spayer, Matt
patient race W gender M month born Unk year born 1868 age 32 marital status S place of birth unk occupation unk source 1900 census Woodcroft asylum
Spayer, Matt
admitted 4-8-1900 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Spear, Earnest
patient race W gender M age 34 marital status S place of birth England occupation miner source 1910 census
Specht, Henry
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Speed, Edith
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Speidel, George
patient race W gender M age 76 marital status M place of birth Germany occupation real estate source 1910 census
Speidel, George
Speidel, George age 71y, resident of Denver, married, Mrs. George Speidel 1120 Kalamath St, Denver, shipped to Fred Waters, undertaker, Denver, Co., attorney William H. Andrew of 515 Charles Blk. D., Dr. A.P. Busey, cost $75.00
Spellman, Delia
Rocky Mountain News 5-4-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: To-day's list (for court cases): Delia Spellman and Eva Earl; lunacy.
Spellman, Delia
Rocky Mountain News 5-5-1894 – Eva Earl Declared Insane – In the county court Eva Earl, also known as Dora Thorne, and Delia Spielman was adjudged insane. In the trip to the county hospital Eva Earl became violent and talked wildly and tried to jump out of the ambulance.
Spellman, Delia
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Mrs. Delia Spellman, May 6… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Spellman, Della
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Spellman, J. D.
Rocky Mountain News 7-18-1890 – Adjudged Insane – Trinidad, Colo., July 17 – J. D. Spellman, a young man about 21 years of age, was to-day adjudged insane in the county court. Spellman has no friends here. His home is in New York.
Spencer, Clara
patient gender F race W age 78 marital status Wd birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Spencer, Ida M.
patient race W gender F age 49 marital status M place of birth Minnesota source 1910 census
Spencer, Ida M.
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Minnesota source 1930 census
Spencer, Ida M.
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:M place of birth: Minnesota occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Spencer, Mattie
Rocky Mountain News 3-15-1894 – Religious Insanity – Two Patients Who Communed with the Spirits – … Mattie Spencer, a colored woman, succeeded in maintaining her reputation for as much sanity as the average human. Her friends say that she dreams dreams and sees visions and holds converse with heavenly visitors. She answered all questions however, in so pertinent and prosaic a manner that the court ordered her return to the hospital.
Spencer, Maude J.
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Spencer, Maude J.
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Spencer, May
patient gender F race W age 67 marital status M birthplace Maine source 1930 census
Spencer, May
patient race: W sex: F age: 57 marital:M place of birth: Maine occupation: none source: 1920 census
Spencer, Peyton
Spencer, Peyton, age 41y, black, railroad porter, died 12-22-1909, shipped to Denver, Mrs. Alice Spencer of 2819 California St, Denver, Dr, A.P. Busey, cost $76.00
Sperry, Orlando
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Spickard, Irene
patient gender F race W age 22 marital status D birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Spidzer, Belle
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Spiegle, William
Colorado Transcript 4-19-1923 – County Court News – William Spiegel, a patient of the Jewish Consumptive Relief society, was adjudged insane. Sheriff Kerr took him to the Colorado state hospital at Pueblo on Saturday.
Spiegle, William
Colorado Transcript 4-19-1923 – Local Paragraphs – … On Saturday Sheriff Kerr made a trip to Pueblo, taking Wm. Spiegle, an insane person, to the asylum.
Spiller, Frances
patient gender F race W age 43 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Spitzer, Belle
patient race: W sex: F age: 43 marital:M place of birth: Russia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Splawn, Catherine
patient race: W sex: F age: 45 marital:M place of birth: England occupation: none source: 1920 census
Spolar, Frank
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sponske, Mary
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sportings, Milford
Sportings, Milford age 77y, of Monte Vista, died 7-16-1902, shipped to Monte Vista, Co. by order of telegram, informant D.J. Gibbs undertaker of Monte Vista, Dr. A.P. Busey cost $56.00
Sprague, Mary
29 July 1905 New Castle Nonpareil, Denver Colo. July 24. An extremely sad death was that of Miss Mary Sprague, daughter of Wellington G. Sprague of the Sprague Investment company, whose dead body was found in a barn in Montclair yesterday morning; Miss Sprague had been confined for several months in a sanatorium at Montclair undergoing treatment for acute melancholia which developed shortly after the death of her mother last year. Miss Sprague escaped the vigilance of the attendants at the sanatorium yesterday morning. Clad only in her night robe, she left the institution by way of a window, which was supposed to have been securely fastened. She escaped about 6 o'clock. Her absence was discovered at 6:30. A search for the missing patient was at once begun and at 8:30 o'clock the body was discovered in the barn at East twelfth avenue and Vermont Street, a half block from the asylum. It was swinging from a beam and life was found to be extinct.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 8-2-1895 – Freak of an Insane Man – Former Financier of Great Wealth Prone to Erratic Dealings – Morrison, Colo., Aug. 1 – Deputy Sheriff Baker yesterday arrested a man named Sprague about eighteen miles up Bear creek for stealing a cow and calf from J. E. Bailey of the S. Pickerman ranch, near Morrison. This morning Mrs. Sprague and a Denver attorney appeared upon the scene with an order from the court that the man was insane and that she was his custodian. She paid all costs and expenses and he was given into her custody again. Sprague was formerly in the real estate business in Denver and was mixed up in several questionable deeds. It was carried into the courts and he was pronounced insane. The story of the transaction, as related by W. G. Sprague, was as follows: Mr. Sprague, who was last summer adjudged insane, has been residing with his wife on a ranch owned by him on upper Bear creek, Mrs. Sprague acting as custodian. A few weeks ago Mr. Sprague went out to hunt his horse, which had strayed, and returned later with a cow and calf, for which he claimed he had traded his horse. The horse was worth much more than the cow and calf, but Mrs. Sprague concluded that the story was right and the animals were turned loose in the pasture, no attempt being made at concealment. Yesterday Mr. Bailey appeared and claimed the cow and calf as his, and the property was turned over to him on his making proof of his statement. Subsequently Mr. Sprague was arrested and taken to Morrison and it was necessary for Mrs. Sprague to come to Denver and secure a transcript of the judgment of the court declaring Sprague insane before he was released. The family claim that Sprague, who was at one time a bright young business man here, has gradually become an imbecile, and they had taken him to the ranch to keep him out of trouble, but they fear now that they will have to place him in the asylum. Mrs. Sprague paid the costs in the case, amounting to over $100, and the horse, which Mr. Sprague still insists he traded for the cow and calf, is still missing. The family think that perhaps he really made the trade, as he alleges, with some irresponsible party, who has succeeded in getting away with the horse.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 5-18-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: Today's list (for court cases): S. W. Sprague; lunacy.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 5-18-1894 – Civil Briefs – Application has been made in the county court for an examination of S. M. Sprague on the charge of lunacy, preferred by his wife. The case was set for Wednesday.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 5-24-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: Today's list (for court cases): S. W. Sprague; lunacy.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 5-25-1894 – Civil Briefs – By consent of all parties the trial of S. W. Sprague for lunacy was reset for June 8.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 6-16-1894 – Civil Briefs – S. W. Sprague was before Judge Le Fevre on lunacy proceedings. Opinion was reserved.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 6-17-1894 – Question of Insanity – Sumner W. Sprague Will Be Tried for Lunacy – Sumner W. Sprague, for many years secretary of the Sprague Investment company, will be examined in the county court to-morrow on the charge of lunacy. Friends of Mr. Sprague claim that he is insane and will show how he overpaid one creditor $1,900 and borrowed money at 36 per cent when his own company was lending at 8 per cent, and that he forged his wife's name without cause and various other peculiar transactions that seem to point to a warped mind. Mr. Sprague will contest the allegations and has engaged a number of attorneys to defend him from the charge.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 6-18-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: Today's list (for court cases): 3582-S. W. Sprague; lunacy.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 6-19-1894 – Insane or Criminal – Sumner W. Sprague's Fate in the Balance After a Warmly Contested Inquisition as to His Lunacy – Peculiar Business Transactions – The inquisition of lunacy upon Sumner W. Sprague, ex-manager of the Sprague Investment company, was concluded in the county court yesterday afternoon. Mr. Sprague is charged by his wife with being insane and in an unfit condition to take care of his business. Drs. Barnum, Yoakum and Eskridge gave expert testimony as to the condition of Mr. Sprague, and it was shown by a number of witnesses that he had committed a number of criminal forgeries and in one case seemed to be trying to conceal other acts. A number of rather peculiar business transactions were testified to by the witnesses, and the only solution they found was insanity or criminality. An attempt was made on the part of Judge Miller and other attorneys for the defense, to show that Sprague was not really insane but shamming in order to escape the consequences of criminal acts which had remained concealed until lately. The subject of the trail, Mr. Sprague, sat in the court room all the afternoon, seemingly paying not the slightest attention to the proceedings or anything else. He half reclined in the chair and scarcely moved from his position for over two hours. His brother, wife and nephew sat near him, and the lobby of the court room was filled with a large number of ladies and gentlemen, most of them interested in the case. The attorneys on both sides fought the case bitterly, and it did not go to the jury until 6 o'clock. The judge instructed the jurymen to return a sealed verdict if they should agree before morning. If the jury should decide Mr. Sprague to be sane, a number of complaints charging him with forgery will at once be filed.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 6-20-1894 – Sprague Declared Insane – The jury in the case of S. W. Sprague, yesterday brought in a verdict of lunacy. The court ordered that Mr. Sprague should remain in the custody of his wife, but not to depart from the jurisdiction of the court until further orders. Mr. Sprague was in the court during his trial and even the announcement of the judgment failed to create the slightest show of interest on his part. There is no question but that he is insane, think his friends. The case has created considerable interest and much sympathy for the afflicted gentleman is expressed.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 6-21-1894 – Sumner Sprague's Insanity – Judge Miller, acting for the district attorney, yesterday took an appeal from the county court to the district court in the case of Sumner W. Sprague, adjudged insane on Tuesday. It seems that there exists a doubt in the minds of some of Mr. Sprague's creditors that he is really insane, and some insist that he is only shaming (shamming) to escape the penalty of his various acts, such as forgery, etc.
Sprague, Sumner W.
Rocky Mountain News 7-25-1894 – Madness or Design? – Real Meaning of an Apparently Innocent Court Order – Another Evolution in Sprague Investment Co. Affairs – Sumner W. Sprague, Who Was Adjudged Insane and Held Not Accountable for Certain Peculiar Transactions, Brought Forward as a Scapegoat – Dealings of Ancient Date Before His Sanity Was Questioned Are Brought Against His Brother and Partner – An unassuming and innocent little order was made by Judge Rising yesterday morning, which would have escaped the notice of the average observer. Attorneys Whitford and Lindsley came into court and asked that W. G. Sprague and Mira R. Sprague be made defendants as individuals instead of as trustees in the case brought by John B. Avery against John F. Spalding, Laurina D. Spalding, Jane McNair and the two Spragues as trustees. A long story is concealed in this simple order. Some time since irregularities in the business methods of the Sprague Investment company came to light, among which were forgeries and the securing of money under various kinds of false pretenses. About the same time symptoms of insanity were discovered in Sumner W. Sprague, the junior member of the company. This gentleman was adjudged insane in the county court a few weeks since. Since then the irregularities mentioned have been cropping out at various times and places. Wellington G. Sprague, the senior member, has deplored these things exceedingly, and has always mourned over his “poor unfortunate brother,” whose lunacy had manifested itself in this peculiar manner. Wellington and His Wife – Now, however, Wellington G. Sprague and his wife are made party defendants in one of his suits, and the charges contained in the cross complaint in this suit, if substantiated, will prove that they have been equally guilty with the alleged insane brother. The original suit was filed by Avery against the parties named to have his lien established on certain property on Stout street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, belonging to Mrs. Jane McNair. W. G. Sprague has conducted the business affairs for Mrs. McNair for some time. He sold a note of hers for $1,500 to Avery, on which she had already paid $1,000. In the cross complaint Mrs. McNair alleges a long series of tricky transactions by which the Spragues have got $12,500 against her property, when she really owes but $7,000. They made her notes payable to various straw men who did duty for W. G. Sprague himself. Mrs. Sprague gave her release deed for her note of $2,000 at one time, though the note had really been sold to John Avery, and he still holds the trust deed which secures it against her property. W. G. Sprague also sold Mrs. McNair's notes for $4,000 to Bishop and Mrs. Spaulding, who supposed that they were secured by first trust deeds on the two lots, though one of the lots was inserted in the trust deed by the Spragues. The cross complaint prays that Mira R. Sprague and W. G. Sprague shall be held personally liable to John B. Avery for the $2,000 note as Mrs. McNair had paid its face to them. Date of Insanity – On the witness stand a few weeks since W. G. Sprague testified positively that not more than one year and a half had elapsed since he first noticed signs of mental aberration in his brother, Sumner. The frauds alleged in this case date back several years, to the time when Sumner Sprague was simply a clerk for his brother. Another suit of a different character will be brought against W. G. Sprague very shortly by Whitford & Lindsley, charging him with appropriating the $2,000 paid him by Mrs. McNair, which he never paid over to Mr. Avery, the holder of the note. Miss Ella Thompson will also bring a suit shortly. She bought two notes, through Mr. Avery, of the Spragues. They were for $1,500 each, secured by trust deeds on houses in Case & Ebert's addition. She foreclosed, and as the sale was about to take place at the court house Bishop Spalding walked up and showed notes identical to hers in every respect. John Denison will file a suit for the bishop in a few days to show that the notes held by his client are the original ones, and Whitford & Lindsley will endeavor to prove the same for Miss Thompson.
Sprague, Walter R.
Denver Evening Post 4-21-1897 – Insane Through Overstudy – Walter R. Sprague, a recent graduate of the East Denver high school and now connected with the Denver University, was to-day adjudged insane in the county court. He became violent about a week ago and his mania has been a communication with spirits and a general religious melancholia. According to his testimony this morning it would appear that his mind became unbalanced through too acute study of phrenology.
Sprague, Walter R.
Denver Evening Post 4-22-1897 – Off for Pueblo Asylum – Bailiff Murray took to Pueblo this morning the lunatic, Bates, who was adjudged insane yesterday in the county court. The unfortunate student, Walter R. Sprague, was taken to Pueblo yesterday.
Sprague, Walter R.
Rocky Mountain News 4-18-1897 – Insanity Proceedings – To-morrow morning Judge Steele of the county court will hear the charge of insanity preferred against Walter R. Sprague. Yesterday the court appointed Milton J. Stair as guardian ad litem.
Sprague, Walter R.
Rocky Mountain News 4-18-1897 – Insanity Proceedings – To-morrow morning Judge Steele of the county court will hear the charge of insanity preferred against Walter R. Sprague. Yesterday the court appointed Milton J. Stair as guardian ad litem.
Spratt, Jack
Colorado Transcript 4-4-1907 – Jack Spratt, of Evergreen, presumably the fellow who could eat no fat, was adjudged insane in county court Tuesday, and removed to the Pueblo asylum yesterday.
Springer, T. T.
patient race W gender M age 46 marital status D place of birth Iowa occupation miner source 1910 census
Springer, Theodore T
admitted 4-17-1914 from Garfield, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Springfield, Robert
Greeley Tribune 2-22-1900 – Robert Springfield of Platteville, was yesterday adjudged insane in the county court and pending his admission to the state asylum will be cared for at the county hospital.
Springfield, Robert
patient race W gender M month born December year born 1872 age 27 marital status S place of birth Georgia occupation clerk source : 1900 census
Springfield, Robert
patient race W gender M age 43 marital status S place of birth Georgia occupation clerk source 1910 census
Springfield, Robert
Rocky Mountain News 7-23-1893 – Springfield's Fantasies – Robert Springfield, when brought before the county court yesterday morning, gravely erased the blackboard and filled it with dire threats against the denizens of Wall street in general and Jay Gould in particular. He then preempted Judge Le Fevre's chair and pored over the statutes of Colorado, varying this by solemnly denuding himself of coat and vest to dust them with the feather duster. He was adjudged insane along with William Baker and J. H. Hawley, and all three were remanded to the county hospital till further order.
Springfield, Robert
Rocky Mountain News 7-24-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – The following business was transacted Saturday in the county court: In re Robert Springfield, lunacy; same as above (trial to jury; finding of insanity; defendant remanded to custody of sheriff to be by him kept in county hospital until further order of court); R. E. Foot (guardian ad litem) allowed $15.
Sprossoff, Joseph
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Sprossoff, Joseph
patient race: W sex: M age: 50 marital:M place of birth: Russia occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Sproul, Sadie A.
Fort Collins Courier 6-9-1922 – Mrs. Sadie A. Sproul, 58, who lived at 502 Garfield street, this city, was adjudged insane by a lunacy commission in the county court Thursday afternoon. She has been suffering from melancholia. She will be taken to the state insane asylum at Pueblo Friday morning, accompanied by her son, J. E. Estabrook, and Deputy Sheriff H. H. Sanders.
Spruill, B. D.
resident, 1893 City Directory
Spurgeon, Frank
patient race W gender M age 41 marital status M place of birth Missouri occupation farmer source 1910 census
Spurgeon, Frank
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Spurgeon, Frank
patient race: W sex: M age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Square, Grace
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status Wd birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Squire, Adella
patient race W gender F age 46 marital status M place of birth Ohio occupation housekeeper source 1910 census
Squires, Adella
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1833? age 37 marital status M place of birth Ohio occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Squires, Adella
patient race: W sex: F age: 56 marital:M place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Srader, James
patient race W sex M age 44 marital M place of birth Iowa occupation farmer source 1920 Woodcroft census
St. Clair, Myrtle
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
St. John, Stephen W.
Rocky Mountain News 12-23-1894 – Tears of Pity Fell – Harry N. Fairchild Declared Insane in the County Court – A Pitiful Scene Enacted in the Presence of Old Friends – Fairchild Was Formerly Assistant Secretary of State, a Prominent Politician and Well Liked Man, but Reason Has Lost Her Sway and Yesterday His Condition Was Shocking to Those Who Knew Him – Will Be Kept at the County Hospital Until There is Room in the Asylum – Other Lunatics in Court – The county court room was filled with a large crowd yesterday afternoon, composed of many of the leading politicians of the city and state, and one of the saddest scenes ever witnessed within the walls of the court house was presented. Harry N. Fairchild, formerly assistant secretary of state, was the principal actor in the drama. He was brought from the county hospital in charge of guards, his hands in muffs and his wild cries startling all who were in the building. So violent was the form of the mania that he was not permitted to take the stand, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he was restrained from doing injury to the spectators. “Harry Noble Fairchild!” he screamed, “The first god of the earth.” All who knew the once brilliant and genial young man, still in the years that mark the sunny and hopeful side of life, were deeply affected by the scene. Amid the turmoil created by his cries, the people sat quietly, and no remark of the insane man, although many were witty and some grotesque, caused a smile on the face of anyone. The occasion was one of the deepest solemnity. In maudlin tones Fairchild fought again the battles of the war, which he entered as a boy. Again he was behind the walls of Andersonville, and lived over the days and months of anguish, hunger and cruelty. Occasionally he recognized some friend in the crowd. “There's Tommy Anderson,” he said. “He's all right.” “Hello, John Murray. I know you. You're a Catholic and a Christian.” He never ceased speaking for an instant, and most of his remarks were addressed to the court. “Judge! Judge!” he yelled, addressing the court, “both your legs are off, and your heart's been hanging out for some time.” Airships, canary birds, campaigns and other things and objects were hopelessly tangled in his brain. All looked on in wonder at the strange spectacle, and not a heart that did not beat with pity at the saddest sight ever seen by friend or enemy. Harry Fairchild was assistant to Secretary of State Melvin Edwards. Prior to that time he was connected with the railway mail service. He has been prominent in every political campaign in Colorado for the past ten or fifteen years. While an ardent partisan, his genial nature made him a favorite among all classes. He was a staunch friend, and sacrificed much for the men whose cause he espoused. The doctors testified that the disorder was, under certain conditions, curable. The jurors saw the strange actions of the man, and these were far more convincing than the testimony of experts. They were absent only a few moments, and amid a hush Clerk Reitler read the verdict, that “Harry Noble Fairchild is so disordered in his mind as to be dangerous to himself and to others, and as to render him incapable of managing his own affairs.” The patient will be confined in the county hospital until such time as there is room in the asylum at Pueblo, when he will be removed there. Another insane man who occasioned no less trouble was Stephen St. John. He sat in the court room with his hands muffled, and while talking little, was so violent that the guards had to keep him in his seat by force. He wished to see his mother, and outside of this request was uncommunicative. The poor old lady who has tried for more than a year to postpone this evil day was not present. A similar verdict was returned as in Fairchild's case. Thomas Ash and Byron L. Allen were also found to be lunatics. Both have a mild form of mania, and looked in wonder at the queer antics of their violent fellow patients. The case of E. W. Bowen, who is confined in a private asylum at Bloomington, Ill., was also called. Attorney M. A. Haines filed his bond in $10,000 as conservator of the estate. George W. Miller, John M. Berkey and Henry Apple were appointed appraisers to report the value of the property belonging to the insane man.
St. John, Stephen W.
Rocky Mountain News 12-24-1894 – Harry N. Fairchild was among those removed to Pueblo yesterday morning. He was in charge of Deputy Sheriffs John Murray, A. A. Ebersoll and another attendant. He was, as usual, kept heavily handcuffed with mitts. The unfortunate man raved more quietly than in court on Saturday. He was evidently much exhausted from the trial and was very weak. He talked incoherently to those about him, but offered little resistance as he was placed aboard the cars. It is feared that he will not recover, so great has been the strain upon his nervous system. On the same train were Stephen St. John, Barnell Allen and Mrs. Dunbar. St. John was very noisy, but the other two patients could not by their actions have been distinguished from ordinary passengers. There are left in the hospital six men and eleven women who are insane.
St. John, Stephen W.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Stephen W. St. John, December 23… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
St. John, Vernon
admitted 3-9-1915 from Fremont, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
St.John, Stephen W.
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Staackman, Sophia
patient gender F race W age 85 marital status Wd birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Staadf, Gus
Rocky Mountain News 12-14-1890 – Had a Picnic – Pueblo, Colo., Dec. 13 – This morning Gus Staadf, a Swede, 50 years of age, was arrested and will be tried on the charge of lunacy. Staadf has been boarding with F. H. Franenburg, at the corner of Main and B streets. Last night he went into the street, secured two rocks, and, entering a lodger's room, stood over the two men in bed grinning like an ape. Next he grasped a broom and knocked the plaster off the ceiling. By this time the inmates were thoroughly frightened and sent for an officer, who took him to jail.
Stable, Paul
Leadville Daily Herald 6-15-1882 – Peculiar Cases – Three Men Examined in the County Court to Test Their Sanity – Yesterday afternoon the attention of the county court was occupied in the examination of three men who, from their peculiar actions have attracted the attention of the authorities. They have been detained in the county jail for several days past, said to be insane. The names of these unfortunates are W. W. Thorp, Paul Stable and J. A. Diamond. When Stable was taken into the court room he stepped up to the bailiff and with his face wreathed in smiles he shook the officer cordially by the hand, then proceeding to the bench caught Judge Gunnel's hand in both of his and shook it most cordially, after which each of the jurymen were saluted in the same way. Every action was indicative of insanity and but little examination was necessary to inform the jury only too plainly that the poor fellow was bereft of reason.
Stable, Paul
Leadville Daily Herald 6-15-1882 – County Court – Judge Gunnell made the following orders yesterday: W. W. Thorp, Paul Stable and J. A. Diamond occupied the attention of the court during the afternoon. Paul Stable was adjudged insane, Thorp was sent to the poor house and Diamond was declared sane and released.
Stackovitch, Lawrence
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status Un birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Staine, Julia
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status Wd birthplace Norway source 1930 census
Staka, Mary
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Poland source 1930 census
Staka, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 36 marital:M place of birth: Poland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Staka, Mary
admitted 2-11-1915 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stakebake, William S.
patient gender M race W age 80 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Staley, John
Leadville Daily Herald 7-29-1882 – The crazy man, John Staley, is in a most pitiable condition at the county jail, his violence having very badly bruised his head and hand, until they are terribly swollen. The state insane asylum at Pueblo is so full that he cannot be accommodated there and Sheriff Becker will try to have an order issued to-day by the county court to have him sent to the retreat in Jacksonville, Illinois. The sheriff says that unless Staley is moved very soon he will surely die.
Stallings, Bonnie I.
patient gender F race W age 24 marital status M birthplace Alabama source 1930 census
Stamps, Frank
admitted 3-23-1914 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stanbaugh, Nellie
Colorado Springs Gazette 2-25-1912 – Is Adjudged Insane – Nellie Stanbaugh was adjudged insane yesterday at a hearing before Judge Little of the county court. A brother, William Stanbaugh, of Arriba, Colo., was called here and attended the hearing. She was taken to Pueblo last evening and placed in a private sanotorium. The woman became insane over religion while employed at the Ray Lowell home, 1328 North Weber street.
Stanburger, Will
Rocky Mountain News 8-10-1888 – An Unfortunate Lunatic – Sheriff Richard Buchanan of Logan county arrived in the city yesterday morning with a lunatic named Will Stanburger and asked that he be admitted to the county hospital or the county jail. His request was refused, as both institutions were full. He then said that he would try to find relief for the poor man at Greeley, and if he could not he would take him back to Logan county and rent a cabin for him.
Standish, Charles
Carbonate Chronicle 8-1-1910 – Publicity Causes Illness – Denver, July 30. – Winnifred Boynton, 18 years old and a daughter of the late Winfield S. Boy(n)ton of Colorado Springs, former surveyor of customs for the port of Denver, lies a victim of nervous prostration at a hotel here. Her illness is supposed to have been due to the publicity given to the incarceration of Charles Standish, 18 years old, who is held in the insane ward of the county hospital on a charge of insanity, and to whom she is said to have been engaged. The report has gone out that Standish was married to the girl. This he denied this morning shortly after Dr. George A. Molen made an examination of him to ascertain whether he is sane or not. Standish said that Dr. Molen was satisfied that he was sane, but the doctor would neither confirm nor deny the truth of the statement. Miss Boynton has refused to see even her intimate friends. Her mother is on the Pacific coast and no communication has been received from her. Friends of the girl and of W. S. Boynton's family are much wrought up over the affair. They maintain that she had nothing to do with Standish, and that she has been made the victim of blackmail. These assertions are made by prominent people. They say that it is the publicity that has caused her illness.
Stanley, C M
admitted 4-4-1914 from Logan, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stanley, Tillie A.
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Stanton, S. J.
patient race W gender M month born November year born 1865 age 34 marital status S place of birth Ohio occupation servant source : 1900 census
Stanton, S. J.
patient race W gender M age 43 marital status S place of birth Ohio occupation servant source 1910 census
Stanwick, Anna
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Starcar, John
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Starcher, Georgia
patient gender F race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Starcher, Georgia
patient race: W sex: F age: 23 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Starcher, J. A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Stark, Myrtle B.
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status D birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Starr, George L.
patient, male, indian, age 24, married, born Oklahoma, 1930 Woodcroft census
Starr, Peter
patient race W gender M age 61 marital status S place of birth Ireland occupation laborer source 1910 census
Starr, Peter
patient race: W sex: M age: 71 marital:S place of birth: Ireland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Staten, George
patient race B gender M age 47 marital status S place of birth Tennessee occupation laborer source 1910 census
Staten, George
patient gender M race Neg age 61 marital status S birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Staten, George
patient race: B sex: M age: 51 marital:S place of birth: Tennessee occupation: laundry helper source: 1920 census
Staten, George
Ouray Herald 9-14-1899 – Geo. Staten (colored) was taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo last week Wednesday, after having been adjudged insane by the county court. Whiskey was the cause of his troubles.
Statton, George
9-29-1899 Silverite-Plaindealer Conservator's Notice – Estate of George Statten, Insane: The undersigned, having been appointed Conservator of the estate of George Statten, of the county of Ouray in the State of Colorado, insane, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of said Ouray County, at the Court House in Ouray in said county, at the November term, 1898, on the last Monday in October next, 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 Ouray, Colo., this 8th day of September, A.D. 1898. Jno. T. Edgar, Conservator.
Statton, George
patient race B gender M month born August year born 1867 age 32 marital status S place of birth Tennessee occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Statton, George
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 11-29-1905 – George Statton, the negro who shot Hicks last summer, was tried on Monday before Judge Benson on the charge of insanity. The jury found him insane and he was committed to the asylum at Pueblo.
Staubhaar, Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace United States source 1930 census
Stearn, A.J.
Fairplay Flume 5-5-1911 – By twisting their clothing into a rope A. J. Stern and Paul Shubeck, insane patients at the county poor farm at Pueblo, escaped.
Stearns, Eva
patient race: W sex: F age: 34 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stebbins, Harry
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Stebbins, Harry
patient race: W sex: M age: 34 marital:S place of birth: Indiana occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Steburg, Marie
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Steburg, Marie
patient race: W sex: F age: 43 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Steele, Amanda
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Virginia source 1930 census
Steele, Myrtle
patient gender F race W age 49 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Steele, Myrtle
patient race: W sex: F age: 39 marital:M place of birth: Nebraska occupation: none source: 1920 census
Steffel, Henry
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Steffel, Henry
patient race: W sex: M age: 40 marital:M place of birth: Russia occupation: ward worker source: 1920 census
Steffen, Guill
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status Un birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Steffil, John
patient gender M race W age 56 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Steffin, Graill
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Stegall, David
patient gender M race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Stehn, Chas.
patient race W gender M month born October year born 1860 age 39 marital status M place of birth Kentucky occupation tayler source : 1900 census
Stein, C. J.
patient gender M race W age 67 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Stein, Emil M.
patient gender M race W age 72 marital status S birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Steiner, Mike
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 1-1-1914 – Mike Steiner Is Adjudged Insane – In the county court this afternoon Mike Steiner was brought in the charge of lunacy. An inquisition was held and the jury found him mentally incompetent. The court will appoint a conservator of the estate and arrangements will be made to take care of the aged man without sending him to the state hospital at Pueblo. Mr. Steiner is feeble and unable to take care of himself. It is feared that he will do violence to himself following a performance last summer when he tried to commit suicide.
Steiner, Mike
admitted 1-23-1914 from Larimer Co. - Woodcroft Hospital
Steinhardt, August
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status S birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Steinhardt, August
patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Steinhauser, Anton
Rocky Mountain News 3-24-1886 – Three Lunatics – An Insane Italian, a Mad Astronomer and a Demented Young Woman Tried for Lunacy in the County Court – Three cases of lunacy occupied the attention of Judge Harrington and several juries in the County court yesterday… Anton Steinhauser, a German, was also tried for lunacy in the County court yesterday. The popular belief that lunatics are affected by changes of the moon appears to hold good in his case, as he is thought to be rather crazier than usual when the moon is at its full. His great delusion consists in some peculiar notions regarding the moon and stars and some general astronomical theories judged to be inconsistent with sound reason. He has been prone to hang about the streets and indulge in conversation in regard to his vagaries, but for the past few weeks he has been in the county jail. His lunacy is rather of a harmless kind, but seems to be considered quite pronounced by good judges. He was found insane by a jury yesterday and ordered to be sent to Pueblo. He realized where he was to be taken to and did not relish the idea altogether. His vagaries seem to render him unfit to provide for himself or others, or to pay much attention to business of any kind.
Steinhauser, Anton
Rocky Mountain News 3-11-1886 – Minds Diseased – Three lunacy cases are soon to come before the county court. The three persons include two women and one man, and they are now in the county jail. Their names are Belle Sutherland, Tilda Anderson and Anton Steinhaus. Belle Sutherland is a colored woman. She was arrested on Monday and it took four men to keep her in a buggy when she was being removed from her house on South Water street yesterday. It is said that she has lately been yelling and laughing in a manner that disturbed her neighbors at all hours of the night. Her examination for lunacy will probably take place to-day.
Steinhauser, Anton
Rocky Mountain News 3-24-1886 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – The People vs. Anton Steinhauser; lunacy; trial, verdict insane, and ordered to be committed to insane asylum at Pueblo.
Steinheimer, Blanche
patient race: W sex: F age: 43 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Steinheimer, Blanche
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1876 age 24 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation housework source : 1900 census
Steinheimer, Blanche
admitted 7-12-1900 from None Given - Woodcroft Hospital
Steinheimer, Blanche
patient race W gender F age 33 marital status S place of birth Colorado source 1910 census
Steivel, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stellar, Charles
Denver Evening Post 5-2-1899 – For Insanity – Examination of Four Persons Believed to Be Mentally Unsound – Three Will Go to the Asylum – … Charles Stellar is a victim of hereditary dementia, it was told in court by Dr. Pershing. He is a laborer by occupation and has been insane for some time. He has a wife, but she has abandoned him and his mother, Mrs. Kate Stellar, tearfully testified about him. He has no special mania, walks unsteadily, cannot give his age exactly, and must soon die of paresis. (The jury was undecided on the final person's trial, so by inference, Charles Stellar was sentenced to go to the asylum.)
Stenger, Chas
patient race W sex M age 15 marital S place of birth Colorado source 1920 Woodcroft census
Stephens, James
Durango Democrat 2-27-1908 – Word reached here yesterday, that James Stephens had died in the asylum for the insane at Pueblo Tuesday last. He had been an inmate but three weeks, having been sent there by the county commissioners of La Plata Co. Stephens had been in Salt Lake for seven years and only returned to his family here about three weeks ago. He was 74 years old and leaves a wife and six children, the youngest of whom is eleven years old. All are residents of this county.
Stephenson, Bernard S.
patient race: W sex: M age: 26 marital:S place of birth: Kentucky occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stephenson, Bernard S.
Colorado Springs Gazette 9-28-1918 – In a hearing before an insanity commission in the county court yesterday George D. Britton, Bernard S. Stephenson, David Clay and Frank P. Burton were adjudged insane and were ordered to the state insane hospital at Pueblo for treatment. Two of the men were taken to Pueblo yesterday afternoon by Sheriff John Weir and the others will be taken today.
Sterberg, Anna
Aspen Daily Chronicle 4-28-1889 Anna's Young Men- Denver, April27 – A melancholy lunacy case came before Judge Miller in the county court yesterday in the person of Anna Sterberg, a rather attractive looking young girl whose mind has recently shown unmistakable signs of derangement. The girl has been earning a living as a servant. From the testimony it appeared that she is laboring under hallucinations of a serious nature, being impressed with the idea that she is at frequent intervals addressed by imaginary individuals who she always locates in the cellar. Three persons, whom she states are her father, bother and a young man who wants to marry her, she declares follow her around and haunt her every where she goes making her life so miserable that she has been obliged to give up several situations. The jury adjudged her insane. She will be kept at the county hospital for a time until the asylum which is now full, will be available for her reception.
Sterling, Anna
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1869 age 31 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation domestic source : 1900 census
Sterling, Anna
patient race W gender F age 40 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation domestic source 1910 census
Sterling, Anna
patient race: W sex: F age: 50 marital:S place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sterling, Anna
Rocky Mountain News 4-27-1889 – Haunted by Young Men – A melancholy lunacy case came before Judge Miller in the county court yesterday in the person of Anna Sterberg, a rather attractive looking young girl whose mind has recently shown unmistakable signs of derangement. The girl has been earning a living as a servant. From the testimony it appeared that she is laboring under hallucinations of a serious nature, being impressed with the idea that she is at frequent intervals addressed by imaginary individuals whom she always locates in the cellar. Three persons whom she states are her father, brother and a young man that wants to marry her, she declares follow her round and haunt her every where she goes making her life so miserable that she has been obliged to give up several situations. The jury adjudged her insane. She will be kept at the county hospital for a time until the asylum, which is now full, will be available for her reception.
Sterling, Anna
Rocky Mountain News 5-3-1889 – Local Brevities – Deputy Sheriff James Inman yesterday conveyed Anna Sterling, recently adjudged insane in the county court, to the asylum at Pueblo.
Sterling, William
patient race W gender M age 40 marital status S place of birth Dst/Columbia occupation section man source 1910 census
Sterling, William
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 9-28-1899 – William Sterling, a returned Colorado soldier, was picked up in the streets of Chicago on the 21st inst. in a demented condition.
Sterling, William
Denver Evening Post 10-16-1899 – Two Men Struggled With Him – Private Sterling Was Robbed and Beaten in the Chicago Stock Yards – Temporarily Insane From Effects – The following letter has been received in Denver from Mrs. Sterling of Canton, O., who is the mother of Private Will Sterling of Co. K, First Colorado, who recently went insane. “Will's father went to Chicago and found him in the Detention hospital. No charges were against him at the police station. He returned a week later and found his mind in worse condition than before. He knew us all and at times seemed all right, but after doing all in our power for him, we were compelled to take him to the hospital nine miles distant, where the physicians say he will recover in time. When he went to Denver he had weak lungs and I was surprised that he passed the physical examination for a soldier. I wish someone could tell me on what train he left Denver, and the number of it. He says he was killed in the Chicago stock yards. He can only tell that he was struck on the head and had a struggle with two men.”
Stern, Louis
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status Un birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Stern, Louis
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stertz, Paulina Mrs
admitted 6-22-1915 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stertz, Pauline
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 6-25-1915 – Demented Woman Taken To State Hospital – Mrs. Pauline Stertz, aged 32, and the mother of three children, was taken to Pueblo today for treatment. She was adjudged insane on Monday afternoon in the county court following an inquiry. The case of Mrs. Stertz is a sad one. Four months ago she gave birth to a child and soon afterwards lost her mind. She has not been especially violent but there was no guarantee that her case would not develop into a form which would be hard to control. In court she appeared to be in the last stages of melancholia.
Steubner, Conrad
12-15-1897 Chaffee County Republican - Conrad Stebner, one of the old timers of the upper end of the county, died recently at the Pueblo insane asylum. He was sent to that institution a few months ago from the poor farm where he had long been a county charge.
Steubner, Conrad
8-4-1897 Chaffee County Republican Conrad Steubner, an old timer of the northern end of the county was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court last Thursday. He is 81 years of age and has been an inmate of the poor house for several years. His affliction is the result of his extreme age.
Stevens, Daniel
patient race W gender M age 22 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
Stevens, Florence E.
patient, female, white, age 45, married, born England, 1930 Woodcroft census
Stevens, George W.
Longmont Ledger 8-17-1923 – Imagining that county officials are trying to poison him, George W. Stevens, 50 (60?), Longmont, has not eaten any food in the county jail for three days. He was in a trance Sunday, County Attorney, J. G. Archibald reported. Stevens, who has been in the state hospital at Pueblo, will have a hearing before County Judge E. J. Ingram and a lunacy commission this afternoon. At 3 o'clock this afternoon Stevens was adjudged insane by a lunacy commission composed of Dr. F. H. Farrington and Dr. E. H. Robertson. – Boulder Camera.
Stevens, Joe
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status Wd birthplace Belgium source 1930 census
Stevens, Joel E.
Stevens, Joel E. age 63y 3m 13d, resident of Victor, Co., miner, died 10/28/1909 sold to J.E. Harris of Victor, Co., Dr. Hubert Work, cost $112.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Stevens, Louise M.
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stevens, O.H.
Castle Rock Journal – 11-23-1905 - Colorado News Items - Out of the frying pan into the fire, was the experience of O.H. Stevens in the District Court at Pueblo. After being released from the insane asylum he was sentenced to from two to three years in the State Penitentiary for perjury.
Stevens, O.H.
Greeley Tribune 12-11-1902 - Sunday Sheriff Elliott took O. H. Stevens, adjudged insane, to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. Stevens had been confined for a week in the county hospital, the court thinking that rest and medical treatment might prove beneficial, but finally concluding that the asylum was the best place to have him cared for.
Stevens, O.H.
Longmont Ledger 11-24-1905 – Out of the frying pan into the fire, was the experience of O. H. Stevens, in the District Court at Pueblo. After being released from the insane asylum he was sentenced to from two to three years in the State Penitentiary for perjury.
Stevenson, Adolph
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 3-7-1911 – Adolph Stevenson, 55 years of age, was declared insane by a jury in the county court this morning and ordered committed to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. He is an uncle of R. W. Proctor and has been in the state but four months, coming here from Bridgeport, Neb.
Stevenson, Charles
Telluride Daily Journal 5-31-1897 – Chas. Stevenson, formerly a miner, who was sent to the state insane asylum last winter, but after remaining there a short while made his escape and returned to Telluride, departed on yesterday morning's train for the home of his relatives near Springfield, Illinois. Stevenson is still suffering from partial dementia and it is very probable that his mind will never again be as strong as it once was.
Stevenson, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 11-14-1896 – Declared Insane – Telluride, Colo., Nov. 13 – Charles Stevenson who was taken into custody a few days ago for making things lively around the American house and assaulting the proprietor, C. J. Trimble, was tried before County Judge McGarvey last night as to his sanity, which resulted in a sentence to the insane asylum at Pueblo. Drs. Hall and Brown testified that he would be dangerous to the community if allowed his liberty and the jury was not long in finding a verdict.
Stevenson, Charles
Denver Evening Post 11-14-1896 – State Happenings – Telluride, Nov. 14 – Charles Stevenson was declared dangerously insane yesterday and will be taken to the asylum.
Stevenson, Sarah E.
patient gender F race W age 73 marital status M birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Stewart, A J
admitted 7-27-1900 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stewart, A. T.
Wet Mountain Tribune 4-5-1912 – A.T. Steward of Pueblo has been chosen president of the State Insane Asylum Board and Dr. Louis Haugh of Denver, secretary.
Stewart, Eddy
patient race W gender M age 34 marital status . place of birth Kentucky occupation farmer source 1910 census
Stewart, Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status Wd birthplace Maine source 1930 census
Stewart, Elsie
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Stewart, Grace
patient gender F race W age 18 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stewart, Helen
patient gender F race W age 31 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stewart, J.C.
Carbonate Chronicle 2-2-1920 – Insane Men Prisoners – Governor Shoup's Lunacy Commission Finds 26 Inmates of Canon Crazy – Ten of Them Serving Terms for Murder – Denver, Jan. 31. – Twenty-six inmates of the Colorado penitentiary were today declared insane in a report submitted to Governor Shoup by a special lunacy commission recently appointed by him. All but ten of the inmates adjudged insane are serving terms for murder. Among the twenty-eight adjudged insane are James Bulger, Denver soldier of fortune, who on the night of May 6, 1914, killed L. F. Nicodemus, then one of the proprietors of a local hotel, and Oren Slinde, a youth of 20 years, who slew his father and a hired man in a double murder on a farm seventeen miles northwest of Boulder on September 11, 1919. Besides Bulger and Slinde, those convicted of murder who were adjudged insane are: Robert Buchanan, Frank Cantania, John Deitz, Felix Belfino, Lauro Garcia, Robert Hunt, M. Milobar, George Novac, Arthur Norman, James Oldham, J. C. Stewart, Louis Seeley, Al Scott and P. C. Talbot. The others and the crimes for which they were sentenced are: B. A. Comstock, burglary; R. C. Davis, assault to kill; S. H. Shrader, burglary and larceny; G. Schneider, assault to rob; John East, burglary and larceny; J. Smelkert, obstruction of railroad property; Rose Chali, statutory offense; S. Gonzales, indecent liberties; and J. C. Messing, statutory offense. Forty-three inmates were examined by the commission. A competent medical determination of the mental condition of persons committed to the state prison whose sanity appeared doubtful was asked some weeks ago by Warden Thomas J. Tynan. The commission appointed consisted of Dr. Edward Delehanty of Denver; Dr. Howell T. Pershing, of Denver, and Dr. C. W. Thompson, of Pueblo. Governor Shoup recently wrote to all district attorneys in Colorado requesting that great care be exercised in determining whether persons convicted of high crimes were mentally sound. The persons adjudged insane will be at once removed to the state hospital for the insane, according to the authorities.
Stewart, John
Steamboat Pilot 12-19-1917 – Demented Negro – Does Not Know Much but Appears Equal to All Hardships – Sheriff Emory E. Clark went to Oak Creek Thursday and on the first train brought down a demented negro who had been taken into custody by Marshal Lewis Dittemore of Oak Creek. The first seen of the negro was when he was discovered by L. M. Chambers wandering near the latter's ranch. The marshal was notified and went to the place, finding the man at one of the old deserted buildings at the Juniper mine. He had been making his bed in an old mattress, without covering, and apparently had been without food for several days. He told a rambling story saying that he had been going under the name of Chauncey Green, but that his real name was John Stewart. He stated that he had served a term in the Jacksonville penitentiary and also a term at Santa Fe. He could not remember what charges he had been convicted on. He did not know where he came from or where he was going. It is thought, however, that he is the man who was taken up by Grand county officers, and later released. He will be given a lunacy hearing, as, although he is not violently insane and seems only to be suffering from a loss of memory, he would not be a safe character to have at large and might do others bodily harm as well as starving or freezing himself to death.
Stewart, John A
admitted 9-23-1914 from Boulder, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stickney, Charles W.
Rocky Mountain News 11-20-1883 – An Array of Murders – The past two years have been notable ones in the history of Denver, so far as murders are concerned… The records of the coroner show the following violent deaths administered by a second party, and is a sad commentary on the refinement, the civilization and the love for law and order in the Queen City of the Plains: M. T. Campan, shot by Charles W. Stickney, May 31, 1881; acquitted on the ground of insanity.
Stiles, George E.
patient gender M race W age 35 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stiles, George E.
patient race: W sex: M age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Stiles, Harry
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stine, Daisy
patient gender F race W age 28 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Stirniser, Jake
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Stobler, Rudolph
patient race W gender M age 40 marital status M place of birth Germany occupation fireman source 1910 census
Stockhan, T. R.
patient gender M race W age 74 marital status Wd birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Stocking, Earl
patient gender M race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stockton, Christopher C
Carbonate Chronicle 7-20-1914 – C. C. Stockton Adjudged Insane – Christopher C. Stockton, aged 80 years, who for a number of years has been provided for by the local Masons at St. Luke's Hospital, was adjudged insane yesterday afternoon by a jury of six men in County Judge Allan's court. Old and feeble, long ago in the “sere and yellow leaf,” and having failed steadily mentally for many months, Stockton sat in the courtroom yesterday, gazing abstractedly about at the faces around him and wondering what all the formality was about. He had intelligent answers for only a few of the simple questions addressed to him by County Attorney Joseph W. Clarke. He sat with his hands resting on the arm of his chair, and paid little attention to the formal proceedings in the courtroom. Dr. B. F. Griffith, Dr. R. J. McDonald and Dr. A. J. McDonald were called on as the professional witnesses of the hearing, to which was added the testimony of Mrs. Florence Murray, the matron of St. Luke's hospital, and Katherine Sullivan and Annabelle O'Hara, two nurses at the same hospital. So far as could be learned, Stockton came to Leadville in 1879, his name being listed in the city directory for 1880. He was born in Marion county, Kentucky, about 80 years ago. For years he was a carpenter here, working on many of the buildings put up during the boom days. He came to Leadville from Warrensburg, Missouri. About fifteen years ago when failing health and a weakened mental state incapacitated Stockton for further self-support, the local lodge of Masons to which he belonged took him under its kindly wing and had cared for him ever since, providing for him of late years at St. Luke's hospital. His mentality steadily weakened, and recently his mind had become so deranged that it was impossible to keep him longer in a hospital devoted to the care of the sick. The aged man recently had been deluded by the idea that he was being sought by someone, and had the hallucination that his own image in the mirror was a certain “George Stewart.” With his failing mentality, he had lost all normal respect for personal appearance, and demanded constant watching to prevent his wandering off, unclothed. His wife, who left him several years ago, is said to be living in California. The jury at the hearing was composed of C. E. Dickinson, Charles Mulloy, J. C. Richey, W. H. Coble, E. W. Henson and G. S. Curtis. What arrangements will be made for the future care of the feeble old man is not yet known. Telephonic communication with the state asylum at Pueblo yesterday disclosed that that institution is filled and cannot accommodate additional wards. Care of the aged man will probably fall temporarily on the county.
Stockton, Christopher C
admitted 7-21-1914 from Lake, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stockton, Jessie D. A.
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status Wd birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Stodart, Anna E.
Colorado Springs Gazette 9-18-1914 – Mrs. Anna Stodart, aged 75, was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court yesterday. She will be taken to the Woodcraft sanatorium in Pueblo.
Stodart, Anna E.
Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph 9-30-1914 – Deaths and Funerals – The funeral of Mrs. Annie Stodart was held this afternoon from the Carrington undertaking rooms, the Rev. D. G. Monfort officiating.
Stodart, Anne
admitted 9-17-1914 from El Paso, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stoddard, Charles
Telluride Daily Journal 11-16-1901 – Thought to be Insane – Charles Stoddard was taken in charge last night by Night Marshal Corey and placed in the county jail for safe keeping, as his actions the last couple of days, and especially last night, indicated that he is insane. It was at first thought he was a morphine or hop fiend, but the man, who is rational at times, denies this. Stoddard came to Telluride some weeks ago with the Pringle Comedy Company, and while here he was taken sick with rheumatism and confined to his room for several days. He became better in a short time and since then has been working at odd jobs about town. Those for whom he has worked say he is a willing fellow and a good worker. He has relatives residing in Chicago. The man's delusion is that he is a great general at the head of a large army and that another army or large crowd is opposing him. At other times he is working a number of levers of some kind and having all kinds of trouble.
Stoeckel, Thomas
Silverton Standard 6-16-1906 – Last Monday Thomas Stoeckel, who for the past six weeks has been laboring under the hallucination that he was visited nightly by imaginary persons from the spiritual world, was tried for insanity in the county court before County Judge McNutt and a jury consisting of D. Preston Bell, Thos. Gifford, Joe Watson, Al Sturgeon, John Meager and E. W. Hodges. Attorney Searcy represented the people and Frank L. Ross appeared for the respondent. After hearing the testimony, the jury found that the respondent was of an unsound mind and insane. He was accordingly sentenced to the State Insane Asylum at Pueblo. He was placed in charge of the sheriff, who together with D. R. Jones, took him to that institution Tuesday… (article is cut off here).
Stoeckel, Thomas
Silverton Standard 6-23-1906 – Sheriff Palmquist and Night Watch D. R. Jones returned Sunday evening from Pueblo, where they placed Thomas Stockle, who was recently adjudged insane, in the asylum.
Stokes, Arthur D. H.
patient gender M race W age 27 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stokes, Marie J. D.
patient gender F race W age 64 marital status M birthplace England source 1930 census
Stokes, W.
Leadville Herald Democrat 1-16-1886 – An Eventful Year (1885) – A Full and Comprehensive Chronological Record of Important Local Occurrences – March 6 – W. Stokes becomes insane…
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 12-9-1893 – This Explains It – Highlands Has the Author of Governor Waite's Message – A Crazy Woman Grows Enthusiastic Over the Silver Lucubration and Requires Four Men to Restrain Her – But for Her False Teeth She Would Have Torn Marshal McNeil's Face Into Shreds – The town hall was enlivened yesterday by an insane woman, who, among other things, claimed to have written Governor Waite's message. It required four strong men to remove the woman to a cell and Marshal McNeil mourns the destruction of a valuable watch chain, which the woman grabbed from his person while he was surveying the prisoner outside the bars. The woman is 69 years old but seemed to have the strength of a giantess while in the clutches of the law. Her name is Mrs. Stokesbary, residing at 1122 Inverness street with her son, John Stokesbary, a machinist. Yesterday morning a man drove up to the town hall and, inquiring for the marshal, told him that a crazy woman was raising considerable disturbance near his home on Inverness street. Marshal McNeil immediately hied himself to the scene of disorder. Mrs. McGinty, a neighbor of Mrs. Stokesbary, said that Mrs. Stokesbary had amused herself by whipping Ella McGinty, a 3-year-old child, and would have drowned the youngster but for timely interference. While the lady was speaking Mrs. Stokesbary approached the side window of the McGinty residence and beat against the pane with her fists. Desisting a moment, she picked up a stone weighing several pounds and advanced to the window. McNeil rushed out of the front door and caught the crazed woman from behind before the missile was hurled. Her removal to the city jail was the next difficulty. She fought like a tigress, but was finally overcome and placed in a buggy. The marshal drove towards the hall. Nearing the jail, Mrs. Stokesbary grew violent. She got hold of the marshal's hair and succeeded in fastening her teeth in his cheek. Fortunately for the officer the molars were false and the set fell to the ground. At the hall the firemen were pressed into service and the patient was locked up. Last evening she was released upon the application of relatives, who said they would have her sent to an asylum.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 12-20-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3440 – Amanda G. Stakesbary, lunacy; same as above (set for hearing December 21); Geo. Simmonds appointed guardian ad litem.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 12-20-1893 – Civil Briefs – Michael Boyle and Amanda G. Stokesbury will be tried for lunacy to-day.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 12-22-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3449 – Amanda Stokesbury, lunacy; motion for hearing this day vacated.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 1-13-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3449 – Amanda Stokesbary, lunacy; order for venire, etc.; set for trial January 10.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 1-17-1894 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: 3449 – Amanda G. Stokesbary; lunacy; George Simmonds, heretofore appointed guardian ad litem, not appearing when case was reached, J. H. Gabriel was appointed guardian ad litem; trial to jury; verdict of insane; defendant ordered to be returned to county hospital and there confined until her removal to the asylum; Francis Bailey designated to accompany lunatic to asylum; J. H. Gabriel allowed $5 for his services.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 7-3-1894 – Civil Briefs – Amanda Stokesbury and Anna M. Able, who have been adjudged insane by the county court, were yesterday ordered discharged from the asylum by the recommendation of the superintendent.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Denver Evening Post 12-17-1898 – There Are Others – Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, aged 74 years, has been committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo. The unfortunate woman imagines herself to be a girl.
Stokesbury, Amanda
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Stolper, Amy
patient gender F race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Oregon source 1930 census
Stolts, Katherine
patient race: W sex: F age: 22 marital:M place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stoltz, Floyd
patient gender M race W age 21 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stone, Abel
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:M place of birth: Finland occupation: ward worker source: 1920 census
Stone, Abel
Carbonate Chronicle 3-31-1913 – Adjudged Insane – Abel Stone, a Finn, who has been residing in Finntown, was adjudged insane in Judge Harrison's court yesterday after expert testimony had been given by Dr. J. A. Jeanotte and Dr. B. F. Griffith. Stone will be taken to the state insane asylum at Pueblo tonight by Deputy Harry Alexander. Stone's mental condition was reported to the sheriff's office two or three days ago by his brother-in-law, Frank Heiskila, and his report was borne out by statements of Heikkila's brother-in-law, Sipri Wirta. They asked that Stone be examined, preparatory to making arrangements for his care, as it was feared he might become dangerous if allowed to remain without constant guard. Attorneys H. R. Pendery and M. F. Ryan acted yesterday as the defense and prosecution respectively. The jury which brought the judgment on Stone's condition was: Frank Becker, E. F. Sehrt, E. J. Hoefnagel, F. E. Mercereau, Fred Swanson and Martin Lineweaver.
Stone, Agnes E.
patient gender F race W age 52 marital status M birthplace Massachusetts source 1930 census
Stone, Agnes E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 42 marital:M place of birth: Massachusetts occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stone, Clara E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 31 marital: M place of birth: Nebraska none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Stone, James G.
Greeley Tribune 3-31-1898 – In County court Monday, James C. Stone was adjudged insane by a jury and Judge Smith sent him to the asylum at Pueblo. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Stone, who reside on a ranch south of Evans.
Stone, Katie
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stone, Samuel
patient race: W sex: M age: 22 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stone, Thomas
patient race W gender M age 45 marital status . place of birth Pennsylvania occupation miner source 1910 census
Stone, Vienna E.
patient race W gender F age 65 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Stonestreet, Oscar
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Storch, Frank
Castle Rock Journal 8-16-1901 – Wildly Insane – Unfortunate Man Attacks Sheriff and Four Men Required to Hold Him in Subjection – Frank Storch, an Austrian, was tried in the county court yesterday for lunacy. He was taken in custody last Saturday at the ranch of John W. Springer, president of the National Live Stock association, which is situated in the northern part of the county. After being at the Springer ranch a couple of days Storch suddenly became violently insane and Sheriff Hoffman had a fierce struggle with him while bringing him to the jail here. Several times the maniac made vicious assaults upon the officer and it required four men to overcome him. Finally he feigned death and was carried to a train and brought here in that condition. Little has been learned as to the man's former home or antecedents. At the trial he admitted, however, that for 18 months he was in an insane asylum in Wisconsin some years ago. His original home is supposed to have been in Pennsylvania. Before going to the Springer ranch, Storch was for a time at the ranch of Senator E. M. Ammons, near Acequia. Before that he had worked as a section man on the Denver & Fort Worth railroad, in the eastern part of the county.
Storey, Nellie
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status M birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Storey, Phoebe
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1830 age 70 marital status W place of birth Tennessee occupation laundress source : 1900 census
Storey, Phoebe
patient race W gender F age 78 marital status W place of birth Michigan source 1910 census
Story, Phoebie
patient, white, female, age 60, widow, Pennsylvania, 1885 census
Stoukel, Thomas
patient race W gender M age 49 marital status M place of birth Wisconsin occupation agent source 1910 census
Stout, Arthur R.
Daily Journal May 26, 1922 Arizona Man Insane; Sent To Asylum - Arthur R. Stout, who drifted into Montrose about a week ago, has been adjudged insane by County Judge S. S. Sherman and was taken to Pueblo Tuesday at noon by Sheriff L. F. Dorsey. When Stout came he was half clothed and half starved. Sheriff Dorsey fixed him up, but his mental condition did not improve, so it was thought better to send him to the state asylum. He states he was born in Snowflake, Arizona and that he came here from Dove Creek. – Montrose Press
Stout, Josephine
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status M birthplace South Dakota source 1930 census
Stout, Josephine
patient race: W sex: F age: 48 marital:M place of birth: South Dakota occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Stout, Wilburn N.
patient gender M race W age 68 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Stout, William W.
patient gender M race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Stovall, Joseph K.
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Stowell, Flora
patient race:W sex:F age: 30 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: Dr. Works 1900 census
Stowell, Flora
admitted 5-10-1900 from Parachute, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stoyenoff, Maria
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Bulgaria source 1930 census
Straberg, Earl
patient gender M race W age 34 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Strah, Louis
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Yugoslavia source 1930 census
Strait, Morris
patient gender M race W age 37 marital status S birthplace New York source 1930 census
Strait, Morris
patient race: W sex: M age: 26 marital:S place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Strait, Nathan
pupil race: W sex: M age: 19 marital: S place of birth: New York source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Strange, Jess
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Utah source 1930 census
Stranger, Caroline P.
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status M birthplace England source 1930 census
Stratt, William
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: laundry helper source: 1920 census
Straubharr, Lizzie
patient race: W sex: F age: 36 marital:M place of birth: Minnesota occupation: none source: 1920 census
Strawn, Oscar
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1866 age 34 marital status S place of birth Iowa source : 1900 census
Strawn, Oscar L.
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Strawn, Oscar L.
patient race: W sex: M age: 53 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Strearns, William
patient race: W sex: M age: 31 marital: M place of birth: Swedennone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Strecklin, Paul
Leadville Daily Herald 1-27-1884 – County Commissioners – Resolved, That Hon. A. T. Gunnell, county judge, he, and is, hereby earnestly requested to cause to be furnished to the county attorney certified copies of the record of the county court of the adjudication of lunacy of all lunatic paupers found insane in said court since the organization of this county, except those in cases of Elinora Underdunder, John Sullivan, Christmas Carlson and Paul Strecklin, to enable said attorney to complete the account of this state on account of insane paupers and present the same for payment.
Street, Cora
patient gender F race W age 28 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Streeter, Nels
Rocky Mountain News 1-22-1883 - Doom of the Daft - To Be Placed in Dungeons Unfit for Dogs - No Suitable Place Provided for the Penniless Insane - One of the most important matters which will come up before the present legislature, and which will meet the hearty support of the authorities of every county in the state, is the bill to provide for an appropriation to enlarge and complete the insane asylum at Pueblo. In its present state of incompletion the asylum will barely accommodate fifty persons, and these uncomfortably. The result of this is that the state authorities are constantly refusing to accept from counties dozens of insane persons, pleading lack of accommodations in the asylum as their excuse, and the unfortunate beings are thrown into jails, out-houses, cellars or any other disagreeable place where they can be kept with the least trouble or danger. The Arapahoe commissioners daily receive letters of appeal from the commissioners of other counties, which are not so well provided with accommodations for insane as this county, requesting them to shelter insane men and women in order that they might be given proper medical care. These letters have to be thrown aside as the commissioners of this county have more insane people on their hands than they can properly care for. There are now in the county hospital five demented inmates, who cause no end of trouble, and in order that they may not interfere with the conduct of the hospital, are treated very much in the same manner as dangerous criminals. A News reporter visited the hospital yesterday, accompanied by Mr. J. A. Shreve, chairman of the board of commissioners. The hospital buildings are two in number and are located on a little knoll just west of Broadway and on the south side of Cherry creek. Both of the buildings are good looking and substantial in appearance. Under the direction of Dr. Kelley, the resident physician, the reporter made a complete tour of the hospital. Every ward was found to be filled with men in various stages of sickness, and suffering with all kinds of diseases. In one ward in the second building are the patients suffering from acute diseases, such as pneumonia, heart disease and rheumatism. In this ward the most suffering is visible. In other wards are men suffering from broken limbs, accidents, chronic diseases, and in a ward by themselves are convalescent patients. In this way 110 men, women and children are crowded together to share the cup of misery. Among the patients who are suffering from blindness is Captain Jack Travis, who was once famous as the champion pistol shot of the country. Very little remains of this once famous man, and as he drags his bent and aged form across the ward, in which he sits continually, the observer can not help but pity him. Jack like all men who have been famous, is a character in his own way. His characteristics are excessive talking and excessive melancholy. It happened yesterday that he was attacked with a fit of melancholy and he was not in a communicative mood, but from his attendants it was learned that he tells big stories of the duels in which he acted as principal and second. In another ward there is a man named Nels Streeter, who is just recovering from the effects of a railway accident. This man had a most remarkable operation performed upon him - nothing more or less than removing two inches of the upper bone in the left arm. He now has complete use of his arm and can move his fingers just the same as if the bone had never been removed. In the same ward is a laborer named Joseph Brias suffering with frozen hands and feet. The reporter went from these scenes of misery to the basement of the institution. This is made decently comfortable by the heat from the boilers. The front portion is divided off into cells or apartments and are completely devoid of furniture of any kind. They are cold and cheerless in appearance and must be revolting to the inmates. In the first of these cells Henry O'Neil is confined. O'Neil has to be locked up constantly, and has to be kept away from beds or anything which can be destroyed. The other day he tore an iron bedstead to pieces, and during the operation cut off the front part of his nose. The wound, though a serious one, was dressed by Dr. Kelley, and is now healing up. In another cell the reporter saw an object lying on the floor curled up in a blanket and not moving. This was Ida Stroetger. She was stark naked, having torn off her clothes, and she was exposed to the cold and chill of her cell. This poor thing's condition is deplorable in the extreme. There is another insane patient in the basement named Johnson. The latter occupies a small couch and rarely ever gets up from it. An upper story room is occupied by Mr. Godfrey, who was recently adjudged insane. And there is still another, Agnes Mears. Dr. Kelley says that the quarters provided for these poor people are not fit to be occupied by dogs, but on account of the crowded wards nothing better can be done for them. They are practically cut off from seeing the rays of the sun or anything else that is cheerful and aids in the recovery of the insane. Instead of assisting in their recovery their stay in the county hospital only makes that more improbable.
Strehl, Alcinda
patient race W gender F age 85 marital status W place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Streit, Joseph
Colorado Transcript 11-21-1907 – Joseph Streit, a resident of the North side, was adjudged insane in county court last week, and taken to the asylum at Pueblo.
Streit, Joseph
Colorado Transcript 12-31-1909 – Joseph Streit, who was sent to the insane asylum from Golden a few months ago, died at that institution Tuesday. The body will probably be brought here for burial. He leaves a wife and three children in Golden.
Streit, Joseph
Colorado Transcript 6-18-1908 – While Family Worships, Man Attempts Suicide. Kneeling in prayer with her children before the altar in St. Joseph's Catholic church last Sunday morning, Mrs. Joseph Streit had no premonition of the tragedy that was being enacted at that very moment at her home in North Golden when her husband, Joseph Streit, a mental patient, recently brought home from the asylum at Pueblo, arose from his bed and seizing a razor sank the blade deep into his left wrist, severing an artery in an attempt to commit suicide. When the family returned from church they saw the bloody razor in the window and fearing the worst ran into the room to find the husband and father lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the floor. Although given immediate surgical attention Streit's wound were of so serious a nature that it was at first feared that he might not survive. Several years ago prior to his removal to the asylum Streit had made an attempt to end his life. Fearing that he might become violent and attack his family or the neighbors Streit has been removed from his home by Sheriff Whipple and Deputy Sheriff Joseph Dennis and will be taken to a sanitarium or an asylum for treatment.
Streit, Joseph
Colorado Transcript 6-25-1908 – Joseph Streit, who while his folks were at church May 14, attempted suicide with indifferent success, has been returned to the asylum at Pueblo, where he had previously been confined for several months.
Streleta, Gust
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status Un birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Strelitz, Gust
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:. place of birth: Prussia occupation: none source: 1920 census
Streltzer, Sadie
patient gender F race W age 31 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Stricklin, Martin E.
patient gender M race W age 20 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Strieberg, Frantz
Rocky Mountain News 12-20-1887 – Alleged Lunatic – C. C. Gird, chairman of the board of county commissioners, yesterday filed the papers necessary to bring two cases of alleged lunacy before the County court… One of the prisoners if Frantz Stebney. He is a tailor and has for some time been working in Appel's establishment. Of late he has shown a disposition to cut doll babies out of fine and costly cloth and has indulged in other eccentricities… Both are in custody awaiting examination by the court.
Strieberg, Frantz
Rocky Mountain News 12-21-1887 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – People vs. Frantz Steberg; lunacy; Ralph Talbot appointed guardian ad litem; hearing set for December 23.
Strieberg, Frantz
Rocky Mountain News 12-24-1887 – Lunacy – Two Cases Tried in the County Court Yesterday – Verdict of Insane in One Case and Not Insane in the Other – The County court was occupied yesterday with the hearing of two lunacy cases. The first was that of Frantz Strieberg, a workman in Appel & Co.'s tailoring establishment. The case against him was prosecuted by the county commissioners, and he had become a county charge. While at work he developed a propensity for cutting doll babies out of fine cloth. On the witness stand yesterday he developed into a good deal more than a millionaire. He talked of gold and silver mines of fabulous wealth which he possessed. But when asked to locate them he became a little mixed. He thought most of them were somewhere in the planets. He also boasted of immense landed possessions and princely revenues in one of the German provinces. And finally, he had money in limitless quantities deposited in the banks of the city. But he didn't have about him money for current expenses. The jury found him insane and he will go to the asylum.
Stroberg, Carl H.
pupil race: W sex: M age: 13 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Stroberg, Earl
patient race: W sex: M age: 23 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Stroetger, Ida
Rocky Mountain News 12-15-1882 - Insane Day - The Unfortunates Who Were Adjudged Insane in the County Court Yesterday - The County court room was crowded almost to suffocation yesterday when the trials of the insane persons, who have been in the charge of the county for some time past, were called by Judge Harrington for final disposition. There were very few idle lookers-on among the spectators, the majority of them being either friends or relations of the persons on whom the inquisitions were being held, or mere witnesses. The unfortunates were brought into court about 11 o'clock by Deputy Sheriff Charles Linton. The only one who showed any violence was Ida Strodens, and she made only feeble attempts to tear herself loose from the grasp of the officer. The other three simply watched this demented woman in silence and followed the deputy sheriff with a meek docility quite remarkable. Judge Harrington took up the case of the Strodens woman first. When the witnesses were being examined she appeared greatly agitated and positively refused to remain quiet. She tore her hat off her head and threw it from her and would have torn her hair had not the court officers promptly pinned her hands down to her side. She is only a girl in years and has been in Denver less than three months. Her story is really an affecting one. When Mrs. (Miss?) Strodens came to Denver she was enciente and about to give birth to a child. Immediately upon her arrival she made application and was granted admission to the home for the friendless. There she gave birth to her child after three days confinement, and soon after its delivery she became delirious. Her condition did not improve any although she was given the best of medical treatment and she was soon a raving maniac. Mrs. Davidson, matron of the home, was finally compelled to take the baby from its mother. The next step taken was to remove her to the county hospital, where she has been for some months. The jury found a verdict of insanity and Judge Harrington issued a commitment to the state asylum. Agnes Meagher also met with the same fate at the hands of the jury, but bore it without a murmur. She is a remarkably fine looking young lady and her demented condition cannot be accounted for by her friends. Harriet Ann Godfrey, the wife of a thrifty carpenter, who has been closely confined in the county hospital for some time, was next tried. She is the woman who some weeks ago drove the lodgers out of the Exchange block with a hatchet. Mrs. Godfrey was also adjudged insane. A twelve-year-old lad named James M. Nevin, who is in a helpless state of idiocy, was also adjudged insane and committed.
Stroetger, Ida
Rocky Mountain News 1-22-1883 - Doom of the Daft - To Be Placed in Dungeons Unfit for Dogs - No Suitable Place Provided for the Penniless Insane - One of the most important matters which will come up before the present legislature, and which will meet the hearty support of the authorities of every county in the state, is the bill to provide for an appropriation to enlarge and complete the insane asylum at Pueblo. In its present state of incompletion the asylum will barely accommodate fifty persons, and these uncomfortably. The result of this is that the state authorities are constantly refusing to accept from counties dozens of insane persons, pleading lack of accommodations in the asylum as their excuse, and the unfortunate beings are thrown into jails, out-houses, cellars or any other disagreeable place where they can be kept with the least trouble or danger. The Arapahoe commissioners daily receive letters of appeal from the commissioners of other counties, which are not so well provided with accommodations for insane as this county, requesting them to shelter insane men and women in order that they might be given proper medical care. These letters have to be thrown aside as the commissioners of this county have more insane people on their hands than they can properly care for. There are now in the county hospital five demented inmates, who cause no end of trouble, and in order that they may not interfere with the conduct of the hospital, are treated very much in the same manner as dangerous criminals. A News reporter visited the hospital yesterday, accompanied by Mr. J. A. Shreve, chairman of the board of commissioners. The hospital buildings are two in number and are located on a little knoll just west of Broadway and on the south side of Cherry creek. Both of the buildings are good looking and substantial in appearance. Under the direction of Dr. Kelley, the resident physician, the reporter made a complete tour of the hospital. Every ward was found to be filled with men in various stages of sickness, and suffering with all kinds of diseases. In one ward in the second building are the patients suffering from acute diseases, such as pneumonia, heart disease and rheumatism. In this ward the most suffering is visible. In other wards are men suffering from broken limbs, accidents, chronic diseases, and in a ward by themselves are convalescent patients. In this way 110 men, women and children are crowded together to share the cup of misery. Among the patients who are suffering from blindness is Captain Jack Travis, who was once famous as the champion pistol shot of the country. Very little remains of this once famous man, and as he drags his bent and aged form across the ward, in which he sits continually, the observer can not help but pity him. Jack like all men who have been famous, is a character in his own way. His characteristics are excessive talking and excessive melancholy. It happened yesterday that he was attacked with a fit of melancholy and he was not in a communicative mood, but from his attendants it was learned that he tells big stories of the duels in which he acted as principal and second. In another ward there is a man named Nels Streeter, who is just recovering from the effects of a railway accident. This man had a most remarkable operation performed upon him - nothing more or less than removing two inches of the upper bone in the left arm. He now has complete use of his arm and can move his fingers just the same as if the bone had never been removed. In the same ward is a laborer named Joseph Brias suffering with frozen hands and feet. The reporter went from these scenes of misery to the basement of the institution. This is made decently comfortable by the heat from the boilers. The front portion is divided off into cells or apartments and are completely devoid of furniture of any kind. They are cold and cheerless in appearance and must be revolting to the inmates. In the first of these cells Henry O'Neil is confined. O'Neil has to be locked up constantly, and has to be kept away from beds or anything which can be destroyed. The other day he tore an iron bedstead to pieces, and during the operation cut off the front part of his nose. The wound, though a serious one, was dressed by Dr. Kelley, and is now healing up. In another cell the reporter saw an object lying on the floor curled up in a blanket and not moving. This was Ida Stroetger. She was stark naked, having torn off her clothes, and she was exposed to the cold and chill of her cell. This poor thing's condition is deplorable in the extreme. There is another insane patient in the basement named Johnson. The latter occupies a small couch and rarely ever gets up from it. An upper story room is occupied by Mr. Godfrey, who was recently adjudged insane. And there is still another, Agnes Mears. Dr. Kelley says that the quarters provided for these poor people are not fit to be occupied by dogs, but on account of the crowded wards nothing better can be done for them. They are practically cut off from seeing the rays of the sun or anything else that is cheerful and aids in the recovery of the insane. Instead of assisting in their recovery their stay in the county hospital only makes that more improbable.
Strom, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 80 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stromberg, Emmet
Fort Collins Courier 3-30-1922 – Emmet Stromberg, who has been in a private sanitarium at Denver, was brot to the county court Thursday by Deputy Sheriff H. H. Sanders and at a hearing Thursday afternoon Stromberg was ordered commited to the insane asylum at Pueblo. He is aged about 19 years and his mental trouble is said to be due to an attack of the flu. His home is at Wellington.
Stromberg, Emmet
Fort Collins Courier 4-1-1922 – Deputy Sheriff H. H. Sanders, Friday, took Emmet Stromburg to the state hospital for the insane at Pueblo. The young man is aged 19 and resided near Wellington. His mental trouble followed an attack of the flu.
Strome, Thomas T.
patient gender M race W age 29 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Stroner, Anthony Jr.
patient gender M race W age 29 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Strong, Asa
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:M place of birth: Indiana occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Strong, Clara
patient gender F race W age 28 marital status S birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Strott, William
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Strowger, Jennie
admitted 8-10-1900 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Strub, Jacob
Colorado Transcript 12-20-1923 – Local Paragraphs – Jacob Strub, for several years proprietor of the Golden bakery, attempted to commit suicide at his room in Denver last Friday. He cut the arteries in one of his wrists, but was found a short time later and rushed to the county hospital. Strub had been in poor health for some time and a note was found on his dresser in which he said that he was taking his life because he feared he was going insane. It is said that he will recover. Strub gained many friends during the time he spent in Golden.
Stuart, Wray
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Stubbe, Anna
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Stubbe, Anna
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 1-16-1920 – A hearing in lunacy proceedings was held before Judge More of the County court last Saturday in the case of Mrs. Anna Stubbe, charged by her husband with being insane. After examining the defendant Drs. Kaylor and Dooley acting as a lunacy commission, found that the woman was not insane and she was released pending further developments. Mrs. Stubbe has been in poor health for some time and this may have slightly affected her mind. She has been taken to Denver for treatment in a sanatorium. Attorney Frank Allen represented the people and Chalkey A. Wilson appeared for the defendant.
Stubbe, Anna
Akron Weekly Pioneer Press 2-20-1920 – Mrs. Anne Stubbe, a resident of Washington county, who has been in a hospital in Denver for the past few weeks, taking treatment for mental trouble, was returned to Akron Sunday evening not improved in health. After a hearing before Drs. Kaylor and Clarke she was adjudged insane and on Tuesday was taken to the State Asylum in Pueblo by Sheriff Potter.
Stubblefield, Edna
patient race: W sex: F age: 22 marital:S place of birth: Arkansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Stubblefield, Edna
admitted 6-8-1915 from El Paso, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stubbs, Jessie E MD
admitted 7-27-1915 from Otero, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Stubbs, Madison
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1860 age 40 marital status W place of birth Iowa occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Stubbs, Madison
patient race W gender M age 50 marital status W place of birth Iowa occupation section man source 1910 census
Stubbs, Madison
patient gender M race W age 71 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Stubbs, Madison
Wray Rattler – 4-18-1902 Untied States Land Office, Akron, Colo. 3-17-1902, final proof on land claim of Madison Stubbs, insane, by daughter Maude Stubbs. Peter Campbell, Registrar.
Stubbs, Mr.
Rocky Mountain News 11-20-1897 – They'll Never Run Away Any More – The four boys who ran away from the State Home for Dependent Children Thursday all came back again the next day, very dirty, very tired, very hungry and very glad to get back… There are now fifty-two children at the home, the latest acquisition being Lena Stubbs, aged 2 years, sent from this county a few days ago. She found four brothers and sisters awaiting her. This family furnishes an excellent example of one class of children who find a refuge there. Two years ago the whole family lived on a ranch in Morgan county. The father became hopelessly insane, and from that time on the children ran wild on the prairie till the authorities of Morgan county took the oldest four in charge and sent them to the state school. The mother resisted separation from her children bitterly and in compassion they allowed her to keep the baby Lena. The condition of the others may be judged from the fact that when they reached the home they did not know the use of a knife and fork. A few weeks ago the mother was taken sick, brought to the hospital in Denver and lately died. The rest of the family is now complete at the home…
Stump, C. Wilson
patient gender M race W age 65 marital status M birthplace Maryland source 1930 census
Sturbe, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 76 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sturgeon, T J
admitted 7-7-1915 from Bent, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sturgeon, Thomas J.
patient race: W sex: M age: 69 marital:W place of birth: Ohio occupation: stable helper source: 1920 census
Sturgeon, Thomas J.
Littleton Independent 10-3-1919 – Crazy Man Wrecks City Jail; Removed To Court House – Last Sunday evening Marshall Stevens arrested a man by the name of Tom Sturgeon who appeared to be mentally deranged. He was confined in the town jail and during the night tore everything to pieces in the building. The next day he was removed to the jail in the court house and as soon as the officers had gone he proceeded to tear out all the steam pipes and fittings and broke out all the windows. A lunacy commission will be appointed to investigate the case.
Sturgeon, Thomas J.
Littleton Independent 10-17-1919 - Thomas J. Sturgeons was adjudged insane by a lunacy commission last Thursday and was sentenced to the asylum at Pueblo. Sheriff Burden took him there Wednesday. Sturgeons when picked up recently tore up the inside of the Littleton jail and was later removed to the Court House where he proceeded to tear down the steam and water pipes and break all the windows in the jail.
Sturgis, T. J.
patient gender M race W age 85 marital status Wd birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Sturns, Raymond E.
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Suadel, Robert
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Sulivan, James
patient race W gender M month born August year born 1858 age 41 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation laborer source 1900 census Woodcroft asylum
Sullivan, Anna
patient gender F race W age 72 marital status Wd birthplace Ireland source 1930 census
Sullivan, Anna
patient race: W sex: F age: 37 marital:M place of birth: Ireland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sullivan, Anna
patient race: W sex: F age: 61 marital:W place of birth: Ireland occupation: laundry help source: 1920 census
Sullivan, Annie
admitted 4-21-1914 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Sullivan, Catherine
Rocky Mountain News 5-22-1889 – An Insane Enigma – The Police Puzzled Over the Strange Case of a Beautiful and Unknown Woman – She Raves About Her Betrayer and Refers to a Comfortable Home in Pueblo – Kate Sullivan, a young and beautiful woman, who was placed in the hands of the police Sunday night, is in a pitiable condition. Without doubt her mind in sadly deranged. For the last few weeks she has been stopping in a block on Fifteenth street, and last week called in Dr. Major, telling him that she was the victim of a man who professed to love her, and was at a loss to know what to do to conceal her shame. He questioned her closely, but her story was so incoherent that he could scarcely credit what he heard. In burning tones she related the circumstances of their meeting and acquaintance, and with a maiden's modesty hesitated and then told him that he took advantage of her confidence and betrayed her. To cover the crime she came to Denver. The physician questioned her closely and decided that she was a resident of Pueblo, and left that place in order to avoid the possibility of exposure when her child was born. Then she wandered off onto other subjects, and folliwng a skillful examination, he decided that the young woman was insane and reported the matter to police headquarters. Chief Farley investigated the case and Lieutenant Owens and Detective Hawley looked closer into it. That the woman was deranged there could be no doubt, and accordingly she was placed in the care of Police Matron Likens, and who was compelled to sit up with her constantly, and it was not until after 3 o'clock yesterday morning that the young woman closed her eyes in sleep. Several times during the night she endeavored to slip out of bed, when she thought Mrs. Likens was not watching her, but every time she was gently rebuked and calmed down. From the evidence so far gathered, it would appear that Katie Sullivan is an escaped lunatic, probably from the Pueblo asylum. Her conversation is broken, and she constantly drifts from one subject to another. But she has a secret, and that a terrible one. Inspired with the thought that she has been the victim of a man's professed love, she becomes excited, though not violent. At other times a spell of melancholy seems to settle over her, and for the time being her whole seems enveloped in thought. Out of the deep reverie Miss Sullivan will awaken with a start, and breaking into tears, will sob as though the very depths of her soul had been stirred by some strong emotion that had taken possession. The circumstances about her meeting with a strange man, and their acquaintance, gives the case a particularly tragic aspect. Kate Sullivan is not in her sane senses. Constantly preying on her mind is the thought of a revolting crime, which annoys her waking hours and disturbs her peace, and follows her into her very dreams. Deprived of the privilege of absolute rest she can but worry, and every movement of her lips is watched closely, every word she utters is noted. She is insane, but is conscious of a wrong, of a man who ruined her, and of a time, name and place. The authorities are fearful lest the woman attempts to commit suicide, and a constant watch is necessary. At times she refuses to eat and strategic means have to be taken when she becomes so stubborn. Last night she was seated in a rocker in the matron's quarters and was much quieter than she has been for some time, but every few moments she would rise in her chair with an exclamation and would be gloomy for some time. Father McDevitt has taken an active interest in the case and will endeavor to provide a home for the patient in some quiet family. In the meantime Chief Farley and his men will sift the case to the bottom, and find if possible the reason for her strange actions. If she has been falsely dealt with the betrayer will be brought to justice.
Sullivan, Catherine
Rocky Mountain News 5-24-1889 – Walks With Police – The Mystery of the Insane Girl From Pueblo Remains as Dense as Ever – An Insane Prisoner – Kate Sullivan, the young lady whose mind is deranged and whose actions of the past few weeks are so mysterious, is an inmate of St. Joseph's Home, where she was taken yesterday. Several attempts have been made to find out who is the man who took advantage of her weakness, but without success, though is is supposed from her rambling talk that he lives on a ranch near Pueblo. She still sticks to the story as published in The News, but, womanlike, refuses to reveal the identity of her betrayer and all tricks to ensnare her in a conversation are exhausted. That she is the victim of the passions of a human fiend there is no doubt. The man lives on a ranch near Pueblo, and it is supposed that the young girl went there to work for him, since no trace of her parents can be found. Occasionally she was thrown into contact with his two sisters, whom she names as Birdie and Nellie, but the last name she refuses positively to tell under any circumstances. Mrs. Boyle, who lives near Boulder, came to see the young lady and instantly recognized her as her sister's child, whom she had not seen for six years, and of whom she had lost all trace, and she has made provisions for the young lady's comfort, and a physician will be employed to see whether or not it is necessary to send her to the insane asylum. Miss Sullivan seems aware of the fact that all who question her are endeavoring to gain evidence that will lead to the capture of her seducer. She was asked if she did not wish to see him, and answered that he had brought her enough grief already without adding to it with his presence, and after the questioning finishes she usually smiles peculiarly and remarks: “You didn't find out much, did you?”
Sullivan, Catherine
Rocky Mountain News 5-30-1889 – Delayed by Red Tape – Catherine Sullivan, a servant girl who is alleged to be insane, was before the county commissioners yesterday in charge of T. G. McCarthy of Pueblo county. Two weeks ago her case was brought under the notice of the commissioners by Father McDermott, but on investigation it was found that she had come from Pueblo. She was accordingly sent to the latter city in charge of an officer. The Pueblo county commissioners also held a session on the case and eventually concluded the girl did not come within their jurisdiction. A further investigation will now be held with the view of locating the lunatic in the county that is entitled to her. In the meantime she will be taken care of by Arapahoe county. Miss Sullivan labors under a hallucination that a gay lothario whom she calls “Ben” is following her around with evil designs.
Sullivan, Catherine
Rocky Mountain News 6-6-1889 – A Sad Case – Kate Sullivan Adjudged Hopelessly Insane by a Jury – Judge Miller and a jury yesterday inquired into the case of Kate Sullivan, a servant girl, who came before them on a charge of lunacy. The case is a melancholy and almost hopeless one, and according to the medical testimony there is but little chance of the girl ever recovering her mental faculties. Although quiet at times, she is subject to frequent fits of a violent nature, in which she shouts at the top of her voice and invariably vents her anger on some individual whom she thinks drugged her whilst making an attempt on her virtue. Whilst testimony was being given yesterday she treated the court to a taste of her lung power and made the building ring with her demoniacal yells. It was with difficulty that two deputy sheriffs could hold her. Eventually it became necessary to resort to handcuffs in the effort to restrain her. The jury, after five minutes' deliberation, adjudged her insane. She will be taken to Pueblo by Herman Weber this morning.
Sullivan, Catherine
Denver Evening Post 8-12-1899 – Four Minds Weakened – Catherine Sullivan, Elizabeth Noble, Lillian McCall and Mary Demondel have been adjudged insane in the county court and will be sent to the state asylum at Pueblo. Catherine Sullivan was very pugnacious and she had to be carefully guarded in court lest she commit some act of violence. She imagines some one wants to kill her.
Sullivan, George F.
Mancos Times-Tribune 8-30-1918 – State of Colorado, County of Montezuma, In the County Court, In the Matter of the Estate of George F. Sullivan, an Insane Person – Notice of Hearing of Petition to Sell Real Estate – The People of the State of Colorado: To George F. Sullivan, the above named ward, and to Elizabeth Nancy Sullivan, minor child of said ward, persons in interest in said estate, Greeting: You are hereby notified that on this 21st day of August, A. D. 1918, Katherine Sullivan, conservator of said estate, presented so and filed in this Court the petition for the sale of certain real estate belonging to said estate and situate in the County of Montezuma and State of Colorado, more fully described in said petition, reference to which is hereby made. You are further notified to appear and answer or otherwise plea to said petition in writing on or before the 19th day of September, A. D. 1918, the day set for the hearing thereof, on or before the day to which such hearing may be adjourned, or said petition will be taken for confessed. Taken under my hand and the seal of said Court at Cortez, in the County of Montezuma and state of Colorado, this 21st day of August A. D. 1918. C. R. Hickson, Clerk of the County Court of Montezuma County, Colorado. First pub. Aug.30; Last pub. Sept. 6, 1918.
Sullivan, Grover
Fort Collins Courier 6-2-1923 – Plea of Lunacy May Get Bunko Man Long Term – Denver, June 1. – By entering his plea of insanity, Grover Sullivan, alias Grove Sullivan, convicted member of the Denver bunko ring, may face a longer term of confinement than might have befallen him had he awaited sentence for conspiracy, say attaches of the district attorney's office. Sullivan, according to a report made to Judge Geoge F. Dunkle today by Dr. D. E. Phillips of the University of Denver, is “hopelessly insane.” The report was turned over to the court today, based upon an examination of Sullivan made by Dr. Phillips Saturday. By established precedent in the Colorado courts Sullivan can now be tried by jury on an insanity charge. If found insane, he can be sent to the state hospital for the insane at Pueblo for treatment. After confinement there, should a cure be effected, he may still be returned to Denver to sentence on the bunko conspiracy conviction against him here. If found sane at the trial, he can be sentenced thereafter on the conspiracy charge.
Sullivan, Grover
6-1-1923 Aspen Democrat Times Grover Sullivan was adjudged insane yesterday by Dr. A.E. Phillips.
Sullivan, James
Rocky Mountain News 3-3-1896 – Difficult Surgery – A Number of Prominent Surgeons Operate on a Man's Skull for Loss of Speech – Pueblo, Colo., March 2 – At the insane asylum Sunday, in the presence of Governor McIntire, one of the most interesting operations in brain surgery was performed by Dr. Clayton Parkhill of Denver, assisted by Dr. Thombs of the asylum, and six or eight local surgeons. The operation was to relieve a pressure on the brain of a patient, James Sullivan, aged 45 years, who has been totally unable to speak for five years. Three years ago he was committed to the asylum, suffering from subacute mania. This recently subsided, leaving him in apparent possession of his faculties, except the inability to speak. The injury has caused a depression of the skull on the left side of the head in the temporal region, and was the result of a mine explosion some five years ago. Dr. J. E. Eskridge of Denver was recently called in by Dr. Thombs to consult and made a careful examination of the case and mapped out the work for the operation, which was performed Sunday, with every indication of success. Dr. Parkhill and his assistant removed from Sullivan's brain about four square inches of bone, which had crushed in upon the speech center. Ninety minutes were consumed in the operation and then the wound was carefully dressed aseptically. To-day the man was resting very easily and had already, to a certain extent, recovered the use of his vocal powers. Heretofore he has been unable to utter a sound, except when he desired to utter “yes” and “no,” and even these could not be distinguished from each other. This is the second operation for complete aphasia performed in the state of Colorado and its result will be watched with much interest, since, if it is successful, it will open up a remarkable field in brain surgery in the West, especially in public institutions.
Sullivan, James
Denver Evening Post 3-3-1896 – Clever Operation – Relieving Pressure on the Brain Centers So as to Restore Speech – Pueblo, March 3 – A difficult surgical operation was performed at the state insane asylum on Sunday in the presence of Governor McIntire and a number of Denver medical men. The operation was to relieve a pressure on the brain of a patient who has been totally unable to speak for five years. James Sullivan was the individual. He is 45 years of age, and was sent to the asylum by the courts of one of the southern counties because he was believed to be insane. The result of the operation proved quite the contrary. Sullivan was hurt by an explosion in a silver mine, the injury causing a depression of the skull on the left side of the head in the temporal region. When he was committed to the institution, he was suffering from sub-acute mania. When this subsided he was left in possession of all his faculties except the power of speech. About four inches square of the patient's skull was removed by the surgeons. This had crushed in on the speech center of the brain. The operation consumed an hour and a half, and Sullivan has recovered his speech to a certain extent. He is resting easily, and will get well. This is the second operation for motor aphasia performed in the state. Dr. Clayton Parkhill of Denver, Dr. Thombs of Pueblo and several assistants had charge of the operation.
Sullivan, Joe
Yampa Leader 5-2-1908 – Joe Sullivan Adjudged Insane – Joseph C. Sullivan, an insane man, was arrested at the State bridge last week by Deputy Sheriff D. O. Bailey, and was taken to Red Cliff, where he was tried and committed to Pueblo. Formerly Sullivan and his family resided near Yampa, but recently under a permit from the game department he has been seining (?) suckers in the Grand River at Yarmony. Sullivan is a son-in-law of W. R. Whitley of Yampa, but his wife has not been living with him since last fall, on account of his habits.
Sullivan, John
Leadville Daily Herald 1-8-1882 – Judge Gunnel yesterday gave John Sullivan a hearing as to his sanity. After testing him in the usual manner, the court adjudged him insane. This is the unfortunate fellow described a week ago in the Herald, who imagined himself a deputy sheriff. He will soon be sent to Pueblo, or in event of the institution at that place being full, he will go to Jacksonville, Illinois, for treatment.
Sullivan, John
Leadville Daily Herald 1-12-1882 – County Commissioners – On motion, Commissioners Hallock and Jennings, be appointed a committee to investigate the condition of John Sullivan, insane, now in the county jail.
Sullivan, John
Leadville Daily Herald 1-27-1884 – County Commissioners – Resolved, That Hon. A. T. Gunnell, county judge, he, and is, hereby earnestly requested to cause to be furnished to the county attorney certified copies of the record of the county court of the adjudication of lunacy of all lunatic paupers found insane in said court since the organization of this county, except those in cases of Elinora Underdunder, John Sullivan, Christmas Carlson and Paul Strecklin, to enable said attorney to complete the account of this state on account of insane paupers and present the same for payment.
Sullivan, Joseph C.
Eagle County Blade 4-23-1908 – Another Demented Man – They have been coming pretty regular lately and the public and officers are beginning to wonder at it. On Monday Deputy Sheriff D. O. Bailey, of State bridge, was called to Yarmony to take charge of a violently crazy man. Mr. Bailey with his charge arrived at Wolcott Tuesday where he was met by Sheriff Henry who brought the unfortunate prisoner to Red Cliff yesterday. The man proved to be Joseph C. Sullivan and he is apparently hopelessly insane. He has no rational moments at all and requires constant restraint to prevent him doing injury to himself or others. His hallucinations cover a variety of subjects and no intelligent expression can be got from him. Before the County court yesterday afternoon Sullivan promptly convicted himself on the charge of lunacy, and Sheriff Henry went to Pueblo with him this morning. Four or five years ago Sullivan with his wife and child resided for a short time in Red Cliff. Of late under a permit from the game department he has been seining fish (suckers) in Grand river at Yarmony. No cause for his condition is known.
Sullivan, M.
patient, white, female, age 33, single, Ireland, 1885 census
Sullivan, Mathew
patient gender M race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sullivan, Mrs. E. H.
Denver Evening Post 11-15-1898 – A Witness at Leadville - … E. H. Sullivan of this city says he can give the insane asylum investigating board testimony as to the way patients are held up at the asylum. He says that his wife was mentally afflicted last year and was sent there for treatment and care. When she went she was wearing a handsome gold ring. This was taken from her and never returned. When she was ready to come home he sent $25 to the authorities to pay for expenses home to Leadville. Instead, however, they sent her home on a half rate ticket and gave her 50 cents to pay for her meals.
Sullivan, Patrick
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status S birthplace Michigan source 1930 census
Sullivan, Patrick
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:S place of birth: Michigan occupation: engine room helper source: 1920 census
Sullivan, Patrick
patient race: W sex: M age: 30 marital: S place of birth: Michigan none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Sully, Mrs. George
Leadville Daily Herald 2-18-1881 – The case of Mrs. George Sully, adjudged insane in the County court the other day is a sad one. The cause is supposed to be the result of the very delicate condition she is in at present.
Sulton, Rosella
Rocky Mountain News 5-8-1894 – Civil Briefs – Rosella Sulton and Lucy Barron have been adjudged insane and ordered to the asylum.
Summ, Anna
Eagle County Blade 8-25-1904 – Adjudged Insane – An inquisition was held in the County court yesterday afternoon to determine the mental condition of Mrs. Anna Summ, wife of Christ Summ of Red Cliff. The jury found the unfortunate woman insane and so distracted in her mind as to be a menace to the safety of herself and others. Some months ago Mrs. Summ's mental condition became such that she was taken to Woodcroft sanitarium at Pueblo by her husband. After several weeks treatment there she was returned to her home, though there was little improvement in her condition. Once since an inquiry as to her sanity was had in the County court and the jury brought in a verdict of acquittal on account of lack of evidence, in the minds of the jury, to warrant any other finding. Of late Mrs. Summ's condition has been such that her neighbors not only feared for their own safety but particularly for the safety of her three infant children. Last evening she was again taken to the sanitarium at Pueblo, and Mr. Summ will place the children in Denver where they will have proper care and attention.
Summers, Flora
Rocky Mountain News 5-20-1886 – Western Waifs – Colorado – Flora Summers, a young woman of Trinidad, but 20 years of age, was adjudged insane Tuesday.
Summers, Tom
patient gender M race W age 72 marital status S birthplace England source 1930 census
Sumner, Charles
patient race: W sex: M age: 31 marital: S place of birth: Kansas none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Sunblaw, Raymond
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Sundbery, Edward
gender m age 27 occupation farmer birthplace Sweden source: 1880 census
Supeno, Pasquele
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status S birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Supeno, Pasquele
patient race: W sex: M age: 40 marital:S place of birth: Mexico occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Supeno, Pasquele
patient race W gender M age 30 marital status S place of birth Italy occupation miner source 1910 census
Sutcliff, Claudia
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 12-2-1886 – Local Brevities – W. H. Sutcliffe an aged lunatic, whose peculiar manias are said to be general crankiness on religious subjects and a disposition to persecute young girls of tender years by writing them letters and following them about, was on trial again yesterday in the County Court. The case was given to the jury about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 1-28-1887 – Bereft of Reason – The Legislative Committee Pay a Visit To the State Lunatic Asylum at Pueblo Yesterday – Pueblo, Jan. 27 – The legislative committee on state institutions… This morning at about 9 o'clock they visited the State Insane asylum, and were shown about the premises by Superintendent P. R. Thombs, General Supervisor T. J. Borroughs and G. W. Mundabaugh, the very pleasant and gentlemanly attendant of the convalescent ward. The committee were unusually well pleased with their inspection of the place… Among the Men – Sutcliffe, the Denver crank, was talked to by a News reporter. Sutcliffe is said to be harmless in all except his religious craze. “I am getting along well enough,” said Sutcliff to the reporter, “but of course it is very disagreeable for a sane man to be locked up with a lot of lunatics.”
Sutcliffe, William H.
Fairplay Flume 3-29-1888 – Sutcliff, the man known as the “Hermit of Platte Canon,” is to be released from the insane asylum.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 3-24-1888 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – In re lunacy, W. H. Sutcliffe; order for delivery of W. H. Sutcliffe from asylum to the custody of Sidney A. Gaylor on condition that no expense arising from such release shall come upon the county of Arapahoe, said Sutcliffe to be under the control and the custody of said Gaylor while out of the asylum.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 9-3-1883 – A Cranky Christian – He is Arrested for Making Himself Obnoxious to Other People – Another very disagreeable crank and fanatic has been temporarily placed where he can do no harm. On Saturday Mr. Mauff, a very nice gentleman at times, at others inclined to bloodshed, and imagining himself some great and unknown ruler, called upon to administer equality and justice to the struggling millions, and other wild and unreasonable things, ad infinitum was placed in the city jail to await the action of the County court. Yesterday Mr. W. H. Sutcliff was jailed, and will also have the condition of his mind passed upon by the county Judge. Mr. Sutcliff is a religious fanatic and crank of the wildest and most dangerous type, and should have been sent to the insane asylum long ago. His freaks of fanaticism have extended back for several months, and for a while he was a perpetual bore about the daily papers of the city, and would have continued till this date had he not been summarily sat down upon. His arrest yesterday was brought about by a series of persistent persecutions he had wrought upon several estimable people in the city. Not by his presence, but by lingering in the vicinity of their homes, peering into windows, approaching as noiselessly as a cat, and appearing at the most unexpected moments. In some localities where he frequents doors were kept locked and shutters closed, that timid women and children might be safe from his demoniacal gaze. The least dangerous of his crazy ideas was his letter writings. He would single out a woman or child that struck his fancy, and following them until their number was found would commence writing long dissertations on religious subjects, and advance the wildest theories concerning sins and sinners, and what was necessary to lead the party addressed to salvation. He claims to be a messenger of God, but the general impression seems to be that he is an emissary of the devil. A News reporter interviewed Sutcliff at the jail last evening, and found him as wildly imaginative as such people generally are. He related instances of his experiences in the Holy Land, which were of the most exaggerated description, and evidently as devoid of facts as a toad is of feathers. He will be taken to the County court this morning and given a hearing, when, it is to be hoped, he will be consigned to a place where he will not molest women and children with his devilish crankisms.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 9-22-1883 – W. H. Sutcliff and John Lang, two alleged insane men, are to be tried in the County court Monday, on the charge of insanity.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 9-25-1883 – Is He Insane? A Religious Devotee Accused of Insanity – Witnesses Who Fail to Discover Any Craziness – Mr. W. H. Sutcliff, the religious monomaniac, who has been confined in the county hospital for some weeks awaiting a trial on a charge of insanity, was before Judge Harrington yesterday afternoon. Mr. Sutcliff has been a resident of Denver and vicinity for about three years, and is impressed with the idea that he is a messenger of God. There are persons who are prone to believe that he is more of an emissary from an opposite direction bent on making life miserable for those whom he may single out as needing religious consolation and warning. The first witness was Mrs. St. George, matron of the county hospital. She testified that his actions at the hospital were not those of an insane man, excepting on the subject of religion. He was always calm and passive excepting when on a religious topic. In ordinary conversation he would wander in his ideas, and eventually drift to religion. Mrs. Harry G. Elder, of 733 Champa, was the prosecuting witness. It was at her instance that Sutcliff was arrested a few weeks ago. He had been annoying Mrs. Elder and her 12-year-old daughter by persisting in writing long letters of a wild and startling character, and latterly of frequenting the vicinity, loitering above the premises and peering into the windows at times when least expected. His proceedings naturally produced considerable uneasiness on the part of Mrs. Elder and her daughter. When his leerings and peerings and writings became unbearable, the lady had him arrested and stowed away for safe keeping. Dr. Everett, of the county hospital is of the opinion that it is against public safety to allow him further liberty. The doctor thinks that Sutcliff has no control over himself and that he was liable at any time to murder even his best friends. For the defense Mr. Samuel Leech, who does a grocery business on the corner of Sixteenth and Wazse, testified that Sutcliff had done business with him for some time, and had sent groceries down to his hermit-like home in Platte canon. Thought he was a man of good judgment and never saw anything wrong with him at any time. He always paid his bills and was a close buyer, knew the price of everything he wanted to buy. Sutcliff was the last on the stand. He occupied it for about half an hour. All interrogatories were answered promply, but he invariably concluded his answer with some allusion to God, and would talk with a rapidity that was astonishing. In talking to the jury he said he was an instrument of God and was placed here to carry out his will. He was now being persecuted just as all the apostles were persecuted; he had been in all parts of the world preaching the word of God, and had preached in the holy temple at Jerusalem where Christians were interdicted. He had instructed the pope and had corresponded with Gladstone and Disraeli on the necessity of saving their souls from eternal damnation, and a volume of like wild and unreasonable things. When the attorneys were submitting their case to the jury he frequently interrupted them with some allusion to his sanity and the mode of persecuting him as the Saviour and apostles were persecuted. The jury will return their verdict this morning.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 11-13-1886 – God's Witness – The Alleged Crank, Sutcliffe On Trial For Lunacy Before a Jury in the County Court – The trial of William H. Sutcliffe, for lunacy, was begun in the County court at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, County Attorney Mills appearing for the prosecution and A. B. Seaman, Esq., making a very spirited effort for the defense. Many people will remember Sutcliffe's former trial in September, 1883. At this first trial the jury failed to find him insane. Sutcliffe has relatives in England who, to some extent pay for his support, and who appear to be quite well satisfied to have him on this side of the big pond. He appears to cherish a religious delusion, which strikes one as similar to that held by the assassin Guiteau. Sutcliffe, however, has never tried to assassinate anybody. He simply claims to be a vicegerent of God, and signs his name to letters and postal cards as “God's Witness, W. H. Sutcliffe.” He says he can say whether a man is going to be saved or damned, and seems to entertain the notion that he is a sort of active partner for the Almighty. He is one of the judges himself, he says, who are going to judge mankind. Dean Hart, Rev. C. H. Marshall and several other Denver clergymen were on the witness stand yesterday and gave some accounts of Sutcliffe's vagaries. This semi-expert testimony by theologues was made very interesting in cross-examination. Sutcliffe might perhaps keep out of trouble if he confined his efforts to purifying and converting the clergy and spreading his own views of the gospel by letters and postal cards, but he indulges a softer passion and exercises unpleasant propensities by falling in love with little girls from 13 to 16, following them on their way to school, leering at them in church and endeavoring to interest fond fathers in his behalf. These little eccentricities are very unpleasant to modest young ladies and their papas, and it is to a recent exploit of this kind that Sutcliffe owes his recent arrest and trial. Sutcliffe spent a good deal of his time in the court room yesterday evening in writing as if for dear life on large pieces of foolscap. Just what he was writing it was hard to determine. To a casual spectator who saw only Sutcliffe's back it might appear that he was simply writing down testimony, as an assistant attorney in the case, but this ragas scribenda appeared to greatly worry his lawyer, at whose signal Sutcliffe would lay down his pen, straighten up, tip back in his chair and betray the most extreme nervousness. Sutcliffe looks sane enough from a back view, but he has a silly leer in his face and an uncertain look in his eyes. Several physicians testified last evening who considered him insane. The case was not given to the jury till a late hour last evening. As he has little personal or other property to take care of, and as he is rather lacking in any of the usual violent manifestations of lunacy, the jury may find considerable difficulty in reaching a verdict.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 11-14-1886 – The jury in the case of W. H. Sutcliffe, charged with insanity, after being out several hours, failed to agree. It is rumored that they stood 5 to 1 in favor of a verdict of lunacy.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 12-2-1886 – The Courts – County Court – Probate – People vs. W. H. Sutcliffe; lunacy; on trial.
Sutcliffe, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 12-3-1886 – Sutcliffe Declared Insane – W. H. Sutcliffe, the religious crank whose alleged persecutions of young girls and rage for letter writing have got him into much trouble, was declared insane in the County court Wednesday evening. The jury were out only an hour. Sutcliffe threatens to appeal the case.
Sutherland, Belle
Rocky Mountain News 3-11-1886 – Minds Diseased – Three lunacy cases are soon to come before the county court. The three persons include two women and one man, and they are now in the county jail. Their names are Belle Sutherland, Tilda Anderson and Anton Steinhaus. Belle Sutherland is a colored woman. She was arrested on Monday and it took four men to keep her in a buggy when she was being removed from her house on South Water street yesterday. It is said that she has lately been yelling and laughing in a manner that disturbed her neighbors at all hours of the night. Her examination for lunacy will probably take place to-day.
Sutherland, Belle
Rocky Mountain News 3-12-1886 – Spirit Voices – An Alleged Lunatic Who is Troubled by Voices, Which No One Else Hears – Belle Sutherland, a colored woman, was on trial for lunacy in the County court yesterday. Her trial occupied several hours yesterday afternoon and was conducted before a jury of six persons. County Attorney Mills appeared for the prosecution and R. W. Steele, Esq., for the defense. Drs. McLaughlin and Kimball appeared as witnesses in the case. Belle Sutherland has at present no family here, but claims to have once had a husband. According to the doctor, she is a victim of what spiritualists would perhaps call clairandienes, but to the average mortal her complaint appears to be insanity and there did not seem to be much doubt as to what the verdict of the jury would be. Belle's great delusion seems to consist in hearing voices of men which frighten her, and in her fright she is said to have cried and yelled in all hours of the night and to have greatly frightened her neighbors. She was rather nervous and talked considerably to herself or somebody else during the trial yesterday. The trial was not completed till about 5:30 yesterday afternoon.
Sutherland, Belle
Rocky Mountain News 3-13-1886 – Found Insane – The jury in the County court in the case of Belle Sutherland, who was tried for lunacy, decided that the woman was insane and Judge Harrington ordered her to be committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Sutton, Rosella
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?)… In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks.
Sutton, Rosella
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1895 – Jugglery Resorted To – Attempt to Mislead Legislature and Public - … Names of Arapahoe Patients – The following is a list of patients received at the insane asylum from Arapahoe county in 1894, as furnished by Dr. Thombs: Arthur W. Keithley, January 14; Robert Suadel, January 18; Mrs. Amanda Stokesbury, January 19; Thomas F. Soden, January 21; Mrs. Rebecca Shaffer, January 24; Mrs. Grace Boulden, January 24; Charles E. Fitch, January 24; James Ridgeway, January 24; Christopher Rohmer, January 30; Franklin Moditz, February 13; Mrs. Anna Able, March 4; Mrs. Mary Kenedy, March 20; Mrs. Lucy Richard, March 28; John Bausemer, April 7; Andrew Anderson, April 22; Mrs. Della Spellman, May 6; Miss Eva Earl, May 6; Robert Roberts, May 8; Mrs. Lucy Banon, May 15; Mrs. Rosella Sutton, May 18 (13?); Thomas Golden, June 8; Mrs. Mollie Burton, June 10; Henry Keller, June 28; J. P. C. Clary, June 23; Mary Hill, June 29; C. J. Calvin, July 8; Thomas Morrison, July 19; Mrs. Samantha E. Lindsey, July 22; Mollie McGuire, July 29; Mrs. Ann E. Curtis, August 14; Mrs. Dalla Massingale, August 26; Samuel Rudge, August 26; Mrs. Emma J. Dawson, September 14; Mrs. Emma Ralston, September 30; Henry E. Ellerman, September 30; Peter Latzerer, October 10; Samuel Cook, October 14; Mrs. E. Walin, October 15; Mrs. Emma L. Chernok, November 17; Patrick Rohan, December 4; James Short, December 4; Daniel Myers, December 4; Stephen W. St. John, December 23; Byron D. Allen, December 23; Henry W. Fairchild, December 23; Julia Dunbar, December 23. The expense bills of the sheriff call for round sums for conveying David C. Hart to the asylum, January 5, and A. B. Clark, June 14, but Dr. Thombs' record does not show that they were ever received there. In checking the bills it was found that few of the dates agreed with the prison records as to date of removal of patients, in some cases the difference being as great as two weeks. No bills were in the possession of the committee for transferring Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Walin. Hart and Clarke appear in the bill as escaped lunatics.
Svaldi, Margaret
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status M birthplace Italy source 1930 census
Svegel, Josephine
admitted 2-3-1915 from Lake, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Svensgaard, Hans
patient gender M race W age 69 marital status S birthplace Norway source 1930 census
Swain, Lottie
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: laundry help source: 1920 census
Swainson, Robert
Rocky Mountain News 6-12-1890 – Declared Insane – Three men who have been charges on the county for some time past were yesterday declared lunatics before Judge Miller and a jury in the county court, and were ordered to be taken to the state lunatic asylum at Pueblo. They were Charles Moran, Frederick Schroeder and Robert Swainson. Moran was a religious fanatic. He is possessed of the hallucination that he is God and that he has been sent here to banish sin. Schroeder until very recently was a regular attendant at the court house. He made its corridors his headquarters. A disease from which he has been suffering for several years has affected his brain. Swainson is effected with melancholia. He shot himself some time ago in an attempt to commit suicide, and his great desire seems to be to attempt this act again. All three men were taken to Pueblo last night.
Swam, Lottie
patient race W gender F age . marital status M place of birth . source 1910 census
Swan, Hannah
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... The next case was a peculiarly sad one. The subject was Hanna Swan, a pretty girl about 18 years of age. She had been employed at Fort Logan as a domestic for a year. Last October she came to Denver and soon afterwards exhibited violent symptoms of insanity. She was constantly out of her mind and embraced every opportunity to run away from her friends. In the court room she talked continually in a rambling way about the people she knew at Fort Logon and Denver, at intervals declaring she was not insane. She was confined by the request of her sister, Anna Swan. She was declared insane.
Swan, Hannah
Rocky Mountain News 11-14-1894 – Another County Hospital Escape – Hannah Swan, 25 years old, insane, escaped from the insane ward at the county hospital at an early hour yesterday morning, making the second escape in three days. Hannah coolly walked out of the building, but was recaptured by one of the attendants before she left the grounds.
Swan, Hannah
Rocky Mountain News 12-5-1894 – Local Brevities – Anna (Hannah) Swan, the insane woman, who ran away from her home at 1423 South Ninth street Monday, was found by Officer Rutledge at Seventeenth and Lawrence streets yesterday morning.
Swan, Hannah
Rocky Mountain News 1-3-1895 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre: To-day's call: 3798 – Hannah Swan, lunatic.
Swan, Hannah
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.
Swan, Hannah
Rocky Mountain News 5-3-1895 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Steele: People vs. Hannah Swan; adjudged insane; petition of Mrs. Jacobson, sister of Hannah Swan, for custody of said Hannah Swan till such time as they may be able to provide a place for her at the asylum granted.
Swan, Kate
Colorado Transcript 8-21-1919 – Local Paragraphs – Informations have been filed in county court charging that Mrs. Swan, an aged woman living at Dome Rock, in the southern part of the county, is insane. She will appear before a lunacy commission in county court tomorrow. Mrs. Swan is about 80 years old, and has lived in this county for many years.
Swan, Kate
Colorado Transcript 8-28-1919 – In the County Court – The lunacy case against Kate Swan was continued to September 2nd, at 10 a.m.
Swan, Kate
Colorado Transcript 9-4-1919 – In the County Court – The lunacy case of the people vs. Kate Swan was continued to Sept. 8th.
Swan, Kate
Colorado Transcript 6-10-1920 – In the County Court – Rev. Father Servant was appointed, on the petition of the board of county commissioners, administrator of the estate of Kate Swan, late of Dome Rock, deceased.
Swank, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 19 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Swansee, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 5-7-1889 – Cuts Her Throat – A Female Inmate of the State Insane Asylum at Pueblo Commits Suicide – Found Dead in Bed Yesterday Morning with an Old Knife Clasped in Her Hands – Pueblo Bureau of the News, Corner of Main and C Streets, Pueblo, Colo., May 6 – A horrible tragedy occurred at the insane asylum early this morning, one of the women patients cutting her throat from ear to ear, severing the artery, which must have caused instantaneous death. The deceased's name was Miss Mary Swansee, and was brought to the asylum several years ago from Washington county. Of late her mind has become to all intents and purposes more settled, and she has been allowed to walk around the grounds, and was generally regarded as being in a fair way for recovery. She slept in the new wing of the female asylum, there being another woman in the same room, and this morning when her room was visited Miss Swansee was discovered lying across the bed under a sheet, her throat cut and presenting a most sickening spectacle. On the arrival of Coroner Cowles an investigation was made, and in deceased's hand under the clothes a common iron table-knife was tightly clenched. The knife had a big piece chipped out of the end, and one side was as blunt as the other, showing that she must have made a determined effort to do the deed. It is presumed that deceased in her walks had found the knife, which was evidently thrown away on account of its worthlessness and secreted it in her clothing till ready to use it.
Swanson, Blanda
patient race W gender F age 29 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation domestic source 1910 census
Swanson, Blanda
patient gender F race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Swanson, Blanda
patient race: W sex: F age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Swanson, Christine
patient gender F race W age 55 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Swanson, Christine
patient race: W sex: F age: 44 marital:M place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Swanson, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 49 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Swanson, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 47 marital: S place of birth: Sweden none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Swanson, Helen
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1871 age 29 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation servant source : 1900 census
Swanson, Helen
patient race W gender F age 38 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation servant source 1910 census
Swanson, Helen
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Swanson, Helen
patient race: W sex: F age: 48 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: sewing source: 1920 census
Swanson, Helen
Denver Evening Post 3-17-1898 – An Examination for Sanity – The Arapahoe County Supported Insane Growing Less in Number – Lulu England, Helen Fisher and Jane Jones will be tried this evening in the county court as to their sanity. They are now inmates at the county hospital. Last evening Capitola Brown, Caroline Heisman and Helen Swanson were adjudged insane. They will be sent to the home of the feeble minded in Pueblo. A number of those who have been committed there have been withdrawn by their friends since it has become apparent that they are in danger of transportation from the city.
Swanson, Helen Miss
admitted 8-3-1898 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Swanson, Ingrid
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Swanson, Ingrid
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:M place of birth: Sweden occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Swanson, Jennie
patient gender F race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Swanson, Jennie
patient race: W sex: F age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Swanson, Pete
patient gender M race W age 74 marital status Wd birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Swanze, Mary
Aspen Daily Chronicle 5-7-1889 A Most Horrible Tragedy May 6 – A horrible tragedy occurred at the State insane asylum at an early hour this morning, one of the female patients cutting her throat from ear to ear, severing an artery, which must have caused instant death. Deceased's name was Miss Mary Swanze. She was brought to the asylum several years ago from Washington county. Of late her mind has become, to all intents and purposes more settled and she has been allowed to walk around the grounds and was generally regarded as being in a fair way to recovery. She slept in the new wing of the female asylum, there being another woman in the same room, and this morning when her room was visited Miss Swanzee was discovered lying across the bed, under a sheet, her throat cut, presenting a most sickening spectacle. On the arrival of the coroner an investigation was made and in the deceased's hands, under bed clothes, a common table knife was tightly clenched. The knife had a big piece chipped out at the end and one side was a blunt as the other, showing that she must have made a most determined effort to do the deed. It is presumed that the deceased, in her walks, had found the knife which was evidently thrown away on account of its worthlessness, and secreted it in her clothing till ready for use.
Sward, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 4-15-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – The following business was transacted yesterday: Inquisition of lunacy of Mary Seward; complaint of Hilda Seward; Theo. H. Thomas appointed guardian ad litem; set for hearing April 15.
Sward, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 4-15-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – Cases for to-day: In re. Mary Sward, Mary J. Hennesley, Louisa E. Robsky, Mary A. Hoyt, lunacy, 2 p.m.
Sward, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 4-15-1893 – Wrecks of Women – Unfortunate Cases of Mental Alienation to Be Tried This Morning – The county court will be occupied at 2 o'clock this afternoon with several lunacy cases. The unfortunates are all women. Mary E. Davis filed a complaint yesterday against Louisa E. Kobsky. Sarah O. Garnett complained of Mary J. Hummerly. Hilda Sward made affidavit that Mary Sward is in such a mental condition as to make her dangerous to the lives and property of others. The particulars in each case are nearly the same, dementia arising from physical causes. The alleged lunatics are all in custody.
Sward, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 4-17-1893 – Court Calendar – County Court – Judge Le Fevre – The following business was transacted on Saturday: In re Mary Sward, lunacy; trial and verdict of insane; Theodore H. Thomas, guardian ad litem, allowed $15.
Sward, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 5-2-1893 – Civil Briefs – Mary Sward, who was declared a lunatic a few weeks ago and taken to Pueblo, will be given to the care of her sister and released from the asylum to be taken to Chicago.
Swarts, Elveretta
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Swatwood, Ada E.
Rocky Mountain News 6-9-1888 – Pikes Peak Resorts – Colorado Springs – Mrs. Ada E. Swatwood was adjudged insane to-day by Judge Severy of the County court. The woman came to this place last fall from Lamar. Her trouble is over the theme of religion, and she has thought it necessary to take her own life to atone for the sins of others.
Sweeney, May
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status S birthplace Massachusetts source 1930 census
Sweeney, May
patient race: W sex: F age: 31 marital:S place of birth: Massachusetts occupation: none source: 1920 census
Sweeney, Miles
Aspen Democrat 3-16-1909 Miles Sweeney was brought before the county court yesterday afternoon on trial as to his sanity. A jury consisting of Jonce Cookman, P.H. O'Kane, Paddy Harrington, Frank Flynn, Billy Shields and Walter Richie decided that Mr. Sweeney was insane. He will be taken to Pueblo this evening and placed in the Work Sanitarium.
Sweeney, Mrs Thomas
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status M birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Swek, Charles
patient race W gender M age 47 marital status S place of birth Indiana occupation cook source 1910 census
Swenney, Othello F.
patient race: W sex: M age: 36 marital: S place of birth: Kentuckynone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Swift, Amelia
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1868 age 32 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania source : 1900 census
Swift, Amelia
patient race W gender F age 41 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania source 1910 census
Swift, Amelia
Rocky Mountain News 12-29-1887 – Insane on Religion – Amelia Swift's Unfortunate Condition Caused by Physical Troubles – Mr. S. L. Carpenter was yesterday appointed guardian ad litem in the case of Amelia M. Swift, the unfortunate young lady who has become insane from physical troubles. The action of the court was due to the exertions of Father Carr, who has interested himself in the case. Miss Swift is at present stopping with her parents at their residence, No. 2832 Arapahoe street. In an interview with the mother, a News reporter learned that about four months ago the girl was sent to the Sisters of Charity convent at Duluth, Minn., and it was while in that institution that her malady assumed its present form. When she returned home she seemed to be under the impression that the world was all wrong because she had not accepted religion and her mania took a religious form. She was seldom violent, but was given to fits of violent and hysterical weeping, in which she seemed to think that all the ills visited upon the world was because of her own individual wickedness. She had always been a good girl, and her parents are deeply grieved over her affliction, but entertain hopes of her recovery. An elder sister was afflicted in precisely the same manner some years ago, and was sent to an asylum at Independence, Iowa, from which she eventually came forth cured. Amelia Swift is 21 years of age, a brunette of prepossessing appearance, and well educated. In the course of a few days she will probably be sent to some institution for treatment.
Swift, Edward
Rocky Mountain News 9-5-1884 – County Court – Civil List – The People vs. Edward Swift; lunacy; trial by jury; J. E. Barnum, Esq., for Relator, R. E. Foot, Esq., guardian ad litem; verdict, insane; and it appearing that plaintiff has property it is ordered that costs be paid from his estate and the matter of the application for the appointment of a conservator of his estate be continued until today; $20 allowed to guardian ad litem, to be paid from estate.
Swift, Edward
Rocky Mountain News 8-26-1884 – Probate Court – Judge Harrington yesterday held a short session of the Probate court and the following orders were made. The People vs. Edward Swift, lunacy. Ordered that citation issue to defendant, that R. E. Foote be appointed guardian ad litem, that venire issue, etc., and that trial be fixed for Thursday, September 4, 1884.
Swift, Edward
Rocky Mountain News 9-6-1884 – The Courts – County Court – Probate List – Estate Edward Swift, lunatic; petition of Anna M. Swift read and considered; John V. Smith (Swift?), the son, appointed conservator of the estate upon filing bond in $10,000, to be approved within two days.
Swift, Edward
Rocky Mountain News 9-8-1884 – The Courts – County Court – Probate List – Estate Edward Swift, lunatic; conservator appointed and bond approved.
Swift, John
Castle Rock Journal 7-5-1901 - Another Insane Stranger - For several days last week a strange man was observed hovering around the railroad tracks between Larkspur and Greenland, apparently in an insane condition. On Saturday morning Daniel Whitehead, of Larkspur, found the man beside the Santa Fe tracks clothed only in his shoes, shirt and hat. He had removed his overalls and was carrying them under his arm. He talked incoherently and had evidently not partaken of food for a long time. Mr. Whitehead, therefore, brought him to Castle Rock and turned him over to the sheriff. In the county court, on Wednesday, the unfortunate man, who gave his name as John Swift, was tried before a jury and adjudged insane, being committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo. Since being in jail here he had received medical attention and his condition was somewhat improved. He became able to tell something of his early history, although he seemed to know nothing at all of recent events. From what could be gathered Swift was born in Shullsburg, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, on July 4, 1850, and was educated in the State University of Wisconsin. He practiced law for some time but in the early 70's came to Colorado, engaging in mining at Leadville. He did not prosper here and has evidently been destitute during the past three or four years.
Swift, John
Castle Rock Journal 7-5-1901 – Charles Snyder and Dan Whitehead were down from Larkspur Wednesday, appearing as witnesses in the trial of John Swift, the insane man arrested there.
Swift, Louis
patient race: W sex: M age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Swift, Louis
Carbonate Chronicle 5-21-1917 – Suffers From Paresis – Louis Swift, adjudged insane Tuesday last in the county court by Drs. J. A. Jeannotte and R. J. McDonald, the county examining board for such cases, will be sent back to the state asylum at Pueblo without further procedure here, following instructions received by County Judge O'Mahoney yesterday from Dr. H. A. La Moure, superintendent of the institution. Swift was granted only a probationary discharge when he was released from the asylum, Dr. La Moure said he had found the asylum records showed, and therefore no court hearing or order is necessary to send him back to the institution for future care. It is possible Swift may be taken to Pueblo by the sheriff today. After the local doctors recommended that Swift be taken to the asylum, Tuesday, Swift objected and asked for the jury hearing which the statutes permit if requested. Further procedure was then postponed to next Monday, but the letter yesterday showed that the patient is still in charge of the state and may be returned immediately without further action. Swift's wife and relatives are not adverse to this course, owing to his present condition which causes violency at times. Swift is said to be suffering from paresis. He was first taken to the asylum from Boulder county and then given probationary discharge when his mental state had evidently improved and when his wife requested such action.
Swift, Nora
patient race W gender F age 48 marital status S place of birth Iowa occupation domestic source 1910 census
Swift, Nora
Rocky Mountain News 2-7-1882 – The Courts – Saturday's Proceedings Placed on Record – County Court – Judge Harrington – Nora Swift, lunatic; verdict of jury that she is insane.
Swire, John J.
Rocky Mountain News 2-25-1881 – County Court – The following orders were made by the court: In the matter of the lunacy of John J. Swire – judgment of lunacy nunc pro tunc as of December 30, 1879.
Swiser, Ben
Mancos Times 10-27-1905 – It is fairly believed by some of the prominent people of Pueblo that knowledge of the crime committed at the Independent depot last June was directly the cause of death of Ben Swiser who died in the Pueblo insane asylum and the insanity of Charles Gray who is now in the insane asylum. Both men in their raving, talked of a dreadful tragedy which they had known of, and it is the belief of many that the tragedy referred to was the blowing up of the Independent depot last June.
Swisher, Marshall J.
Colorado Springs Death Register, April 1896 – July 1907 – Marshall J. Swisher, died on July 14, 1905, age 43 years, 2 months, and 27 days, died of Paresis, died at Pueblo, Colorado, reported by A. P. Busey, of Pueblo, buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Lot 76, Block 31.
Sword, Nels
patient gender M race W age 49 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Sylvester, Fred W.
patient gender M race W age 70 marital status M birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Szarleta, Frank
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Germany source 1930 census
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