Pueblo County, Colorado
Insane Asylum Patients
Wacker, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 2-18-1885 Henry Wacker was yesterday sent to the county jail for safe keeping by Justice Cherry. Wacker is undoubtedly insane and was arrested for vagrancy.
Wacker, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1885 The Courts County Court Probate Business People vs. Henry Wacker; insanity; verdict insane.
Wacker, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 5-14-1885 Considered Crazy Officer Robert Ehman yesterday arrested a man named Henry Walker whom he found in an alley and who gave some evidences of insanity. Walker has been in jail several times during the past few months and is said to have lately finished a term of imprisonment in the county jail. City Jailer Brady thinks the man should be sent to the asylum. It is probable that he will be turned over to the county court.
Wacker, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 5-19-1885 The Courts County Court Probate Business The People vs. Henry Walker; lunacy; order of arrest issued; citation issued returnable May 27.
Wacker, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 10-23-1885 The Courts County Court Probate Business People vs. Henry Wacker; lunacy; ordered discharged.
Wacker, Philip A.
patient race W gender M age 36 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation domestic source 1910 census
Wacker, Phillip A.
patient race W gender M month born July year born 1874 age 25 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation druggist source : 1900 census
Wacker, Phillip A.
patient gender M race W age 56 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wacker, Phillip A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 46 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wade, Ben
patient race B gender M age 33 marital status . place of birth Missouri occupation laborer source 1910 census
Wade, Robert E.
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Mississippi source 1930 census
Wade, Willie
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
Patients Taken From the Hospital Superintendent Clark of the institution, would have had five more patients under his care had it not been for the kindness of friends and relatives of several patients who suffered from milder forms of insanity. These five patients were committed to the hospital in the regular manner but were taken away from the hospital by friends because of the poor accommodation. They are Johanna Olson, Jennie Le Fevre, Louisa Olson, Willie Wade and Rosa Wandfluh. About ten days ago they were released, friends calling for them at different times. These patients can be again taken in by the hospital without the formality of commitment. Mr. Clark is careful to keep, and has done so for years, a record of the cost of each patient during his incarceration between the time he is adjudged insane by a court and committed in regular form to the state asylum. The county commissioners make no effort to collect this money and it is constantly being sunk into this bottomless legislative hole
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 1-16-1897 Became Violently Insane Mrs. Willie Wade, the colored woman under arrest for the theft of a watch, became violently insane in the city jail last night and viciously attacked another prisoner. She was removed to the county hospital.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 1-25-1897 Insane Woman at Large Willie Wade, a colored woman confined in the county hospital insane ward, escaped early yesterday morning through a window. She is violently insane and the police have been notified to look out for her.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 3-1-1897 An Insane Woman Attempts to Burn a House Taken to County Hospital At 1:40 this afternoon Mrs. Willie Wade, alleged insane negress, residing at 735 West Colfax avenue, entered the house occupied by N. B. Warrell at 1101 Welton street and attempted to fire the premises. She carried a huge paper fire brand and her clothing was ablaze. Warrell extinguished the torches and the fire in the demented woman's apparel before it had burned her flesh. She had escaped from the county hospital yesterday, carrying her keys to her rooms with her. To-day the officials of that institution found her at home, but were satisfied with securing the stolen keys and allowed her to remain with her family.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 3-2-1897 Willie Makes it Warm Insane Girl Singed Badly by Starting a Fire Willie Wade, the 19-year-old colored girl who is giving the police any amount of trouble by her crazy actions, picked up her effects at the county hospital Sunday last, together with a few keys to the wards, and departed for her home, 735 West Colfax avenue. Early yesterday afternoon she stalked into the home of N. B. Warrell, at 1101 Welton street, with a lighted paper bag and tried to fire the premises, but Warrell prevented any damage being done. The hospital authorities regained possession of the keys, and Willie was sent back to durance. She will be locked up.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 5-25-1897 Demented Willie Wade Is Again in Jail, More Violent Than Ever Before Willie Wade is an ebony colored man and Willie Wade is a woman of the same sombre hue. Willie is Willie's husband and vice versa. A few weeks ago the husband was bound over for stealing the Purcell diamonds and as a result of his wife's efforts was released a week ago. No sooner had he secured his liberation than his wife became violently insane and was taken to the county jail last night. Here she was more violent than she has ever been before although incarcerated for the same reason several times. This morning she grabbed the wash basin, threw water all over the jail and then proceeded to preach a sermon to the inmates on the subject of a woman's being religious after the death of her husband.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 5-26-1897 Tries to Shuffle Off Insane Negress Attempts to End Her Life in Jail Willie Wade, the insane negress who was taken into custody by the city officers on Monday night, was yesterday transferred to the county jail, where she last night attempted to commit suicide. She was confined in the matron's ward in a cell. Shortly after dark the matron, Mrs. Moore, was attracted to the place by a commotion and found the woman hanging by her neck from the cell grating. She had taken her apron and passed it through the bars, where she fastened it, and then tied the other end about her neck. Matron Moore rescued the woman before harm had been done.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 5-26-1897 Tried To Hang Herself Willie Wade Keeps the Jail Guards Busy Willie Wade, the negress who is so violently insane at the county jail, made three unsuccessful attempts to hang herself again this morning. She tore her clothing in shreds and made ropes for her attempted self-destruction, but in each instance the vigilance of Matron Moore intercepted her intent. The woman continually talks of secret societies, and by way of diversion spends a portion of the time in cursing.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 5-27-1897 Determined to Hang Herself Willie Wade, the insane colored woman who was placed in the county jail Tuesday, tried several times to hang herself yesterday by tearing her clothing into shreds, which she fastened to the bars of her cell. She tore up all the bedclothing, and it was found necessary to remove all furnishings from her cell.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1897 Willie Wade's Mad Spells Justice Chapman yesterday tried Willie Wade for theft and bound her over to the district court in the sum of $500. The officers say the recent insane spells are counterfeit.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 6-1-1897 Willie Wade His Bond Has Been Forfeited in Criminal Court Willie Wade, the negro arrested for stealing the Purcell diamond some time ago and was subsequently released on $500 bond, had the bond forfeited in the criminal court today. Wade attempted to avoid prosecution by asserting that his wife, who is now insane at the county jail, was the real culprit, and by means of such representation secured his bond. His wife has lucid intervals and during one of them admitted to Deputy Sheriff De Lue that she had been driven to crime and insanity through the fear she entertained of her husband's threats. She also claims that he is a member of a secret society organized for the purpose of patrolling the wealthy residence portions of the city and nipping jewelry. De Lue looked for his man for three days after his disappearance last week, but can find nothing of him. The Wade woman can retain her right mind long enough to tell her story to the officials complete in detail. They expect that later on she will recover to an extent to be able to implicate many others.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 6-2-1897 Secret Order of Hoboes Willie Wade Said to Belong to a Gang Sworn to Loot Houses at Every Opportunity William Wade, a negro arrested some time ago for stealing a valuable diamond, and who was released on bond, is being searched for by the officers. His bond was lately declared forfeited for the reason that he secured it by telling a falsehood. The bond was procured on the assertion that his wife who was then confined as insane in the county hospital was the person who stole the diamond. His wife has been confined recently in the county jail, where, during certain lucid intervals in her insanity, which may have been feigned, she confided to the authorities that her husband is a member of a secret fraternity organized to loot wealthy people's residences.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 6-5-1897 Must Return to Stand Trial Negro Who Jumped His Bond Captured in Pocatello William Wade, the negro who recently skipped his bonds in the West Side court while on trial for stealing the diamonds of L. M. Purcell, is in custody, at Pocatello, Idaho. He will be sent for immediately. It is possible that the sheriff's office will attempt to fasten the crime upon him of forcing his wife, now in the county jail, to steal, while he superintended the operations. Mrs. Wade, familiarly known as Willie, has been insane for some time, and has constantly raved of secret societies, repeating the words over and over again, until the matron and the jailer began to suspect that perhaps there might be something in the woman's delirium. At attempt will be made to get the colored woman to tell what she knows, if anything, regarding a secret society of house-breakers.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 6-5-1897 Willie Wade Insane Judge Steele of the county court this morning signed an order permitting the removal of Willie Wade from the county jail to the county hospital on affidavit that she is insane.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 6-5-1897 Goes to County Hospital Willie Wade, the insane negress, will be sent to the county hospital by order of Judge Johnson as soon as she recovers from an attack of fainting which she suffered this morning.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 6-6-1897 Willie Wade Declared Insane Warden W. H. Conley of the county jail yesterday presented to Judge Steele of the county court an affidavit alleging the insanity of Willie Wade, the colored girl who has caused the police considerable trouble of late. The court ordered the unfortunate to the county hospital.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 6-18-1897 Lit Out A Bothersome Colored Woman Escapes From County Hospital Willie Wade, the negress who has been the source of much annoyance to the police for the last six months escaped from the county hospital about 4 o'clock this morning. The woman has been in jail on numerous occasions for larceny and burglary. She was bound over to the district court on $600 by Justice Chapman last week for burglary and larceny, but at the county jail she acted in a strange manner, and attempted to kill herself. She was considered insane and was sent to the county hospital for treatment. She was confined in a cell in the basement of the hospital. The bars of this cell are of oak, three inches square. By some means she secured a case knife some time yesterday and last night she cut the bars of her cell and left the hospital. The police have been asked to locate her but so far have been unsuccessful.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 6-19-1897 She Cut Her Way to Freedom Willie Wade, an insane negress confined in the county hospital, escaped from that place yesterday morning some time between the hours of 3:30 and 5 o'clock. She was confined in a cell on the first floor of the house and used a case knife, which she had smuggled in, to cut the three-inch oak bars and obtain her freedom.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 7-1-1897 Sent Back to the Hospital Willie Wade, the negress who has been giving the authorities at the county jail and hospital no end of trouble on account of her insane streaks, was yesterday re-conveyed from the jail to the hospital. She broke out there ten days ago and this time she will be more closely guarded.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 7-24-1897 Willie Wade is Sane Willie Wade, the colored woman who has given the police and county hospital officials no end of trouble, was tried for lunacy in the county court yesterday. A jury found her sane. She will be tried for burglary.
Wade, Willie
Rocky Mountain News 4-29-1897 Insane Colored Woman Officers Young and Baker last night arrested Mrs. Willie Wade, a colored woman living at 737 West Colfax avenue, who was found in a demented condition and terrorizing the neighborhood where she lived. The police ambulance was sent for her and when Dr. Mack went to take the woman she rushed into a closet and locked herself in. She was put in charge of the police matron and will to-day be taken to the county hospital. She was released from the county hospital a short time ago.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 4-30-1897 Insane Mrs. Willie Wade Returned to the County Hospital From Whence She Twice Escaped Mrs. Willie Wade, the demented young colored woman, whose eccentric career as a firebug and petty thief, has made her a familiar character to the police, is in trouble again. Last night she terrorized people living in the vicinity of 737 West Colfax avenue and was arrested. She was taken to the county hospital this afternoon, where she has been detained at intervals on three different occasions. Once she secured the keys of her cell and released herself. On another occasion she wrecked a window and got away. The woman was released from the hospital on March 8 last with the agreement that relatives would send her east. This they failed to do. She will probably never be cured. Her husband was yesterday committed to the county jail on a criminal charge by Justice Chapman.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 3-8-1897 Sane Again Willie Wade, the colored woman, who was sent to the county hospital a fort-night ago on the charge of insanity, was released from that institution to-day, the physicians having declared her sane.
Wade, Willie
Denver Evening Post 3-8-1897 Sane Again Willie Wade, the colored woman, who was sent to the county hospital a fort-night ago on the charge of insanity, was released from that institution to-day, the physicians having declared her sane.
Wadraska, Joe
Wet Mountain Tribune 3-15-1902 Joe Wadraska, a resident of the east end of the county, was adjudged insane Thursday, this inquisition being held before Judge Kent L. Eldridge of Fremont county, who acted in place of Judge Walters, who is on his way to California.
Waggoner, Fred
Telluride Daily Journal 11-24-1921 Quarrel End in Death of Durango Man Fred Waggoner is Believed Insane After Shooting Busser Durango, Colo., Nov. 23. Nick Busser is dead and Fred Waggoner is believed insane following an altercation which resulted in shooting at the home of Waggoner last evening. Both men are well known here. The cause of the shooting has not been determined.
Waggoner, Fred
Telluride Daily Journal 11-25-1921 Cheap Liquor Responsible For Shooting Fred Waggoner Appears Insane After Murdering Busser Durango, Colo., Nov. 25. Bootleg whisky is believed to have been the sole cause of the shooting and killing of Nick Busser by Fred Waggoner at the latter's cabin on Trouble mesa on the night of November 23. After an all-night vigil, following a skirmish with Waggoner, the posse descended upon his cabin yesterday and found him standing guard over the dying man. Busser was taken to the Mercy hospital, where he died without regaining consciousness. Waggoner appears dazed and it is difficult to determine whether his mental balance has been permanently disturbed, or whether he is merely affected by the liquor.
Wagner, Andrew J
admitted 9-7-1899 from Fort Morgan, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wagner, Elizabeth G.
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status Wd birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Wagner, George
patient race W gender M age 49 marital status M place of birth Pennsylvania occupation laborer source 1910 census
Wagner, George
Denver Evening Post 8-11-1896 Boulder, Aug. 11 George Wagner of Lafayette was adjudged insane yesterday and placed in the custody of the sheriff.
Wagner, George E.
Boulder Daily Camera 8-8-1896 Local News George E. Wagner of Lafayette, who imagines he is a world's wonder as a sprint runner was brought to Boulder and locked by the sheriff in the insane cell today. Constable Jig Miller and Justice Owen Hopkins brought the unfortunate man over.
Wagner, George E.
Boulder Daily Camera 8-10-1896 Local News George E. Wagner, of Lafayette, was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court today.
Wagner, George E.
Boulder Daily Camera 8-11-1896 Local News Sheriff Dyer left for Pueblo this morning, having in charge George E. Wagoner, of Lafayette. The insane man Wagoner has claimed that the sheriff has treated his case wrong, in giving him chicken to eat instead of hay. He is particular about his diet, as he imagines he is a fast sprint and should be fed on hay. He goes further and insists that second growth alfalfa is the only proper diet for a man in training for races. The poor fellow's peculiar demands will be humored at the insane asylum.
Wagner, George E.
Boulder News 8-13-1896 George E. Wagner, of Lafayette, was adjudged insane 10 Aug 1896 and went to the Pueblo asylum. He was a quiet, much respected citizen here. Source also references article in Boulder County Herald Weekly 8-12-1896. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Wagner, Ida
patient race W gender F age 37 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Wagner, John C.
Aspen Weekly Times 12-6-1890 Tried to Murder His Wife From Tuesday's Daily Times Yesterday afternoon the report quickly spread around town that a man had murdered his wife. For a time there was great excitement out on Cooper avenue and many anxious inquiries were made. Although the woman was not murdered, she escaped almost by a miracle and is quite badly hurt. It seems the deed is that of an insane man and his case will be investigated. The examination on the charge of assault with intent to kill was continued last evening in Judge Prentiss' court to allow time for the county court to inquire into the man's sanity. If the man be insane of course this relieves the man of responsibility while not detracting from the horror of the affair. John C. Wagner is the name of the unfortunate man. He has been employed on the Aspen mine. He came home yesterday and without provocation picked up the ax and attempted to brain his wife. The woman struggled bravely for her life with the madman and narrowly escaped death. She received a blow with the pole of the ax that made a very bad wound on her head, but it will not necessarily prove fatal. The woman's screams attracted her neighbors on East Cooper avenue and two other women ran for the police. Officer Warner was found and hurried to the scene. In the meantime Wagner had desisted from his purpose of murder and had escaped from the house. Warner went to search for him and found him in the Roaring Fork river. The man was standing waist deep in the cold ice water and was praying fervently. He had evidently gone in to drown himself and was uttering his last prayer. He would put his head under water but would bring it out in time to breathe. When Mr. Warner saw him he told him to come out and the fellow obeyed without a murmur. On the way to jail the man kept talking about $600, but his words were meaningless. He could not give any account of himself and it was plain the fellow was not in his right mind.
Wagner, Mary
patient gender F race W age 52 marital status D birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Wagner, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 42 marital:D place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wagner, Mary H.
Ouray Herald 8-4-1911 Mrs. Wagner Sent to Pueblo Jury Returns Verdict of Guilty Yesterday afternoon in the county court Mary H. Wagner, who has been held for unmentionable conduct, was placed on trial for insanity before Judge Dougherty. Attorney Wheeler conducted the case for the people. Cassedy was her attorney by appointment. Sheriff McKnight was the first witness called, and testified that since the 1st of February, Mrs. Wagner's mind has gradually faded. That during the first few months of her confinement she was very talkative and made an effort to get bond for her release. That lately, the lady refused to talk and after constant counsel, she refused to sign a bond, which would set her free. L. C. Stadler and Dr. L. G. Crosby both gave testimony as to her mental decline. Jack Bellinger, county jailer, told of her recent sullenness, a marked change from her talkative ways, several months ago. Carl Sigfrid, who was employed by relatives to defend her in the district court, and who instituted these proceedings testified along the same line. A jury composed of Messrs. Munn, Benton, Merling, Carothers, Cooper and Krisher, returned a verdict of guilty, which means Mrs. Wagner will be sent to Pueblo where proper treatment can be given her. The defendant refused to make any statement but told her attorney Cassedy, she knew what was going on and knew she was not insane.
Wagonblast, Michael
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status M birthplace United States source 1930 census
Wagonblast, Michael
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:. place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wagoner, Rosa
patient gender F race W age 60 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wahl, Fred
Rocky Mountain News 11-24-1883 Fred Wahl was arrested on the street yesterday by Officer Dailey, for acting strangely and was discovered to be insane. His sister, living in one of the mountain towns, has been notified and he will be detained until she arrives.
Wahl, Matilda
Littleton Independent 5-12-1922 - Mrs. R. H. Blackman and Miss Margaret Ennis went to Pueblo Wednesday morning. They took Matilda Wahl of Englewood to the state insane asylum.
Waiks, John
Denver Evening Post 7-19-1897 Late City Briefs Sheriff Dyer of Boulder county passed through the city this morning on his way to Pueblo, where he is taking John Waiks, an insane miner, to the asylum.
Waite, ?
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 9-22-1886 Dementia Victims. Oakley, the unfortunate little hunch-back, whose reason was temporarily dethroned, and who, after being adjudged insane, was sent from this county to the asylum for the insane at Pueblo, has returned much improved, and is again visible about the resorts. It has always been maintained by his friends and intimate acquaintances that this was the result of a misfortune by which he was overtaken while in the employ of a railroad and occupying a responsible position in the bridge department several years ago. At that time he was on a falling building and crushed beneath its rafters, never recovered from the spinal injuries. He had accumulated considerable money which disappeared with his extravagance, and he was again thrown on his own resources. Of the asylum he speaks in high terms, saying that under the circumstances he could have demanded no better treatment. And he was among a large group sent from this city. There was Waite, the barber, who had in a fit of derangement and insane frenzy attempted to cut his throat. It was said of Waite that his lunacy had been the result of vaccination, the virus used by the physician having apparently set his body on fire. No sooner had the stuff been injected in his arm than he was prostrated, and the hot burning fever began to prey on him. The disease with which he had been unwittingly inoculated began to manifest itself in sickening eruptions on every portion of the body. He consulted the doctors and finally sought relief in the properties of the mountain springs. From these he derived no benefit however. His mind was racked, and returning to the city he grew desperate. One night in February last he seized a razor and drew it violently across his throat. He was then placed in the county jail and after an inquiry had been made in his case, he was sent to the insane asylum. Oakley says he is yet very violent, and his powerful physique is rapidly crumbling beneath the terrible disease. His days, he believes are numbered. At the time this unfortunate man was there, Jack Duggan was raving in one of the apartments, the warden expressing but little hope for his recovery from the first. The awful hallucinations beneath which he fell continued to grow worse from day to day and men shuddered as they heard him day and night in convulsions. His form is said to have wasted like the sensitive plant before the breath of the deadly sirocco, until he was placed as helpless as an invalid in the hospital department. Having exhausted his powers of resistance the warden for the first time expressed a hope of driving the grim demon from his mind, but death came to his relief and one morning he passed away into the silent realms of eternity. Peterson, the irresponsible slayer of one of the workmen on the Iron Silver mine several years ago is still in the asylum, having grown gradually worse until today little hope is entertained for him. He was never violent but moved about his cell in an aimless manner and talking incoherently on some topic the mortal had little to do with. It is thought his condition was vexed by the mock trial to which he was subjected on being placed in the jail, a jury of jailbirds having found him guilty of murder, and sentenced him to hang by the neck. In his delirium he believes himself convicted by a genuine authority, and demanded of the prisoners an execution at their hands. And he believes today that he is to be hung for the murder of his rival for the woman's affections, the difficulty having originated over the contest for a young woman's adulation. There are a number of others who were sent from Leadville who are still in the asylum, and who will probably end the terrible ordeal there in death.
Waite, Edith
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
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
Waite, Frederick
Denver Evening Post 7-13-1895 An Insane Veteran Frederick Waite Sent to the Pueblo Asylum Frederick Waite, an inmate of the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Monte Vista, has been adjudged insane by Judge Baxter of the district court of Rio Grande and Del Norte counties, and ordered sent to Pueblo. Waite was allowed to leave the institution several months ago to visit friends in Fremont county. While there he became suddenly demented and was at once returned by the authorities to the home. Since his arrival the last time Waite became quite violent at times and it required the services of several guards to keep him from harming himself and the other inmates.
Waite, George W.
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 1-22-1885 Colorado Condensed George W. Waite, a lunatic confined in the Leadville county jail, assaulted St. Minich, another inmate, and almost killed him.
Waite, George W.
Leadville Daily Herald 1-13-1885 Waite Would Not Wait But Tried to End His Earthly Career Last Night With a Razor The sensation of the night was the attempted suicide last evening of George Waite. Early in the evening he went into the barber shop of Chadbourne & Greeley, on East Fifth street, and commenced writing a letter. When he had finished it he made a dive for a razor and attempted to cut his throat from ear to ear. In this he partially succeeded, but before a dangerous wound was inflicted the weapon was taken from him. He resisted desperately, and his wild ravings instantly gave Officer White and Deputy Sheriff George Smith to understand that reason had fled, and that he was nothing but a raving maniac. The purport of the letter over which Waite had labored for some time was that he committed suicide not because he was a murderer, not because he was hopelessly in love, not because he owed $450, but because he desired to reach the spirit land and assist in every means within his power his many friends still left upon this wicked world. Waite is a man fully six feet high and apparently about forty years of age. A receipt for dues, found in his pocket-book, from Chloride lodge No. 31, goes to show that he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. If Waite, the man arrested last night, is the party whom he was generally supposed to be, he is well known in Leadville, having been a miner in the camp since an early day. For some time past he has been leasing on different mines on Fryer hill and it is thought without any particular profit. He has always been considered a quiet, sober, industrious man and his friends last night were amused to think that he had lost his mind and in a fit of wild delirium attempted suicide. Last night when the reporter visited the jail Waite, together with all the prisoners confined there, was locked up in a cell. He grasped the bars of his iron cage and made them rattle as only a madman can. He insisted that the jailer tell him what he was to be hung for in the morning, said he had committed no murder; plead piteously for the daily papers that he might learn the cause of his sentence and the particulars of his terrible crime. Oberly, the other crazy man confined in the county jail, tried to pacify him and told him how he should act. The other prisoners jeered while the women there confined sobbed and moaned and prayed for quiet. If ever there was pandemonium on this earth it was at the county jail last night.
Waite, George W.
Leadville Daily Herald 1-16-1885 Around the City George Waite, the crazy man who attempted suicide in the barber shop the other ----------not improving. ----- it is likely some friend will apply to the County court for a commission of lunacy, and as there is no doubt but that he is a raving manic, the poor fellow can be sent to the state insane asylum at Pueblo.
Walden, William P.
patient race: W sex: M age: 36 marital:. place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Waldis, Albert
Aspen Daily Chronicle 7-4-1888 Pitkins Insane Sheriff White, who has been on an official voyage down the road, returned this afternoon and reports all of the Pitkin county contingent at Canon City progressing nicely. Without remaining any time, however, at Canon he proceeded to Pueblo, where, through the courtesy of the keeper of the insane asylum, he was permitted to interview those who were contributed to the sombre institution from this locality. Of poor Jack Ormer, Sheriff White says the keeper has abandoned all hopes of ever seeing him restored to his proper mental condition. He has become quite refractory and is slowly wasting away. It is thought that he cannot last more than a few months longer. Patrick O'Mara, the old-timer, is also pronounced beyond recovery, while Albert Waldis is improving.
Waldis, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 5-14-1888 Aspen Notes Sheriff White left to-day with Charles Waldis in charge. He was yesterday declared insane, and will place him in the asylum.
Waldron, Mary G.
patient gender F race W age 40 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Waldron, Samuel H
admitted 2-17-1915 from Weld, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Waldron, Samuel H.
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Walen, Elizabeth
patient race W gender F age 69 marital status M place of birth Germany source 1910 census
Walheyer, Michael
Rocky Mountain News 6-3-1897 Declared Insane Central City, Colo., June 2 Michael Walkeger, an Austrian, was declared insane by a jury in the county court last evening, and this afternoon was taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo. The man has been living with John Egger at Coal Creek, a short distance below Black Hawk, for a month past. For some time it has been necessary to keep watch of him in order to prevent his harming some one. His hallucination is that some one is following him with a shotgun trying to kill him.
Walheyer, Michael
Denver Evening Post 6-3-1897 A Maniac Creates a Panic in the City Jail On His Way to Pueblo Asylum A maniac armed with a broomstick created wild excitement in the hospital ward of the city jail at 4 o'clock this morning. The man is Michael Walheyer, who was placed in the city jail by the sheriff of Gilpin county. The sheriff arrived in Denver last evening with the insane man. He could not get a train to Pueblo until this morning, so he took his prisoner to the jail. Walheyer seemed rational and was considered harmless, so he was locked up in the hospital ward. In this ward was Pud Hill and several other men. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred to break the slumbers of the occupants of the prison until 4 o'clock this morning. At this hour there was a call for the patrol wagon, which stands just behind this ward. It makes considerable noise hitching and going out and this noise is what awoke Walheyer. He had never heard a patrol wagon before and did not know what it meant. He arose from his iron couch, crawled up to a grated window and looked out. He climbed down and started a general row with the other prisoners. In this ward a broom handle about three feet long is kept at the window to keep it open. When the insane man climbed down from the window he had this in his right hand and began to beat a tattoo on Pud Hill's head. Hill yelled for help and the other prisoners ran to his assistance, but were dealt blow after blow on the head. When Night Jailer Beatty entered the ward the insane man was monarch of all he surveyed. He had not seen the jailer yet. Beatty grabbed the wielder of the club and threw him to the floor and unarmed him. Then Hill and the other prisoners slid down from their lofty perch on the side of the wall where they had climbed for safety. Walheyer was placed in a cell by himself and was taken to Pueblo this morning.
Walin, E. Mrs.
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.
Walin, Elizabeth
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1840 age 60 marital status M place of birth Germany occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Walin, Elizabeth
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. E. Walin, October 15
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.
Walin, Elizabeth
Rocky Mountain News 2-8-1891 The Courts County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy. Elizabeth Walin; W. O. McKinley appointed guardian ad litem; trial; verdict lunacy; judgment on verdict.
Walker, Bart
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Georgia source 1930 census
Walker, Belle
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status Wd birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Walker, Fred
Rocky Mountain News 8-21-1882 The State at Large Fred Walker, of Leadville, has been committed to the county lunatic asylum.
Walker, John
Fort Collins Courier 2-14-1921 Man Attacks Father and Mother, Officers say, in Insane Fit John Walker was taken in charge by Sheriff Frank Smith and Deputy Sheriff Charles Sanders Sunday night at his home five miles north of Fort Collins, and it took the two men to overpower him. He had attacked his parents, it is said, and his mother had a black eye and his father was scratched up some when the officers arrived. Walker, it is said, was in the state insane asylum before. He had threatened to kill his parents, they say.
Walker, John D.
patient gender M race W age 63 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Walker, Lettie
patient gender F race W age 40 marital status S birthplace North Carolina source 1930 census
Walker, Lettie
patient race: W sex: F age: 30 marital:S place of birth: North Carolina occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walker, Lettie
admitted 10-14-1914 from Arapahoe, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Walker, Lillian
patient gender F race Neg age 32 marital status D birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Walker, Marguerite
patient race: W sex: F age: 17 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walker, Mary
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Walker, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 48 marital:M place of birth: Russia occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Walker, Mrs.
Aspen Weekly Times 10-10-1896 A Sad Case, Breckenridge, Oct. 6. Yesterday ____Walker, an old time resident of this place, was taken to the Pueblo asylum. She has been failing for some time as several months ago her two children were taken from her and placed in the dependent home at Denver which drove her insane.
Walker, W. M.
patient gender M race Neg age 38 marital status S birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Walker, Walter A.
patient gender M race W age 63 marital status S birthplace Michigan source 1930 census
Wall, Grace
patient race: W sex: F age: 28 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wallace, John
Rocky Mountain News 10-24-1895 Ordered To Pueblo
James Wallace, said to be insane, was committed to the county hospital for examination.
Wallace, John
Rocky Mountain News 10-27-1895 Committed to Pueblo John Wallace, a colored man, was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and will be taken to Pueblo to the asylum to-day.
Wallace, John
Rocky Mountain News 10-22-1895 Negro President John Wallace Goes Insane Over Politics and Promises Offices to His Many Friends The colored race is going to rule the United States. I'll be president and I'll give you every one an office! Come with me all you people, black and white. I'll make you senators and congressmen! Last evening at the Hotel L'Imperial John Wallace, colored, indulged in this kind of talk. He was arrested for insanity and locked up in the hospital ward of the city jail. Wallace's mania is not of a violent turn. He imagines that he will eventually become a ruler of this great land, but he has no desire to gain the office by force. He is about 40 years of age and dresses neatly. Some time ago he was employed by the family of Judge Wells, who live at the Hotel L'Imperial, and he was paying a visit to the family last evening for the purpose of notifying them that they could have any office they desired when it was decided to cause his arrest. The rattled prisoner has another mania which is that an old woman has an immense pile of gold hidden away. He is under the impression that he will find the location of the wealth.
Wallace, Sophia
patient race: W sex: F age: 81 marital:W place of birth: Maryland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Waller, Mary
Summit County Journal 1-14-1899 The County Commissioners Breckenridge Jan.10th, 1899. Board met in regular session, present, Commissioners Fall and Chase, Attorney Clark and Clerk Forman; Absent Commissioner Forslund
Clerk was instructed to notify Hubert Work to place Mary Waller in insane asylum
Waller, Nancy
patient gender F race W age 78 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Waller, Nancy
patient race: W sex: F age: 65 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Waller, Nancy M.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1854 age 46 marital status M place of birth Missouri occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Waller, Nancy Mrs
admitted 10-4-1896 from Breckenridge, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Walles, Nancy M.
patient race W gender F age 55 marital status M place of birth Missouri occupation housekeeper source 1910 census
Wallich, Fremont H.
patient gender M race W age 68 marital status Wd birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Walrod, Molly
patient gender F race W age 70 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Walsh, Elizabeth
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status M place of birth England source 1910 census
Walsh, Elizabeth
patient race: W sex: F age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Ireland occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walsh, Patrick
patient gender M race W age 74 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Walsh, Patrick
Steamboat Pilot 4-7-1909 Escaped From Asylum A telephone message from Pueblo on Friday announced that Pat Walsh had escaped from the asylum and had not been found. The supposition is that he will return to Routt county. Walsh was adjudged insane a couple of years ago. At times he is violent and dangerous. Officials in various parts are watching out for him.
Walsh, Patrick
Colorado Transcript 6-18-1908 Patrick Walsh, an inmate of the insane asylum, escaped Tuesday morning at 7:30 o'clock and created considerable excitement as he ran through the business section of Pueblo attempting to evade his pursuers. One of the men in pursuit stopped him by hitting him on the head with a stone, after which he was returned to the asylum. [repeatd in the Elbert County Banner June 19, 1908]
Walsh, Patrick
patient race W gender M month born March year born 1844 age 56 marital status S place of birth Ireland occupation blacksmith source : 1900 census
Walsh, Patrick
Yampa Leader 10-5-1907 Patrick Walsh of Trull, charged with threatening various neighbors with a gun which he persisted in carrying, became violently insane while in jail awaiting trial and his case was transferred to the county court, which sent him to the asylum.
Walsh, Patrick
San Juan Prospector 1-20-1900 Local Items Patrick Walsh, an old soldier, was pronounced insane by a jury in Judge Maryatt's court Monday and sent to the asylum at Pueblo.
Walsh, Patrick
Routt County Sentinel 12-20-1907 Conservator's Notice of Adjustment Day Estate of Patrick Walsh, Insane The undersigned having been appointed Conservator of the estate of Patrick Walsh, late of the the county of Routt, state of Colorado, an insane person, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County court of said Routt county, at the court house in Hahn's Peak, in said county, on Monday, the 13th day of January, A. D. 1908, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M., 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 Hahn's Peak, Colo., this 25th day of November, A. D. 1907. P. A. Clark, Conservator. Nov. 29 Dec. 27.
Walsh, Patrick
Routt County Sentinel 4-30-1909 Pat Walsh Tries To Make Escape The combined efforts of three able-bodied men were required this Saturday morning to subdue Patrick Walsh, a lunatic en route from Steamboat Springs to the insane asylum at Pueblo in charge of William Weinhausen, a guard of the asylum. Walsh made his escape from the asylum two weeks ago and returned to his ranch near Steamboat. There he was located a few days ago and Weinhausen was sent after him. Walsh proved very tractable on the way from Steamboat to Denver, but became violent as Weinhausen was walking him from the Moffat road to the Union depot. Arrived in front of the Oxford hotel Walsh turned on the guard and threatened violence. He attacked Weinhausen and probably would have made his escape had not Patrolmen McKinnan and Burghart come to his rescue. Walsh fought desperately for a few minutes, but was finally subdued and taken to the city jail. Later in the day Weinhausen continued on his way to Pueblo with him. Denver Times.
Walsh, Patrick
Routt County Sentinel 8-11-1911 Notice of Final Settlement In the Matter of the Estate of Patrick Walsh, Insane: Notice is hereby given, that on Monday, the 28th day of August, A. D. 1911, being one of the regular days of the June term of the County court of Routt county, in the state of Colorado, I, Perry A. Clark, conservator of said estate, will appear before the judge of said court, present my final settlement as such conservator, pray the approval of the same, and will then apply to be discharged as such conservator. At which time and place any person in interest may appear and present objections to the same if any there be. Dated at Trull, Colorado, July 25, 1911. Perry A. Clark, Conservator of the Estate of Patrick Walsh, Insane. July 28 Aug. 25.
Walsh, Richard
Denver Evening Post 9-24-1899 Adjudged Insane Richard Walsh, Walter Leonard and George Green were adjudged insane yesterday in the county court.
Walsh, Richard
admitted 9-30-1899 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Walsh, Sadie
patient gender F race W age 59 marital status S birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Walsh, Sadie
patient race: W sex: F age: 45 marital:S place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Walter, David
patient, died 7-23-1925 in hospital, buried at Walsenburg source: contributor
Walter, John J.
patient race: W sex: M age: 72 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walter, Margaret L
admitted 12-14-1914 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Walter, Margaret L.
Collbran Plateau Voice 12-25-1914 Woman Who Killed Baby Insane. Pueblo. Mrs. Margaret L. Walter, who chloroformed her baby and then drank the rest of the poison in an attempt to commit suicide, was taken to the Woodcroft hospital for the insane.
Walter, Margaret L.
Yampa Leader, December 25, 1914 Woman Who Killed Baby Insane - Pueblo - Mrs. Margaret L. Walter, who chloroformed her baby and then drank the rest of the poison in an attempt to commit suicide, was taken to the Woodcroft hospital for the insane.
Walter, Van Albert
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walter, Wan A.
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status Un birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Walter, William C.
patient race W gender M age 33 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation miner source 1910 census
Walters, Alice
admitted 6-10-1914 from Lincoln, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Walters, Charles Mrs.
Aspen Democrat 4-7-1904 Denver April 6 - The plot of Charles Walters, of Fowler, Otero county, to secure a divorce in Denver from his insane wife who has been confined for six years in Dr. Work's asylum in Pueblo and which has been exposed, was frustrated today by Judge Carpenter who set aside the verdict and annulled the decree. Walters, for whom process was issued by Judge Carpenter last week, has not been found by the sheriff and did not appear in court in person.
Walters, Ella B Mrs
admitted 9-26-1896 from La Junta, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Walters, Ella B.
patient race W gender F age 42 marital status M place of birth Illinois source 1910 census
Walters, Ella B.
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 33 marital status M place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Walters, Ella B.
patient gender F race W age 62 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Walters, Ella B.
patient race: . sex: F age: 52 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walters, Ida
patient, female, white, age 59, single, born U.S., 1930 Woodcroft census
Walters, Louis
patient race W gender M age 21 marital status S birthplace Missouri occupation house painter source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Walters, Mary E.
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Walters, Mary E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 58 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Walters, Sarah
patient race: W sex: F age: 58 marital: Snone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Walters, William C.
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Walters, William C.
patient race: W sex: M age: 43 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Walthen, Mary
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 34 marital status M place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Walton, George
Boulder News and Courier 8-26-1881 George Walton was declared insane by County Court. Now at State Insane Asylum. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Wandfluh, Rosa
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.
Wandfluh, Rosa
Rocky Mountain News 8-8-1896 Court Calendar County Court Judge Steele: 4393 People vs. Rosa Wandfluh, alleged insane; ordered committed to county hospital, and thence to asylum.
Wandfluh, Rosa
Rocky Mountain News 8-8-1896 Sιance 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
Rosa Wandfluh, a daintily dressed woman of 24, whose mind was deeply clouded was placed on the stand. She was accompanied by her sister, who wept bitterly. Rosa, however, was entirely composed, although not in the possession of her sense. What is your name? asked the attorney for the defense. Rosa stared at him blankly. The attorney repeated the question, but the young woman did not utter a word. After some minutes Rosa was induced to talk. She could not tell her name or give any rational account of herself and did not know the reason she was in court. The jury promptly returned a verdict committing the young woman to the asylum.
Wandfluh, Rosa
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
Patients Taken From the Hospital Superintendent Clark of the institution, would have had five more patients under his care had it not been for the kindness of friends and relatives of several patients who suffered from milder forms of insanity. These five patients were committed to the hospital in the regular manner but were taken away from the hospital by friends because of the poor accommodation. They are Johanna Olson, Jennie Le Fevre, Louisa Olson, Willie Wade and Rosa Wandfluh. About ten days ago they were released, friends calling for them at different times. These patients can be again taken in by the hospital without the formality of commitment. Mr. Clark is careful to keep, and has done so for years, a record of the cost of each patient during his incarceration between the time he is adjudged insane by a court and committed in regular form to the state asylum. The county commissioners make no effort to collect this money and it is constantly being sunk into this bottomless legislative hole
Wandfluh, Rose
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 and among them was the case of Rose Woandfluh, a girl scarcely 21 years of age. She was brought into court accompanied by a sister and gave no indication whatever of insanity. She was neatly attired and there was nothing that would lead a stranger to regard her differently from any other woman in the room. The sister, however, could not refrain from giving away to her emotions. She wept violently and that seemed to greatly disturb the girl that is alleged to be insane. She begged her sister not to cry and told her that there was nothing in the world to cry for and that everything would come out right. The physicians stated that the girl had no especial mania but was totally irresponsible. She would get up in the night and wander around and on several occasions insisted on standing under the fountain at the hospital. She also tore up her clothing.
Ward, Alice
patient gender F race W age 36 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Ward, Allice
patient race: W sex: F age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Ward, Edward
patient gender M race W age 30 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Ward, Elton E.
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1846 age 54 marital status M place of birth Vermont occupation R. R. employe source : 1900 census
Ward, Emma L Miss
admitted 10-7-1897 from Delta, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Ward, H.W.
Castle Rock Journal 9-14-1906 - Colorado News Items - H. W. Ward, a prominent Canon City contractor and builder, has been adjudged insane and placed in the state asylum at Pueblo. [repeated in the Longmont Ledger 9-21-1906]
Ward, Jack
Durango Democrat 4-21-1907 Jack Ward has gone insane and is incarcerated in the San Juan county jail at Silverton.
Ward, Jack
Durango Wage Earner 5-16-1907 Sheriff Palmquist passed through the city yesterday morning having in charge an insane man from San Juan county. He was conveying him to Pueblo.
Ward, James
patient race W gender M age 23 marital status S place of birth Missouri occupation farmer source 1910 census
Ward, James
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Ward, James
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Ward, Joanna P.
patient race: W sex: F age: 71 marital: M place of birth: New Mexiconone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Ward, John
patient race W gender M month born September year born 1847 age 52 marital status M place of birth New York occupation miner source : 1900 census
Ward, John
patient race W gender M age 38 marital status S place of birth Ireland occupation miner source 1910 census
Ward, John
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Ward, Joseph P.
Denver Evening Post 12-12-1894 Ward Acquitted The Central City Land Seller Found to Be Insane Joseph P. Ward of Central City are arraigned in the United States court this morning on an indictment charging him with using the mails to defraud. He became a somewhat noted character last spring through newspaper advertising. It was at the time represented in print that Ward was perpetrating gross land frauds. At the trial to-day, however, it was proven that the old gentleman was of unsound mental condition, and the land scheme was one of his peculiar idiosyncrasies. He used the mails, it developed at the trial, to transfer correspondence to Kansas City relative to land he claimed to possess. It was proposed to sell to W. I. Long of that place realty of much value in Colorado for a little money, and Long, in considering the old gentleman's proffer, secured possession of a deed constructed by Ward himself. It was unsealed and bore small resemblance to a legal document, having no identification from the county clerk. Long lost no money in the transaction. The defense was in line with the above described facts. The alleged deed did not purport to be a legal document and Ward never said it was. Judge Hallett instructed the jury against finding the defendant guilty on the sole paper offered in evidence, which, he said, was not calculated in its construction to deceive anyone. No one would construe it to be a legitimate claim of title. The evidence also showed Ward to be of unsound mind. The jury acquitted the defendant, who was represented by Henry B. Babb. United States District Attorney Johnson conducted the prosecution.
Ward, Marie
Rocky Mountain News 9-14-1885 A Hackman's Story You haven't the slightest idea of the strange things we meet in our business, said a hack driver last evening to a News reporter. Can't you tell me something of your experiences? asked the News man. Oh, well, I don't know what to say. To tell you the truth, our business is a peculiar one, especially those of us who are on the stand all night. It was only last evening, just about midnight, I was standing by my hack wondering if anything would happen soon to disturb the monotony, when a little messenger boy came up and asked, 'Is this hack 85?' I answered promptly that it was, taking the blankets off of the horses and getting ready for the 'job,' which I knew would relieve the monotony, and put some dollars in my pocket. 'You are wanted at 898 Arapahoe street,' said the boy. Mounting the box in ten minutes I was at the place indicated. Before I had time to reach the pavement a heavily veiled woman stole noiselessly from the porch in front of the house and entered the hack. I stepped down to close the door when she said 'Drive me to 397 Colfax avenue.' It was perhaps fifteen minutes before I drove up before the number, my passenger alighted and at once entered the house. I noticed a light burning in the front room which was taken to the rear as soon as my passenger entered. Some thirty minutes must have elapsed when I heard a shot and then screams of murder. Making my way through the front door, I groped through a dark passage to the room beyond. Pushing open the door, a horrible sight greeted me. There, lying across a bed, was a handsome man, in the prime of life, with the life-blood oozing from a ghastly wound in the temple. Over him hung a woman whom I recognized by her dress to be my passenger. The death rattles in the throat of the man indicated that his minutes on earth were very short. In fact, while I was standing in the doorway, amazed at the scene, with a convulsive movement he raised up to a sitting posture and then fell back dead. What followed seemed almost like a dream. In a very few moments a number of policemen arrived, and I, as well as the woman was taken into custody. Of course at the hearing next day I was discharged; the woman, however, was kept in the county jail for three days, when it became necessary to send her to the lunatic asylum at Pueblo, so violent did she become. It was developed at the coroner's inquest that the woman, whose name was Marie Ward, had followed the dead man all the way from Chicago; that under a promise of marriage some two years previous he had betrayed her and then fled to the West. With the stern and unflinching purpose of a woman she had followed him, and presumably had demanded of him on the night of the murder that he should right the wrongs she had suffered at his hands, and upon his refusal had, with a predetermined purpose, killed him. Marie Ward is at this moment a raving maniac in the state lunatic asylum. Yes, sir, we have some strange experiences in our business, in fact our lives are full of adventure.
Ward, Scott
patient race: W sex: M age: 61 marital:S place of birth: Ohio occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Ward, Trellis
Yampa Leader, December 19, 1903 Trellis Ward, or Nellie Cummins, the yong woman who has gained considerably notoriety by her unfortunate habit of falling off street cars, was declared sane by the County Court at Pueblo, and at once left for Texas, where she has relations.
Warden, Homer
patient gender M race W age 32 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wardis, Albert
Aspen Weekly Times 12-15-1888 Local and Personal Albert Wardis, who was sent to the insane asylum about six months ago, has been released and has returned to Aspen. He appears to be perfectly restored.
Ware, Mollie
Rocky Mountain News 4-18-1884 To The Death A Woman Follows Her Betrayer to the Mountains and Kills Him Becomes a Raving Maniac After Committing the Horrible Deed And is Removed to An Insane Asylum Where She Will End Her Days Clang! Clang! Clang! The harsh sound of an unmusical bell was heard in the distance down the gulch, sometimes clear and distinct as the wind wafted it to hearer, at others faint as the echo of its own discordant noise. Everything, however, was lovely in the mountains, and the bracing breezes of June coming from their home amid the snow brought the color to the cheek and an elasticity to the step which was well calculated to make the old feel young again and the invalid to gain a new lease on life. Clang, clang, clang, the sound comes nearer, and now up the steep trail from behind a wooded promontory the long procession of a burro train approaches with a slow but sure gait, and files onto the mesa, where beneath a clump of pines a halt is made and preparations started for the noon day meal. With the pack train, consisting of some thirty burros, which were conveying provisions to the mining camp of Montecita, which was still some miles farther up, were several horsemen, or more properly three horsemen and one horsewoman, mounted on sure-footed ponies. This one woman formed a curious and striking picture as she emerged from the pines and came into full view. Her flushed cheek and bright, sparkling eyes, together with a form that was grace itself, was a something rarely seen in that altitude. Yet in the face was the expression of a stern purpose, inflexible as iron and as lasting as life itself. Aint you most ready to give up your wild scheme, Mollie? asked one of the men as he assisted her to dismount. Never, so long as there is breath within me, answered she, and a wild vindictive light shone from eyes erstwhile so gentle and almost pleading in their softness. Just as you please, sister, but I think only trouble can come of it. Trouble will come, said she, fiercely, but it will fall upon the heads of the guilty, who have caused it. The pair then finished the rude meal furnished by some of the store of canned goods forming the load of the patient burros, who were cropping the scanty buffalo grass with the same enjoyment as if it the blue grass regions of Kentucky. Finally the signal was given to remount and everything having been repacked, the trail was resumed and the sun was gilding only the higher summits, leaving the valleys in somber shadow when the camp was at last reached. The brother and sister dismounted before the largest cabin in the camp, which was the only one in which strangers could find accommodations, if rough board bunks covered with buffalo skins and blankets could be called such. However, the cabin boasted an inner room in which the lady was shown and where she could at least be private, if not particularly comfortable. The next morning as soon as breakfast was eaten, the brother saddled the ponies of both and they started up the gulch. After going perhaps some three miles they reached a clump of pines, beyond which there was a solitary cabin. Bidding the man, with an imperious air, to remain there within call, she rode straight to the door of the cabin, dismounted and entered. Just exactly what transpired within was never known, only that after some fifteen minutes of waiting the brother heard the report of two shots from a revolver and the scream of a woman, but so demoniac that it seemed as though it was caused by a legion of fiends in chorus. With a horrible apprehension of what had taken place, he tremblingly rode to the door and, entering, beheld a fearful scene. There, weltering in his gore, was a man who had hardly reached the prime of life, and yet handsome in his coarse miner's suit with his head supported by the woman, Mollie, who was rocking it to and fro and singing a horrible lullaby, the burden of which was Now we'll get married; you won't run away again, will you, poor dear? The brother saw it all she had killed the man who had betrayed her under a promise of marriage, and was now a raving maniac. He rode back to camp for assistance, and she was with some difficulty taken from the dead body amid her wild cries, and the next day a sorrowful return journey was made and poor Mollie Ware is now an incurable and raving maniac in the asylum at Pueblo.
Warner, Albert D.
Rocky Mountain News 4-11-1890 Freaks of Insanity Albert D. Warner is an old gentleman, some 70 years old, who solemnly swore in the presence of six jurors in the county court yesterday that he is now in his 17th year. But he is a lunatic. The old fellow was before the county court for an investigation as to his mental condition. He has been a charge of the county for a year and a half, rusticating at the poor farm, but of late has developed a violent disposition at times. Dr. Eskridge was examined and stated that Warner was suffering from dementia, was dominated by delusions and if the idea seized him he would just as soon kill a man as not. The old fellow looked as if he hadn't the strength to slaughter a mouse. On being placed on the stand he did not seem to know much about anything except that he was an intimate friend of Martin Van Buren, wasn't just sure whether he was his brother, but could prove that Martin and he were cronies and most intimate in former times. He was adjudged insane, but did not seem to appreciate his position in the faintest way. Hans Anderson, a colored boy, was also declared of unsound mind, principally on the testimony of his father, who said his son had been acting queer of late and imagining all sorts of things into his erratic brain; thought people were going to poison him, etc. A brighter streak of human affairs appeared before the court later, when Thomas F. Crowley, formerly a lunatic, was present to show that he had recovered his reason. The doctors at the asylum give it as their opinion that he was no longer dangerous to himself or anyone else. He was accordingly discharged.
Warner, Albert D.
Rocky Mountain News 4-15-1890 Local Brevities Anderson and Warner, the two individuals found insane before Judge Miller on Saturday, were yesterday conveyed to the state insane asylum.
Warner, Charles
patient gender M race W age 56 marital status Wd birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Warner, George F.
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status D birthplace Michigan source 1930 census
Warner, Ida A.
patient race: W sex: F age: 17 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Warnick, Burla R.
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Warnock, Kate L.
patient race: W sex: F age: 48 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Warnock, Kate S
admitted 1-23-1914 from Garfield Co. - Woodcroft Hospital
Warren, Clifford
patient gender M race W age 23 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Warren, Helen Phillips
Warren, Helen Phillips age 70y, born July, daughter of Ezra Phillips born Ohio and Mary Ann McDougal born NY, residence Canon City, Co., married, housewife, died 6-13-1911, shipped to Denver Crematorium 6-15-1911, Dr. Hubert Work, cost $115.00
Warren, Jessie
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status S birthplace Wisconsin source 1930 census
Warren, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 55 marital:M place of birth: Kentucky occupation: none source: 1920 census
Warren, Pauline
patient gender F race W age 31 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Warrior, Russell
patient, male, indian, age 47, divorced, born Oklahoma, 1930 Woodcroft census
Wartner, Lickamore
patient gender M race Neg age 60 marital status S birthplace Jamaica source 1930 census
Warwick, J. N.
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:. place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Warwick, J. R.
patient gender M race W age 62 marital status Un birthplace United States source 1930 census
Warwick, Jeremiah
Longmont Ledger 9-30-1910 A tumor or cyst buried deep in the brain tissues of Jeremiah Warwick, insane and a deaf mute, because of his affliction, was removed Saturday by Drs. S. D. Hopkins and W. B. Craig at St. Joseph's hospital. In two days the man has spoken three words, and his mind apparently is normal.
Washburn, Edward A.
Denver Evening Post 4-26-1897 Think He Is Insane Edward Washburne was arrested on Sixteenth street this morning and pronounced insane by Police Surgeon Wheeler. He claims he lives at 1785 Lafayette, but further than this will say nothing.
Washburn, Edward A.
Rocky Mountain News 4-27-1897 Local Brevities Edwin Washburn found wandering along Larimer street yesterday in an insane condition was taken to the city jail.
Washburn, Edward A.
Denver Evening Post 4-27-1897 Taken to the Hospital Edwin Washburn, the insane man who was arrested by Officer Baughman yesterday, was transferred to the county hospital last night. The man became violent and threatened to eat up the jail.
Washburn, Edward A.
Rocky Mountain News 5-11-1897 Three Adjudged Insane In the county court yesterday three unfortunates were declared insane and ordered sent to the Pueblo asylum as soon as convenient. They were Frank Blackwell, Emma Betting and Edward A. Washburn. The hearing of the insanity charge preferred against Bertha Wheeler was, upon the motion of the county attorney, continued until May 17.
Washburn, Edward A.
Denver Evening Post 9-10-1897 Mixed Up Affair A Wife, Divorced Without Her Knowledge, Claims an Estate Sarah B. Washburn, by Attorney N. J. Bartley, filed a petition in the county court today asking that she be declared the heir to the estate of Edward H. Washburn, of whom she is the divorced wife. In her application she sets out that she married him in 1881 (?) and that they had two children, both of whom are now dead. In 1886, being in ill health, she went to Portland, Me., at the express wish of her husband, she claims, and there she continued to live for some time, receiving frequent letters from her husband. Finally these ceased to arrive and she did not know his whereabouts until ninety days ago. She now knows that he became insane April 27, 1897, and was adjudged such in the county court May last. He died in the Pueblo asylum July __ (unreadable 21?). She asserts also that she has learned that on March 8, 1889, he obtained a divorce from her in Jefferson county on the grounds of desertion. The divorce papers, she claims, assert that summons could not be served on her because she could not be found; and the bill went by default. She declares she is astonished at the proceeding; that her address was known to her husband all the time as being at 39 Merrill street, Portland, thus showing that the divorce was obtained in fraud. The husband at his death left an estate of $1,400 in cash and $10,000 in Arapahoe county real estate. William and John B. Washburn, brothers, and Emily Jones and Frances S. Carter, sisters, of Orange county, Vermont, also claim the estate. She wants their claims set aside and a court order giving the estate to her.
Washburn, Edward A.
Rocky Mountain News 9-11-1897 Wants All the Property Former Wife of a Man Now Dead Avers She Wasn't Divorced The widow of Edward A. Washburn, who died in an insane asylum July 21, filed a petition in the county court asking that she be made sole heir of his property. She sets forth her marriage, and says that in 1886 she was sent by her husband to Portland for her health. After a while she asked for cash with which to buy a ticket to return to him, but he is said to have put her off from time to time on the grounds of poverty. He finally ceased writing to her, she says, and in November, 1888, filed a divorce bill against her in Jefferson county. In March, 1889, he secured his freedom. Mrs. Washburn claims that the sheriff who had the divorce summons returned them unserved before the expiration of the ten days allowed by law, and that, moreover, the notary who attended to the same, was an attorney for her husband. She claims she could have been notified of the filing of the suit if an investigation had been made and that, by reason of this irregularity, she is entitled to have the divorce annulled. She wishes to become heir to property left by the deceased and valued at $10,000. Judge Steele will hear her grievance on November 8.
Washington, August
patient gender M race Neg age 53 marital status Un birthplace Georgia source 1930 census
Washington, George
patient gender M race Neg age 55 marital status Un birthplace Louisiana source 1930 census
Washington, Narcissa
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1867 age 33 marital status S place of birth Iowa occupation domestic source : 1900 census
Washington, Narcissa
Rocky Mountain News 7-31-1889 Intellect Unhinged Pathetic Partings Between Loved Ones Unconscious of Their Farewell Greetings Freaks and Fancies of Those Whose Minds Have Been Blighted by Shocks or Misfortunes Yesterday was a sort of lunatic field day, so to speak, in the county court. Male and female, white and colored, strong and enfeebled all were represented and submitted without any violence or demonstration to the proceedings of the court. As usual on such occasions the accused unfortunates had the benefit of a legal advocate assigned to the especial work of seeing that no injustice was perpetrated
Lady Washington The first case brought before Judge Miller was that of a wild-looking colored girl named Narcissa Washington, a lady with some aristocratic leanings, who is much offended if anyone addresses her by any other name than Lady Washington. In addition to her elevated mental ideas she has demonstrated on several occasions that from a physical point of view she is anxious to rise in the world. Her best record in this respect was made a few weeks ago when she climbed to the top of a high railroad gate on Nineteenth street, and by a splendid gymnastic effort hung suspended by her toes. In this position and with only one scanty garment to cover her nakedness she proceeded to make the air ring with her shrieks. A crowd necessarily collected around the poor girl and after a while she was hurried off to police headquarters. There she treated the men in blue to another taste of her climbing talent. No sooner had the policeman released his grasp of her than, with the agility of a deer, she mounted to the top of the safe. Chased from that point of vantage she next appeared in a posing act on the clerk's desk, and so on until she had completed the circuit of the furniture. Reasons For Climbing On examination by County Attorney Cranston she declared that she does not carry anything so purely earthly as a body around with her. She believes she is a spirit and lives most of her time among the angels, some of whom are pink and a few are colored specimens of the race. Are you not afraid of these spirits? asked Mr. Cranston. Afraid, sir! Oh, no, and her large eyes beamed with almost a resplendent joy. God is very good and the spirits are his children, and I love them. Why do you insist on climbing on gates and tables? I long to be above poor human mortals high! high! Away from the world. She continued in a rambling way to describe her spiritual career, and referred the lawyers to a marvelous gigantic clock which she believes is a fixture in the sky and placed there for the especial purpose of denoting meal hours for the angelic host. The girl is rather prepossessing in appearance and about 21 years old. After a short deliberation by the jury she was declared insane. An order was made for her conveyance to the Pueblo asylum.
Washington, Narsissa
patient gender F race Neg age 62 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Washington, Narsissa
patient race: B sex: F age: 52 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: none source: 1920 census
Washington, Narsissa
patient race W gender F age 42 marital status S place of birth Iowa occupation domestic source 1910 census
Wassinger, C. A.
patient gender M race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Waterman, John
patient gender M race W age 44 marital status S birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Waterman, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 34 marital:S place of birth: Nebraska occupation: dairy helper source: 1920 census
Waterman, John L
admitted 7-25-1915 from Prowers, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Waters, Margaret
patient gender F race W age 35 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Waters, Sarah
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 48 marital status S place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Waters, Sophia
patient race W gender F age 51 marital status M place of birth Kansas source 1910 census
Waters, Sophia
patient gender F race W age 69 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Waters, Sophia
patient race: W sex: F age: 60 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wathen, Mary E Mrs
admitted 9-26-1899 from Aspen, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wathen, Mary E.
Rocky Mountain Sun 9-30-1899 Local Brevities Yesterday Mrs. Mary E. Wathen was adjudged insane by Judge Rogers of the county court, the examination into the case of the unfortunate lady taking place at her home on Francis street. Accompanied by her husband she was last night taken to the asylum at Pueblo by Sheriff Fisher, who returned from that city yesterday morning, after making arrangements for the reception of the afflicted woman. Mr. Wathen is an employe of the Percy Mining company.
Wathen, Mary E.
Aspen Tribune 9-28-1899 Sheriff Fisher returned yesterday morning from Pueblo, whither he went Monday night in charge of Mrs. Wathen, the unfortunate woman who was adjudged insane by the county court Monday afternoon. Mr. Fisher says the patient was very tractable during the journey and was placed in a private institution for feeble minded persons. Mr. Wathen, who accompanied his wife and the officer, saw to it that everything possible was done for her comfort.
Watkins, Isaac
Aspen Weekly Times 9-3-1904 Isaac Watkins of Meredith is a man about 55 years old. He is sick, and so far as is known, has no friends. The county physician does not know what is the matter with him. It has been thought he was insane, but as there are various opinions upon the subject. The county commissioners have been asked to look after the man. The sheriff went to Meredith to bring the man to Aspen as an insane patient, but he returned without him. Commissioer Henry Beck has written to parties at Meredith to look after him and bring him to Aspen to be cared for until such time as his case can be enquired into.
Watrous, Fred L.
Steamboat Pilot 7-7-1920 Had Nervous Breakdown Fred L. Watrous, prominent lawyer of Duchesne, Utah, well known in Routt county thru his long residence here, was yesterday adjudged insane in the county court by a board of medical examiners and was taken to Pueblo by Sheriff Neiman this morning for treatment. He has suffered a nervous breakdown and with rest and care should soon be restored to health. Fred Watrous has many friends in Routt county, where he came 20 years ago. He was in the newspaper business, working on the Sentinel for some time and later being manager of the Hayden Republican. He married Miss Meda Hoskinson and has two sons, 16 and 14 years old. Some eight or ten years ago he went to the Uintah valley of Utah, where he engaged in the newspaper business and then engaged in the practice of law, at which he has been very successful. He is a graduate of Leland Stanford university and was admitted to practice when he was 21 years of age. A month ago he came with his family to Routt county to visit relatives. Mrs. Watrous was taken ill and he took her to Denver where she underwent an operation for appendicitis at St. Anthony's hospital. Since he has been here Mr. Watrous has become worse, showing signs of a nervous breakdown, until his condition became such that it was found necessary to bring him before the county court. He has many friends in Routt county who hope for his speedy recovery.
Watson, Arthur
Pueblo Indicator 5-22-1930 - Escaped From Asylum - Arthur Watson, 53, an inmate of the State Hospital for the past three years, escaped last Wednesday. He is known to have relatives in Oklahoma and is thought to be headed that way. He wore a gray suit of clothes.
Watson, Arthur W.
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Alabama source 1930 census
Watson, Cadmus B.
November 23 1895 Aspen Weekly (Aspen, Pitken Cnty) FAMILY TROUBLES SAID TO HAVE DETHRONED A GLENWOOD MAN. From Tuesday's Daily: Cadmus B. Watson was adjudged insane by a jury in the couty court yesterday afternoon and Judge Johnson made an order directing his confinement in the county jail until such time as there may be a vacant place for him in the state asylum at Pueblo. Watson came to Aspen only a short time ago from Glenwood. Before he arrived he had exhibited signs of an unbalanced mind. He was employed in a restaurant there and his acts were peculiarly eccentric. In the past he had suffered many troubles with a woman whom he married and these had played havoc with his mental and also his physical constitution. On the stand he affirmed that he had a wife and several grown children whereas his brother, who also testified, said he was never the father of any children. Before Watson's arrest on lunacy charges he met Captain Williamson one day and had no hat on his head. Captain Williamson had picked it up. Is this your hat? inquired the officer. Watson looked up astonished and, after finding himself bareheaded, said he guessed it was his. That was the first realization the man seemed to have that he was bareheaded in the street. The jury which tried Watson was composed of M. Marroon, John Hayden, Wilber Linderman, John Connors, P. Tracey and James W. Cleaves. Dr. Ramsey, the commissioner in lunacy, testified that under the asylum treatment, the unfortunate defendant might recover in six months. Sheriff Hayes left for the insane asylum with him last evening.
Watson, Dollie
Rocky Mountain News 12-1-1892 Dollie the Dynamitard She Essays Burglary as a Relief to a Life of Drudgery Dollie Watson distinguished herself yesterday. For the first time in two weeks she felt quite sure that she would not blow up. The dynamite germs in her have now lost their effect. Dollie lives with her step-mother, Mrs. Cynthia Evans, at 41 Corbett street, down in the slums. Peace does not reign in the cottage, as evidenced by a warrant sworn out by Dollie in Justice Talbot's court for the arrest of her mother on the charge of threats. Dollie states that she has been ill-treated and that Mrs. Evans has threatened to kill her and throw her body in the Platte. While Mrs. Evans was in the justice court Dollie drove down to 41 Corbett street in an express wagon, resolved to carry away all the household effects, which she claims as her own. Just as she was putting in the wagon the last chair, Mrs. Evans appeared with wrath in her soul. A lively scrap ensued, and then Officer Newton arrested Dollie on the charge of burglary and she now is behind the bars of the city jail. The history that Dollie tells of her misfortunes would fill many volumes. Her mother, she says, wants to get her out of the way. First she was drugged with some unknown pellets, which she believes was dynamite, and her life for the last week has been a terror to her friends. Next, Mrs. Evans took her before the county court and tried to have her adjudged insane. Altogether, Dollie does not think that life is worth living, but she intends to fight her enemies.
Watson, Dollie
Rocky Mountain News 12-5-1892 Dolly Disappears The Animated Dynamite Torpedo Has Been Lost to Sight Dynamite Dollie Watson has disappeared and her stepmother, Mrs. Cynthia Evans thinks that she has either blown up or committed suicide. A summons was issued to bring her before the county court to be judged as to her sanity, but Dollie cannot be found. She has not been near her home at 41 Corbett avenue since Friday night, when she appeared and acted very strangely. Her mother says that she seemed to be out of her head and talked vaguely of a strange feeling in her stomach and reiterated again that she was sure that she had swallowed dynamite caps. About 10 o'clock she left the house, remarking to her mother that she would not be back again. It is known that Dollie had not money enough with her on Friday to leave town. This strengthens the suspicion that she has met some foul fate. No explosion of any kind in the vicinity of Denver has been reported to the police as yet and Dollie may not now be in fragments, but she certainly is out of sight. Chief Farley has sent telegrams to all towns within 100 miles of Denver, asking for immediate notification in case any portion of a human body falls from the clouds. In this way Dolly's body will be collected and turned over to the coroner if she has really met the dread fate that she fears so much. It is possible that she is afraid that the county court will judge her insane, and she has no love of imprisonment. While in the county jail a few months ago she gave Matron Havens a great deal of trouble. To avoid being again behind close walls, she may have borrowed money enough to leave Denver and seek renown in other climes. Mrs. Evans, however, is firmly convinced that her daughter has killed herself. Dolly often said that she would jump in the Platte when she got tired of living. She may now be wandering along the banks of this quiet stream searching for a place where the water is deep and the surrounding scenery romantic enough for Dolly to properly end her earthly existence.
Watson, Dollie
Rocky Mountain News 12-16-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Dollie Watson; released on her own recognizance in $100 for five days.
Watson, Dora
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 36 marital status D place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Watson, Dora (Dot)
admitted 5-20-1900 from Silverton, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Watson, Dot
Silverton Standard 5-19-1900 Dot Watson was brought before Judge McNult Thursday morning and tried for insanity. Considerable evidence was taken and after a short recess returned a verdict of finding the woman to be of unsound mind. The Judge forthwith decided that she be sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo until cured. Dot was taken out on Friday's train.
Watson, Dot
Silverton Standard 6-23-1900 Conservators Notice Estate of Dot Watson, adjudged insane. The undersigned, having been appointed Conservator of the Estate of Dot Watson late of the County of San Juan and State of Colorado, adjudged insane, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of San Juan County, at the Court House in Silverton at the June Term, on the third Monday 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 30th day of June A. D. 1900. John Rogers, Conservator. First pub. June 23, 1900. Last pub. July 14, 1900.
Watson, Dot
Silverton Standard 5-4-1901 Notice of Final Settlement In the matter of the estate of Dot Watson, Insane Notice is hereby given, That on Monday the 20th day of May, A. D. 1901 being one of the regular days of the March Term of the County Court of San Juan County, in the State of Colorado, I, John Rogers, Conservator of said estate, will appear before the Judge of said Court, present my final settlement as such Conservator pray the approval of the same, and will then apply to be discharged as such Conservator. At which time and place any person in interest may appear and present objections to the same, if any there be. Dated at Silverton, Colorado, April 15, 1901, John Rogers, Conservator of the Estate of Dot Watson, Insane.
Watson, Ike
Aspen Democrat 9-17-1904 About one year ago Tom Quinn was adjudged insane and placed in the insane asylum by Sheriff Irving. On Wednesday last Mr. Quinn died and was buried Thursday morning at Pueblo. There is a coincidence in connection with the case that will be of interest. At the time the complaint was made against Mr. Quinn, Undersheriff L.H. Burch made the arrest and took care of him until Sheriff Irving was prepared to take him to Pueblo. While Sheriff Burch was in Pueblo Thursday after placing Ike Watson in the asylum he met John Henney, brother-in-law of Quinn, who notified him that Tom had died the day previous and was to be buried that morning. As it is the rule of the shrievalty of Pitkin county to be ever courteous, Sheriff Burch volunteered his services which were gladly accepted by Mr. Henney, and assisted in the burial of the deceased. Mr. Quinn is an old timer in this district and was a miner of much knowledge and worth. Some years ago he was caught in a snow storm near Ouray and his limbs were so badly frozen that amputation just above the knees was necessary. His inability to support himself was the cause of his going insane.
Watson, Ike
Aspen Democrat 9-14-1904 Under Sheriff Burch was an outgoing passenger yesterday afternoon on the Rio Grande, accompanied by Ike Watson, bound for Pueblo. Mr. Watson was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and will be placed in the state insane asylum.
Watson, Ike
Aspen Democrat 9-13-1904 Sheriff Irving and Under Sheriff Burch returned to the city yesterday morning on the Midland from Meredith where they went Sunday to take charge of Ike Watson, who is thought to be insane from alcohol. He will be examined today to decide if the charge against him is true and if so to decide as to a place to take him for treatment.
Watson, John
Ouray Herald 3-29-1912 Insane Man Taken to Jail This morning Sheriff McKnight was called to Falletti and Cresto's saloon, where John Watson, a Finn, was raising an unusual disturbance. He was taken to the county jail, and Dr. Crosby, the county physician, has charge of the case. Watson came to Ouray about two months ago, and was generally supposed to be out of his mind.
Watson, Minnie
patient race: W sex: F age: 35 marital: M place of birth: Kansasnone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Watson, Minnie E.
Colorado Springs Gazette 7-24-1910 - Two Divorce Cases - William Watson Wants Separation Because Wife is Insane - Because his wife, Minnie E. Watson, has been adjudged insane and is now in the Woodcroft sanatorium in Pueblo, William Watson is seeking divorce in the county court. The complaint which was filled yesterday recites that the couple were married in this city in November, 1904, and that in June, 1909, the wife was adjudged insane. They have no children. Colorado Springs Gazette 8-13-1910 - Says Wife is Insane - Asks For Divorce - William Watson yesterday brought action in the county court against his wife, Minnie Watson, in which he asks for a divorce. It is claimed that Mrs. Watson, who was sent to the Woodcroft Sanitorium in Pueblo a year ago, has treated her husband in a cruel manner, and separation is asked for on that ground. The defense claims that there are no grounds for the charges preferred, and asks that a decree of divorce be refused. The case has been taken under advisement by Judge John E. Little.
Watson, Paris N. J.
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Watson, Saddie
patient race W gender F age 41 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
Watson, Sadie
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1867 age 33 marital status S place of birth . source : 1900 census
Watson, Sadie
patient gender F race W age 61 marital status S birthplace Nevada source 1930 census
Watson, Sadie
patient race: W sex: F age: 51 marital:S place of birth: Nevada occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Watson, Sadie
Rocky Mountain News 10-25-1890 Briefs Sadie Watson was found wandering about the streets. She could not tell much about herself and was tried in the county court for insanity. She said she wasn't certain but she thought she had been in Denver about five weeks. When asked where she came from she tossed her head and laughed and said she didn't know. She is about 18 years old and not bad looking. The jury found her insane and she will be sent to Pueblo at once.
Watson, Sadie
Rocky Mountain News 10-28-1890 Briefs Sadie Watson, who was last Friday, by order of the county court, sent to the Pueblo asylum, created a sensation on the way down. The brakeman put his head in at the door and shouted Sullivan! And immediately Whoosh! says Sadie, That's me! Mind your eye! and thereupon she smashed her fist into the deputy sheriff's proboscis in a scientific way that got blood at the first pass. Sadie would be a jewel of a second wife for a man who beat his first one to death.
Watt, M. L.
patient gender M race W age 61 marital status Un birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Watt, William
Boulder Daily Camera 5-28-1896 Bill Watt Dead The Slayer of John Kearney Dies in the Insane Asylum William Watt, slayer of John Kearney in a card game in a Lyons saloon, and sentenced by Judge Downer to ten years at Canon City, died in the insane asylum at Pueblo last night, having been taken there some weeks ago by reason of apparent insanity due to softening of the brain. Notwithstanding his conviction for so terrible a crime as murder, there are men in Colorado who will sincerely regret Watt's death. He was defended ably by Hon. Lafe Pence, given a fair trial and, probably, justly convicted. However, his crime was due to liquor and he was inoffensive and generous when at himself.
Watt, William
Boulder Daily Camera 4-21-1896 Bill Watt Wants Out The Denver Times has the following concerning a man sent over the road from this county: Governor McIntire this morning appointed Drs. Frank T. Little and Thos. H. Craven as a commission to examine into the mental condition of William Watt, an inmate of Canon City penitentiary, who has shown signs of insanity. Watt is serving a term for murder and his term would expire June 10, 1898. Watt killed a man in a game of cards at Lyons. He was defended by Hon. Lafe Pence and escaped with a reasonably light dose of justice, although there were some who believed he shot in self-defense. The man he killed was a stone quarryman and members of that craft believed Watt guilty of willful murder and prosecuted the case vigorously.
Watt, William
Denver Evening Post 4-20-1896 Late Town Talk Frank Currier, William T. Little and Thomas H. Craven, Canon City physicians, were appointed by Governor McIntyre a committee to inquire into the lunacy of William Watt, a convict in the penitentiary.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 12-22-1892 Watt's Weapon It Discharged Itself and Man is Shot in Consequence W. C. Watt was brought down from Lyons yesterday on a charge sworn out by William Ryan. A quarrel led to Watt's shooting James Kearney, the ball taking effect in his groin. Watt, who is a peaceable fellow, is at the Bowen and will remain in charge of a special deputy until his trial, unless Kearney's wound should prove serious. It appears from all that can be obtained that Watt has been the victim of spite and envy and has twice been stabbed, once by Frank Wilson, a fellow who resented being asked to pay a saloon bill and who stabbed him under the rib. Another fellow cut him for sheer meanness and Watt then swore that he would not again be slaughtered if he knew himself. The man who swore out the warrant in this case, is a particular friend of Watt and it is thought that when all parties become sober and Kearney recovers, the charge will be withdrawn. The shooting occurred in Charley Bradford's saloon.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 12-23-1892 William Watt, who was unfortunate enough to be called on to shoot a man at Lyons, is in charge of Deputy Sheriff Hank Green and has a moderate degree of liberty. Word comes from Lyons that Kearney is improving rapidly and it is probable that there will be no prosecution.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 12-27-1892 Mr. Kearney is Dead William C. Watt is Held for Killing Him Lyons' Shooting Affray After Several Days of Lingering, Kearney Passes Away The Affair Grew Out of a Quarrel Over a Game of Poker Watt Quietly Consents to be Put in Jail, After Kissing His Wife Good Bye Kearney is Dead Watt is Compelled to go to Jail in Consequence Kearney is dead. The man who received the bullet of W. C. Watt is no more and Watt is in jail. The affair occurred a week ago and the shooting transpired when the men were engaged at a game of poker. It is said that the men quarreled and Kearney reached for his pocket, Watt pulled his revolver and shot. It is reported that Kearney, who was well known about Lyons, was a frail fellow, but that after being stabbed twice in former troubles, Watt was on the alert for another case of the worst of it and shot. Some say he shot without cause, while others defend his action. Watt took his brother, Dan, down to Mr. Gallagher's place yesterday, having been all the while in charge of Deputy Sheriff Hank Green. He returned and willingly left Joe Bailey's livery stable for the jail, where he must remain until after his preliminary examination. Deputy District Attorney Campbell and Coroner Trezise left for Lyons yesterday afternoon and a coroner's jury will convene there today. The reason why Watt was not earlier incarcerated was owing to the awkward language of the person who sent him down on a charge of shooting and wounding one, Kearney. The charge of murderous intent was alleged. The wife of the prisoner visited her husband in jail last evening and left him after an affectionate embrace and many adieux.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 12-28-1892 Murder is the Verdict The Coroner's Jury at Lyons so Pronounces It Watt Killed Kearney And the Jury Says With Felonious Intent A Synopsis of the Evidence Killing of Kearney The Story as Gleaned from a Coroner's Jury Evidence Coroner Trezise and Deputy District Attorney Campbell returned from Lyons yesterday, after having impanelled a jury and received its verdict in the Watt-Kearney affair. Story of the Affair The story of the shooting as related to the coroner's jury by witnesses who were present is in substance as follows: Last Wednesday morning about 7 o'clock there was gathered around a poker table in Bradford's saloon in Lyons Wm. Watts, John Kearney, Fred Billings, W. M. Ryan, Doc Smith and Mr. Baker. Poker was the game and all were playing and drinking more or less. A jack pot came up and was opened by Watt for $1.75. All dropped out but Kearney, who drew three cards while Watt drew one. Watt proposed that they divide the pot and Kearney agreeing, it was done. Watt throwing down two pairs, kings and fours, and Kearney laying down a pair of sevens. In about twenty minutes another jack pot came up, and this time Kearney opened it for $2, all dropping out but Watt, who drew one card and Kearney stood pat. Watt again proposed that they divide the pot. Not this time, said Kearney, I haven't that kind of a hand, and he bet $5.00. Watt passed and Kearney took in the pot. Both men were drinking heavily and Kearney's refusal to divide the pot made Watt angry and he remarked in an ugly voice: I'll make you play poker now for every cent you've got. Kearney reached down in his pants pocket and pulling out a little money sack, took out a roll of bills, which he placed on the table, remarking: There it is, I'll play you poker for it. I'll make you play, replied Watt. Kearney raised him slightly and started to put the money back in his pocket, when Watt jumped up, pulled a pistol from his hip pocket and pointed it toward Kearney, who raised his hand knocking the revolver aside just as it went off. Ryan's testimony was that he shouted For God's sake, Bill, don't kill the man. I will, I will, replied Watt, springing upon Kearney, forcing him backward and at the same time firing again, and this time Kearney dropped on the floor. The bar tender, Elias Johns, rushed forward after the first shot and grabbed the pistol just as Watt was about to fire again. Watt had the gun, a 38 calibre Smith & Wesson, pointed at Kearney lying on the floor, who begged: For God's sake, Bill, don't kill me, and Watt gave up his gun to Johns without further objection. Kearney was carried into Dr. Gammon's office and the bullet probed for. The wound was not at first thought serious, but peritonitis set in and Kearney died Monday morning at 10:30. There was very little if any conflicting testimony, and there can be no doubt but that both men were drunk, Mr. Billings testifying that they drank seven hot whiskies in less than 20 minutes, and the bar tender corroborates this statement. Billings testified that both men were paralyzed drunk. Drs. Gammon and Burhans held an autopsy and found that Kearney's death was the result of the bullet he received. The jury then rendered the following verdict: The Jury's Verdict An inquest was holden at Lyons, in Boulder county, State of Colorado, on the 26th and 27th day of Dec. A. D. 1892, before J. G. Trezise, coroner of said county, upon the body of John Kearney, lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed; said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said John Kearney came to his death at 10:40 o'clock a.m., on the 26th day of Dec. A. D. 1892, as the result of a gun shot wound, the said gun being a revolver loaded with powder and ball and fired by William Watt on the 21st day of Dec. 1892, in Charles Bradford's saloon at said Lyons, in Boulder county, Colo., at about 8:30 o'clock a.m. We further find that the shooting of said John Kearney by Wm. Watt was felonious. In testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year aforesaid: L. H. Dietrich, Thos. A. Hearn, Nicholas Frank, Wm. Sites, E. R. Meeker, W. C. Dyer, Jurors. Attest: - J. G. Trezise, Coroner of Boulder County.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 1-6-1893 Charged With Murder The Preliminary Examination of Wm. C. Watt is in Progress The preliminary examination of Wm. C. Watt, charged with the murder of James Kearney of Lyons was commenced before Judge Adams yesterday afternoon in the district court room. Three witnesses, Wm. Ryan, Dr. Gammon and Ferdinand Billings were examined and the hearing will continue today. Thirteen witnesses have been subpoenaed and the case will probably occupy all the day. From the testimony presented yesterday it appears that the participants of the fatal poker game were all pretty much under the influence of liquor. The game had been in progress all night, Watt entering at 4 o'clock in the morning. Watt commenced by ordering drinks for the crowd and the testimony of one witness was to the effect that the drinks came so thick and fast at one time, that it interfered with the game. He testified that Kearney had seven hot whiskies in less than 20 minutes. Both men were crazed with drink and had to get a man to deal the cards for them as they were unable. The testimony as to the shooting was the same as that brought out at the coroners inquest.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 1-7-1893 The Watt Case The Preliminary Hearing Adjourned Until Wednesday The preliminary hearing in the Kearney murder case was continued yesterday and occupied the whole day. The testimony brought out no new points in the case. The testimony was chiefly interesting from the view it gave of life in a Lyons saloon. Many of the witnesses, to judge from their stories, spend about all of their time there, day and night. When they become tired and weary by reason of carrying a large load of liquor, they are given free use of the floor as a bed and sleep it off. Some of the witnesses in the case were so resting and heard nothing of the pistol shots or the fracas, though it attracted the attention of half the town. While these witnesses admitted having been drinking, yet they claimed they were not drunk. Several attempts were made by the attorneys to learn what constituted a Lyons drunk, but without very marked success. According to one witness, seven hot whiskies, taken in rapid succession on top of divers and sundry beers administered every few minutes during the night, will make a man tolerably drunk, even in Lyons. The state rested last evening and the defense offered no testimony in rebuttal. The hearing was continued until next Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, when arguments will be made by the attorneys regarding the question of admitting Mr. Watt to bail. It has been proved by the state that Kearney was shot by Watts and that he died from the effects of the bullet. It has been shown that both men were intoxicated and that they had always been friends up to the time of the shooting. The cause of the quarrel was a trifling affair and but for the fact that the men were drunk, the shooting would not have occurred. The attorneys for the prisoner, Watts, will make an attempt to procure bail for him. One of the remarkable points in the trial yesterday was the fact that almost without exception, each witness testified that all in the saloon with the exception of Bartender Johns, Ferd Billings and whichever witness that happened to be on the stand, were drunk, in fact the controlling spirit of the whole affair seems to have been fermented extract of rye and a decoction of malt and barley.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 2-1-1893 Watt's Release If He Secures Bondsmen, He Will Be Given His Liberty The case of William C. Watt, on his application for bail, on appeal from Justice Adams, was heard by Judge Downer of the district court yesterday. Watt has been examined and bound over for the murder of a man named Kearney at Lyons. He was represented by his attorneys, Hon. Junius Berkley and ex-Judge George Rogers, who secured an order admitting Watt to bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars. It is not thought he will experience much difficulty in securing the requisite amount of bail.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 5-2-1893 On Trial For His Life William C. Watt's Case in the District Court Yesterday No Jury Selected Yet Watt Murder Case It Was Called Yesterday and a Jury Not Yet Obtained There was a large attendance at the district court room yesterday morning, when Judge Downer ordered counsel to proceed in the case against William C. Watt for the murder of John Kearney at Lyons. From the big stone camps there were dozens of citizens, some of them witnesses on both sides and others, either friends of the prisoner or the deceased Kearney. District Attorney Garrigues was assisted in examining jurors by Assistant District Attorney Chas. M. Campbell. Hon. Lafe Pence, H. M. Minor, of Longmont and Thomas E. Davidson, of Denver, occupied the seats reserved for counsel for the defense. The prisoner's face and form are familiar to the citizens of Boulder, rendered so by his preliminary examination here and long period of confinement in the county jail. He was cool, serious, earnest and watched every movement of his counsel and scrutinized closely the face of every juryman called into the box. Before noon his wife arrived in the court room, an intelligent looking, self-possessed lady, who sat beside the prisoner all the remaining hours of the day. About 4 p.m., the panel of 24 having been exhausted by peremptory challenges for cause, excuses for illness, etc., the court announced that it would require until tomorrow morning for the new venire to be subpoenaed from the body of the county and as counsel for the defense would, probably, desire to inform themselves with reference to the personnel of the new venire, he would adjourn court until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mr. Pence thanked the court for his consideration and the recess was taken. The twelve men in the box at the time of adjournment, though they may not be accepted as jurymen to try the issues involved between the people of the state of Colorado and William C. Watt, were placed in the custody of the sheriff and will be kept in a body by him until the incoming of court this morning and until individually they may be excused from service as jurors in this case. There is every promise that this case will be closely contested as the friends of the dead Kearney are exceedingly bitter towards the defendant, while the latter has many friends who are equally resolved that he shall not be convicted unless the evidence is overwhelming. Neither the people's attorneys nor the able counsel for the defense will be found napping until the fate of William C. Watt shall have been determined. One of the questions propounded by Mr. Pence to all jurymen yesterday was as to whether the fact that Kearney was killed as a result of a quarrel arising over a game of poker and that the defendant was a drinking man and was drunk at the time of the shooting, would constitute any prejudice against him. The answers were universally in the negative. Frequently it is said, men are so bitter in their hostility towards saloons and drinking and games of chance that they permit these prejudices to overcome the evidence.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 5-3-1893 People's Witnesses A Jury in the Watt Murder Case Secured Yesterday The Witnesses Testify Only Three Out of 24 Have Thus far Been Called to the Stand Mr. Campbell Explains to the Jury in a Very Lucid Way What Constitutes a Jack Pot The Witnesses Called (To) Testify That All Hands Had Been Drinking Beer and Hot Whisky The Trial Begun A Jury Obtained in the Watt Case and Testimony is Begun After exhausting forty odd challenges the attorneys in the Watt murder case agreed that they were satisfied with the jury a little after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and the following good men and true were sworn by Clerk Wilder: Edward Berryman, Elias Eby, G. W. Blaine, Henry Meyring, Z. Bradfield, C. L. Wood, W. M. Findlay, W. H. Barber, R. A. Duncan, J. F. Hedman, W. B. Rea and Timothy O'Connor. Mr. O'Connor sent word to the painters who are decorating his house to go and paint the affair in accordance with instructions. Bob Duncan talked a moment with his lawyer brother, Guy, and the twelve men reached for their hip pockets, each put a chew of tobacco in the right place and they settled down for the business that bids fair to involve several days' time. Assistant District Attorney Charles M. Campbell arose and made the opening statement for the People. He proposed to prove that during the month of December last, there was a game of poker at Lyons and among the players at that game were W. C. Watt and John Kearney. Everything proceeded harmoniously until a jack pot came up and then the difficulty began. The attorney didn't know what a jack pot was, but proceeded to explain it to the jury so lucidly that the twelve men saw the large ears on the jack, as they went waving to and fro, and would have heard its bray were it not for the simmering of the big black pot that Charley described to them. However, there was a jack pot and after all had contributed, it was opened by either Watt or Kearney, when one of them proposed to divide it, which was agreed to and done. Another jack pot arose in the course of the playing, and Kearney reached into his pocket and fished out $5, which he threw upon the table. Then there were some words, when Watt rose, stepped back a little, there was a shot and Kearney fell to the floor after a second shot had struck him from the same pistol, which was in the hand of Wm. C. Watt. Mr. Garrigues called Dr. G. W. Gammon, who testified that he was a practicing physician at Lyons and that about 8 o'clock the morning of December 21, he heard two shots, about 4 or five seconds apart, and saw John Kearney in the saloon, after he had been conducted to a chair. Kearney complained of severe pains in his leg. He was taken to the office of (the) witness, who ascertained that he had been shot in the left groin. The witness explained to the jury, by using his own person as illustration, just how the man was hit. Kearney died December 28, peritonitis having set in. Some questions as to the peritoneum and pelvic cavity were asked, the counsel proving by this witness that the wound was one liable to be fatal in most cases. Thomas Whalen, a stone mason, was next called. Had been an intimate friend of Kearney for 10 years. He weighed about 135 pounds and was two-thirds the size of Watt. His nickname was Spider. Why so called witness could not say. It was pay day the day before the shooting and witness went to Lyons from Murphy's camp and started to go home late at night. Kearney was with him and they had been drinking beer at Bucherdee's place. They stopped at Charley Bradford's saloon to find William Baxter, John Kearney's partner. He was in a game of poker. Finally Kearney took a hand and after a couple of hours witness went to sleep in a chair behind the stove. Once he became awake and was treated by someone, taking a hot whiskey. He dozed off again and when he awoke the next time, he saw Kearney lying against a chair and Watt and Johns, the bar keeper, scuffling. Watt had a pistol in his hand and Johns took it from him. Witness asked Kearney if he was hurt and he said: Yes, Tom, he got me once. Witness identified Kearney's shirt, pants and other wearing apparel, which will be utilized by the state's attorneys, in their argument when the Marc Antony act, with Here the cruel Brutus stabbed, will be in order. William Baxter testified that he was Kearney's partner at the quarries and stated substantially what was testified to by Whalen.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 5-5-1893 Was W. C. Watt Insane Dr. Stradley and Dr. Allen Believe That He Was The Arguments Begun Hon. Charles M. Campbell and H. M. Minor Hold Forth Yesterday Afternoon and Hon. Lafe Pence and Mr. Garrigues Will Close the Case This Morning No Effort Made to Establish Any Other Theory of the Crime Than That Watt, Crazed by Liquor and Previous Illness, Was Unconscious of What He Was Doing The Arguments Begun Mr. Pence and the District Attorney Will Close This Morning The fate of William C. Watt will not much longer hang in the balance. The beginning of the end came when Hon. Chas. M. Campbell rose yesterday afternoon to make his argument for the people. Judge Downer had instructed the jury, the evidence was all in. No more could be introduced and no other word could be uttered in favor of the slayer of John Kearney, save by the attorneys whom his friends had secured to speak for him. The killing had been admitted, no justification had been set up; no evidence attempting to contribute to the theory of self defense had been advanced, and yet the counsel for the prisoner had closed their case. It was not difficult to perceive upon what theory the defense relies for the acquittal or amelioration of the penalty which Watt's hasty and insane act invites. As outlined by Mr. Pence in his opening statement, sole reliance would be placed upon the previous good character of the accused for peace and quiet and the fact that at the time of committing the terrible act, he was crazed by liquor, terrorized by reason of former punishment and in a state bordering on delirium tremens, if not total insanity. To the best of his ability Mr. Pence made good his promise to the jury. Dr. D. N. Stradley, and Dr. H. W. Allen, both reputable and experienced physicians, told the jury under oath, that at the time Bill Watt fired the fatal shot, his mind had been dethroned of its reason and, therefore, he was not a responsible, free agent. Watt was, himself, put upon the stand and swore that he knew nothing of the shooting until when awakened by Bill Thorne long after, he was apprised of what he had done. The defendant was no exception to the rule. He made a poor witness for his own side of the case. He admitted that he was sane all along and up to a short time before the shooting and all too particularly detailed the minutia of some business affairs, when District Attorney Garrigues undertook to refresh his memory. The defendant swore that he never carried a revolver until a few days before the shooting, when he had gone into the gambling business at Lafayette and bought a revolver to protect his money. The shooting was all like a dream to him when Thorne came to his house and, after waking, told him about it. He had often been so drunk that he had no recollection of what he had done during the spree, when later apprised of his transactions. He admitted to the district attorney, however, that, drunk or sober, his recollections of business matters was good. Dr. Stradley swore that he had told Watt that he must stop drinking or he would have delirium tremens. To Mr. Pence's hypothetical question, reciting the details of the heavy spree on the night of December 20 and the morning of December 21st, the long continued and heavy libations, the long sitting at the poker table and the former illness, Dr. Stradley answered that the defendant was not responsible for his acts. Dr. Allen went farther and gave it as his belief that no drunken man is responsible. Dr. Stradley told of a conversation he had with Watt in which he told him that unless he quit drinking, he would commit suicide, kill his wife or a friend or do some desperate act. This was stricken out, but got before the jury and in his argument, Mr. Campbell, forgetting that it had been stricken, used it and now Mr. Pence can, also, refer to it. The people have reopened the matter. An indictment against Watt for malicious mischief in breaking out May's windows at Lyons, and a fine of $25 was introduced by the People to rebut the testimony as to the good reputation of the prisoner by Major Small, E. E. Norton, C. F. Miller of Longmont, W. A. Welch, John R. Durbin of Lafayette and the others who testified both Wednesday evening and yesterday morning. The arguments by Messrs. Campbell for the People and H. M. Minor for the defense, were logical, well put and thorough going statements of the testimony as viewed by the respective counsel. Probably Mr. Campbell never appeared to be better advantage than when presenting his side of the case. His argument was well put together, consecutive, cohesive and exceedingly fair to the defendant. Mr. Minor has never been heard in Boulder in a similar case, but what is true of Mr. Campbell's effort may be applied to Mr. Minor's hurried running over of the evidence and appeal for Christian charity for the defendant. Mr. Campbell held up the eye for an eye doctrine of the scriptures, while Mr. Minor came back with the more Christ-like doctrine that all are subject to err and not one but needs the mantle of charity to hide his sins at some stage of his career. Great interest centered in the trial all day yesterday and, after the seats had been filled, the court ordered that all others be kept out. There will be a large attendance this morning, when Mr. Pence begins for the defense, to be followed by Mr. Garrigues, who will close the case for all sides. Mr. Pence has announced that he will not speak long, but, probably, no limit will be put upon the time and the arguments will not be ended until afternoon. The reputation of Congressman Pence as an orator before the bar will be maintained on this occasion, for, doubtless, he feels the full solemnity of the occasion and the keen, naked fact that a human life and the life of a client at that, depends upon the impression he shall be able to make upon this jury this morning. Hurriedly called into the case, and with a line of defense to be agreed upon only after coming to Boulder, it must be conceded that with the exceedingly slight material at hand, the defense has made a showing that is highly creditable to the counsel. The case throughout has been characterized by the best good temper and largest courtesy on the part of both the People's attorneys and the counsel for the defense.
Watt, William C.
Boulder Daily Camera 4-21-1896 Bill Watt Wants Out The Denver Times has the following concerning a man sent over the road from this county: Governor McIntire this morning appointed Drs. Frank T. Little and Thos. H. Craven as a commission to examine into the mental condition of William Watt, an inmate of Canon City penitentiary, who has shown signs of insanity. Watt is serving a term for murder and his term would expire June 10, 1898. Watt killed a man in a game of cards at Lyons. He was defended by Hon. Lafe Pence and escaped with a reasonably light dose of justice, although there were some who believed he shot in self-defense. The man he killed was a stone quarryman and members of that craft believed Watt guilty of willful murder and prosecuted the case vigorously.
Watt, William C.
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1896 Insane Criminal's Death Pueblo, Colo., May 27 William Watt, who was sent up from Boulder county and sentenced to seven years and eight months in the penitentiary for murder committed in 1891, died at the insane asylum here to-day. Watt became violently insane and was removed to the insane asylum in April. Denver Evening Post 5-28-1896 William Watts Dead He Was Sentenced to Ten Years for Murder Pueblo, May 28 William Watts died in the insane asylum here last night. He was sent to the penitentiary from Boulder for murder. His sentence was seven years. Recently he lost his mind and was transferred to the insane asylum. His sentence would have expired in June, 1898. His remains will be shipped to Boulder for burial. Boulder, May 28 William Watts was convicted of murder in the second degree at Boulder in the spring of 1893. The crime was committed at Lyons, this county, and occurred over a game of cards. Watts at that time was connected with a saloon and was much given to gambling. He had friends, however, who succeeded in giving him sufficient funds to employ Lafe Pence to defend him.
Watt, William C.
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1896 Insane Criminal's Death Pueblo, Colo., May 27 William Watt, who was sent up from Boulder county and sentenced to seven years and eight months in the penitentiary for murder committed in 1891, died at the insane asylum here to-day. Watt became violently insane and was removed to the insane asylum in April.
Watt, William C.
Denver Evening Post 5-28-1896 State Happenings Pueblo, May 28 William Watts, an insane patient, died at the asylum to-day.
Watt, William C.
Denver Evening Post 5-28-1896 William Watts Dead He Was Sentenced to Ten Years for Murder Pueblo, May 28 William Watts died in the insane asylum here last night. He was sent to the penitentiary from Boulder for murder. His sentence was seven years. Recently he lost his mind and was transferred to the insane asylum. His sentence would have expired in June, 1898. His remains will be shipped to Boulder for burial. Boulder, May 28 William Watts was convicted of murder in the second degree at Boulder in the spring of 1893. The crime was committed at Lyons, this county, and occurred over a game of cards. Watts at that time was connected with a saloon and was much given to gambling. He had friends, however, who succeeded in giving him sufficient funds to employ Lafe Pence to defend him.
Watt, William C.
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1896 Insane Criminal's Death Pueblo, Colo., May 27 William Watt, who was sent up from Boulder county and sentenced to seven years and eight months in the penitentiary for murder committed in 1891, died at the insane asylum here to-day. Watt became violently insane and was removed to the insane asylum in April. Denver Evening Post 5-28-1896 William Watts Dead He Was Sentenced to Ten Years for Murder Pueblo, May 28 William Watts died in the insane asylum here last night. He was sent to the penitentiary from Boulder for murder. His sentence was seven years. Recently he lost his mind and was transferred to the insane asylum. His sentence would have expired in June, 1898. His remains will be shipped to Boulder for burial. Boulder, May 28 William Watts was convicted of murder in the second degree at Boulder in the spring of 1893. The crime was committed at Lyons, this county, and occurred over a game of cards. Watts at that time was connected with a saloon and was much given to gambling. He had friends, however, who succeeded in giving him sufficient funds to employ Lafe Pence to defend him.
Watt, William C.
Rocky Mountain News 4-21-1896 Evidence of Insanity William Watt, in the state penitentiary on a ten years' sentence for murder, has given evidences of insanity. Drs. Frank Carrier, William T. Little and Thomas H. Craven have been appointed to examine him.
Watt, William C.
Rocky Mountain News 4-21-1896 Evidence of Insanity William Watt, in the state penitentiary on a ten years' sentence for murder, has given evidences of insanity. Drs. Frank Carrier, William T. Little and Thomas H. Craven have been appointed to examine him.
Watt, William C.
Rocky Mountain News 5-5-1893 Arguments Being Heard The Watt Case Will Go to the Jury To-Day Boulder, Colo., May 4 Dr. Bradley of Longmont and Dr. H. W. Allen of Boulder testified in the Watt murder trial to-day. They are both of the opinion that at the time of the commission of the crime William C. Watt was insane and hence not responsible for the act. Here the defense rested. The jury was instructed, and Assistant District Attorney Campbell argued for the state, followed by H. M. Minor for the defense. In the morning Hon. Lafe Pence will speak in behalf of the accused and District Attorney Garriguen will close.
Watters, Sara Miss
admitted 5-26-1897 from Trinidad, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wattle, Amos B.
patient race W gender M age 81 marital status S place of birth America source 1910 census
Wattles, Amos B.
San Juan Prospector 4-18-1908 Personal Mention Amos B. Wattles, an old gentleman who has for some time been a county charge, was adjudged insane Monday before County Judge Bassett, and Sheriff August J. Weiss took him to Pueblo the same evening.
Watts, Harrison
patient gender M race Neg age 87 marital status Wd birthplace Virginia source 1930 census
Watts, Marshal
patient race W gender M age 39 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation laborer source 1910 census
Watts, Marshall
patient race W gender M month born July year born 1869 age 30 marital status S place of birth Pennsylvania occupation laborer source : 1900 census
Watts, Marshall
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Waugh, Richard E.
patient gender M race W age 52 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Waw, Grace
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Way, Ethel
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Way, Ethel D.
patient race: W sex: F age: 36 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Waycott, Charles
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status S birthplace England source 1930 census
Waycott, Charles
patient race: W sex: M age: 53 marital:S place of birth: England occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Waycott, Charles
Colorado Springs Gazette 5-6-1906 - Has Been Insane For Forty Years - Charles Waycott Adjudged Mentally Unbalanced and Will Be Taken to Pueblo Sanatorium - After being mentally unbalanced for 40 years, Charles Waycott of Colorado City was taken into the county court yesterday and adjudged insane. He will be taken to Dr. Work's sanatorium at Pueblo for treatment. Waycott is 43 years old and a brother of Ernest Waycott, proprietor of the Waycott Opera house at Colorado City. Evidence introduced in court yesterday by County Physician H. L. Richardson showed that Waycott has been insane since boyhood. During this time he has been cared for at his brother's home in Colorado City and on a ranch in the western part of the state. His family had hoped during all these years that he might regain his mind, but physicians now advise that he be taken to a sanatorium. Mr. Waycott is well known in Colorado City.
Wearin, Cora
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wearin, Edna
patient gender F race W age 28 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wearin, Edna
patient race: W sex: F age: 18 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Weasing, Henry
patient race: W sex: M age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: paint shop worker source: 1920 census
Weatherby, Cora Miss
admitted 12-7-1898 from Colorado Springs, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Weaver, Cara
patient race: W sex: F age: 43 marital: M place of birth: Indiananone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Weaver, Clemente
patient race W gender M age 38 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
Weaver, J. S.
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status D birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Webb, Minerva
patient race W gender F age 34 marital status S place of birth Kansas occupation seamstress source 1910 census
Webb, Minerva
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Webb, Minerva
patient race: W sex: F age: 44 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Webb, Thomas
patient gender M race W age 37 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Webb, Thomas
patient race: W sex: M age: 28 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Webber, Dick
patient gender M race W age 24 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Webber, Martin
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 6-19-1912 Believes He Is To Be Robbed Aged sheep herder, picked up by the Sheriff, frightens folks by his peculiar actions is insane. (From Wednesday's Daily.) The original carrier of junk was arrested Tuesday by Sheriff Carlton and Deputy Halligan in the person of Martin Webber. In addition to the collection of junk which Martin carries with him he also has a collection of ideas which make him a fit subject for a lunacy inquest. Webber is an old sheep herder, having seen much service in Wyoming. He is close to 75 years old. How long he has been on the road on his way here is not known, but he has been spending much of his time on the ranches northwest of the city. Complaint was made that he was acting queerly and was frightening women and children. He would stop at a ranch and ask for a place to stay and frequently remained without consent or invitation. He made his bed in barns and cellars and during the night would prowl about the buildings. One of his peculiar acts was that of attempting to keep out of sight. When he observed anyone coming he would circle around a tree or bush and try to avoid being seen. When he tried this on the sheriff he failed to take the deputy sheriff into consideration. Webber had walked into Fort Collins to get some bread and rolls and was on his way back. He was taken into custody and placed in jail. Webber claims that there are robbers in the county jail and that one of them has the ability to walk through the iron doors. He says this man has a dirty heart and would shoot or cut his throat to the bone. He says someone put a piece of chloroform in his bed during the last __ nights and tried to overcome him, rob him. He has other hallucinations which lead to the belief that he is unsound mind.
Weber, Lena
patient gender F race W age 61 marital status Wd birthplace Prussia source 1930 census
Weber, Lena
patient race: W sex: F age: 50 marital:W place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Weber, Lena
admitted 1-21-1915 from Lake, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Weber, Lena A.
Carbonate Chronicle 1-25-1915 Found Insane Mrs. Lena A. Weber, of 309 East Fourth street, was adjudged insane by an examining board in the county court, and was taken to the Woodcroft sanatorium. Those on the jury board were Andrew Clooney, foreman, James Murray, James Olds, Sol. Hecht, John C. Burkhardt and Leo Kelley.
Weber, Mary
patient gender F race W age 53 marital status Wd birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Weber, William N.
patient gender M race W age 62 marital status M birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Webster, Mary H.
patient gender F race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Webster, Mary H.
patient race: W sex: F age: 29 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Webster, Virginia
Leadville Herald Democrat 5-30-1893 County Commissioners Dr. Crook stated before the board that the husband of Mrs. Virginia Webster, of Oro, who was tried last night for insanity in Judge Nash's court, is without means to care for her.
Webster, Virginia
Leadville Herald Democrat 5-31-1893 Adjudged Insane Mrs. Virginia Webster, of Oro, has been adjudged insane in the county court, and is awaiting to be taken to the Pueblo insane asylum. Sheriff Kennedy telegraphed the management of the asylum Tuesday to learn whether she could be received there, and while negotiations are pending she will be kept at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Patrick Girrue, 318 Poplar street. The husband of Mrs. Girrue is a miner, and is unable to pay her expenses at the asylum. Mrs. Webster, according to the testimony of Dr. Crook, has manifested symptoms of insanity for the past eighteen months. Recently she has grown very bad, and would wander away from home whenever the opportunity presented itself. About three months ago Officer Blanchard found her wandering around the lower part of the city at midnight. The night was bitter cold, and she had no other protection from the frost and wind than a light dress. She has no children and is about 30 years of age.
Webster, Virginia
Leadville Herald Democrat 6-1-1893 About the City Mrs. Virginia Weber, of Oro, has been taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo by Sheriff Kennedy.
Webster, Virginia
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-23-1893 Criminal Calendar Record of Convictions in Courts of Record for the Year Following is a list of the convictions in the local courts, and the measure of that punishment accorded to each: May 31 - Virginia Webster, insane; (sent to) Pueblo
Weckesser, Mary
patient gender F race W age 75 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Weckesser, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 64 marital:M place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wedell, Clarence
Wedell, Clarence, age 58y, born Russia, watchmaker, died 12-31-1910. shipped 12-31-1910 to Denver, paid by C.W. Seitz of Denver, Dr. A.P. Busey, cost $50.00
Weedin, R. E. (Mrs.)
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Weeks, Harry
Greeley Tribune 5-30-1895 - Harry Weeks, a stranger, went to the Oasis Friday night and commenced to act in an irrational manner. Night Clerk Robe is of that hostelry thinking the man was under the influence of liquor and not wishing to be bothered with him notified Nightwatchman Randolph who took charge of Weeks but in conversation with him thought that he was not under the influence of liquor. Weeks said he wished a place to sleep and had money to pay his bill and Mr. Randolph took him to the Exchange where he was given a bed. About an hour after this, J. E. Graham, proprietor of the Exchange, hunted up Randolph telling him his guest was creating such a disturbance in the hotel that he wished him taken away and the nightwatch took Weeks to the city lockup where he was confined for the night. The next morning Deputy Marshal Camp waited on Weeks and seeing from his condition that he was demented handed him over to the care of the sheriff. Sheriff Clark then communicated with parties at Wallace, and Lincoln, Neb., Weeks saying he had been living there and received answer that Weeks was known there; also that he had been an occupant of the state asylum at Lincoln, Neb., and was discharged from there last November. A brother of Weeks residing at North Danville, Vt., was communicated with and he wired back asking that Weeks be sent to him. Weeks was given a trial Tuesday morning in County court on the question of his sanity, Frank H. Green acting as guardian ad litem. After a careful examination the poor man was declared insane by the jury and he will be sent to Pueblo. In his examination he declared most emphatically that he did not wish to be sent to Vermont; and he told Dave Camp that he preferred going to the asylum at Pueblo, to returning to Holyoke in the eastern part of Colorado, where he said he had stopped over a few days on his way west. These objections seemed to convince some of the jury that he was not as insane as he might be.
Weeks, Harry
Rocky Mountain News 5-26-1895 An Insane Man Arrested Greeley, Colo., May 25 Night Watchman George Randolph was called to the Exchange hotel last night to arrest a man thought to be insane. He was taken charge of this morning by Sheriff Clark. He gives his name as Harry Weeks and claims to have been an inmate of the Lincoln, Neb., asylum. Sheriff Clark immediately telegraphed to John Heath, of that institution, and received word this evening that he had been released from the asylum last November. Word has also been received that his home is in Wallace, Neb., and Sheriff Clark has notified his friends in that city, but up to this hour he has received no reply. Weeks is a man of probably 45 years of age.
Weeks, Mattie K.
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Wehrle, Albert C.
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Connecticut source 1930 census
Wehrle, Albert C.
patient race: W sex: M age: 29 marital:S place of birth: Massachusetts occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Weimer, Carl
patient gender M race W age 30 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Weimer, G. F.
patient gender M race W age 66 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Weinstein, Bessie
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status M birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Weisberg, Harry
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status Un birthplace Russia source 1930 census
Weisberg, Harry
patient race: W sex: M age: 37 marital:S place of birth: Russia occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Weisberg, Harry
Colorado Springs Gazette 6-18-1922 Springs Man Slays Inmate of Asylum; Chucked Shoe at Him, Reason for Deed Harry Weisberg, Committed from County Court in 1911, Beats Hernandez to Death with Iron Bar in Kitchen Harry Weisberg, committed to the state insane asylum from the El Paso county court in 1911, yesterday beat another inmate, Coleto Hernandez, to death with an iron bar. Neither man was considered violently insane, tho Weisberg caused officers considerable trouble when he was held in the county jail here. The men were employed in the hospital kitchen. When Hernandez entered yesterday morning he was attacked by Weisberg, armed with an iron bar. Hernandez's skull was fractured and he died in a few minutes. His assailant gave as his reason that Hernandez had thrown a shoe at him in the dormitory the preceding night. Weisberg was adjudged insane in the county court here by doctors, September 18, 1911, when Judge John E. Little was on the bench. Three days later he was taken to the Pueblo asylum, where he has since been in custody, being considered incurably insane. When committed, Weisberg was 29 years of age and a carpenter by profession. He had come here a year and eight months before from Pittsburg. His birthplace was Balskowitz, Russia.
Weisberg, Harry
Colorado Springs Gazette 9-13-1911 - Wanted to be Jailed; Sanity is Questioned - H. Weisenberger is held at the city jail and will be turned over to the county today, for an investigation in regard to his sanity. Dr. E. L. McKinnie, county physician, has ordered the investigation. Yesterday morning, Weisenberger approached the railing at the police station and began mumbling to Sergeant J. W. Henderson. At first, Sergeant Henderson could not understand what the man was saying. "You'll have to speak a little bit louder," the sergeant requested. "I say," the man shouted, "I want to know if you want to lock me up. If you don't, I'm going to join the Hebrews." It was not until some minutes later that Sergeant Henderson realized that there was evidently something wrong with the man. He decided to keep him from the Hebrews, and so lodged him in jail.
Weiser, Emile
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Weitfall, A. C.
patient, white, female, age 26, single, New York, 1885 census
Welch, Anice L.
patient gender F race W age 28 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Welch, Frank
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Welch, John J
admitted 12-17-1900 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Welch, Lillian
patient race: W sex: F age: 30 marital:M place of birth: Minnesota occupation: none source: 1920 census
Weldon, Mary
patient gender F race W age 52 marital status Wd birthplace Utah source 1930 census
Welker, Sara J Mrs
admitted 3-18-1898 from Denver Co. - Woodcroft Hospital
Welker, Sarah J.
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 54 marital status W place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Welker, Sarah J.
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: Sarah J. Wilker
Welker, Sarah J.
Denver Evening Post 7-28-1897 Insane Feeble Mrs. Welker, Whose Son Committed Suicide Mrs. Welker, who says she is the mother of Forrest O. Welker, a dentist doing business in the Tritch block, is under the care of the matron at police headquarters. Mrs. Welker was brought to the police station last night by the matron of the Working Girls' home, to whom she had applied for shelter. She is about 55 years of age, very feeble, and is supposed to be slightly demented. She says her son would no longer provide for her and turned her out in the world to make her own living. It is said that she has grown insane on account of a son's killing himself some years ago. She has been to the county hospital several times and will be sent there this afternoon.
Welker, Sarah J.
Rocky Mountain News 8-10-1897 Court Calendar County Court Judge Steele: 4784 People vs. Sarah J. Walker, Found insane.
Welker, Sarah J.
Rocky Mountain News 8-10-1897 Eccentricity of Old Age A jury in the County court yesterday afternoon found Sarah J. Welker insane. Mrs. Welker is an eccentric woman. 64 years of age, and from the testimony it was learned that she refused to eat her meals with her son's family, but preferred to dine either before or afterwards. Her son, Dr. Welker, was the first witness called against her.
Wellden, Lizzie
patient race W gender F age 28 marital status S place of birth Utah occupation domestic source 1910 census
Wells, Ada J.
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status M birthplace Minnesota source 1930 census
Wells, Arthur
Wells, Arthur age 75y 10m 18d, died 8-31-1900 buried Roselawn 9-4-1900, no family information, Dr. Hubert Work, cost $202.00
Wells, Charles
Rocky Mountain News 3-8-1883 The Courts Probate Court People vs. Charles Wells; lunacy. Trial by jury; verdict, insane; J. H. Richards, guardian ad litem, allowed $10.
Wells, Frank G.
patient race W gender M month born July year born 1844 age 55 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation clerk source : 1900 census
Wells, Frank G.
patient race W gender M age 64 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation clerk source 1910 census
Wells, Frank G.
patient race: W sex: M age: 74 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wells, Frank G.
Rocky Mountain News 11-15-1894 Smuggled a Letter Piteous Appeal from a Patient in the Insane Asylum Frank G. Wells, who says he has been an inmate of the state insane asylum at Pueblo for more than seven years, has applied to Governor Waite for release. How the letter got out of the asylum is a mystery. It is supposed that it reached the mails through the agency of a friendly guard. The letter is well written and was turned over to the state board of pardons yesterday. It reads as follows: Pueblo, Colo., Nov. 12, 1894. Hon. Governor D. H. Waite: Dear Sir After being incarcerated in the asylum for over seven years and most four months against my own free will and accord I would most humbly petition you for my release. Yours respectfully, Frank G. Wells.
Wells, Frank G.
Rocky Mountain News 11-16-1894 Suffers From Paranoia Nature of the Affliction of Frank G. Wells of Chicago Pueblo, Colo., Nov. 15 Frank G. Wells, who applied for release, was committed to the state insane asylum from Arapahoe county in August, 1887, and is now nearly 50 years of age. Dr. P. R. Thombs, director of the asylum, said tonight in speaking of Wells' case, the knowledge of whose endeavors to secure a release was then first brought to him: His malady is known as paranoia that is, he suffers from a fixed and systematic delusion. When he came here he labored under the impression that a Miss McNeil of Chicago and her family were endeavoring to force him to marry her. He thought that spies were constantly watching him; that they were secreted in the ceiling and in all manner of places. So strong a hold had this delusion on his mind that he would crawl under his bed to hide and to write letters. After a time the personality of his supposed persecutors changed and likewise the details of his delusion. He declared that a daughter of L. Z. Leiter wished to become his wife and spoke of her intention to send him presents. More recently his fancied inamorata has been a daughter of Jay Gould, and he asked my permission to receive a span of horses as a present from her. He has never been under close confinement and for a long time posted and received the mail at the postoffice. At one time he wrote the postmaster general that there was a large sum of money for him in the office here, which he could not get, and so plausible was his letter that the department took the matter up. Three months ago he ran away after quietly getting all his clothes together, and went to Santa Fe. One night four weeks ago he voluntarily returned, ragged and dirty, and said he had walked all the way back, as it was a case of come back or starve. His trouble is inherited, I believe, and in such cases there is no hope. He has a sister who has been in an Illinois asylum for twenty years and she is also a paranoiac.
Wells, Frank G.
Denver Evening Post 6-24-1895 Spurns an Heiress Wells Flees to Escape a Wealthy Marriage A girl with a million and persistent in her desire to marry him is making life a burden to Frank G. Wells, according to his story to the county commissioners this morning. Wells is alleged to be a lunatic, but as the following paragraph will show he sometimes uses reasoning worthy of a Socrates. He says that because he refused to marry this girl and take her million dollars, people at once thought he was crazy and sent him to a lunatic asylum. He does not blame people for this because anyone would naturally suppose that a man must be mad to refuse such a snap, but now that he has gotten out he wants these people to leave him alone. The father and mother of the girl according to the story are still following him. In an endeavor to escape them he walked from Chicago to St. Louis, from there to Omaha and then stole a rode on a freight train to Denver arriving here last night. Wells' fair amorita assumes like Don Quixote's Dulcena, many different appearances. Two years ago when he was confined at Pueblo, it was Jay Gould's daughter that sought his hand; now his ideal is no more or less than a fair maid with the commonplace name of Kelly. He wanted the commissioners to restore his citizenship, which he imagines that he dropped somewhere between here and Chicago, buy him a new suit of clothes and give him a job. He says that he had property but now he does not know whether the courts have it or a woman.
Wells, Frank G.
Rocky Mountain News 6-25-1895 Home For Incorrigibles At the meeting of the county commissioners yesterday
Frank G. Wells, who was an inmate of the Pueblo insane asylum about two years ago, but was discharged as cured, appeared before the board and made a rambling harangue asking for assistance to recover some property of which he stated he had been defrauded. He also claimed that he was being pursued by some damsel with matrimonial intentions. He was sent to Secretary Thomson of the humane society, and to him he stated that he wanted work. Upon being told that he could be supplied with work on a ranch he went away and did not return.
Wells, Ida
patient gender F race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Wells, Ida
patient race: W sex: F age: 39 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wells, Kate C.
patient race W gender F age 51 marital status M place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Wells, Kate C.
patient gender F race W age 71 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wells, Kate C.
patient race: W sex: F age: 61 marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wells, Mr.
Denver Evening Post 1-22-1899 Feeling Shows in Asylum Inquiry Pueblo, Colo., Jan. 21 The investigation by the joint legislative committee into the affairs of the state insane asylum is now beginning to warm up
Former Asylum Druggist Tells of Lax Methods At 9:10 o'clock, J. W. Mesters, a former druggist, was placed on the stand. He testified he had entered the employ of the asylum March 15, 1892, and afterwards served as attendant and then as druggist. He had seen some books of rules prepared for the guidance of attendants and other employes, but had never been given one by Dr. Thombs. While attendant, he took the men of his ward out for very little exercise. He saw the laxity of other attendants and followed their example. When he left his ward, he departed without asking anybody's permission. Sometimes he would ask another attendant to look after it for him while he was absent. One day he went on an excursion, securing permission from Dr. Thombs over the telephone. No complaint was ever made of his efficiency as an attendant
I was not regarded as a good druggist or even a good nurse, said the witness. The witness gave harmless medicines, such as salts, pills and cathartics. He never made an examination of a patient; even failed to feel the pulse or take the temperature. He kept a list of names of the men in his ward on writing paper. The witness said he left the asylum for the sake of harmony, Supervisor Burrows of the men's department, and Dr. Furman, the druggist, having taken his duties from him. Witness never fully understood what his duties were, as he was never informed. He recollected an inmate by the name of Wells, who was allowed unusual liberties, (who) gave medicine to some of the patients. When he was druggist witness had never heard any complaint against him.
Wells, Samuel
patient gender M race W age 59 marital status S birthplace Kentucky source 1930 census
Wells, Samuel
patient race: W sex: M age: 42 marital: S place of birth: Kentuckynone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Wells, Tom
patient gender M race W age 67 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Welsh, John
patient race W gender M age 30 marital status S place of birth Russia occupation coalminer source 1910 census
Welson, Swan
patient race W gender M month born February year born 1858 age 42 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Wendel, Elizabeth E
admitted 3-30-1899 from Leadville, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wendelin, George
Rocky Mountain News 9-6-1893 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre 3330. The People vs. George Windilin; lunacy; Mr. ----- Wadleigh appointed guardian ad litem; trial set September 7 at 9 a.m.
Wendelin, George
Rocky Mountain News 9-8-1893 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre 3327. People vs. Wendelin; same order (trial; verdict of lunacy; judgment on verdict; guardian ad litem allowed $5).
Wendelin, George
Rocky Mountain News 9-8-1893 Wheels in Their Heads Insane Persons Committed to the Asylum at Pueblo Alfred B. Clark was questioned closely on the witness stand during his trial for lunacy yesterday morning. He appeared fully as sensible as most people until the subjects of electricity and religion were touched upon. Then he became wild. John Gunnison, who was once accused of having killed Martin, who was found dead in Sheridan park, was possessed with constant fear that some one is trying to murder him. Albert Anderson's bump of locality was injured. He believed himself in the immediate vicinity of the Columbian exposition, which he is constantly trying to find. George Wendelin has been insane since receiving a blow in the head some time ago. They were all adjudged insane. J. H. Gabriel, secretary of the state board of charities and corrections, was understood to have stated yesterday that the law required his presence at lunacy trials. An unofficial examination of the statute revealed no such clause.
Wendelin, George
Rocky Mountain News 9-7-1893 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre The following cases are set for to-day: 3330. People vs. Wendelin; lunacy.
Wendell, Bessie
patient race W gender F month born unk year born unk age 34 marital status M place of birth unk occupation unk source Works hospital 1900 census
Wendell, Elizabeth
patient race W gender F age 43 marital status M place of birth . source 1910 census
Wendland, Daniel
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Wendland, Daniel
patient race: W sex: M age: 36 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: stable helper source: 1920 census
Wenger, Harold A.
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Wennberg, Evelyn
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wentling, Isabella
admitted 7-22-1900 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wentworth, Caroline
patient race: W sex: F age: 67 marital:M place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wentworth, Harry
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status M birthplace Maine source 1930 census
Wenyon, W.N.
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 3-31-1886 Insane Escape Recaptured. W. N. Wenyon, the man who escaped from the Pueblo insane asylum some days since, was arrested here this afternoon and taken to the hospital. He had been out on the prairie during the recent storm. His feet were badly frozen, and it will perhaps be necessary to amputate them. He imagined he had been elected president of the United States, and was armed with a commission to fill the executive chair of the nation. He intended to inaugurate numerous reforms, one of which was to abolish the use of gold in any form throughout the government and substitute silver in its stead.
Werdeman, William A.
patient, researcher contributed
Werman, Henry E.
Rocky Mountain News 1-18-1895 Local Brevities Henry E. Werman, recently released from the insane asylum, was recommitted yesterday.
Werner, Conley C.
patient, researcher contributed
Werner, Fred W.
patient, researcher contributed
Werner, Henry
patient, researcher contributed
Werner, John H.
patient, researcher contributed
Werner, Lulu
patient, researcher contributed
Werntz, William G.
patient, researcher contributed
Werrin, Cora
patient race: W sex: F age: 52 marital:M place of birth: Washington D. C. occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wertheimer, Jacob
Routt County Sentinel 4-26-1907 The Pilot has it that Wertheimer, the crazy prospector, died in the insane asylum. This is not a fact. We have it from his own relatives that Mr. Wertheimer is very much alive, but still confined in the asylum at Pueblo, with the chances that he will soon be released.
Wertheimer, Jacob
Routt County Sentinel 4-26-1907 Ed Brobeck and others who were familiar with the rifle carried by Jacob Wertheimer at the time he made the rich discovery visited the Sentinel office on Tuesday and say that the gun found by J. R. Smith is the lost article and that it might also lead to the discovery of the lost mine.
Wertheimer, Jake
Yampa Leader 9-17-1909 Among Our Neighbors Jake Wertheimer of Steamboat, who was released from the insane asylum a short time ago, became violent again last week and has been taken back to Pueblo by Sheriff Campbell. Wertheimer was one of the discoverers of the famous Little Jenny mine at Leadville, and was at one time quite wealthy.
Wertheimer, Laura
patient, researcher contributed
Wertheimer, Laura
patient, female, white, age 62, single, born Ohio, 1930 Woodcroft census
Wertheimer, Sigmond
Steamboat Pilot 2-10-1915 Died At Insane Asylum Sigmond, always known in Steamboat as Jacob, Wertheimer, sent to the asylum from this place about five years ago, died Monday at that institution. His wife lives in Washington state. As she was not able to come to Colorado at this time she wired her brother, Vint (?) Booco, who left this morning for Pueblo to superintend the burial. Mr. Wertheimer was a prospector and created considerable excitement here at one time by finding ore on the range east of town which ran into fabulous figures. He never was able to return to the place, although he and others searched for it diligently for months.
Wertheimer, Sigmond
Steamboat Pilot 1-5-1916 Chronological Record For Year A Review of the Happenings in Steamboat Springs and Routt County, Showing the Wonderful Progress Made During the Past Twelve Months and Chronicling the Important Events of Interest to Readers of the Pilot Week Ending February 10, 1915 Died: Sigmond Wertheimer, formerly of Steamboat at the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Wertheimer, Sigmund
patient race W gender M age 55 marital status M place of birth Germany occupation miner source 1910 census
Wertheimer, Sigmund
Routt County Sentinel 1-27-1922 Sixteen Years Ago Reminiscences recalled by the early files of The Routt County Sentinel. The news items that appeared for the corresponding week 16 years ago will be republished in this column each week. January 26, 1906 Sigmund Wertheimer, an eccentric prospector from this section who was under treatment at the county hospital in Leadville, had become insane and was to be taken to the Pueblo asylum.
Wertheimer, Sigmund
died 2-8-1915 buried Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.
Werthern, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 8-14-1891 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Mary Werthern; lunacy; order for her release.
Werthiem, Lulu
Rocky Mountain News 4-29-1891 The Courts County Court Judge Miller Lunacy, Lulu Werthiem Trial verdict, lunacy; guardian allowed $15.
Werthiem, Lulu
Rocky Mountain News 4-29-1891 Courts and Clients Out of Her Mind Mrs. Lulu Werthiem was convicted of lunacy before Judge Miller yesterday. Her special hobby being Christian science, claiming that castor oil was the only remedy for all the ills of life. Her husband is taking all pains possible for her comfort, and will see her comfortably located in the asylum.
Wesler, Edward C.
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Wesler, Leslie L.
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Wesler, Louis
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Wesley, Howard
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Wesley, Joseph B.
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Wesley, Maude S.
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Wesley, William
patient gender M race Neg age 39 marital status D birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Wesolowiski, Francesca
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Wess, Geo A.
patient race W gender M age 54 marital status S birthplace Indiana occupation farmer source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Wessel, Emma A.
patient, researcher contributed
Wessing, Henry
patient gender M race W age 50 marital status Un birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Wessler, Walter
patient gender M race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wesson, Harry
Colorado Springs Gazette 5-9-1918 Harry Wesson and Rose Day, who were recently adjudged insane by the county board of examiners, were taken to the asylum in Pueblo yesterday by Undersheriff John Cast.
Wesson, Harry
Colorado Springs Gazette 5-8-1918 - Three insanity cases were heard by the county insanity board in the county court yesterday. They were Martha Vancil, Rose Day and Harry Weston.
West Minors
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West, Bertha
patient race: W sex: F age: 38 marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
West, F. M.
Wet Mountain Tribune 4-27-1907 F. M. West, who has been for two years or more an inmate of the insane asylum at Pueblo, died there the first of the week.
West, Francis M
admitted 12-25-1900 from Westcliffe, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
West, Frank P.
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West, Fred
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status S birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
West, Genefra F.
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West, George F.
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West, George T.
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West, J. Benjamin
Steamboat Pilot 1-2-1918 Local Chronology of 1917 Review of Happenings in Northwestern Colorado During Eventful Year Week Ending October 3, 1917 Benjamin West of Craig (was) insane.
West, J. Benjamin
Routt County Sentinel 10-5-1917 Among Our Neighbors J. B. West of Craig was last week adjudged insane and sent to the state hospital at Pueblo.
West, J. Benjamin
Routt County Republican 10-12-1917 Here and There J. B. West, an old timer of Moffat county, and a highly respected citizen was adjudged mentally unbalanced by a lunacy commission presided over by Judge Morning last week. He was sent to Pueblo and it is thot will regain his former mental condition soon.
West, Leslie
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West, Lula A.
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West, Marcellus
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West, Margaret Townsend
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West, Mary C.
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West, Merrill W.
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West, Minerva May
admitted 4-19-1900 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
West, Virginia Star
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West, Walter G.
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West, Willard
Rocky Mountain News 3-4-1892 Court Calendar County Commissioners No Money for Charities Society Hospital Improvements The county commissioners met yesterday; all the members were present
The case of Willard West, adjudged insane and sent to an asylum at Jacksonville, Ill., was brought up. The brother announced that he would deliver the unfortunate man to the county authorities on the 10th instant, when he will be provided for at Pueblo at the expense of the county. Mrs. Williams, now an inmate of the same institution, will be brought back at the same time.
West, Willard
Rocky Mountain News 3-4-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Willard West; order on George A. McFarland, Illinois state lunatic asylum, to deliver said West to the order of the superintendent of Colorado asylum.
West, Willard
Rocky Mountain News 3-4-1892 Briefs Willard West, now confined in the asylum at Jacksonville, Ill., will be brought back to Pueblo and retained in the institution there. Yesterday an order to that effect was made in the county court.
West, Willard
Rocky Mountain News 10-26-1890 West's Mind A jury of six heard the testimony in the case of Willard West and were given an hour or so to inquire into his sanity. He lives in Highlands and has a wife and two children and quite a little property. It is rather an odd case. The patient seemed as sane as anybody. He had not been told that he was to be tried for lunacy, so the first thing he did when he got into the court was to rise and say: May it please the court, I have not had any notice of the fact that I was to be tried for insanity and I think it hardly fair to jerk a man up this way without word or warning and discuss the matter of his further treatment, whether he is to be given back his liberty, or made to suffer incarceration as if he had been guilty of some wrong. At this juncture Mr. Thomas of Highlands put in an appearance for Mr. West and the case was tried. All that was proved was that West had made some very foolish speculations in real estate. It would hardly seem possible, however, that this would justify a verdict of insanity, especially by a Denver jury. If every man who made a bad investment in real estate were a lunatic, we wouldn't have enough sane men to form the juries wherewith to try them. Nevertheless the jury found him insane, and he will go to Pueblo.
West, William T.
Montezuma Journal 4-10-1903 William T. West was adjudged insane in the County court last Wednesday and ordered sent to the Insane Asylum at Pueblo.
Westcott, Charles A.
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Westerberg, John T.
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Western, Clarence P.
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Westfall, Freda
Rocky Mountain News 11-25-1893 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre: Freda Westfall, lunatic; Frank Carstarphen has leave to withdraw claim of John H. Fieldwisch for the purpose of amending same.
Westfall, Guss (Georgiann)
patient, researcher contributed
Westfall, William Mrs.
Rocky Mountain News 2-15-1893 Restored to Reason A petition was yesterday presented to the county court by P. R. Thoms, superintendent of the state insane asylum at Pueblo, asking that two patients, Joe Blonquist and Annie E. Westall, be declared sane. It will be necessary for a jury to determine this matter. Hearing in each case was set for February 18.
Westfall, William Mrs.
Rocky Mountain News 2-23-1893 Deranged by Grief Abetted by a Fortune Teller, Mrs. Westall Becomes Insane A remarkable instance of recovered sanity was brought to light in the county court the other day. Annie E. Westall, who had been sent to the Pueblo asylum eight years ago, having been pronounced hopelessly insane, was brought before Judge Le Fevre and found to be entirely recovered. Nearly eight years ago she was the happy wife of an engineer on the South Park road, and the mother of two bright boys and a sweet little girl scarcely two years old. The winter of 1885 was a very severe one, and blockades were frequent on the mountain roads. The husband was caught in one of these storms and prevented from reaching home. His wife, devoted as she was to him, was driven to distraction at his non-appearance, and on the second day began to act in a very strange manner. At this unlucky moment a gypsy fortune teller happened along, and, taking in the situation, made the gruesome prophecy that the wife would never see her husband again. That night the neighbors were aroused by loud cries, and upon going to the house found the woman a raving maniac. Her hallucinations were wild and varied. She accused the master mechanic and other employes of the road with making away with her husband, and would linger about the shops for hours at a time. She was a devout Catholic, and, imagining one of her neighbors to be the Virgin Mary, insisted on sprinkling her with water. She was frequently seen on the steps of St. Elizabeth's church, and would stay there until one of the priests came out and persuaded her to go home. After a month she was pronounced hopelessly insane and sent to the Pueblo asylum, from which no one ever expected to see her emerge alive and in her right mind. For some months past she had shown symptoms of returning reason, and at last Dr. Thoms, superintendent of the asylum, pronounced her cured. She was brought to Denver, adjudged sane, and yesterday left for Iowa, where she expects to find some of her relatives.
Westfall, William Mrs.
Fairplay Flume 2-26-1885 Mrs. William Westfall, of Denver, has been adjudged insane. A gypsy fortune teller told her that her husband, a railway engineer, would be killed in a railway accident that day, and the matter so preyed upon her mind that she lost her reason.
Westfall, William Mrs.
Aspen Weekly Times 2-21-1885 A Gypsy's Freak Denver, Feb. 18. Three weeks ago a gypsy fortune teller called upon Mrs. Wm. Westfall, of this city, and begged to come into her house and get something to eat. After staying a while she told Mrs. Westfall that her husband was an engineer on the D. and S. P. R. R. and that she must send for him to come home immediately, as the locomotive he was on would soon upset. Mrs. Westfall became greatly excited over it and sent for her husband who came in on the next train, and found his wife bereft of her reason. She will be sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Westfall, William Mrs.
Aspen Daily Times 2-19-1885 A Gypsy's Freak Denver, Feb 18 Three weeks ago a gypsy fortune teller called upon Mrs. Wm. Westfall, of this city, and begged to come into her house and something to eat. After staying a while she told Mrs. Westfall that her husband was an engineer on the D. and S.P.R.R. and that she must send for him to come home immediately, as the locomotive he was on would soon upset. Mrs. Westfall became greatly excited over it and sent for her husband who came in on the next train, and found his wife bereft of her reason. She will be sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Westkemp Minors
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Westlake, John
patient gender M race W age 80 marital status Wd birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Weston Minors
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Weston, Amelia
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Weston, Beulah M.
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Weston, Homer
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Weston, Julius
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Weston, Lillie
patient race: B sex: F age: 47 marital:S place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Weston, Maggie E.
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Weston, Nina
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Weston, Seymour A.
Littleton Independent 3-25-1921 Seymour A. Weston, who was adjudged insane some time ago, was taken to Pueblo on the 15th.
Weston, Thomas W.
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Weston, William Ira a/k/a Ira Weston
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Westover, Beatrice
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Westover, Blanche
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Westover, Edward
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Westphal, Frida E.
Rocky Mountain News 12-19-1891 Briefs Mrs. H. E. Luthe yesterday made her first appearance in court as an attorney, having been assigned as guardian ad litem of Frida E. Westphal, who was adjudged insane and committed to the state asylum. Mrs. Luthe made a very favorable impression in her initial professional effort.
Weth, Joseph
patient gender M race W age 69 marital status Wd birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Wetherald, Minnie E.
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Wetty, Hazel
patient gender F race W age 25 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Weyand, Agusta
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Weyand, Donald Hugh
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Weyand, Henry
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Weyand, Henry L.
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Weyand, Margaret R.
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Whalen, Joseph
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Whalen, Mary M.
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Whaley, John H.
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Whaley, Matilda P.
patient gender F race W age 68 marital status M birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Whaley, Matilda P.
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:M place of birth: Tennessee occupation: sewing source: 1920 census
Whaley, Matilda P.
Rocky Mountain News 6-20-1895 County Court Taken In Complaint Made by an Insane Woman Wants Him Declared a Lunatic When the Officer Appears at the House with the Warrant for the Husband He Is Found to Be a Hard-Working and Industrious Engineer and in Full Possession of All His Faculties The Woman Has Temporary Aberrations, but Is Not Violent at Any Time Has Been in an Insane Asylum The county court was taken in yesterday afternoon in the most plausible manner and a lunacy warrant issued on the complaint of one who herself should be in the insane asylum. About 3 o'clock a quite neatly attired woman presented herself to Clerk Frank Steele of Chairman Wells, county commissioners office, and complained of her husband, saying he was of unsound mind and she wanted him sent to the insane asylum. She gave her name as Mrs. Matilda P. Whaley, wife of James L. Whaley, an engineer in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad company. She was referred to the county court, and to Clerk Dunlevy she told the same story, saying that her life was in danger and that her husband had attempted to smother one of their children the day before. She also said that he had become violent and she thought he ought to be sent to the asylum; that Dr. Eskridge had advised it some time ago. The manner of the woman was somewhat nervous and excited, but supposing it to be due to concern for her husband, Mr. Dunlevy promptly made out the complaint and Mrs. Whaley swore to it. It was placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Ebersole, who immediately started on a hunt after Whaley. The residence of the family is at 150 Alaska street, and Ebersole, with the county ambulance, at once went to the house. There he found Whaley, but he was far from insane and a few words of explanation made it plain that the shoe was on the other foot and that it was Mrs. Whaley who was mentally out of gear. Whaley has been in the employ of the company for several years past and is a hard working man, well thought of by all his associates and employers. The family has two children, little girls, 13 and 11 years of age. Mr. Whaley stated that his wife had been affected with aberrations at times for the past four years, but that she was never violent. She has also been in the asylum for treatment for her malady and has been under the treatment of Dr. Eskridge, who on several occasions has advised that she be confined in the asylum until a cure is effected. It is probable that this course will be taken now after her unsuccessful attempt to send her husband to the crazy house. It might be advisable hereafter before the county court issues lunacy warrants, for an investigation to be made by the proper officers upon the merits of the applications.
Whaley, Matilda P.
Denver Evening Post 6-20-1895 County Court Hoodwinked An Insane Woman Takes the Officers in Nicely A neatly dressed woman giving the name of Mrs. Whaley appeared in the County court yesterday afternoon and obtained a warrant for her husband's detention as a lunatic. Officers found Mr. Whaley at his home, 150 Alaska street, and soon discovered that there had been a mistake. Mr. Whaley was perfectly sane, but the wife who made the complaint had been of unsound mind for four years and had been an inmate of an asylum. It is likely that she will again be confined after yesterday's escapade.
Whaley, Matilda P.
Rocky Mountain News 6-21-1895 Wife's Insane Freak Mrs. Whaley Took Papers and Money from Her Home Mrs. Matilda P. Whaley, the insane woman who swore out a lunacy warrant against her husband, James L. Whaley, the Santa Fe engineer, in the county court on Wednesday, has played havoc with the private papers and cash of her husband. Before leaving her home on her errand to the court house she ransacked the house, securing some valuable papers, including stock in a building and loan association and $50 in cash. Mrs. Whaley said when she was at the court house that she had consulted an attorney, and Mr. Whaley thinks it possible she left the papers with him, as he can get no trace of them. He has decided to send his wife to a private hospital to be treated for her malady.
Whaley, Matilda P.
Denver Evening Post 11-13-1895 Her Sanity Questioned Matilda Whaley will be tried in the county court to-morrow to determine her sanity. Mrs. Whaley is the woman who recently caused her husband's arrest, alleging him to be insane. At his trial it was found that Mrs. Whaley herself was the only member of the family who had illusions.
Whaley, Matilda P.
Denver Evening Post 11-15-1895 Three Insane Persons Three cases of insanity were disposed of at a session of the county court last evening
Matilda Whaley believes that she is president of the United States. Her case is not thought to be incurable.
Whaley, Matilda P.
Denver Evening Post 1-17-1896 To Care For His Wife James Whaley filed a petition in the county court to-day asking that he be allowed to care for his wife, Matilde P. Whaley, at his home until she could be taken to the Pueblo insane asylum. Mrs. Whaley is now confined in the county hospital. The petition was granted.
Whaley, Matilda P.
Rocky Mountain News 1-18-1896 Civil Briefs James Whaley was granted a petition in the county court allowing him to provide for his wife, Matilde P. Whaley, at his home until she can be taken to the Pueblo insane asylum. She is now at the county hospital.
Whaley, Matilda P.
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
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. At the top of the stairs stood Mrs. Waley, the woman who put her husband in the hospital as insane, when in truth he was not. It seems that the woman herself was at the time and is crazy. Yesterday she recited how she had been falsely adjudged insane and of the horrors of the sensation.
Whaley, Mrs.
Rocky Mountain News 5-7-1893 Suburban News South Denver Relatives of Mrs. Whaley, have applied for her admission to the county hospital for treatment for insanity. It is reported that the woman has made several attempts at self-destruction.
Whalin, Elizabeth
patient race: W sex: F age: 79 marital:M place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wheatley, David
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Wheatley, Florence L.
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Wheatley, Jamie G.
patient gender M race W age 27 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wheatley, Lawrence
Aspen Tribune 10-29-1897 In Judge Rogers' court yesterday Lawrence Wheatley was adjudged insane and ordered committed to an asylum. The state asylum at Pueblo is now overcrowded and the unfortunate man will be confined in the county jail until arrangements can be made for his reception in some private asylum.
Wheatley, Terrance E.
Wheatley, Terrance E. age 49y, born Ireland, single, miner, died 1/8/1910 buried Roselawn 1-10-1910, no family information, Dr. A.P. Busey McCarthy Funeral Home
Wheatley, Terrence
admitted 10-29-1897 from Aspen, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wheatly, Terence
30 October 1897 Aspen Weekly Times (Aspen, Pitken County) COUNTY COURT The lunacy case against Terence Wheatley came up for trial before Judge Rogers yesterday forenoon. The patient was very violent and his case is a particularly sad one, as he is considered incurable. He has been weak minded since an attack of scarlet fever in childhood although he has always been a hard worker and has always been able to support himself, until this attack. He was adjudged insane and committed to the county jail to await instructions from the asylum authorities at Pueblo. Some arrangements will have to be made with a private asylum for the incarceration as the state institution is overcrowded. In the meantime he will be kept in jail here.
Wheatly, Terry
Denver Evening Post 5-15-1899 Insane Miner Supposed to Belong to Leadville Lake City, Colo., May 15 Terry Wheatly, a miner, has been adjudged insane in the county court of this county, on the complaint of the county physician, Dr. Cummings. But little is known of him here. He has worked at several of the mines of the county, but was never able to hold a position for any length of time, on account of his eccentricities. He is supposed to have come to Lake City from Leadville, but no trace of his relatives, if he has any, can be found.
Wheaton, Emiline
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Whedbee, Sarah Isabelle
Sarah Isabelle Whedbee, died 11-21-1903, buried in Ft. Collins
Whedbee, Sarah Isabelle
admitted 10-27-1899 from Fort Collins, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wheelan, George Cornelius, Jr.
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Wheeler, Carolina
patient gender F race W age 63 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Wheeler, Caroline
Range Ledger May 24, 1919 Mrs. Caroline Wheeler of the Arriba neighborhood was taken to the state insane asylum at Pueblo Thursday afternoon by Sheriff Williams, accompanied by Mrs. Williams, as attendant. Mrs. Wheeler was examined before the lunacy board, Drs. L. J. Parker and F. W. Lloyd, in the county court Thursday morning. She is a former inmate of the state asylum, but had been discharged from that institution as cured.
Wheeler, Caroline
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Wheeler, Edgar L.
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Wheeler, Ella
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status D birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Wheeler, Fred S.
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wheeler, Gary
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Wheeler, H.E.
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Wheeler, Innetta
patient gender F race W age 37 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wheeler, Innetta
patient race: W sex: F age: 26 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Wheeler, Jack W.
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Wheeler, Jr., Jack Wallace
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Wheeler, Madge
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Wheeler, Margaret E.
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Wheeler, Marjorie L.
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Wheeler, Mary
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Wheeler, Mrs.
New Castle Nonpareil 11-9-1899 Mrs. Wheeler of Cardiff was this week declared insane. Her husband was mixed up in a recent scandal at Glenwood Springs, and this unfortunate brooded over her wrongs until she lost her reason.
Wheeler, Mrs. L. B.
Denver Evening Post 11-10-1899 Desertion Caused Insanity Glenwood Springs, Colo., Nov. 10 Insanity in its most distressing form came before the county court in a case filed today. Mrs. Wheeler of Cardiff was several years ago deserted by her husband, leaving her with four children between 3 and 12 years. Her mind has gradually become demented for the last four years or more, and she has finally become so wild and unsafe as to necessitate her being sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo, where she will be taken tonight by Sheriff Adams. The children will be sent to their relatives in Pennsylvania at the expense of the county.
Wheeler, Mrs. L.B.
November 11 1899 Glenwood Post (Glenwood Springs, Garfield County) ADJUDGE INSANE In the county court inst Thursday Mrs. L.B. Wheeler of Cardiff was adjudged insane and the court ordered the unfortunate woman conveyed to the asylum at Pueblo. This is indeed a sad case and one that appeals strongly to human sympathy. Mrs Wheeler was deserted by her husband who last summer was convicted of adultery with a Mrs. Lipson, for which offense he served a term in the county jail. Mrs Wheeler and her four little children have had to depend largely upon the charity of kind neighbors for the necessities of life, the lady brooding over her trouble until her mind gave way entirely. The children will probably be sent to their grandparents in Pennsylvania, who have agreed to provide for them.
Wheeler, Nathaniel C
admitted 8-26-1900 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wheeler, O.W.
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Wheeler, Raymond H.
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Wheeler, Sarah T.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1860 age 40 marital status M place of birth Canada occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Wheeler, Sarah T.
patient race W gender F age 49 marital status M place of birth Canada source 1910 census
Wheeler, Theresa
patient gender F race W age 70 marital status M birthplace Canada - Eng source 1930 census
Wheeler, Theresa
patient race: W sex: F age: 59 marital:M place of birth: Canada occupation: kitchen help source: 1920 census
Wheeler, Thomas H.
patient, researcher contributed
Wheeley, Joe E.
patient gender M race Jp age 48 marital status S birthplace Korea source 1930 census
Wheelock, Herbert
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Whelan, Anna B.
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Whelan, Esther
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Whelan, John Joseph
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Whelan, Kate
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Whelan, Margaret C.
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Whelan, Thomas
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Wheldon, Newton
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Wheldon, William M.
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Whennen, Gertrude
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Whetzel, Lydia
patient gender F race W age 33 marital status M birthplace South Dakota source 1930 census
While, Roy C.
patient gender M race W age 42 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Whisman, William D.
patient gender M race W age 68 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-14-1897 Saloon Keeper Loses His Reason A. S. Whitaker, Partner of Henry Vidal, Becomes Violent and Is Locked Up Al S. Whitaker, a partner of Henry Vidal, who died last Friday, has become insane and is confined in the county jail. He and Vidal were proprietors of the Equitable building bar. Whitaker was noticed in his saloon by an officer at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon acting in a strange manner. He was behind the bar talking loudly to himself. Every now and then he would break a glass by throwing it on the floor. Word was sent to police headquarters, and the patrol wagon went to the scene. Whitaker refused to allow any of the officers to go into the saloon by Sergeant McNeil and Officer McLain. These he admitted, and told them he wanted them to get him a sleeping car berth to Fort Collins at once. He passed over to each of them as a present $3 and a box of cigars. He made considerable resistance when the officers gave back the gifts and suggested that he go to jail. He was finally induced to mount the patrol wagon. The onlooking crowd seemed to irritate him. Reaching in his pocket he drew forth a handful of small change, and with a yell hurled it at the crowd. There was considerable scrambling among the persons who appreciated the gift, but the police succeeded in collecting all the money and placed it to the insane man's credit at the jail. Whitaker was first noticed to be out of his mind last Saturday. A couple of male nurses were appointed to watch him continually at his room, 530 Eighteenth street. He yesterday made his escape from them and went to the saloon. Whitaker is not known to be married. He came to Denver last August from Fort Collins, and since that time has been in business with Vidal up to the time of his death. Dr. Eskridge has been attending him, and he will likely be removed to the county hospital to-day.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Denver Evening Post 6-14-1897 Is Whitaker Insane? The Equitable Saloon Keeper Placed Under Restraint Al S. Whitaker, one of the proprietors of the saloon in the Equitable building, was locked up in the city jail last night, charged with being insane. Whitaker was in the saloon yesterday throwing glasses in all directions and talking loudly to some imaginary enemy. It is said his mind has been failing for some time. He was a partner of Henry Vidal, who died last week.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Denver Evening Post 6-15-1897 Misfortune A sad catastrophe seems to have befallen the cigar and liquor firm of Vidal & Whitaker, in the Equitable building, and this morning the house was in the county court on probate proceedings. On Friday last Henri Vidal, a half partner in the firm, died, and this morning Judge Steele of the county court, was informed that the other partner, A. S. Whitaker, had gone insane yesterday, being so violent that he has had to be taken care of by the proper county authorities. Accordingly, Lester C. Tracy applied for papers of administration this morning on the ground of the facts stated and the further ground that Whitaker had no heirs residing in this state. It was stated that Whitaker's interest in the firm amounted to $1,500 (?). Tracey was appointed administrator for Whitaker in $23,000 bonds and Henry C. Vidal administrator for Vidal's interests in $25,000 bonds.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-16-1897 The Misfortunes of a Firm Administrator for One Member's Estate, a Conservator for Another The firm of Vidal & Whitaker seems to have been marked for misfortune. Henry Vidal, who owned a half interest in the firm, died a few days since, and yesterday morning Henry C. Vidal was appointed administrator of his estate, and his bond in the sum of $25,000 approved. At the same time the court was informed that A. S. Whitaker, the other partner, had become violently insane, and Lester C. Tracy was appointed temporary conservator of his property, and George C. Preston guardian ad litem. The inquisition into the lunacy of Whitaker was set for June 30. Tracy gave $23,000 bonds.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-19-1897 Four Persons Found Insane
The hearing of the charges of insanity preferred against Al. S. Whitaker was continued until June 23.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-24-1897 Al S. Whitaker Sent to Pueblo He Occupied Attention of Court by Boasting of Wealth and Prospects Al S. Whitaker, the saloon man, was conveyed yesterday from the hospital to the county court room, and an inquisition into his lunacy was conducted. He wore leather muffs, as physicians say that he would tear his clothes to shreds had he the liberty of his hands. He talked in (a) loud, husky voice, telling of his wealth and his future plans. A jury found him insane and he will be taken to Pueblo.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Denver Evening Post 6-24-1897 Sent to Pueblo A. S. Whitaker was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 6-25-1897 Insane Man Taken East Al Whitaker, the saloonkeeper who was recently adjudged insane by the district court, was last night removed from the county hospital and taken to the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Ill., by his brother.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 7-9-1897 Conservator For Whittaker Samuel S. Lendholm was appointed conservator of the estate of Albert S. Whittaker yesterday under $20,000 bonds. The appointment was made at the request of the insane man's heirs.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 7-13-1897 Died in the Insane Asylum Whitaker Follows His Partner After Two Months' Suffering A. S. Whitaker died at Oaklawn private retreat for the insane, at Jacksonville, Ill., Sunday from exhaustion from acute mania. Deceased came to Denver a little over a year ago, and on August 10 entered into a co-partnership with Henri Vidal, with whom he conducted the Equitable building bar. A few months ago Mr. Vidal died, and the next day Al Whitaker fell a prey to insanity. Only two or three weeks ago he was declared mentally unsound by a jury in the County court, and ordered committed by Judge Steele. During the inquisition into his lunacy Whitaker was rendered harmless by the use of muffs, but he maintained a loud, incoherent muttering about his wealth. He struggled violently while being taken to the county hospital, and the fact was conceded that his was a hopeless case. The bar was closed yesterday noon out of respect to the death. Deceased leaves no widow or mother, but a few of his relatives live in Illinois, hence the remains will probably be interred in that state.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Denver Evening Post 7-13-1897 Al S. Whittaker Dead Ending of a Sad Chapter in the Life of Henri Vidal's Partner Al S. Whittaker, who became violently insane here several weeks ago, died yesterday in an asylum at Jacksonville, Ill. Whittaker and Henri Vidal conducted a saloon in the Equitable building about a year. Vidal became ill and died and the next day Whittaker became insane and had to be locked up to keep him from doing violence to himself and friends. He leaves no family.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 7-15-1897 Inquiring For An Estate Illinois and Indiana People Think They Are Heirs to Colorado Property The death of Al S. Whittaker, which occurred in the insane asylum at Jacksonville, Ill., this week, has aroused a number of inquiries concerning what will be done with his estate. He is said to own at least $50,000 worth of property in Denver and Fort Collins. Whittaker had no relatives in Denver, but inquiries have commenced to arrive from persons in the East who call themselves Whittaker, and it seems that the deceased had several brothers and sisters with whom he had very little to do. Whittaker was born in Robinson, Ill., and left home at the age of 9 years, just after the death of his father. He went to Ohio, where he lived with an uncle for a time, and afterwards returned to Illinois and lived until 1882 at Fairview. He followed the life of a farmer boy and never went near any of his family, except an uncle and a half-brother, named D. R. Whittaker. He came to Colorado and located at Fort Collins in 1882. He was engaged as a bartender for a man named Mead and accumulated considerable property. About a year ago he purchased an interest in the Equitable bar for $20,000, which he owned at the time of death. Whittaker confided his history to very few people. To B. P. Cornwall he told a few incidents of his boyhood; how he left home and had not seen several of his brothers and sisters since. He spoke of his eldest sister at times and remarked that should he die, his estate should go to her. He left no will, however, and the sister in question has no more than a verbal right to his property. D. R. Whittaker, it is said, has already commenced to lay a strong claim to the whole estate. It is rumored that there is a long list of creditors, who will have to be taken care of, however, before any disposition of the property is made. A telegram reached the court house Tuesday from Will H. Whittaker of Michigan City, Ind., in which it inquired the age of A. S. Whittaker, and whether or not he had any relatives in Denver. Another telegram from the same person asked for a photograph and description of Whittaker. The sender said he had a brother of that name, who left the East twenty years ago and had never been heard from. The Whittaker who sent the telegrams is probably a brother of A. S. Whittaker, who died, as he is said to have seen none of his brothers since leaving the region of Illinois. Cornwall, who has been in business several times with Whittaker, says that he went East several times and visited Illinois, but that he never went near his relatives. He had heard Whittaker say he had no use for them. Whittaker's friends in this city have as yet heard none of the particulars of his death at Jacksonville, and it is not yet known how the estate will be settled. All of the affairs are in the hands of S. S. Lendholm of the Schlitz Brewing company of this city.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Denver Evening Post 7-19-1897 Late City Briefs Lester C. Tracy today made his report to Judge Steele of the accounts of the estate of Albert S. Whitaker, who has gone insane. He is temporary custodian.
Whitaker, Albert S.
Rocky Mountain News 7-24-1897 Administrator Appointed Judge Steele appointed S. S. Lendholm yesterday administrator of the estate of Albert S. Whitaker, who recently died a lunatic. Bonds in the sum of $20,000 are to be furnished.
Whitaker, Harry Ward
Whitaker, Harry Ward age 7y 6m, son of W.H. Whitaker of 326 W 6th, died 6-14-1899, shipped to Greenfield, Missouri via CR & P railroad, Dr. Work & King, cost $40.00
Whitbey, Artemus
Rocky Mountain News 2-27-1883 Artemus Whitbey, the insane man captured by Officer Walsh, was removed to the county hospital yesterday by order of Chairman Shreve.
White, Addie E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 69 marital:W place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
White, B. W.
patient race W gender M age 21 marital status S place of birth . source 1910 census
White, Bee W.
patient race: W sex: M age: 31 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
White, Bee Washington
Denver Evening Post 12-10-1898 Unfortunate Boy B. Washington White Will Not Be Punished for Thefts, but Will Be Cared For B. Washington White, a lad of 12 years of age and a hopeless thief, is pronounced by Dr. Pershing an imbecile. The doctor was requested to investigate his mental faculties several days ago by Secretary Whitehead of the Colorado Humane society. The society will make application to the county court for the boy in some way, at the expense of the county, yet at the start it is unknown what disposal can be made of him, since the state possesses no asylum for the feeble minded. It is thought possible to commit him to Dr. Work's private asylum at Pueblo if the court should hold that it cannot send him to the state insane asylum. The boy is not strictly insane, but he lives under a mania for stealing. The police have arrested him anywhere from 50 to 100 times for larceny of articles that were no use whatever to him. He stole a buggy whip on one occasion and then went to the police station and informed the officers by saying: See here, what a pretty whip I have taken. Knowing his mania other boys of evil disposition have frequently asked him to purloin articles for them. They secured the booty and then let the little unfortunate take the consequences. When last arrested for a petty theft the police called attention of Secretary Whitehead to the matter, for it seemed useless to continue arresting him for these crimes, and concluded some other course should be adopted. His mania for taking whatever he sees is said to precede and follow attacks of epilepsy, which are slight. Sometimes these nervous disturbances are so slight in fact that the lad commits his crimes while the spells are on him. His father is George H. White, who is in the county jail charged with assault to murder. His mother is Mrs. Belle White, who supports the younger members of a family of eight children by taking in washing. These children range from 1 year up to 23, the latter being a young man who is self-supporting. One of the younger children is badly afflicted with epilepsy. The doctor's diagnosis of the young prisoner's physique and mental condition leads to the conclusion that he is a degenerate, and an example of criminal inheritance.
White, Bee Washington
Denver Evening Post 12-17-1898 The Swiper Bee Washington White Will Have a Free Ride to Pueblo Why, I just swipe them, that's all, answered Bee Washington White, small boy, in the county court, where he was being tried for commitment as insane. He was asked if he ever took things from stores. What do you steal them for? Steal them? I don't steal. I just swipe them. Do you know what you are here for? For swipin' a pair of gloves. Where did you get them? Down on Larimer street. Where have you been lately? Oh, I've been in jail, but I got my mother and father in the paper; that was what I wanted; I got them in the paper. Can you read? No answer. Do you know your a b c's? Can you read? Do you go to school? I used to go to school, but I've been swipin' things lately. At all times little Bee Washington White's mind reverts to swipin' things. There was a resentful tone in his voice when he was asked about stealing, but swipin' with him is different. Captain Martyn of the police department testified that he had known the boy for several years and that the lad stole all sorts of things useless to him, simply for the pleasure of taking them. Dr. Pershing said that in his opinion the subject was deficient both mentally and physically. A typical imbecile. The boy's father was brought from the county jail to testify in the case. He said that there was no doubt his son was mentally unbalanced. In the meantime Bee Washington White, who swipes things, sat in the back part of the court room swinging his feet from a high chair in evident satisfaction. He looked at one shoe and then the other and smiled broadly. See my new shoes and clothes, he said, ain't they all right? Mrs. Lavelle got them for me. Ain't I a peach? I am going to get a free ride to Pueblo and when I am cured they'll bring me back without charging a cent; I am awful glad because I am going to get a free ride. The unfortunate boy's free ride was assured to him for Judge Steele decided that the best place for him was Dr. Work's home for the feeble minded at Pueblo, and an order of court was entered that he be sent there. Bee Washington White's persistent but cheerful and frank manner of swipin' things has made him well known to the police for a long time. He has never been taken seriously, however, as his irresponsibility has been plain to all. In some ways the boy is bright and he is possessed of a voice of almost phenomenal clearness and compass. It is one of his delights to sing and the higher the note he is able to reach, the better pleased he seems. The doctors say that possibly time will work an improvement in his condition.
White, Bee Washington
admitted 12-18-1898 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
White, Charles
Colorado Springs Gazette 5-31-1911 - Demented Boy Picked Up - Charles White, a 13-year-old demented boy, was picked up by the police in this city yesterday afternoon. Inquiry revealed the fact that he had escaped from Dr. Work's sanatorium in Pueblo. He was barefooted and in a pitiable condition when found. He was returned to the Pueblo institution last night.
White, Charles A.
patient race: W sex: M age: 63 marital:M place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
White, Charlie
patient gender M race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
White, Edna
patient gender F race W age 34 marital status M birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
White, Ellen
Alamosa Journal 7-17-1902 Monday night the south train brought Sheriff Garcia to Alamosa. He had in charge Mrs. Ellen White, who has been living with her son-in-law, Mr. John Russell, ten miles south of Alamosa. Mrs. White was charged by her son-in-law Russell with being insane. As Judge Ruby was confined to his home on account of sickness, the case was heard by him at his home Monday evening at 8 o'clock. With George H. Shone, William G. Eles, Alexander Oliver, E. A . Newton, June Hyatt and W. H. Hirst empaneled as jurors.Colonel C. M. Sampson as clerk of the court took down the evidence. County Attorney Riley appeared for the defendant. Dr. C. L. Orr was called upon for his opinion as to the condition of Mrs. White. His evidence and the appearance and actions of Mr. White convinced the jury that it was a clear case of lunacy, and in conformity to the verdict of the jury Judge Ruby committed her to the state asylum at Pueblo, where she was taken Monday evening by Sheriff Garcia accompanied by John Slover, son-in-law of Mrs. White.
White, Ellen
patient race W gender F age 57 marital status W place of birth Scotland source 1910 census
White, Ellen
patient race: W sex: F age: 67 marital:W place of birth: Scotland occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
White, Frank
Leadville Herald Democrat 6-3-1892 Adjudged Insane Frank White and Lewis Munro have been adjudged insane by Judge Hall, and arrangements will be made to place them in the asylum.
White, Fred
patient gender M race W age 43 marital status Wd birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
White, George
patient race W gender M month born March year born 1834 age 66 marital status M place of birth Ireland occupation miner source : 1900 census
White, George
patient race W gender M age 65 marital status M place of birth Ireland occupation miner source 1910 census
White, George
Leadville Herald Democrat 6-1-1892 County Court Cullings The insane case of George White will come up in the probate court this morning at 10 o'clock.
White, George
Leadville Herald Democrat 1-25-1893 Taken to the Asylum George White, the man who was pronounced insane several weeks ago and has been detained in the county jail awaiting room to be made for him in the asylum for the insane at Pueblo, has been taken to that institution by Sheriff Kennedy.
White, George
Leadville Herald Democrat 12-23-1893 Criminal Calendar Record of Convictions in Courts of Record for the Year Following is a list of the convictions in the local courts, and the measure of that punishment accorded to each: January 21 - George White, insane, sent to Pueblo
White, Hen.
patient, black, male, age 55, married, Kentucky, 1885 census
White, Henry
gender m age 50 occupation servant birthplace Illinois source: 1880 census
White, Henry
patient race C gender M month born . year born 1828 age 72 marital status M place of birth Kentucky occupation laborer source : 1900 census
White, Henry
Central City Daily Register-Call 10-21-1879 Adjudged Insane Henry White, a colored man well known in this city, was this morning adjudged of insane mind by a jury in Judge Collier's court, and will be sent to the lunatic asylum at Pueblo.
White, Jennie C.
patient race: W sex: F age: 53 marital:M place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
White, Jimmie Lee
Colorado Springs Gazette 6-16-1995 - Mentally Disabled Prisoners Get a Special Home - Pueblo Facility Will House 250 - Pueblo - The opening of a new prison in Pueblo might be the best thing that's ever happened to Jimmie Lee White. White, 36, is mentally disabled. In April, he was sentenced to 89 years in prison for stabbing Mary Maestas of Colorado Springs to death in June 1993, and that was his second murder. White killed a woman in Mississippi in the late 1970s and served 13 years in prison there. He's illiterate. He can't put a 100-piece puzzle together. He watches a lot of TV. White, who is still locked in an El Paso County jail waiting for space to open up in a state prison, is the perfect candidate for the $21 million San Carlos Correctional Facility set to open July 5. San Carlos is a 250-bed, multilevel security prison on the grounds of the Pueblo Mental Health Institute.
White, John J.
patient gender M race W age 56 marital status S birthplace Massachusetts source 1930 census
White, L H
admitted 6-8-1900 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
White, L. H.
patient race: W sex: M month of birth: Unk year of birth: 1875 age: 25 marital: S place of birth: unksource: 1900 Woodcroft census
White, Lillian
patient gender F race W age 50 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
White, Lillian
patient race: W sex: F age: 40 marital:S place of birth: Indiana occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
White, Lillian R.
patient race W gender F age 30 marital status S place of birth Indiana source 1910 census
White, Lottie
Rocky Mountain News 5-15-1884 Mountain Mention A Georgetown Cyprian Becomes Insane From the Too Ardent Use of Opium Lottie White, a woman of ill-fame, was adjudged insane in the County court, Monday. It is believed that one of the prime causes of her insanity was the use of opium which she was in the habit of buying from the two Chinamen who were arrested here last week and fined $25 and costs for selling opium. The unfortunate woman was taken to Denver by her sister and other assistants with much difficulty. She will remain there for a short time, and, if she improves, will be taken to her sister's home in Montana.
White, Lottie
Rocky Mountain News 5-18-1884 Mountain Matters The Insane Woman, Lottie White, Taken From Georgetown to the Insane Asylum, Pueblo Georgetown Sheriff DeVotie left for Pueblo Thursday to take Lottie White, adjudged insane, to the state asylum, her sister having decided not to take her home.
White, Lottie
Rocky Mountain News 5-18-1884 Pueblo Paragraphs Pueblo, May 17 Sheriff John C. De Votie, of Clear Creek county, brought yesterday to the insane asylum Lottie White, a notorious member of Georgetown's demimonde, who became insane from the constant smoking of opium.
White, Marie
patient race: W sex: F age: 24 marital:S place of birth: North Dakota occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
White, Preston
patient race: W sex: M age: 33 marital: M place of birth: Colorado none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
White, Robert
Carbonate Chronicle 1-6-1919 Lunacy Commission Examines Two Guadalupe Montoya, 36, the Mexican who slashed Sheriff Schraeder several times on the face December 28 when the sheriff accosted him in Finntown to take him to a hospital, was declared to be insane yesterday by the county lunacy commission, Drs. A. J. McDonald and M. A. Jeannotte sitting, and was ordered by County Judge O'Mahoney to be taken to the state hospital at Pueblo. Montoya, who is also called Jose Montoya, has been employed on the Rio Grande railroad section. On November 19, he caused trouble at the City emergency hospital when he was taken there by Undersheriff Murray and Deputy Sheriff Frank Simmons, who believed he was sick with influenza when they found him in Stringtown. At that time he went on a rampage and terrorized the patients. He had to be removed to the county jail, where it was later found that he was not suffering from influenza. On December 28 he terrorized inhabitants of Finntown, to which he had wandered, with the result that Sheriff Schraeder was called to take him in charge. He was taken in custody only after he had fought wildly with a knife and his hands. County Attorney H. R. Pendery appeared at the examination for the county and Attorney Frank E. Purpie as guardian ad litem for Montoya. Robert White, 22, son of Kirk White, a well known mining man, who suffered an injury on his head years ago, was found by the commission to be mentally unbalanced yesterday morning. It was recommended that he be cared for at an institution suitable for the purpose, and order was given to take him to a sanitorium at Pueblo. The examination of the young man was begun Friday evening and completed yesterday morning.
White, Robert J.
patient race: W sex: M age: 22 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
White, W.J.
Longmont Ledger 9-8-1905 Home News Dr. W. J. White was in town Thursday. He is now acting Assistant Supt. of the State Insane Asylum.
White, Walker
pupil race: W sex: M age: 11 marital: S place of birth: Nebraska source: 1910 Woodcroft census
White, Walkin
Routt County Republican 6-9-1911 Little Colorado Items Escaping from the insane asylum at Pueblo, clad only in his underwear and a suit of overalls, Walkin White, fourteen years old, a patient, traveled fifty miles across country to Colorado Springs.
White, William
Colorado Transcript 11-5-1879 Deputy U. S. Marshal Hoyt has returned from his trip to Pueblo, where he went last week in charge of four insane persons destined for the state asylum at that point. He speaks in the highest terms of the appearance of affairs that important institution, from which we gather that the unfortunate inmates are in good hands. Those transferred by Marshall Hoyt from this county, by order of the board of county commissioners, were William White, Edward Lundberg, William H. Brown and Charles Moon.
White, William
Colorado Transcript 2-18-1880 Mr. William White, of this city, who has been inmate of the state insane asylum at Pueblo, has received his discharge from that institution and has returned to his family, apparently fully recovered from his malady. He speaks in the highest terms of the conduct of the institution, and particularly of Dr. Thoms, the superintendent, whom Mr. White regards as the very best man that could be selected to take charge of the patients. We are very glad to see our friend return to his home in so encouraging his condition.
Whitecraft, Anna
Colorado Springs Gazette 10-24-1912 Mrs. Anna Whitecraft, aged 43 years, was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday.
Whitecraft, Annie
patient gender F race W age 57 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Whitecraft, Annie
patient race: W sex: F age: 49 marital:M place of birth: Pennsylvania occupation: none source: 1920 census
Whitehead, Harry
Summit County Journal 4-28-1917 Taken To Asylum. Harry Whitehead, a pioneer resident of Breckenridge, was adjudged insane Thursday by a jury in the county court and in the custody of Sheriff Detiler and Ben James, left Thursday afternoon for the asylum at Pueblo, but all were compelled to return in the evening when the train encountered a snowslide near Wheeler. The journey was resumed Friday morning, however. Whitehead's unbalanced mental condition is due probably to a blood clot on the brain. Tuesday morning he suffered a stroke of paralysis, the second within the past few months, the first occurring during his absence in Routt county. He was taken to the hospital and soon afterward, symptoms of insanity were manifested. His condition grew worse rapidly, and the jury trial Thursday was the result. Whitehead came to Breckenridge nearly forty years ago. He engaged in carpenter work and built some of the first houses erected here. He also gave considerable attention to mining, and leases in Gold Run gulch in the early days and on Gibson hill. He was alone at the time of his stroke Tuesday, his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reynolds being in Denver, where both are under the care of physicians.
Whitehead, Harry S.
patient race: W sex: M age: 67 marital:W place of birth: New York occupation: none source: 1920 census
Whitehead, William N.
patient gender M race W age 60 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Whiteside, John
Leadville Daily Herald 11-17-1880 Adjudged Insane John Whiteside, who was recently arrested on complaint of his wife, Lizzie Whiteside, for stealing clothing, was arraigned before Justice DeMattos yesterday, and bound over to appear at the next term of the district court. His bonds were fixed at two hundred dollars, which were furnished. Mrs. Whiteside has commenced a suit of replevin to recover the clothing, which was taken from her upon her separation from her husband.
Whitfield, Mattie E.
patient race W gender F age 51 marital status . place of birth . source 1910 census
Whiting, Josephine
admitted 3-1-1900 from Cripple Creek, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Montezuma Millrun 12-11-1886 Whitlock, the insane crank who killed a Chinaman, in Denver, in November, 1885, died in the insane asylum at Pueblo last week. About forty days ago he refused to eat anything, and finally died of starvation.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 2-5-1886 A Mad Murderer Whitlock, Who Killed an Inoffensive Chinaman, Indicted for Murder and to be Tried in the District Court Thomas J. Whitlock, who killed a Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop a few months since, was brought before Judge Elliott yesterday on the indictment found by the grand jury charging him with murder. Deputy Sheriff T. S. O'Reilly brought Whitlock over from jail and formally served the capias. On the way over from jail Whitlock behaved in the same indifferent manner that he has exhibited all along. He didn't seem to care for mud or water or stones or rough sidewalks. When he was brought into court Whitlock manifested the same indifference and seemed utterly careless as to his fate. He was remanded to jail to await the further order of the court. Sheriff Cramer says that Whitlock is one of the most gentlemanly men ever seen in a county jail. He seems very intelligent and spends a great deal of time in reading. The general opinion seems to be that Whitlock is insane and that the desire to kill some one was one of the specially strong characteristics of his mania. He has evidently been well brought up and well educated, but some great misfortune or mental shock seems to have crazed his brain. He has never, it is said, expressed any sorrow or remorse at the apparently motiveless crime which he committed.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 3-24-1886 The Chinaman Slayer No decision was rendered by Judge Carpenter on Monday in the case of T. J. Whitlock, the insane murderer, who killed a Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop. Whitlock, it will be remembered, was convicted by a jury in the District court of murder in the second degree. Judge Carpenter was to have decided the motion of Whitlock's attorney for a new trial, but the hearing was continued to April 24. It seems to be the opinion of everybody except the members of the jury who tried the case, that Whitlock is insane.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 4-21-1886 The Whitlock Case The motion for a new trial in the case of Thomas F. Whitlock, the man who shot and killed the Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop, will be decided by Judge Carpenter in the District court on next Saturday. It will be remembered that the jury in the case found Whitlock guilty of murder in the second degree. Sheriff Cramer and the entire sheriff's force are convinced that Whitlock is as insane as a man can be and that a great many Denver people are of the same opinion as the sheriff's force.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 4-25-1886 To Be Tried Again Whitlock, the Chinaman Slayer, is Granted a New Trial by Judge Carpenter In the District court yesterday Judge Carpenter granted the motion for a new trial in the case of T. J. Whitlock, the man who, without any seeming provocation, killed a Chinaman whom he had never seen before, in Solomon's pawn shop on Larimer street, last fall. The jury after hearing the evidence in the case, including the very wild and incoherent statements of the accused, which convinced every one except the jury of his insanity, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree. A motion for a new trial was made by C. W. McCord, Esq., who had been assigned as Whitlock's counsel. Mr. McCord's efforts in the case have been largely a labor of love, as the defendant had little or no money, and has betrayed an utter indifference as to his fate. He has always said that he would rather be hung than go to a lunatic asylum. It appears that he was once incarcerated in an insane asylum. Sheriff Cramer, the county jail officials and the entire sheriff's force are convinced of Whitlock's insanity. The motion for a new trial has been granted, and Judge Carpenter's decision will probably meet with approval from the general public.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 5-26-1886 A Man With a Mania T. J. Whitlock on Trial a Second Time for the Killing of Chin Fung The second trial of T. J. Whitlock, the man who killed a Chinaman named Chin Fung in Solomon's pawn shop, 413 Larimer street, last fall, was opened in the District court before Judge Elliott yesterday. The following jury was selected for the trial of the case: J. S. Heinrich, S. Donau, T. P. Hughes, George Estabrook, S. W. Chaney, Joseph Holmes, A. A. Filby, James Henshall, M. B. McGill, W. E. Dunning, Ezra Fairchild and J. D. Davis. The prosecution was represented by Assistant District Attorney Ralph Talbot and General Sam E. Browne. Whitlock acted about the same as at the former trial. He was plainly dressed like a farm laborer. An old ragged and rather dirty undershirt hung down below his coat-sleeve, and the best part of his attire was a pair of stout boots. He sat during the trial with his head leaning on his hand and with his fingers at times running through his hair, which is very long and straight. His mouth was half open most of the time and he seemed to pay very little attention to the testimony or to the general proceedings in the court room. His eyes, which are small and blue, have a strange light in them, which seems to indicate a kind of insane cunning. Judge Elliott was not feeling very well yesterday and spent most of the time in an invalid's reclining chair during the progress of the trial. There was a fair number of spectators in the court room. There was nothing very new developed in the case. Whitlock's attorney, C. W. McCord, Esq., who has worked very faithfully for his unfortunate and apparently insane client, having been assigned to such service by the court, at the first trial, brought forward considerable new evidence to show Whitlock's insanity. Various deputy sheriffs and county jail guards, new and old, gave testimony for the defense. Mr. Hutchinson, a former guard at the jail under Sheriff Graham's administration, said he had formed the opinion that Whitlock was insane three days after the man was first incarcerated, and Whitlock had been turned over to Sheriff Cramer as an insane prisoner. Whitlock had betrayed no emotion when the Chinaman's death was first announced to him in jail. On one occasion Whitlock had tried to assault a jail guard with a knife. All of Sheriff Cramer's deputies are convinced of Whitlock's insanity, but a peculiar jury at the former trial held that Whitlock was sane and found him guilty of manslaughter. Whitlock was himself put on the stand at about 4:45 yesterday afternoon. He betrayed even more stupidity and indifference than he has before shown, and it was only after the question was repeated once or twice by the court that he was able to say that he was the defendant in the case. Whitlock's story on the stand indicated that he was suffering under a homicidal mania, and that he thought the Chinaman was one of a party of men who gave him (Whitlock) a bath in a sulphur river in Washington territory some years ago. The case will probably go to the jury to-day.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 5-28-1886 Considered Him Crazy The Jury in the District Court Pronounce Whitlock Insane He Will Be Held for Trial as a Dangerous Lunatic The jury in the Whitlock murder case, after being out something over twenty-four hours, returned a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. The case went to the jury at about 11 o'clock Wednesday forenoon. There seems to have been ten or eleven men on the jury who were in favor of the verdict finally agreed upon, but there appears to have been one or two on the jury who, when the evidence was all the other way, were still disposed to insist that Whitlock was not crazy. Judge Elliott came to the court house at 9 o'clock Wednesday night and refused to receive any communication from the jury after 10 o'clock on that night. Under-Sheriff Chivington faithfully carried out the instructions of the court and did not allow the jury to leave off considering the case and go to bed till 2 o'clock yesterday morning. The clock was on the stroke of 12 o'clock, noon, yesterday, when the jury finally came into court and announced that they had agreed upon a verdict. This verdict was read by the clerk and explains itself: We, the jury, find that the defendant, Thomas J. Whitlock, did shoot and kill one Chin Fung at the time and place charged in the indictment, but we find said defendant not guilty, as charged in the indictment, for the sole reason that the defendant was insane at the time of said killing; and we find further that said defendant is still insane and a dangerous lunatic. James Henshall, Foreman. It will be seen that this verdict does not recommend that T. J. Whitlock who killed the Chinaman, Chin Fung, without any apparent motive or provocation in Solomon's store, 413 Larimer street, last fall, be set at liberty. On the contrary it pronounces him a dangerous lunatic. On this verdict Whitlock is still held in jail as a lunatic, and it was yesterday ordered that he be committed as such, and that a certified copy of his verdict be given to the county attorney. Whitlock will probably soon be tried for insanity in the County court and sent to the asylum at Pueblo. Assistant District Attorney Talbot, who prosecuted the case, says the prosecution was one of the most disgraceful tasks he ever undertook. He had had some doubt of Whitlock's insanity till he heard the man himself testify, but after that he had been pretty well convinced that Whitlock was crazy. Mr. Talbot is disposed to consider the verdict an eminently just one.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 6-6-1886 Sent to the Asylum Whitlock, the Slayer of Chin Fung, Gets What He Considers the Worst of All Possible Punishments Thomas J. Whitlock, the man who killed the Chinaman, Chin Fung, in Solomon's store, 413 Larimer street, last fall, and who was acquitted of murder on account of insanity, has recently been found insane in the County court and was taken to Pueblo yesterday for incarceration in the insane asylum. Whitlock manifested little emotion at leaving the jail and refused to bid County Jailer Hopkins good-by, though Mr. Hopkins and the present jail guards have always treated him with the utmost kindness. That Whitlock is a dangerous lunatic there can be little doubt. He had always evinced the utmost horror to going to an insane asylum, and it seems he has once been in an institution of the kind in Washington territory. He has steadily maintained that he wanted to be found guilty and to be shot. He seems to have preferred shooting to hanging, hanging to imprisonment and imprisonment to the lunatic asylum. He is, therefore, getting at the hands of the law precisely what he did not want.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 12-5-1886 Fasted Forty Days Whitlock, the Insane Murderer Dies in the State Asylum at Pueblo He Refuses to Take Food For Forty Days and Dies at Last From Sheer Starvation Some Account of the Lunatic's Strange History and His Two Trials Thomas J. Whitlock, the insane man who killed a Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop on Larimer street nearly a year ago, has recently died of starvation in the asylum at Pueblo. This ends a very singular criminal case. Whitlock was undoubtedly insane, as the killing was about as strange and motiveless an act of homicide as ever occurred. One afternoon a man dressed like a farmer entered the store of Mr. Solomon and asked to be shown some revolvers. He selected a weapon and then asked for some cartridges. Before any one could stop him, Whitlock, for such proved to be the man's name, began flourishing his revolver. A Chinaman, who was in the store, seemed to be suddenly selected as a mark by the man and he deliberately fired and shot at him, the shot taking effect. In the mean time Mr. Solomon and his clerks had dodged behind the counter or got out of the way in one manner and another. Sergeant Inman rushed into the store and seized hold of Whitlock, and, after a desperate struggle, tore the revolver from his grasp and took him into custody. A few days after this the Chinaman, who stood remarkably well with the Chinese population of the city, died. Two Trials for Murder At Whitlock's first trial in the District court before Judge Carpenter, a somewhat peculiar jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree. Charles W. McCord, Esq., had been assigned as the prisoner's counsel, and though Whitlock seemed to offer no objection to going to the penitentiary, Mr. McCord, honestly believing his client insane, made an effort for a new trial. A new trial was granted, and a good jury had little difficulty in finding the man insane. Whitlock's testimony on the witness stand, his statements to newspaper reporters, and his whole conduct during his two trials seemed to convince all reasonable citizens that this verdict was a just one. When first arrested, Whitlock had for several days refused to talk, but on the witness stand he opened his mouth and the story he told was wild enough to leave little doubt as to his insanity. He said he had been very sick and had been made crazy and ill by being dragged through a sulphur river in Washington territory some years ago. He insisted that the Chinaman whom he shot in the pawn-shop was one of the men who had given him a sulphur bath, and who had been trying to kill him ever since. Whitlock had a very wild looking eye while telling his story, and frequently ran his fingers through his long hair. That more familiar form of lunacy, the belief that people were seeking his life was very apparent in all Whitlock's statements. Whitlock, it seemed from his testimony, had once been confined in an asylum in Washington Territory and claimed that he was not well treated there. He told the court he didn't care a damn what became of him but afterwards declared that he hoped they would shoot him and that he would rather hang or go to the penitentiary than go to an asylum. But he was committed to the asylum subsequently to his acquittal for murder, and after a trial for lunacy in the County court. He was sent to the asylum as a dangerous lunatic. Refuses to Eat While at the county jail Whitlock at first was very violent, and at times refused to eat, but afterwards became more calm and took his rations regularly. When he first entered the asylum at Pueblo he appeared to eat pretty readily, but after a time he would refuse to eat at intervals, after which he would accept food. At first this irregularity in eating did not excite much comment at the asylum, as an irregular appetite, eating occasionally and at other times refusing to eat, is said to be no uncommon thing with insane patients. He was not violent and gave his keepers little trouble. But some forty-two days ago he declined to take food, and it was pressed upon him with difficulty. The next day he refused to eat at all, and for forty days or until a day or two ago all efforts to make him eat were of no avail. He grew more and more emaciated as his fast continued, and at last after having fasted forty days and seven hours, his physical condition became utterly broken down and he died of sheer starvation. But little is known of Whitlock's history before the killing of the Chinaman. He had worked as a farm hand and in the lumber regions of Washington territory and other parts of the West. He was without family, and from his talk at the trial his parents are evidently dead. He was about forty years of age and came originally from Illinois. He has probably no near relatives to claim the remains. He had worked on a farm near Fort Collins for a short time before coming here, and had been in Denver only a few days when the homicide occurred. His forty days fast at the asylum was a peculiar thing, but it has been equaled by Dr. Tanner and by various people all through the world's history. His fasting is very easily explained on the supposition that in his fear that some one was seeking his life and his chronic dread of asylums, he believed that some one was seeking his life and hence declined food.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 11-10-1885 An Inhuman Custom Chin Fung, the Chinaman who was shot in Solomon's pawn shop by a lunatic or a fiend, it is not known which, was supposed to be dying last night by his countrymen, and according to their custom he was removed to a vacant building on Wazee street and placed in a room without light or fire to breathe his last. The police heard about the transaction and made the inhuman Mongolians who had been caring for him take him back. He was found to be lively and apparently as far from the mystic river as any Celestial wants to be. The Chinese have a superstition that if any one dies when others are around that he grabs the first soul he can lay his hands on and takes it with him to the flowery kingdom.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 11-12-1885 John is Dead The Chinaman Shot in Solomon's Pawn Shop Shuffles Off the Coil Chin Fung, the Chinaman who was shot last week in Solomon's pawn shop by an unknown man, died yesterday morning about 6 o'clock. He died in a small brick house in the alley in the rear of Sun Quong Wo's residence, 445 Larimer street. He was attended by Drs. Rogers and Blickenderfer, who did all they could to save the man, but their efforts were unavailing, having been called in too late, probably. The coroner was notified of the death and removed the remains to his undertaking establishment, where an inquest was held yesterday afternoon. From appearances at the time and from a statement made by Dr. McLauthlin, health commissioner, the wound inflicted did not indicate death. The alleged maniac seems to have had some method in his madness, as he had visited at least one pawn shop in search of a pistol before he reached Solomon's. While in the latter place he exhibited no signs of madness or insanity, but exercised the usual caution of a shrewd man in purchasing a weapon. He thought the pistol was 50 cents too high, and claimed the cartridges cost 25 cents above the second-hand price. After these preliminaries, he carefully loaded the weapon, a Colt's 45-calibre, and taking aim at the inoffensive Chinaman, who was bartering for a clock at the other end of the counter, fired with murderous effect. John, after being hit, quickly turned round the counter and in falling grasped the legs of the gentleman who had waited upon him and together they fell to the floor, but not before another shot had been fired directly at Mr. Metler, so very close as to scorch his left ear, as he fell to the floor. From the testimony of young Solomon who waited upon the murderer, after the first shot was fired, the man pointed his weapon at the elder Solomon, who was just behind him, but before he discharged the pistol the clerk (Mettler) called to him to drop that gun, when the fellow turned instantly, and, pointing in the direction of Mettler and young Solomon, who stood near together on the opposite side of the glass show case, blazed away, the ball entering the plaster partition just in the rear of where Mettler had been standing. Had the latter not fallen when the Chinaman grasped his legs he would probably have been shot through the breast. Just at this point Sergeant Inman, who was standing on the sidewalk outside, opened the door, and in doing so it struck the assassin on the arm turning him partially round. Inman immediately grabbed with him, and, after a struggle, succeeded in wresting the pistol from him, and took him to the city jail. The man refused to give his name at the time, and has positively adhered to this refusal. There was nothing found on his person by which he could be identified. All the witnesses who testified saw no indications of insanity or drunkenness about the man, either before or after the deed had been committed. The jury adjourned to meet this morning at 9:30 to await the result of the autopsy held last night by Drs. Whitehead and Grimes. H. D. Steele, W. J. Fay, William Dingle, C. W. Lehman, W. B. Palmer and L. Cass Carpenter constitute the jury. Chin Fung came to Denver two days before he was shot from Fairplay, Colo., where he had been working as a miner. Although he received the best of attention, according to the statement of Sun Quong Wo, yet it is useless for him to deny the statement that the wounded man was removed to a vacant house to die, as the statement comes from the police who made the Chinamen move him back to the quarters from whence he was taken. Chin Fung will be buried according to Chinese custom, the Chinamen of Denver defraying the expenses of the funeral.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 11-18-1885 His Name is Whitlock The Man Who Killed Chin Fung Unseals His Lips at Last The unknown man, who shot Chin Fung in Solomon's pawn shop, November 6, was taken before Justice Cherry yesterday on the charge of murder and was held to await the action of the grand jury without bail. Sergeant Inman was the only witness sworn, and on the completion of his testimony it was thought proper not to hear any further evidence. For the first time then his name was found out. He gave it as Thomas Jefferson Whitlock. In his answers to District Attorney Luthe, Whitlock showed no signs of insanity, but when taken to a photographer's, to have his picture taken, he displayed that peculiar restless and fidgety manner peculiar to persons whose minds are unbalanced. When Sergeant Inman was conveying him back to the county jail he asked him why he shot the Chinaman. He was the first man I saw after the pistol was loaded, he said, and I shot him. I wanted to shoot every man in the store. Would you shoot everybody now if you had a pistol, asked the sergeant. You bet I would. I want to kill everybody in the world. Deputy Sheriff Hawley is the first man who succeeded in getting anything out of Whitlock. He told the officer his name and some of his history. He said he was born in Pennsylvania thirty-six years ago. Had lived in Kentucky, Illinois, Oregon territory and Colorado and was a farmer and tie chopper by occupation. He last worked for S. C. Foster, a ranchman eight miles above Fort Collins. He told Mr. Hawley that he had been held up and robbed four times in his life and at last had made up his mind that he would kill somebody, get killed himself and that would end it. He said people thought him crazy, but they were all crazy themselves. He was in Denver only three days and had money with him, out of which he bought a suit of clothes and a revolver. Whitlock has never been married and thinks all his relatives dead. He is a very moral man by his own showing, never having drank, smoked or chewed in his life. He has been away from home for twelve years. He came to Colorado from Oregon territory, where he was one year engaged in logging. He went to Leadville, but did not remain there long, going from there to Georgetown, and coming from there to Denver. If Whitlock is a lunatic he showed considerable sanity when he was arrested. When taken to jail and searched $2.10 were found on his person, but Jailer Brady noticed him throw a piece of brown paper on the floor, which he picked up and found that enclosed in it were five $10 bills. The money was put in the safe. Monday Whitlock asked the jailer to go to the city jail and get his money, $52.10, and was told that if he would write an order for it and sign his name to it he could get it. I won't do that, he said, for they would find out my name. Yesterday he told Sergeant Inman he would like to get his money, and the sergeant asked how much he had. Fifty-two dollars and ten cents, he replied. The sergeant did not believe it, for he and Officer Bohanna had searched him and found but $2.10. They did not see him throw the package on the floor. The sergeant was not convinced of the truthfulness of his story until he had inquired of Jailer Brady and found out that the supposed lunatic, who was a raving maniac when taken to jail, knew exactly what he was doing. It is probable that Whitlock is sane on every subject but homicide.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 2-10-1886 Murder Cases The cases of Eugene F. Kelley and Fred Royal, charged with the murder of a man named Smith, and of Thomas Whitlock, the supposed lunatic who killed a Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop, have been set for trial on February 23 in the District court.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 2-24-1886 Motiveless Murder James Whitlock on Trial in the District Court for a Strange and Apparently Motiveless Crime The trial of James Whitlock, the man who shot a Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop on Larimer street, in November last, was commenced in the District court yesterday afternoon, before Judge Carpenter of the first judicial district, Judge Elliott being indisposed and not able to try the case. There was quite a large crowd of spectators in the lobby. The particulars of Whitlock's crime are probably still fresh in the minds of most people. On November 6, 1885, a man entered Solomon's pawn shop, asked to see a Colt's 45-calibre revolver. He took this revolver up to examine it, as he said, and deliberately took aim at a Chinaman who was standing at his right hand in the store and shot him. He then attempted to shoot Joseph Metler, one of the clerks, Police-Sergeant Inman rushed in at an opportune moment and after a desperate struggle overpowered Whitlock. There was no apparent motive for the crime and there is no evidence that Whitlock had ever seen any of the people in the store before the affray happened. The wounded Chinaman who was shot was at first taken to jail but was afterward taken to the store of a prominent Chinese resident, Chin Poo. He died on November 11, five days after the shooting. Whitlock was removed to the city jail, and subsequently to the county jail. He has never shown any remorse for his horrible and motiveless crime, and has never given any reason why he committed it. He is originally from Pennsylvania. He was at one time in his life a sailor, but was, just before coming to Denver in November, employed on a ranch near Fort Collins. He is a man who talks but little. He admits that he had an overpowering desire to kill somebody at the time of the homicide. While in jail he has spent a large portion of his time in reading. He seems to be very intelligent and very fond of books. His manners in the jail have indicated good birth and good breeding, so Sheriff Cramer says. The opinion of the entire sheriff's force and of all who have formed his acquaintance seems to be that Whitlock is crazy, and the general public are rather inclined to that belief. He was indicted by the present grand jury for the crime of murder. When he was being brought over from the jail to be arraigned he betrayed the utmost indifference. When brought before Judge Elliott he was asked if he had counsel. He replied: No; I don't want any. He said he didn't care a d___ for all the attorneys in town, and didn't care a d_____ what they did with him. With much additional and reckless profanity he repeated these statements. Counsel was, however, assigned to him in the person of C. W. McCord, Esq., who seems to be making very praiseworthy efforts in behalf of his poor friendless client. The jurors selected yesterday to try the case were Wellington G. Sprague, J. C. Jones, Marshall Crawford, E. F. Hallack, C. N. Knowles, William M. Raworth, D. K. Cross, George W. Thompson, Lambert A. Johnson, William G. Evans, W. H. Hyatt, B. F. Bingham. General Sam E. Browne, Ralph Talbot and George A. Smith, Esq., appeared for the prosecution. The defense was represented by Charles W. McCord, Esq. Whitlock behaved at the trial pretty much as he has behaved all the time since his arrest. His appearance was that of a spectator who was quite indifferent to the proceedings. He sat behind McCord scratching his long, straight hair, picking his nose, pulling his straight, straggling whiskers, looking occasionally at the witnesses and occasionally fixing his eyes on the ground. In Whitlock's general appearance there is some indication of crankiness. He has quite a low forehead, a rather peculiar shaped head, rather flat at the back but with considerable development behind the ears. He has very long straight dark hair, worn pretty long, a very straight short beard covering his chin, and a mustache of similar appearance, mustache and whiskers being of the same color as his hair. His features are somewhat thin and careworn, but his cheeks bear that color common to men who have lived much in the open air and who have been exposed to all kinds of weather. Whitlock has rather large hazel eyes, which are not very steadfast in their expression. The general appearance of the man is that of a crank rather than a criminal. He was rather coarsely but not badly dressed. The witnesses called for the prosecution included H. Solomon, proprietor of the store where the shooting occurred; Morris Solomon, the proprietor's son, who gave a very simple and truthful narration of the affair; Joe Metler, the clerk in the store; Sergeant Inman, Chin Poo, a Chinese merchant, City Physician McLauthlin, Ex-Coroner C. M. Miller and a number of others. There was nothing very new or interesting told by the witnesses. Chin Poo, the Chinese merchant who keeps a store at 440 Larimer street, testified to having been notified of the shooting soon after it occurred. He took the wounded man from the jail to his store in a hack and cared for him there. Doctors E. J. A. Rogers and Blickensderfer attended the wounded man, and thinking that he should have a quieter place they had him removed to Wazee street, but the superstitions of some of the Chinamen there caused his removal to the place where he died. All the evidence for the prosecution was in about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The witnesses for the defense were then called, and it was made perfectly clear that the line of the defense was to be insanity. Several deputy sheriffs, including Deputies Kellogg, Mayne, Golder, O'Reilly and others were called, and the gist of their testimony was that from what they had observed of the conversation and conduct of the accused they considered his conduct irrational. At about 5:45 the attorneys wanted the court to take a recess, but Judge Carpenter in his quaint, obstinate and rather an__ing (unreadable) way kept the trial in progress until 6:30. It then appearing that the defense would have considerable difficulty in getting its remaining five witnesses the court concluded that the Supreme court would sustain him if he allowed a break in the trial, provided he locked the jury up for the night. Bailiffs were accordingly sworn, the persons were told that they would have supper and bed, and the resumption of the trial was set for 9 o'clock this morning, Judge Carpenter reminding jurors and witnesses that they must be promptly on hand at that hour. It should be stated that Judge Carpenter is sitting as a judge in the case by courtesy and is naturally anxious to expedite matters as much as possible. The docket of the court is crowded and the Kelly-Royal murder trial will probably come on directly after the Whitlock case is closed. Judge Elliott was in court a portion of the time yesterday and occupied an easy chair near the bench. He is quite severely indisposed. It is pretty certain that the trial of Whitlock will be completed to-day. It does not seem likely that the defendant will be put on the stand himself.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 2-25-1886 A Mad Murderer A Rather Unexpected Verdict Given by the Jury in the Whitlock Murder Case Last Evening Twelve Men Find the Man Who Shot and Killed a Chinaman Guilty of Murder in the Second Degree Attorneys and the General Public Are Rather Surprised That He Was Not Found Insane Whitlock Tells a Wild, Strange Story on the Witness Stand and is Interviewed by a News Reporter He Says He Was Given a Sulphur Bath Which Drove Him Plumb Wild Two Years Ago The trial of James Whitlock, for the killing of the Chinaman, Chin Fung, was concluded in the District court yesterday morning. There was no expert medical testimony introduced as the prosecution seemed to agree with the defense that there was no need of any. There were only a few witnesses examined for the defense. The defendant, Whitlock, was placed on the witness stand. His evidence seemed to convince about everybody in the court room, except the jury, that he was insane. He said he was 38 years of age. He was born in Jonesboro, Union county, Ills., and had lived there a good part of his life working on a farm. He had been away from there about ten years. Some six or eight years ago he came to Colorado and went to work in tie camps. His love of adventure and change took him to Boise City, Idaho. He staid there a short time and then proceeded to Oregon and Washington territory. He worked at various points along the Pacific coast, the Columbia river and Puget sound. After giving a rather disjointed history of his wanderings, Whitlock proceeded to state, with a great deal of gravity, that one day, while he was working with his brother, whom he was visiting, a party of men came along and took him out rowing a boat. In that ride this party took him over a sulphur river. He said they held him down in this until he nearly suffocated to death. Bathing in salt water made him still worse. He declared that one Chinaman and one white man were in this party, and that he distinctly recognized and remembered them. He said he recognized the Chinaman that he saw in Solomon's store as the Chinaman who had aided in giving him a sulphur bath. This was his reason for shooting the Chinaman. The sulphur bath, he said, was encountered on the Wallapo river, near Oysterville, in Washington territory. Soon after this Whitlock said he was taken to the insane asylum at Stillicum, Washington territory. Just before being taken there he had a fight with a Chinaman. He was in the asylum three months, at the end of which time he was released. He was treated very badly in the asylum, and declared that the water hurt him. It was presumed that he was given a good many shower baths during his incarceration. After leaving the asylum he started for a mining camp, he lost his way, however, and got down to Boise City. He then tramped to Colorado. Coming to Colorado he worked for a time on a farm. He came to Denver to buy some things and had been in Denver only three days when the shooting occurred. He had no particular object in buying the revolver at Solomon's store but when he saw the Chinaman he believed it was the same man who had given him the sulphur bath and felt justified in shooting him. Whitlock related alleged incidents which are common in the subjective experiences of insane people. He then thought and still thinks his only enemies are pursuing. This testimony of Whitlock seemed to be so convincing as to his insanity that General Sam E. Brown and Ralph Talbot thought it unnecessary to continue the case any longer or to make any arguments. This fact seems to have so impressed the very intelligent jury in the case that after wrangling till far into the evening on the case, they returned a verdict of guilty of murder. The jury were made up of some of the most reputable and prominent men in Denver, which makes their verdict all the more singular. The case was given to the jury at 11:30 yesterday morning and General Sam E. Browne remarked that they ought not to be out more than five minutes. They were out, however, till a little after 8 o'clock last night, when they returned the verdict as above stated. As Mark Twain aptly remarks: What could the world do without juries? While sitting in the court room waiting for the verdict in his case, Whitlock looked about as indifferent as a man could look under any circumstances. A News reporter approached the poor fellow and conversed with him. How do you feel about your case? asked the reporter. Why, I don't much care, said Whitlock, with an imbecile grin. But you don't want to be hanged, do you? said the reporter. Well, I don't much care, said Whitlock. Whitlock was then asked about his experiences in Washington territory and his sulphur bath. With a good-natured but evidently insane laugh which he put on at frequent intervals, Whitlock replied, Why that bath drove me plumb wild. I have had trouble ever since. Whitlock stated that it was sometime in 1884 when he was forced into this sulphur river. There was a Chinese cook and a white man that he had trouble with. This Chinese cook, the Chinaman who gave him the bath in the sulphur river, the Chinaman that he had the fight with in Washington, and the Chinaman that he shot in Solomon's pawn shop seem to be very badly mixed up in Whitlock's mind, and he evidently looks upon them as one and the same person. Whitlock seems to be very badly mixed up as to the date of the occurrences he talks about, but managed, after considerable study, to state that he was in Washington territory, and took the bath in the sulphur river early in the summer of 1884, that he was sent to the asylum in June or July of that year, and that he came to Fort Collins, Colorado, in June last. Haven't you felt sorry that you killed the Chinaman? asked the reporter. No, I reckon not, replied Whitlock. I don't know why I should. Do you feel satisfied with your attorney, Mr. Whitlock? asked the reporter. Whitlock studied for a number of minutes over this question. Finally he observed: I don't much like the lawyers trying to make out that I'm insane, and getting people to come up here and tell that I am crazy. You don't want to go back to the asylum then? No, I've had enough of the asylum. They treated you badly, did they? I reckon so. I know I wanted to get out all the time. What was it made you kill the Chinaman? I don't know. Something got into me. I was thinking of that sulphur river. I haven't been right since then. That drove me plumb wild, you see. Have you got any relatives? Well, I reckon I have. Where is your brother? I reckon he's here in Denver. There is apparently no truth in this statement of Whitlock. Indeed he contradicted it very badly in his answer to another question. How have you been treated at the county jail? A good deal better since this new crowd came in. I wasn't treated very well before. Do you think you are insane? No, I reckon not. I knowed what I was doing when I killed the Chinaman. Whitlock did not seem to object to answering questions, but was no means prolific in talk. His eyes, when one looks at them closely, are not black but a very dark and brilliant blue. They are not very steady eyes, but wander about very restlessly. It would seem that a five minutes' talk with him would convince anyone of his insanity. What do you think of your sentence, Mr. Whitlock? asked the reporter. Without any emotion, except his strange smile and chuckle, Whitlock replied, I don't know. But you don't want to go to the penitentiary for a long term or to be hanged, do you? I don't know. I don't want folks to think I'm insane. I don't want them to send me to any asylum. Whitlock said that his parents were dead, but that he had one or two brothers living. He seemed more like an idiot than an insane man as he nervously stroked his stubby beard and long straight mustache or ran his fingers through his long straight hair. He was very good natured, and there seemed nothing dangerous or malevolent in his appearance beyond his restless eyes and his great nervousness. In fact, there was an absence of anything wild or theatrical in his account of his wanderings and his troubles. He talked very quietly and calmly of it all. There does not seem to be a man in the sheriff's office who doubts Whitlock's insanity. He is evidently an imbecile with a homicidal tendency at times and oppressed with a nervous fear that somebody is constantly pursuing him. The acquittal of Mrs. Petersen and the conviction of Whitlock seem to be two illustrations of the strange things that the jury system bring out. An inquisition for lunacy may yet be held on the case, which is certainly one of the most singular that ever came before the courts of Colorado.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 2-27-1886 The District Court Judge Elliott was holding court himself yesterday
Court will probably adjourn Monday afternoon. At that time Judge Carpenter will give his decision on the motion for a new trial in the case of T. J. Whitlock, the crazy man-slayer who killed a Chinaman in Solomon's pawn shop, and was convicted of murder in the second degree by a jury in the District court on Wednesday last. It seems strange that Whitlock did not file a motion for arrest of judgment in the case. The sheriff's force and those who have seen the most of Whitlock seem to be thoroughly convinced of his insanity, and it seems probable that sooner or later he will be tried for lunacy in the County court.
Whitlock, Thomas Jefferson
Rocky Mountain News 5-25-1886 Local Brevities The trial of T. J. Whitlock, the alleged lunatic who last fall killed a man in Solomon's pawnshop, will be held in the District court to-day.
Whitman, Hanna Mrs
admitted 3-21-1899 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Whitmer, Ida Mrs
admitted 5-5-1915 from Rio Grande, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Whitmore, Alice V.
patient race: W sex: F age: 39 marital:M place of birth: Nebraska occupation: none source: 1920 census
Whitmore, Alice V.
Wray Rattler 8-21-1919 County Commissioner Proceedings Check for $52.92 to reimburse Yuma County for care of Alice V. Whitmore, insane, ordered credited to the poor fund.
Whitmore, Alice V.
Wray Rattler 9-12-1918 George McConnel and Mrs. R.F. Davis left this morning with two patients, one Mrs. Margaret Mitchel of Yuma, to be placed in Woodcroft Hospital, and the other Mrs. Alice Whitmore of Kirk, committed to the Insane Asylum. The latter is helplessly insane. The former, Mrs Mitchell, who has been residing with her husband in Yuma, for several months, was sent to Wray Monday suffering with mental derangement, resulting from epilepsy, accented by domestic trouble and physical weakness. After examination by the lunacy board, and an adjustment of the family difficulties, she was sent back to Yuma. On Wednesday, however, there was a violent occurrence of the mental disturbance, and on advice of the Yuma doctors, she was returned to Wray to the County Court, and after a re-examination of the patient it was thought best to commit her for a time to Woodcroft for observation and treatment. It is expected that a few weeks rest and attention will fully restore her to health.
Whitney, George
Telluride Daily Journal 6-24-1909 George Whitney, a veteran passenger conductor on the Rio Grande, running out of Salida for years, was recently discharged by the company. The incident preyed on his mind until he is now an inmate of the Pueblo insane asylum.
Whitney, George
patient race: W sex: M age: 45 marital: M place of birth: Wisconsin none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Whitney, George F.
Rocky Mountain News 2-4-1892 Adjudged Insane Four Unfortunates Committed in the County Court Yesterday The county court yesterday afternoon presented the appearance of an insane asylum. Four unfortunates were adjudged by as many juries to be incapable of managing their affairs, and orders were made committing them to the asylum at Pueblo. The proceedings attracted a very large, very noisy and unduly curious crowd. Henri Murat, who had been delivered up by his bondsmen, who had him released from jail where he was sentenced for sixty days for vagrancy, took the stand and told the jury a jumbled up story about killing dogs, which he proposed to eat. George F. Whitney was another demented man. He claims to have no relatives here, but his friends claim that he has a sister, Mrs. Jennie Skinner, living at Woodstock, Conn., who, it is thought, is not aware of the brother's pitiable plight. Mary Toohey and John Pyle were also found to be mentally deranged.
Whitney, L. A.
Rocky Mountain News 12-14-1888 Crimes and Accidents Leadville, Colo., Dec. 13 In the county court this morning L. A. Whitney was placed on trial upon the charge of insanity. He was convicted and will be sent to Pueblo as soon as room can be made for him in the asylum there. Whitney was formerly a member of the Leadville police force. His insanity has so far taken a mild and harmless form, but the doctors say there is no telling when he will become violent and dangerous. It is supposed to be due to sickness under which he has been laboring for the last two years. Some of his friends, however, are inclined to ascribe it to injuries he received while arresting a bad man when a policeman.
Whitney, L.A.
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 12-15-1888 Some Hard Lines. Saturday morning Acting Sheriff Loomis received the following letter with regard to Whitney, the man adjudged insane in the county court on Wednesday: Office of Superintendent Insane Asylum, P. R. Thombs, Supt., Pueblo, Colo., Dec 14, 1888. Sheriff Lamping: Dear Sir-Your favor received. I don't know when I can take the man you have; we are full and running over. There are only five in the Pueblo county jail waiting to get in. Yours Truly, P. R. Thombs. This kind of thing is obviously a gross injustice to the unfortunate insane and the next legislature should make appropriations to provide adequate accommodation for all insane person as soon as possible.
Whitney, Winifred
patient gender F race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Canada - Eng source 1930 census
Whittaker, W. C.
Leadville Herald Democrat 1-16-1886 An Eventful Year (1885) A Full and Comprehensive Chronological Record of Important Local Occurrences August 28 W. C. Whittaker, an insane person is lodged in jail
Whitton, S. P.
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:M place of birth: Nebraska occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Whitworth, R.F.
Durango Wage Earner 10-15-1908 Denver, Oct. 8. Becoming violently insane, R. F. Whitworth, a farmer on his way from Fort Worth, Texas, to Los Angeles, Cal., attempted to jump from a fast moving Rock Island train as it was approaching the city this morning. He was prevented by the conductor and several passengers but not until after he gave them a fierce fight. Whitworth was laboring under the hallucination that several passengers had formed a plot to kill him. I didn't want to be shot, he said after he had quieted down somewhat and was locked in the hospital ward of the city jail, and I thought that suicide (was) better than being murdered. I thought as long as I had to die it would be better to kill myself. The reason why I wanted to jump off the train was I wanted to go to the nearest drug store and buy some chloroform. I am sorry they did not let me jump.
Wichman, Edward
Summit County Journal 2-28-1903 Wichman Did It On Friday evening of last week, just after the Journal had gone to press, a case of suicide was reported in town. Edward Wichman, a pauper who had previously been an inmate of the county poor-house, did the job. Wichman came here from the Ten Mile about a year ago, and until recently was a good, peaceable county boarder. On the 20th inst. he became tired of feeding at the county's expense, and showed signs of insanity. In the afternoon of that day the sheriff was notified of the delirious condition of the patient, and he was removed to a cell in the county jail. While the sheriff was absent getting supper for the prisoner, the latter fooled the officer out of a trip to the insane asylum by committing suicide. Wichman took a towel, slit it into halves and tied the ends together. He then made a noose of the towel, placed it around his neck and threw the other end over a hammock hook in the cell. Then he squatted down, and thus choked himself to death. When Jerry announced supper in the diner, no response came from Wichman. It was then discovered that the man was dead and already growing cold.
Wicker, Hen
patient, white, male, age 30, single, Germany , 1885 census
Wicks, E. W.
Wet Mountain Tribune 8-6-1915 Wicks President of Corrections Board Denver At its first meeting E. W. Wicks of Pueblo was chosen president of the newly appointed State Board of Corrections which has the supervision of the state penitentiary, the reformatory and the insane asylum. I. B. Allen of Denver was made secretary. The board has made a tour inspection of the three institutions. Four men at Buena Vista were paroled.
Widmayer, Charles
patient race W gender M age 34 marital status S place of birth New York source 1910 census
Widner, Jessie T.
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status M birthplace New Mexico source 1930 census
Wikler, Jack
patient gender M race W age 32 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Wilberforce, Joseph
patient race W gender M age . marital status M place of birth England source 1910 census
Wilcox, John
admitted 5-13-1901 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wilcox, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 2-10-1891 The Courts County Court Judge Miller The following cases are set for trial to-day: Lunacy Mary Wilcox; T. D. Cobbley appointed guardian; trial; verdict lunacy; judgment on verdict; guardian allowed $15.
Wilcox, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 4-11-1891 Briefs May Wilcox having recovered from the effects of lunacy, the keeper of the state insane asylum recommended her release, and Judge Miller issued an order to that effect yesterday.
Wilcox, Susan C.
patient gender F race W age 73 marital status M birthplace Pennsylvania source 1930 census
Wildamar, Cornelius
patient race W gender M age 48 marital status . place of birth . occupation miner source 1910 census
Wilden, Alf Mrs.
Mancos Times-Tribune 6-30-1911 Mrs. Alf Wilden was taken down to Cortez on Monday of this week and arraigned before the county court on the charge of insanity. The examination took place Tuesday afternoon and she was declared by the court to be totally deranged mentally and on Wednesday she was sent out to the insane asylum in Pueblo. Mrs. Wilden has been evidencing signs of insanity for the past six weeks and for the past few days became rapidly worse. She was in a very bad way Monday night but considerably better Tuesday. Her case is doubly pitiful in that she leaves a number of children who need so much the guidance of a mother's hand and the care of a mother's love.
Wilden, Alf Mrs.
Mancos Times-Tribune 7-14-1911 The doctor in charge at the asylum at Pueblo, after reading the report on Mrs. Alf Wilden's case, expresses his belief that the lady will soon regain her reason and be able to return to her home. She was very quiet on her trip to Pueblo.
Wilden, Alf Mrs.
Mancos Times-Tribune 4-19-1912 Alf Wilden and the children were passengers to Durango Tuesday where they will be located for a while. Mr. Wilden is as yet undecided what he will do or where he will make his home.
Wilder, Fred
Rocky Mountain News 2-13-1892 Became Insane Leadville, Colo., Feb. 12 Ex-Marshal Fred Wilder has gone violently insane, and a guard is kept constantly over him, to prevent him from injuring himself. His health has been declining for some time, and last week he and his two brothers started for the Pacific coast, but had only reached Salt Lake, when his mind gave way and he became a raving maniac. He has returned to Leadville and will be sent to Pueblo at once.
Wilder, Fred T.
Aspen Daily Leader 2-13-1892 Ex-Marshal Wilder Insane Leadville, Feb. 12. Ex-City Marshal Fred Wilder, who recently left for California on account of his health, was taken insane at Salt Lake, and has been brought back.
Wilder, Fred T.
Leadville Daily and Evening Chronicle 2-12-1892 Ex-Marshal Fred T. Wilder's Mind Has Given Way and He is Now a Raving Maniac. For Several Months His Health Has Been Slowly but Surely Failing-While on His Way to the Pacific Coast He Breaks Entirely Down-A Sad Case. A sad case came to light Friday morning in this city. Ex-Marshal Fred T. Wilder, who for many years has been a resident of Leadville, has gone violently insane and constant guard is kept over him to see that he does not injure himself or make his escape. He is now at his former home on Leiter Avenue, where he is being attended to by his two brothers. Wilder secured a position on the police force several years ago, and was afterward elected by the council to the position of captain of the force. This position he held until the spring of 1891, when he was elected city marshal. He was of a nervous, excitable disposition, and his eccentricities were often of so marked character as to attract considerable attention. Of recent months his health has been failing, and some trouble in which he was concerned exerted no beneficial influence toward restoring his mental equilibrium. He tendered his resignation as marshal a few months ago, and gave himself up to quiet and repose until last week, when his relations decided to take him to the Pacific coast, to see if his vigor would not be restored by the healthful sea breezes. But the delay was already too great, and when the party had arrived at Salt Lake, Wilder's mind gave way and he became violently insane. He was brought back to this city, arriving Thursday, and his relatives are endeavoring to have him taken to Pueblo at the earliest possible date.
Wilder, Fred T.
White Pine Cone 2-19-1892 Fred T. Wilder, until recently marshall of the police force of Leadville, but who resigned, has gone insane. Several months ago Wilder, in the discharge of his duties, shot and accidentally killed Ed. Thompson, a prisoner who was endeavoring to make his escape. Since this unfortunate occurrence, Wilder has been a changed man, and his present sad plight is supposed to be the outcome of this trouble. [repeated in the Pagosa Springs News 2-25-1892]
Wilder, James
patient gender M race W age 37 marital status M birthplace New York source 1930 census
Wilder, W. M.
Rocky Mountain News 2-19-1889 Pueblo Paragraphs W. M. Wilder, a lunatic from Durango who escaped from the state insane asylum a week ago, was captured south of La Junta to-day, having escaped freezing in the blizzard.
Wildman, Sarah E.
patient race W gender F age 41 marital status M place of birth Illinois source 1910 census
Wildman, Sarah E.
patient gender F race W age 61 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Wildman, Sarah E.
patient race: W sex: F age: 51 marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: ward help source: 1920 census
Wilds, Mathias
patient race: W sex: M age: 42 marital: S place of birth: Wisconsin none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Wiley, Charles
admitted 8-23-1900 from Las Animas County - Woodcroft Hospital
Wiley, Eugene J.
Wiley, Eugene J. born: 1846 died: 1898 Notes: Pvt Co B 12 Wis Inf, born in NY; Eugene Bert Wiley, age 53y, died Pueblo Hospital 11-22-1898, married, paid by wife of 820 E. 5th, Pueblo, Dr. P.R. Thombs cost $75.00 buried North Side Cemetery McCarthy Funeral Home
Wiley, Harry
patient gender M race W age 64 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wiley, Harry
patient race: W sex: M age: 54 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: plumber's helper source: 1920 census
Wiley, S. A.
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Wilkey, Georgia
patient gender F race W age 42 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wilkey, Georgia
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:S place of birth: Indiana occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Wilkins, Cora
Rocky Mountain News 1-8-1889 The Courts County Court Probate Cora Wilkins; lunacy; order for discharge on recommendation of superintendent (of insane asylum).
Wilkinson, Albert
patient race: In sex: M age: 54 marital:W place of birth: United States occupation: kitchen helper source: 1920 census
Wilkinson, Elmer H.
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wilkinson, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 76 marital:S place of birth: Indiana occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilko, John
Rocky Mountain News 9-1-1897 Returned to the Asylum Boulder, Colo., Aug. 31 John Wilko (Wilke?) of Louisville, who was recently sent to the insane asylum and who was released from that institution after a few days' confinement, returned to Louisville a few days ago and has been creating a number of disturbances in that place since that time. He was tried in the county court to-day and found guilty and will be returned to the asylum.
Willcox, Mahala
patient gender F race W age 77 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Willey, Flora I.
patient gender F race W age 29 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Willi, Fritz
patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Willi, Fritz
patient race: W sex: M age: 44 marital:S place of birth: Germany occupation: ward worker source: 1920 census
Williams, Ada
patient gender F race Neg age 60 marital status Wd birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Williams, Albert
Steamboat Pilot 2-24-1915 Claims Relationship Oak Creek Man Is Half Brother of Al. Williams Allen Waite, for a number of years one of the most efficient employes of the Routt County Fuel company, only last week learned of the commitment to the state insane asylum at Pueblo of Al. Williams, an Egeria ranchman, says the Oak Creek Times. Waite says that he is a half brother to Williams; that he can prove his identity, and that he is Williams' only living relative. Waite avers that he lived at the Williams place all the time during the recent strike troubles. As it is customary for the court to appoint a conservator where a person who has been adjudged insane has property, Waite stated that by virtue of his relationship to Williams it is proper the court should appoint him conservator and he intends to take steps to obtain such appointment.
Williams, Albert
Routt County Sentinel 2-5-1915 Local News Sheriff A. H. Chivington started Saturday for Pueblo, taking with him Al. Williams of Toponas, who was last week found to be insane. As there was no room at the state asylum, it was necessary to place the patient in the Woodcroft hospital for the insane.
Williams, Albert
patient race: W sex: M age: 63 marital:M place of birth: Wisconsin occupation: farm helper source: 1920 census
Williams, Albert
Oak Creek Times 5-6-1915 Albert Williams, a prominent ranchman of the Toponas neighborhood, who was in January sent to the state insane hospital for treatment, was in town Wednesday night, in the company of James F. Macfarlane, who is conservator of Williams' estate. The patient is much improved both mentally and physically on account of the treatment given him at the state institution, and had been released on parole for 90 days, with a view of final discharge. Sentinel.
Williams, Albert
Yampa Leader 3-19-1915 Administrator's Sale Notice is hereby given, that on Monday, the third day of May, A. D. 1915, next, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the late residence of Albert Williams, insane, west of Toponas, county of Routt, and state of Colorado, the personal property of said insane person, consisting of about twenty head of horses, twenty-four head of cattle, lot of farm and ranch machinery, tools, household goods and chickens and other articles, will be sold at public sale, in accordance with an order of court. Terms of sale, cash. Jas. H. Macfarlane, Conservator. March 18, 1915. First pub. March 19. Last pub. April 23.
Williams, Albert
Routt County Republican 2-5-1915 Here and There Albert Williams, a Yampa country ranchman, was adjudged insane last week by the county court and was sent to Pueblo.
Williams, Albert
Routt County Republican 2-26-1915 Here and There Allen Waite of Oak Creek claims to be a half brother of Al Williams of Egeria park who was recently adjudged insane. According to law Waite will be made conservator of the Williams property being the only living relative.
Williams, Albert
admitted 1-31-1915 from Routt, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Williams, Amanda
Williams, Amanda age 31y, resident of LaJunta, Co., married, wife of Charles Williams, died 2/20/1900 buried 2-20-1900 Roselawn cemetery, Dr. Busey cost $25.00 McCarthy Funeral Home
Williams, Amanda
admitted 11-21-1897 from La Junta, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Williams, Anna J.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1878 age 22 marital status S place of birth . source : 1900 census
Williams, Annie
patient gender F race Neg age 70 marital status Wd birthplace Alabama source 1930 census
Williams, Carl
patient gender M race W age 34 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Williams, Catherine
admitted 9-26-1896 from Trinidad, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Williams, D.
Rocky Mountain News 1-9-1892 Violently Insane Gunnison, Colo., Jan. 8 D. Williams, a tie chopper residing with his family at Sapinero, this county, became violently insane yesterday afternoon and was brought to Gunnison last evening. To-day he was tried before the county court to inquire into his sanity, and he was by the jury adjudged insane. He has a wife and three children who are left in destitute circumstances, making the case a peculiarly sad one. Williams imagines that he has business arrangements with Jay Gould and other wealthy men, and is continually singing and yelling.
Williams, David
patient gender M race W age 79 marital status M birthplace Wales source 1930 census
Williams, Edward
admitted 7-17-1914 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Williams, Elizabeth
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1863 age 37 marital status M place of birth Wisconsin occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Williams, Elizabeth
patient race W gender F age 46 marital status M place of birth Wisconsin occupation housekeeper source 1910 census
Williams, Elizabeth
patient race: W sex: F age: 56 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Williams, Ellis
patient gender M race W age 53 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Williams, Everett
Weekly Ignacio Chieftain 4-10-1914 Local and Personal Constable Barnes and Justice Cameron went up to the Dry Creek neighborhood Tuesday and returned bringing in custody one Everett Williams who was ailicten (?) with bats in the belfry, or properly speaking, was insane. He entertained the hallucination that a certain Bayfield lady was his wife, but the lady denies that such is the case. Sheriff Fassbinder came out in the evening and took the young man to Durango where the county physician pronounced him insane.
Williams, Everett
Telluride Daily Journal 4-13-1914 Lunacy Case in County Court County Judge McCloud yesterday fixed Thursday, April 16, as the date on which Everett Williams, a Kansan recently charged by a Bayfield woman with being out of his head in that he thought he was her husband, will be given a trial by jury on a lunacy charge. Durango Democrat.
Williams, George
Colorado Transcript 10-19-1911 An order was issued by County Judge Jameson Monday transferring the custody of George Williams to his father from that of Dr. Hubert Work, of Woodcraft hospital, Pueblo. Young Williams was adjudged insane last June and committed to the hospital, but the authorities there write that his condition has so greatly improved that it is believed the encouragement of having liberty will be conducive to a complete cure. He will probably be brought to his home this week.
Williams, George
patient race W gender M age . marital status . place of birth Texas occupation laborer source 1910 census
Williams, George
patient gender M race W age 36 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Williams, George J
admitted 3-9-1914 from Chaffee, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Williams, Harriett
patient gender F race W age 57 marital status D birthplace Michigan source 1930 census
Williams, Henry
Rocky Mountain News 10-13-1889 Three Lunatics Examined Three more lunatics were yesterday thrown upon the county for their support. The trio were accorded the usual investigation before Judge Miller and a jury in the county court and the usual orders made for their transfer to Pueblo. Of the three Aaron McKinnon, an ill-clad, heavy-stomached individual, was the most melancholy-looking. He informed the court that he had no blood in his body and that in case he should again wash his hands, divine Providence had willed that he must die. Elmer Ritter, it appeared, had suffered from fits since he was sixteen months old and has now developed an unbalanced intellect. Henry Williams appeared to have lost reason and everything else worth having. The men will be placed in Pueblo in case the officials of that institution see fit to accord them a home.
Williams, Henry H.
Boulder Daily Camera 12-2-1896 Local News Sheriff Dyer is being kept busy with the insane. He has placed James Butcher, the Louisville lunatic, in the state asylum and has two more in the insane cell, Williams, the Longmont liveryman, who attempted suicide by cutting his throat Sunday, and Bryant, the Arapahoe avenue man, in whose case the former jury disagreed. Bryant will have another examination, as the officials deem him insane and a dangerous man to be at large.
Williams, Henry H.
Boulder Daily Camera 12-4-1896 Local News Sheriff Dyer left for Pueblo this morning, taking along the man Williams, who attempted suicide at Longmont twice this week and was adjudged insane.
Williams, Henry H.
patient race W gender M month born . year born . age . marital status . place of birth . source : 1900 census
Williams, Henry H.
Boulder Daily Camera 11-30-1896 A Longmont Man's Wild Act Longmont, Nov. 30. Henry Williams, proprietor of a feed store and unmarried, attempted to end his life yesterday by cutting his throat with a knife. The unhappy man made a wicked lunge at his throat and cut it deep but not a plenty. He will recover.
Williams, Henry H.
Boulder News 12-3-1896 H. H. Williams, of Longmont, was adjudged insane after trying to commit suicide. Hit on head with pitchfork several years earlier. Source also references article in Boulder County Herald Weekly 12-2-1896. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Williams, Henry H.
Boulder News 8-13-1891 Henry Williams, of Livermore, Larimer Co., Colo., tried to commit suicide. He is insane. Cousin of Lem McIntosh. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Williams, Henry H.
Rocky Mountain News 12-3-1896 Insane Man's Suicidal Mania Boulder, Colo., Dec. 2 H. H. Williams, who has been adjudged insane, yesterday made two attempts to kill himself. One with the knife furnished him at the dinner hour, and the other at 10 o'clock a.m. He is about 56 years of age, and has attempted to take his own life four times. Some time ago he was hurt on the head with a pitchfork and it was alleged he has never been right since. The poor fellow will be taken to Pueblo to-morrow.
Williams, Henry H.
Boulder Daily Camera 8-13-1891 - The State Insane Asylum at Pueblo is full to overflowing and now each county will have to make arrangements for keeping its own patients. This is a sorry condition of affairs. There are now two insane men in this county awaiting commitment as soon as Judge Rogers returns. Both have tried to end their lives recently. One is Bittenbender and the other is Williams who tried to suicide last Sunday. The state will have to do something next legislature or lunatics will be hanging on every barbed wire fence all over the commonwealth.
Williams, John A.
patient gender M race W age 56 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Williams, John T.
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status D birthplace Wales source 1930 census
Williams, Katherine
patient gender F race W age 85 marital status Wd birthplace Germany source 1930 census
Williams, Katherine
patient race: W sex: F age: 74 marital:W place of birth: Germany occupation: none source: 1920 census
Williams, Lizzie
patient gender F race W age 41 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Williams, Lizzie
patient race W gender F age 32 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Williams, Lizzie
Colorado Transcript 7-24-1919 Do You Remember? Items Conned from The Transcript Files of Former Years Twenty Years Ago This Week Mrs. Lizzie Williams was adjudged insane and ordered to the state insane asylum at Pueblo.
Williams, Lizzie
Colorado Transcript 7-26-1899 Mrs. Lizzie Williams was again in the toils on Monday, and this time she was convicted in the county court of lunacy. She was taken to the asylum this morning, and as Dr. Thombs has sent in his resignation there is some chance of her taking a brace during her sojourn in Pueblo.
Williams, Mabel
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Williams, Mary
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1863 age 37 marital status W place of birth Missouri occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Williams, Mary
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... Mary Williams was next placed on trial. She was the only really violent patient. Her particular mania was that the hospital people had taken from her $9.05 in money and an immense dry goods box full of bed clothes. She talked loudly throughout her confinement in the court room. She was declared insane...
Williams, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 12-24-1894
A Dangerous Lunatic The case of Mrs. Williams is a peculiar one and has thus far baffled the local physicians. Besides the freak of yesterday, which but for its prompt discovery and the heroic measures adopted by the guards and nurses, might have resulted in loss of life, she has had some other tantrums which have caused no little trouble. She claims to belong in St. Joseph, Mo., and when Commissioner Nicholl was chairman of the board he offered to furnish her transportation to that point. As she declined to go there, nothing more was done, and she was lost sight of for a long time. She reappeared in Denver a few weeks ago, with the evidences of insanity more marked than before. The only place to send her was to the hospital, as the asylum authorities had at that time notified the board that there was no room in that institution for anyone. On her arrival at the hospital she was searched, and when the nurse attempted to take from her person a few dollars in money, there was a fight, and the attendant was knocked to the floor. One of the house physicians who came to the rescue suffered the same fate. Since then Mrs. Williams has exhibited vicious tendencies, but the attempt at arson was wholly unexpected. The demented woman took her clothing, tore it up, tied the same in tiny balls, and from the grated cell in which she is kept threw the pieces against the stove in the corridor, which is the only means of heating the lower part or basement of the hospital.
Williams, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 1-3-1895 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre: To-day's call: 3801 May Williams, lunacy.
Williams, Mary
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.
Williams, Mattie
patient gender F race Neg age 49 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Williams, Merritt E.
Rocky Mountain News 1-12-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Merritt E. Williams; order for release from asylum.
Williams, Merritt E.
Rocky Mountain News 10-21-1891 Courts and Clients The Morphine Habit A very sad case was brought to the attention of a jury in the county court yesterday. Merritt E. Williams was on trial as to the question of his lunacy. He is a resident of Grand Junction, Mesa county, and has been in this city about a month. The testimony showed that he is an apparently hopeless victim of the morphine and cocaine habit; he is now using forty grains of cocaine and five grains of morphine per day. In his insane imagination Williams fancied that insects were crawling on his limbs, and in a frantic effort to kill what he supposed were bugs, he had cut several ugly gashes on his legs with a large knife. County Attorney Le Fevre represented Mesa county and Attorney Tesch appeared as guardian ad litem for Williams. The unfortunate man exhibited in court many of the peculiarities of his diseased mind, among which was a request that his wife should be summoned as a witness. He said that if the case was withdrawn he would go voluntarily to the asylum. This could not be done as he would not have been received under such circumstances. The jury found that he was incapable of managing his own affairs and he will be committed to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Williams, Mittie
patient gender F race Neg age 48 marital status Wd birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Williams, Phineas
patient race W gender M age 52 marital status W place of birth Michigan occupation laborer source 1910 census
Williams, Phineas
Durango Democrat 7-22-1906 Sheriff Thompson came back last night from Pueblo where he deposited Phineas Williams in the insane asylum.
Williams, Reece
Colorado Democrat 8-1-1894 Reece Williams, the demented ranchman from Granite, was sent to the Pueblo insane asylum last Thursday under an order of Judge Hollenbock.
Williams, Reese
patient race W gender M month born September year born 1847 age 52 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Williams, Reese
patient race W gender M age 62 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation farmer source 1910 census
Williams, Reese
patient race: W sex: M age: 72 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Williams, Rena
admitted 3-9--1898 from Boulder, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Williams, Rena A.
Boulder County Herald Weekly 3-9-1898 Rena A. Williams was declared insane 7 Mar 1898. Daughter of J. N. Williams. Source also references article in Boulder News 3-10-1898. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Williams, W.W. Sr.
Telluride Daily Journal 5-31-1923 97-Year-Old Redvale Man Sent to Pueblo W. W. Williams, Sr., a long time resident of this county, making his home at Redvale, was taken to Pueblo Tuesday by Sheriff S. J. Phillips, to be placed in the state hospital there. While not insane, the old man's mind has failed to such an extent that he is not normal, and is very childish, not realizing what is going on around him. Mr. Williams is ninety-seven years old and is still in good physical condition, but the mind which has been so active in its day, thinking out new plans, and a new country with the rest of the pioneers could not stand the strain of the many years, and has broken. Mr. Williams is being taken to Pueblo that he may have the best possible care during the rest of his life. Montrose Press.
Williams, Wallace
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 12-14-1917 Williams Ordered To State AsylumJudge Bouton, in the county court this morning, ordered Wallace Williams, the recently released slacker to be taken to the state hospital for the insane at Pueblo. Williams was brought here yesterday from Denver by Undersheriff Knapp and Chas. Sanders. He resisted and force was required to get him to the train. This morning a commission examined him and reported to the court thta [sic] he was insane and should be committed.
Williams, William
patient race W gender M age 27 marital status S place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Williams, William B.
Cripple Creek Morning Times 12-21-1899 - William B. Williams of Cripple Creek was adjudged insane and ordered committed to the state asylum.
Williams, William B.
patient race W gender M month born March year born 1858 age 42 marital status M place of birth Kentucky occupation miner source : 1900 census
Williamson, Agnes
Cripple Creek Morning Times 1-25-1900 Recovered Mrs. Agnes Williamson, who was adjudged insane in the county court on January 10, has since that time received such good care at the Sister's hospital in this city that she has recovered the use of her mental faculties. Her case was accordingly re-opened in the court yesterday and a motion for her dismissal was granted.
Williamson, Alexander
patient gender M race Neg age 52 marital status S birthplace West Indies source 1930 census
Williamson, Alexander
patient race: B sex: M age: 41 marital:S place of birth: Cuba occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Williamson, Jack
Fairplay Flume 9-21-1906 Jack Williamson, who had been working at the Weston ranch, was tried in the county court on Monday, adjudged insane and was taken to the asylum Tuesday by Sheriff Packer.
Willis, Florence M.
patient race: W sex: F age: 25 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Willis, Sara Jane
admitted 5-6-1898 from Trinidad, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Willliams, Mary
Denver Evening Post 12-24-1894 An Insane Freak A Slight Fire at the County Hospital Building Caused by a Patient An attempt to fire the county hospital building was made yesterday by a Mrs. Williams, an insane patient. Although vicious at intervals, she was never before regarded as a dangerous patient. Tearing her clothing into small particles she threw them from her cell against the stove in the corridor. A quantity of the stuff becoming ignited created a slight blaze, which an attendant fortunately discovered before any serious damage resulted.
Wills, Samuel
patient race: W sex: M age: 49 marital:S place of birth: Kentucky occupation: none source: 1920 census
Willson, Mary E.
patient gender F race W age 81 marital status Wd birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Wilmot, R. S.
Rocky Mountain News 10-9-1886 A Lunatic in Court R. S. Wilmot Creates a Scene When Brought to Trial for Lunacy The usual monotony of the county court proceedings was broken yesterday forenoon by a scene in which a lunatic and the jail guards were the principal actors. A man named R. S. Wilmot has been confined in the county jail on a charge of lunacy, awaiting trial. During this time he has given the guards a great deal of trouble, having attacked them and also some of the inmates of the same ward, against whom he had conceived a dislike. It always required more than one and sometimes three men to manage him. Yesterday he was brought into the court for trial, and was seated near the judge's desk. Before his case was called he picked up his hat and started for the door. The two guards sprang forward to stop him, when he furiously attacked them, and the assistance of the court officers were required to overcome and secure him. He was then chained to the seats, and the jury impaneled in the case found him to be a lunatic. He will be taken to Pueblo to-day. Wilmot is an old resident of the city, and has worked at blacksmithing for many years. He is very popular and his loss of reason is deeply deplored by his friends. While he is a slim man, he has a powerful arm, which he handles like a professional, and as a result the guards were more or less bruised in the effort to secure him. The affair created great excitement about the court house.
Wilmot, Robert S.
Rocky Mountain News 7-27-1890 Insurance That Insures The following is a partial list of Death Losses paid by the Denver Agency (of The Travelers Insurance Co.): Robert S. Wilmot, life policy, paralytic insanity - $10,000
Wilmoth, Mary
patient gender F race W age 49 marital status M birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Wilsey, Frank
patient race W gender M age 31 marital status S place of birth New York occupation laborer source 1910 census
Wilsey, Frank
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:S place of birth: New York occupation: laundry helper source: 1920 census
Wilson, ?
Telluride Daily Journal 6-3-1901 The Wilson woman was adjudged insane in the county court Saturday afternoon and will be taken to Pueblo tomorrow morning.
Wilson, ?
Telluride Daily Journal 6-4-1901 Deputy Sheriff McCaughtry went out to Pueblo this morning to place the insane Wilson woman in the asylum.
Wilson, Abner
patient gender M race W age 72 marital status Un birthplace Texas source 1930 census
Wilson, Abner
patient race: W sex: M age: 57 marital:. place of birth: Texas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Anna L.
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 11-9-1899 Miss Anna L. Wilson of Bellvue has been adjudged insane and taken to the asylum at Pueblo. Her trial occurred this (Thursday) morning before Judge Mills of the county court. Deputy Sheriff Bristol took her to Pueblo.
Wilson, Clara
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1860 age 40 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation teacher source : 1900 census
Wilson, Clara
patient race W gender F age 49 marital status S place of birth Illinois occupation teacher source 1910 census
Wilson, Clara
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... Clara Wilson had a peculiar mania. She was all right mentally until she went to work as a domestic. A few days after her employment she announced that a month before she had a dream, in which she was warned against the woman who was employing her. She immediately left, and ever since has labored under the delusion that this lady was trying to poison or kill her. She also took to reading the Bible night and day. She was declared insane...
Wilson, Clara
Rocky Mountain News 1-3-1895 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre: To-day's call: 3802 Clara Wilson, lunacy.
Wilson, Clara
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.
Wilson, Clara
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: Clara Wilson
Wilson, Clara
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
Women Without Minds Clarinda Montgomery, Clara Wilson and Alice Farrell muttered under their breath when saluted. 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.
Wilson, Clara Miss
admitted 3-18-1898 from Denver, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wilson, Cora
patient race W gender F age 28 marital status M birthplace Nebraska source 1920 Woodcroft hospital census
Wilson, Dwight
patient race: W sex: M age: 26 marital: S place of birth: Nebraska none source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Wilson, Emma
patient race W gender F age 35 marital status M place of birth Kansas source 1910 census
Wilson, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 46 marital:M place of birth: Kansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Emma
patient gender F race W age 56 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Wilson, Emma
patient race: W sex: F age: 54 marital:M place of birth: Sweden occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Emma
patient race W gender F age 44 marital status M place of birth Sweden source 1910 census
Wilson, Emma
patient gender F race W age 65 marital status M birthplace Sweden source 1930 census
Wilson, Emma
admitted 6-5-1901 from Telluride, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wilson, Eva
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1862 age 38 marital status S place of birth Missouri source : 1900 census
Wilson, Eva
patient race W gender F age 47 marital status S place of birth Missouri source 1910 census
Wilson, Eva
patient race: W sex: F age: 57 marital:S place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Fanny L.
Denver Evening Post 11-10-1899 Young Woman Insane Fort Collins, Colo., Nov. 10 In the county court here today before Judge Mills and a jury an inquisition in lunacy was held in the case of Fanny L. Wilson of Bellevue. Miss Wilson is about 20 years of age, and has been partially paralyzed since infancy. Of late years she has been subject to violent fits, and her condition became so serious that it was feared that she would do some harm to herself or others. Her mother testified that her fits were periodical every few days, and that she would kick over the cooking stove and throw flatirons at the younger children until she became a terror to the family. The jury found a verdict of insanity and the young woman will be taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo for treatment.
Wilson, Fleta
patient gender F race W age 35 marital status M birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Wilson, George A.
Elbert County Banner 3-10-1899 Geo. A. Wilson, who, it will be remembered, was taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo about January 1, died one day last week. The remains were brought here last Saturday and buried in the Elbert cemetery Sunday. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Geo. E. Tuttle. The wife has the sympathy of the whole community in her sad hour of bereavement.
Wilson, George A.
Wray Rattler 5-31-1917 George A. Wilson of near Kirk, was taken in custody by Sheriff Hitchcock and Deputy McConnell, last Thursday and that evening had his hearing before Judge Barker. He was found to be non compus mentus and sent to the asylum. George Mang being deputized and taking him last Saturday. Wilson has been insane for about three years and confined in the asylum, but not long ago he made his escape and returned to Kirk.
Wilson, George A.
Wray Rattler 10-31-1912 Adjudged Insane Sheriff Devling was called to Fox last Monday to take charge of George Wilson of that place. Complaint was made that the man was insane and dangerous to be at liberty. The sheriff brought him to Wray Monday evening and his trial was held before the county court Tuesday. The jury decided he was insane and he was sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Wilson, Gladys
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wilson, Gladys
patient race: W sex: F age: . marital:M place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Harry
patient gender M race W age 63 marital status S birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wilson, James A.
Colorado Springs Gazette 3-22-1906 - Is Adjudged Insane - James A. Wilson Ordered Taken to Pueblo Sanatorium - James A. Wilson, who was arrested by the police Tuesday afternoon, was pronounced insane by a jury in the county court yesterday afternoon and was taken to a sanatorium in Pueblo last night by Deputy Sheriff Scofield. Wilson talked to the jury of furnishing his private flat on South Cascade avenue - meaning the jail - with green-eyed turtles and snakes and said that he would bring his friends there to be converted. Wilson is about 24 years old.
Wilson, James A.
Colorado Springs Gazette 3-21-1906 - Thought to be Insane - James A. Wilson, Ranchman, is Taken into Custody - James A. Wilson was taken in charge by the police yesterday while wandering around the streets in a mental condition that caused serious doubts as to his sanity. Wilson was turned over to Sheriff O. P. Grimes, and Dr. H. L. Richardson filed a complaint in the county court charging that Wilson is suffering with paresis. A lunacy trial will be held in the county court at 10 o'clock this morning. Wilson has been living on a ranch about 20 miles east of Colorado Springs.
Wilson, John H. Jr.
patient gender M race W age 25 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wilson, Lena
patient gender F race W age 38 marital status M birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Wilson, Louis
patient gender M race W age 39 marital status S birthplace Georgia source 1930 census
Wilson, Marie
patient race W gender F age 27 marital status S place of birth Iowa occupation seamstress source 1910 census
Wilson, Marie
patient gender F race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Wilson, Marie
patient race: W sex: F age: 37 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: laundry help source: 1920 census
Wilson, Mary
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1852 age 48 marital status W place of birth Ohio occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census
Wilson, Mary
patient race W gender F age 67 marital status W place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Wilson, Mary
patient race: W sex: F age: 77 marital:W place of birth: Ohio occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 4-28-1886 The Courts County Court Probate People vs. Mary Wilson; lunacy; complaint filed; order of arrest; S. W. Carpenter appointed guardian ad litem.
Wilson, Mary
Rocky Mountain News 5-6-1886 The Courts County Court Probate People vs. Mary Wilson; trial; verdict, insane, and judgment that she be committed to insane asylum at Pueblo.
Wilson, Mrs.
Telluride Daily Journal 5-27-1901 Woman Tries to Drown Herself Saturday evening about 9 o'clock word was brought to the sheriff's office that a woman was walking up and down the river bank at the upper end of town, threatening to throw herself into the raging stream. Deputies Beattie and Spellman went down by Stubbs & Jakway's and when within about twenty yards of the woman she threw herself into the stream. Deputy Beattie jumped in and pulled her out and she was taken to the county jail for safe keeping. The woman, a Mrs. Wilson, has a little boy which it is said there has been some talk of taking away from her to place him in a school or some home. She is weak minded, it is said the result of having had her skull cracked by being struck with a bottle by a former husband, and the fear of losing her child has preyed upon her mind. She has threatened to take the boy up the hill and throw him over a cliff and then threatened to kill herself. The unfortunate creature is to be pitied. She will probably be subjected to an inquisition as to her sanity and will undoubtedly be committed to the Pueblo asylum. It is the best place for her.
Wilson, Mrs.
Telluride Daily Journal 6-1-1901 In the county court this afternoon an inquisition is seeking to determine the sanity of the Wilson woman. She will undoubtedly go to Pueblo.
Wilson, Mrs. H. F.
Colorado Springs Gazette 7-12-1911 Mrs. H. F. Wilson was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo. She had lived in Colorado Springs for about six years and is a printer by profession. She was also active in Republican political circles during the campaigns of the last few years.
Wilson, Pearl
patient gender F race W age 54 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wilson, Pearl
patient race: W sex: F age: 40 marital:S place of birth: Indiana occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wilson, Ruth Elizabeth
patient gender F race W age 46 marital status D birthplace Nebraska source 1930 census
Wilson, Ruth Elizabeth
patient race: W sex: F age: 35 marital:M place of birth: Nebraska occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wilson, Ruth Elizabeth
admitted 1-3-1914 from Boulder, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wilson, Walter
patient gender M race W age 58 marital status M birthplace Kansas source 1930 census
Wimmer, Burr G.
patient gender M race W age 51 marital status S birthplace United States source 1930 census
Wimmer, Burr G.
patient race: W sex: M age: 41 marital:S place of birth: Iowa occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wimmer, Burr G.
patient race W gender M age 31 marital status S place of birth . occupation farmer source 1910 census
Wimmer, Burr G.
Wray Rattler 5-2-1902 County Judge J.S. Hendrie issued an order from court for the removal of Burt Wimmer from Woodcroft hospital to the insane asylum. Yuma Pioneer.
Wimmer, Burr G.
Wray Rattler 2-22-1907 United States Land Office, Sterling, Colorado, January 23, 1907. Notice given in the estate of Burt G. Wimmer, insane, by his Conservator to prove up his land claim. Conservator Henry Wimmer , D.C. Fleming, Registrar.
Wimmer, Burr G.
Yuma Pioneer 1-24-1902 Official Report of the Proceeding of the Board of County Commissioners The Board of County Commissioners of Yuma county, Colorado met in regular session at the office of the County Clerk, at 9 a.m
Tuesday, January 7, 1902 Board met
The quarterly report of E. Loring, county clerk, was approved, and the following claims allowed and ordered paid out of the different funds to wit: Hubert Work, care of B. Wimmer (at Woodcroft), miscellaneous fund, $18.
Wimmer, Burr G.
Yuma Pioneer 4-25-1902 County Judge J. S. Hendrie issued an order from the court for the removal of Burr Wimmer from Woodcroft hospital to the insane asylum.
Wimmer, Burr G.
Yuma Pioneer 5-16-1902 Should Work Both Ways Owing to the crowded condition of the State insane asylum, Sheriff Lamphere was unable to secure the admission of Bert Wimmer to that institution and so Bert will have to remain at Woodcroft hospital for some time yet. We believe that the county commissioners should sue the state for the expenses incurred by the county in the care of their insane. The state is fussing around and trying to get the counties to put up the interest collected on state funds and at the same time, are criminally negligent in providing for the insane, and compel the counties to care for their own insane. It is a mighty poor rule that will not work both ways.
Wimmer, Burr G.
Yuma Pioneer 2-20-1903 Official Proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners County Clerk's Office Wray, Colo., Friday, Feb. 13, 1903 The board of County Commissioners met at 9 o'clock a.m
The following claims were presented, examined and allowed and ordered paid, out of contingent fund: Dr. Herbert Work, hospital care (Woodcroft) B. G. Wimmer, pauper fund, $31.00..
Wimmer, Burr G.
Yuma Pioneer 4-17-1903 Official County Commissioners Proceedings County Clerk's Office Wray, Colo., April 6, 1903 The board of county commissioners of Yuma County Colorado, met in regular session
The following claims were examined and allowed and ordered paid out of poor fund:
Dr. Herbert Work, hospital care B. G. Wimmor, insane poor, poor fund, $59.00.
Wimmer, Burr G.
Wray Gazette 9-11-1908 County Treasurer's Semi-Annual Statement Semi-annual statement of receipts and expenditures of Yuma County from January 1, 1908 to June 30, 1908, both inclusive: Contingent Fund Matter of Burr G. Wimmer, insane, $323.42
Wind, J. G.
patient gender M race W age 30 marital status S birthplace Virginia source 1930 census
Wing, Ching
patient race W gender M age 60 marital status S place of birth China occupation laundryman source 1910 census
Winn, Pauline
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace England source 1930 census
Winn, Pauline
patient race: W sex: F age: 34 marital:M place of birth: England occupation: none source: 1920 census
Winn, Wm.
patient race W gender M month born August year born 1854 age 45 marital status M place of birth Kentucky occupation carpenter source : 1900 census
Winslow, Hattie E.
Greeley Tribune 6-6-1901 Mrs. Hattie E. Winslow Dead Mrs. Hattie Ellen Winslow of Evans, who was adjudged insane a few weeks ago and taken to the county house for benefit, died May 31, 1901. Mrs. Winslow was born in Illinois on April 25, 1861. The chief cause of her mental debility was brought on by typhoid fever. Mrs. Winslow's previous condition and death is very sad for she leaves a husband and a family of ten young children. The funeral services were conducted at the undertaking parlors of W. Z. Billis Saturday afternoon.
Winter, William
patient gender M race W age 65 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Winters, Helen
patient gender F race W age 44 marital status M birthplace New Jersey source 1930 census
Wintersteen, George P.
Steamboat Pilot 4-26-1905 Former U. S. Commissioner Geo. P. Wintersteen died April 7th at the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Wintersteen, George P.
Routt County Sentinel 4-15-1921 Sixteen Years Ago Reminiscences recalled by the early files of The Routt County Sentinel. The news items that appeared for the corresponding week 16 years ago will be republished in this column each week. April 14, 1905 Died April 7, 1905, George P. Wintersteen, at the insane asylum at Pueblo. He had been United States commissioner in Steamboat until he became deranged, about a year before.
Winton, Floyd D.
painter, Woodcroft Hospital, 1930 Directory
Wise, Emery
patient gender M race W age 48 marital status Un birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Wise, Emery
patient race: W sex: M age: 37 marital:. place of birth: Austria occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wise, James
Routt County Sentinel 2-5-1915 James Wise was adjudged insane in the County court at Meeker last week.
Wise, Mrs.
Colorado Transcript 7-29-1920 Local Paragraphs Mrs. Wise, a parolled inmate of the insane asylum, was picked up by Under Sheriff Gary Kerr in Golden last Friday in a demented condition and will be taken back to the state hospital for the insane at Pueblo.
Wiss, Frank
Rocky Mountain News 4-17-1890 - Taken To An Asylum - Wiss is Driven to Insanity by Caparel's Blow - Trinidad, Colo., April 16 - Frank Wiss, who has been employed at the El Moro coke ovens, was sent to the Colorado Coal and Iron hospital at Pueblo this morning, suffering from a fracture of the skull. Monday Wiss and an Italian named Caparel had some words over their work. To settle the matter the Italian cracked Wiss over the head with a heavy pick handle, knocking him senseless. Caparel was not arrested by the authorities at the ovens for the reason, it is said, that they did not think anything serious would result from the injury, and when Wiss returned to Wray they would make the Italian pay him for the time he had lost on account of being laid up. Word of the affair, however, was brought to Sheriff Kreger and he dispatched a deputy to take Caparel into custody. The Italian learned that the officers were after him and went into hiding while the deputy remained around. To-night word was brought to the city that he had returned to his home and that a party had organized in El Moro to lynch him, but the alarm proved to be false. His friends keep such a sharp lookout that it will be a hard matter for the officers to capture him. Caparel is said to be the man who murdered a railroad man in front of the Southern hotel in this city four years ago, and is considered a very dangerous man.
Wissing, Henry
Oak Creek Times 3-27-1913 Henry Wissing, who had been boarding at Phippsburg, was found insane Monday by a jury in the county court. Sheriff Chivington took him to Pueblo the next day.
Witchner, James
patient gender M race W age 46 marital status Un birthplace United States source 1930 census
Witchner, James
patient race: W sex: M age: 34 marital:S place of birth: United States occupation: none source: 1920 census
Witham, Fred
pupil race: W sex: M age: 17 marital: S place of birth: Colorado source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Witko, John
Boulder County Herald Weekly 7-21-1897 John Witko, of Louisville, was declared insane and taken to Pueblo 19 July 1897 by Sheriff Dyer. Source notes that last name was spelled as Wilco in this article. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Witko, John
Boulder News 9-2-1897 John Witko was again declared insane and returned to asylum. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Witthauer, Henry
Colorado Transcript 1-11-1906 Henry Witthauer, a former town marshall of Edgewater, was adjudged insane by a jury in the county court Monday, and Deputy Sheriff Dennis took him to Pueblo. Mr. Witthauer was tried on an insanity charge about a year ago and at that time was acquitted, but his actions recently have been such that there was no longer any doubt as to his being insane. The complaint was made by his wife, who said that she was afraid that he might kill her or the children.
Wittow, Julia
patient gender F race W age 45 marital status M birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wittow, Julia
patient race: W sex: F age: 45 marital:M place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wixstrom, Andrew
Telluride Daily Journal 5-29-1913 To Pueblo Sheriff Edward Hoffman, with Andrew Wixstrom in custody, left on the morning northbound for Pueblo, where Wixstrom, who was adjudged insane before County Judge M. L. Brown yesterday afternoon, will be placed in Work's sanitarium a short distance out of Pueblo. Wixstrom has been an inmate of the Hadley hospital here for the past three years, having suffered a paralytic stroke at that time and gradually growing worse.
Woelfel, Charles H.
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Woempner, Caroline
patient gender F race W age 57 marital status M birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Woiths, John
patient gender M race W age 67 marital status S birthplace Austria source 1930 census
Woitko, John
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1862 age 38 marital status S place of birth Austria occupation coal miner source : 1900 census
Woitko, John
patient race W gender M age 47 marital status S place of birth Austria occupation miner source 1910 census
Woitko, John
patient race: W sex: M age: 56 marital:S place of birth: Austria occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wolf, John T.
Rocky Mountain News 5-29-1894 Adjudged Insane Holyoke, Colo., May 28 John T. Wolf, a farmer living near this place, was adjudged violently insane to-day and taken by Sheriff Guthrie to the Pueblo asylum.
Wolf, Sophia
patient race: W sex: F age: 32 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wolfe, Charles F.
patient gender M race W age 73 marital status Wd birthplace Iowa source 1930 census
Wolfe, Roscoe S.
patient gender M race W age 35 marital status S birthplace Ohio source 1930 census
Wolfe, William Ray
Ouray Herald 2-2-1922 William Ray Wolfe Taken To State Insane Asylum Escorted Out to Pueblo by Deputy Sheriff Hoskin Sunday Morning Saturday a lunacy commission composed of Drs. C. V. Bates and L. C. Stadler, was called in by County Judge E. C. Mowry to inquire into the mental condition of William Ray Wolfe, of Colona, who had been reported by friends as acting queerly for some time. Wolfe is supposed to have been suffering with melancholia for several weeks, causing his alleged queerness, and the commission decided his mind was affected to a point where he should receive treatment at the state sanitarium. He was taken to Pueblo Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Hoskin and the deputy sheriff had not been heard from up to Tuesday night and his friends are wondering if the asylum authorities had decided to keep both patient and escort until they could decide which needed their attention most if at all.
Wolfe, William Ray
Ouray Herald 2-23-1922 Commissioners Proceedings For February, 1922, Meeting The Board of County Commissioners met this day
The following bills were allowed from the General County Fund: Earl Hoskin, Wolfe case, $15.00; Josie Wolfe, Wolfe case, $6.40; Dr. C. V. Bates, examination Wolfe case, $10.00; Edwin Comerer, Wolfe case, $6.40; E. E. Wheeler, attorney Wolfe case, $10.00; C. A. Johnson, Wolfe case, $6.40; Ray Wolfe Jr., Wolfe case, $6.40; Dr. L. C. Stadler, examination Wolfe case, $10.00
Wolff, Alfred
patient race: W sex: M age: 32 marital:S place of birth: Arizona occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wolff, Jake
patient gender M race W age 62 marital status S birthplace Alsace Lorraine source 1930 census
Wolford, Ole
patient race W gender M month born . year born 1877 age 23 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation farmer source : 1900 census
Wolford, Ole
patient race W gender M age 32 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation farmer source 1910 census
Wolverton, May
Fort Collins Weekly Courier 9-20-1905 Sheriff McCreery left for Pueblo today to commit Miss May Wolverton of Loveland, to the state insane asylum.
Wolverton, May
Rocky Mountain News 9-14-1897 Suffered From Over Study Loveland Girl Committed to the Pueblo Insane Asylum Miss May Wolverton of Loveland was taken before Judge Bailey at Fort Collins yesterday and examined for lunacy. Last week Miss Wolverton passed a rigid examination at the Denver Conservatory of Music, intending to enter that institution as a pupil. It is supposed that the hard preparatory study for the examination affected the young woman's mind. She will be taken to Pueblo and it is thought that a few weeks' treatment will restore her health and mental vigor.
Wolverton, May
Denver Evening Post 9-14-1897 Her Mind Unbalanced Miss Wolverton of Loveland was yesterday committed to the Pueblo Insane asylum by Judge Bailey of Fort Collins. It is supposed that the hard study preparatory to examination held last week at Denver conservatory of music temporarily affected the girl's mind.
Wolverton, May E.
patient race W gender F age 63 marital status S place of birth Illinois source 1910 census
Wolverton, May E.
Denver Evening Post 9-9-1897 Went Insane May Woolverton, a music teacher of Loveland, Colo., became violently insane at the Union depot this morning and was taken to the city jail. She came down from Loveland yesterday morning and called on Dr. Blair at Seventeenth and Champa streets. She said she was not feeling well and the doctor gave her some medicine. Her father has been notified and will come after her.
Womer, G W
admitted 6-13-1901 from Las Animas , Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wommer, Edna
patient gender F race W age 51 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Wommer, Edna
patient race: W sex: F age: 41 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wommer, Edna L.
patient race W gender F age 31 marital status M place of birth Illinois source 1910 census
Wommer, Frank Mrs.
Bayfield Blade 9-8-1916 Mrs. Frank Wommer was adjudged insane in the county court on Thursday of last week, and taken to the state insane asylum the day following. The Herald said: Mrs. Frank Wommer, daughter of the late Henry Ludwig, who was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday afternoon, was taken to the state asylum today, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fassbinder and her sister, Miss Ruby Ludwig. Last night she was violent and caused her attendants no end of trouble. This morning she was quiet and occasionally recognized friends she met at the depot.
Wommer, Henry Mrs.
Durango Democrat 3-9-1906 Sudden Insanity Mrs. Henry Wommer, wife of Henry Wommer of Bayfield, was brought in Wednesday evening by her relatives to have her examined by a local physician and while upon the street was taken in charge by the county officials and placed in the insane ward of the county jail. She is 28 years old and will undoubtedly be adjudged insane and sent to the asylum. It seems to run in the family, her father, a Mr. Shepherd, having died of the same affliction.
Wommer, Henry Mrs.
Durango Democrat 7-12-1906 Mrs. Wommer, who was sent to the insane asylum at Pueblo recently, is a step-daughter of Andy Hartman.
Wommer, Henry Mrs.
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.
Wood, Albert C
admitted 6-1-1915 from Otero, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wood, C. H.
patient race W gender M month born March year born 1857 age 43 marital status M place of birth Canada occupation merchant source : 1900 census
Wood, C. H.
patient race W gender M age 52 marital status M place of birth Canada occupation merchant source 1910 census
Wood, Carrie
patient race: W sex: F age: 61 marital: W place of birth: Pennsylvanianone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Wood, Charles H.
Rocky Mountain News 6-25-1890 Punished by Remorse A Murderer's Mind Gives Way and He Becomes Insane Charles H. Wood shot and killed Philip Hubbard, May 27, 1882, a little over eight years ago. The tragedy occurred at the mouth of the alley adjoining the Brunswick hotel on Sixteenth street. He was acquitted on the charge of murder, but it has undoubtedly preyed upon his mind to such an extent as to dethrone his reason. Sunday he became so badly unsettled that he was placed under restraint by his friends, who feared that he would make an attempt upon his life. Yesterday he was taken to the hospital. He is thought to be hopelessly insane. He has a wife living in the city.
Wood, Charles H.
Rocky Mountain News 7-2-1890 Briefs Charles H. Wood was declared insane by a jury in the county court yesterday. Wood killed a man on Sixteenth street near the Brunswick hotel seven or eight years ago and was arrested, tried and acquitted. The deed, however, has been weighing on his mind and he imagines that some one is trying to kill him. Julius Gertsmeyer, who takes fits and is rendered almost continually insane, was also declared to be insane. Both were taken to the state asylum last night.
Wood, Chester L.
Longmont Ledger 5-13-1910 Armed with two revolvers and an inexhaustible supply of ammunition, Chester L. Wood, aged forty, a mad man, eluded the Denver police and a hundred citizens for eight hours Sunday by holding them at bay during a flight covering nearly ten miles, until he was so seriously injured he was forced to seek shelter in an irrigation tunnel about a mile north of Arvada, where he was captured. He was hurriedly removed to the county hospital, where the attendants have but little hope for his recovery.
Wood, Chester L.
Steamboat Pilot 5-11-1910 Insane Patient Gives Officers Merry Chase Denver, May 9. Chester L. Wood, insane, was captured at 7 o'clock last night by policemen and attendants from the county hospital after a chase of nine miles after he had received a rifle wound and ninety buckshots in his body. Wood, who escaped his guards at the hospital, armed himself with two revolvers and a big supply of ammunition and started out to wipe up the world with his imaginative army following close behind. As soon as news of his escape from the guards had been spread, an immediate search was started. He was soon spotted and the chase commenced. As the officers and hospital attendants drew near, Wood opened fire right and left but did little damage other than warming up his guns. Five pitched battles took place from the time he was seen running until he was finally caught. He barricaded himself in an aqueduct under a brick kiln of the Arvada Shale company's plant in Jefferson county. When the posse was sure they had him and that none would be hurt, they brought him out, more dead than alive. Unless pneumonia develops Wood stands a chance of recovery. He was removed from Arvada to the county hospital at Denver, where he received medical attention, and if he recovers will be kept in a place where he will not likely break loose very soon.
Wood, Clarence H.
patient race: W sex: M age: 34 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: dairy helper source: 1920 census; patient gender M race W age 45 marital status S birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Wood, G. H.
Rocky Mountain News 5-20-1897 Back to the Asylum Colorado Springs, Colo., May 19 Assistant Superintendent Burroughs of the insane asylum at Pueblo came up to-day and took G. H. Wood, who escaped from the asylum yesterday and was caught last night, back to Pueblo with him.
Wood, Gardiner L.
Rocky Mountain News 7-17-1895 Loss of Reason Three Patients Added to the Overcrowded County Hospital
Emma Brokoff was committed to the county hospital for alleged insanity. When she found out where she was to go she showed her indisposition to make the journey by endeavoring to kick her way out of the ambulance. It is said that she was adjudged insane last July and that she has been out on parole. Gardiner L. Wood was sent to the hospital for the same reason.
Wood, Gardiner L.
Rocky Mountain News 7-26-1895 Unfortunate Insane Long List of the Afflicted Set for Trial The following list of unfortunates will be tried during August in order to determine whether they are sane or not: G. L. Wood
Wood, Gardiner L.
Rocky Mountain News 8-1-1895 Court Calendar County Court Judge Steele Call for to-day: People vs. G. L. Wood; lunacy.
Wood, Gardiner L.
Rocky Mountain News 8-2-1895 Court Calendar County Court Judge Steele: Call for to-day: People vs. G. L. Wood, lunacy.
Wood, Gardiner L.
Rocky Mountain News 8-3-1895 Freaky Set of People Insane Cases in the County Court Develop Interesting Phases of Dementia Grandison L. Wood, a long-whiskered farmer, was charged by his wife with being insane. He denied the allegation, and the only testimony to that effect was that he was formerly an even-tempered, kind and indulgent husband and father, but that in late years his disposition had changed and he was subject to sudden bursts of anger and bad temper. This was the testimony of the wife, son and brother-in-law. The court thought that the man had not been proven insane and ordered the jury to bring a verdict to that effect.
Wood, James L.
patient race: W sex: M age: 62 marital: M place of birth: United Statesnone source: 1910 Woodcroft census
Wood, Thomas, E.
patient race W gender M age 37 marital status M place of birth Wyoming occupation merchant source 1910 census
Wood, William
Yuma Pioneer 2-10-1899 William Wood, the insane heir of William J. Wood, who is represented by Attorney F. J. Mott, gained a very important point in the United States circuit court at Denver Saturday. James O. Wood, a brother of the insane heir, had levied on all of the property of the Aspen Mining and Smelting company, and the same was authorized to be sold on the 7th. Attorney Mott presented the situation to the court and asked that the execution be quashed because of irregularities, and further urged that this sale was being made under an agreement with the mining company and would deprive the insane heir of his rights to have his judgment paid from the property of the mining company. Judge Hallett sustained this contention of Attorney Mott, ordered the execution quashed and the sale stopped and held the property be sold to pay the claims of both heirs.
Wood, William H.
Rocky Mountain News 12-15-1896 Vacated by Judge Rucker Aspen, Colo., Dec. 14 The order recently made appointing Joseph Glediartz receiver of the estate of William H. Wood, an insane person in Kansas, and one of the Wood heirs with an estate valued at about $15,000, was vacated by Judge Rucker to-day.
Woodbury, Samuel
Castle Rock Journal 7-13-1906 - Colorado News Items - Samuel Woodbury has been declared insane by a jury in the County Court at Boulder and sent to the state asylum at Pueblo. Woodbury went crazy over trying to perfect a patent in connection with irrigation.
Woodbury, Samuel
Wray Rattler 7-20-1906 Samuel Woodbury has been declared insane in the County Court at Boulder and sent to the state asylum at Pueblo. Woodbury went crazy over trying to perfect a patent in connection with irrigation.
Woodcock, Joseph
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph 5-5-1906 - Pioneer Is Insane - Joseph Woodcock, of Fountain, To Be Taken to State Asylum - Joseph Woodcock was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and was sent to the state asylum at Pueblo. Woodcock is 57 years of age, has lived at Fountain for the last fourteen years and is one of the well-known pioneers of El Paso county. According to the testimony of County Physician H. L. Richardson, Mr. Woodcock's mind has been gradually growing weaker for the last seven years. Woodcock was placed on the stand and admitted that his mind has been weakening for years, but he claimed that it is now growing stronger and begged to be allowed his liberty for two weeks more, during which time he thinks that he can recover his strength of mind.
Woodley, Thomas H.
patient race W gender M age 31 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation miner source 1910 census
Woodman, John
Glenwood Post 8-11-1900 Wheels In His Head Last Saturday in the county court a jury listened to evidence and passed on the sanity of John Woodman. The unfortunate man had been employed for a short time as yardman at the Colorado and one of his peculiar actions was an attempt to set fire to a wet hose. This probably led to the report that the madman had attempted to set fire to the hotel. When placed in jail the man became violent and tore his clothing into strips. The jury found Woodman insane and Sheriff Adams last Wednesday conveyed him to the state asylum at Pueblo.
Woods, Frederick E.
patient race: W sex: M age: . marital:. place of birth: New York occupation: mattress maker source: 1920 census
Woods, Ila
patient gender F race W age 30 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Woods, M. E.
patient gender M race W age 71 marital status M birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Woods, Sadie
Telluride Daily Journal 11-2-1910 Insane Woman to Denver Sadie Woods, who has been confined in the city jail for several days on a charge of insanity, was this morning taken to Denver by relatives.
Woodward, A J
admitted 6-19-1901 from Logan Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Woolbridge, Edward
patient race: W sex: M age: 64 marital:S place of birth: Illinois occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wooldridge, Edward
Colorado Transcript 12-4-1919 In the County Court Edward Wooldridge, late of Golden, was adjudged a mental incompetent and ordered committed to the Colorado State hospital at Pueblo.
Wooley, Phil
Telluride Daily Journal 12-18-1915 Temporarily Insane Phil Woolley, a musician of this city has been acting rather strangely of late and the past couple of days has shown unmistakable signs of having temporarily, at least, lost his reason. As a result he was taken into custody by Sheriff Hoffman this morning and placed in the county jail. He will be given a hearing later and his sanity will be looked into by the local authorities.; Telluride Daily Journal 12-24-1915 Father Expected to Arrive The father of Phil Woolley, the young man who is temporarily insane and confined in the county jail, is expected to arrive here tonight from his home in Lincoln, Neb. Nothing will be done in young Woolley's case until after the arrival of his father. If his father has the means of placing him in a sanitarium for treatment he will probably be turned over to him by the authorities here. Otherwise young Woolley will probably be sent to a sanitarium at Pueblo by the county.
Woolford, Henry M.
patient race: W sex: M age: 28 marital:S place of birth: Arkansas occupation: none source: 1920 census
Woolford, Rebecca
patient race: W sex: F age: 54 marital:W place of birth: Missouri occupation: none source: 1920 census; patient gender F race W age 64 marital status Wd birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wooster, Charles J
admitted 5-31-1914 from Las Animas, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Worley, Maggie
patient race W gender F age 40 marital status M place of birth Illinois source 1910 census; patient race: W sex: F age: 50 marital:M place of birth: Illinois occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census; patient gender F race W age 60 marital status M birthplace Illinois source 1930 census
Worm, Berta
admitted 8-28-1915 from Pueblo, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Worrall, W. H.
Rocky Mountain News 10-19-1887 Local Brevities Deputy Sheriff Shrock goes down to Pueblo to-day with two patients for the lunatic asylum, Mr. Worrel and Mr. Cohan. The latter is supposed to have brought on his affliction by over study in school.
Worrall, W. H.
Rocky Mountain News 10-19-1887 The Courts County Court Probate In re. lunacy, of W. H. Worrall; George C. Corbin appointed guardian ad litem; trial by jury; verdict of insanity; judgment on the verdict, $15 allowed guardian ad litem.
Worth, Florence
Boulder News 12-31-1891 Miss Florence Worth was admitted to the county hospital this week, apparently insane. Age 32. Until recently she taught school at Sunshine. Long article on erratic behavior. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Worth, Florence
Rocky Mountain News 11-28-1891 Miss Worth's Case A School Marm Who Suffered Strange Hallucinations Miss Worth, late of Lee hill, near Boulder, has been placed under competent medical care, and it is hoped that she will soon recover. Her case is very remarkable. The young lady was a school teacher of more than average brightness, and until a short time ago was in full possession of her faculties. Then it was noticed that her manner began to become peculiar, and it was but a short time until she was subject to acute hallucinations. One of these was that a man with a two-edged sword was seeking for her and would kill her on sight. There was danger that the insanity might become permanent, so Miss Worth was brought to Denver several days ago and has been examined by Dr. Eskridge. Her case is most interesting, and her progress to mental health will be watched with interest.
Worth, Maggie J.
patient race W gender F month born . year born 1853 age 47 marital status M place of birth Ohio occupation housekeeper source : 1900 census; patient race W gender F age 56 marital status M place of birth Ohio source 1910 census
Wortham, Mollie
Colorado Transcript 4-13-1898 Mollie Wortham, daughter of our old and esteemed fellow citizen Wm. Wortham, was judged insane by the county court on Wednesday last, and was taken to the asylum at Pueblo by Sheriff Lake the following day.
Worthington, May M.
patient gender F race W age 35 marital status D birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wrather, Margaret
patient gender F race W age 48 marital status M birthplace Arkansas source 1930 census
Wray, John D.
patient gender M race W age 36 marital status M birthplace Indiana source 1930 census
Wren, Margaret
admitted 7-26-1915 from No Address Given - Woodcroft Hospital
Wright, Amos
patient race: W sex: M age: 61 marital:S place of birth: Indiana occupation: none source: 1920 census
Wright, Charles
patient gender M race W age 55 marital status S birthplace Tennessee source 1930 census
Wright, Charles W.
Aspen Democrat 5-14-1903 Desired To Be Adjudged Insane, Denver May 13 - Dr. Charles W. Wright, a morphine fiend who says he is a graduate of the Gross? Medical college was adjudged insane before Judge Pratt this morning in the county court. The proceedings were instituted at his own request as he expressed a desire to take some treatment by which he could become cured. William H. Lawrence, who first met Wright April 4, was appointed guardian ad litem and will attempt to recover some property which Wright alleges he was led to sign away when under the influence of morphine and when in great need of a stimulant.
Wright, Culver
patient race: W sex: M age: 24 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: none source: 1920 census; patient gender M race W age 34 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wright, J J
admitted 5-23-1901 from Cripple Creek, Co - Woodcroft Hospital
Wright, James
Chaffee County Democrat 9-6-1919 Sheriff Hutchinson and Town Marshall Stewart received a message Thursday morning to be in the lookout for Sam Ellis (Colored) and James Wright, two inmates of the state insane asylum at Pueblo who had escaped from that institution the night before, Thursday afternoon the officers here nabbed two men, a negro and a white, who were stealing a ride on a westbound freight. The strangers answered to the description sent out from the asylum but declared they had never seen Pueblo and didn't know there was such a town. They slipped on this assertion, however, after being closely questioned. The asylum officials were notified and came up yesterday to take the wanderers home.
Wright, John
Denver Evening Post 8-18-1896 Adjudged Insane John Wright was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday and ordered to Pueblo.
Wright, John
Rocky Mountain News 8-18-1896 Ordered Committed John Wright, an old, withered and irresponsible individual, was adjudged insane in the county court yesterday. He was ordered committed to the asylum.
Wright, John B.
patient gender M race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wright, Loren H.
patient gender M race W age 47 marital status M birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wright, Samuel
Boulder News 8-4-1898 Samuel Wright was brought down from Gold Hill by Sheriff Thompson and charged with insanity. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts. Boulder News 2-16-1899 Sam Wright was judged insane last August and has been kept in jail ever since because the state asylum in Pueblo is full. He asked to be taken before Judge Atwood to plead his own case. He realizes his own condition and wants to go to the asylum and get proper treatment. He begged the judge to send him now or give him a new trial. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts. Boulder News 3-9-1899 At last, Sam Wright has been admitted to the asylum in Pueblo so that he can receive proper treatment. Source Boulder County, Colorado, Deaths and the Insane, 1859 1900, by Mary McRoberts.
Wrobel, Blatz
Eagle Valley Enterprise 10-22-1920 His mind unsettled by the loss of his winter wheat crop, Blatz Wrobel, a Silesian farmer, who lives three miles east of Fort Lupton, was found by neighbors wading in the Platte river. He was removed to Greeley where the physician pronounced him insane. Wrobel contracted pneumonia as the result of his exposure.
Wuetig, Richard J.
Colorado Transcript 9-16-1909 Richard Wuetig, of Edgewater, was adjudged insane in county court last Saturday and has been taken to the state asylum at Pueblo. Wuetig has been mentally unbalanced for some months, but his dementia did not reach a dangerous stage until last week, when he became violent and made an attempt to kill his aged mother and some of the neighbors. Sickness is the cause of the man's unfortunate condition, and it is believed that care will restore his mind.patient race W gender M age 28 marital status S place of birth Colorado occupation blacksmith source 1910 census; patient race: W sex: M age: 38 marital:S place of birth: Colorado occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census; patient gender M race W age 48 marital status S birthplace Colorado source 1930 census
Wurtz, Louise
patient, female, white, age 73, married, born Louisiana, 1930 Woodcroft census
Wyatt, Marion
patient gender M race W age 33 marital status S birthplace Missouri source 1930 census
Wyeth, Nellie
patient race: W sex: F age: 36 marital:S place of birth: England occupation: dish washer source: 1920 census
Wyland, Henry
Eagle County Blade 1-6-1910 Adjudged Insane Last Monday Henry Wyland an old timer in these parts and who was brought down from the Baker sawmill on the charge of being insane several months ago and who was sent to the county hospital at Gypsum was brought back up by Sheriff Farnum. Wyland was arraigned Monday evening in Judge Tagues court to again be tried on the charge of insanity. The jury after hearing the evidence retired and after being out but a few minutes returned a verdict declaring Wyland to be insane. Sheriff Farnum left Tuesday morning with Wyland for Pueblo. The jury was composed of the following: H. Farnum; foreman, Walters, McLaughlin, McEvoy, Maynard, and Dunn.
Wyland, Henry
patient race W gender M age 45 marital status W place of birth Finland occupation laborer source 1910 census
Wyman, J. F.
patient race: W sex: M age: 81 marital:W place of birth: New Hampshire occupation: ward helper source: 1920 census
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 7-7-1891 The Courts County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy; Maria E. Wyman; I. E. Barnum appointed guardian ad litem.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 7-18-1891 Courts and Clients Found Her Insane The jury selected to inquire into the sanity of Marie E. Wyman returned a verdict of insanity. It is now the duty of the county court to select and appoint a conservator of her estate. The Denver lodge of Elks, of whom Charles E. Wyman was a member, addressed the following communication to Judge Miller on the subject of the appointment of a conservator: To the Hon. George W. Miller, judge of said court: Your petitioners represent that they are members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 17, of the city of Denver. That the principal tenets of said order are protection to its members and to care for and provide for the widows and orphans of deceased members. That Charles E. Wyman in his lifetime was a member of said order of said lodge, and a very exemplary member thereof. That prior to his death, and at the time of making his will, he strictly enjoined upon said lodge and the members thereof, through its officers, that they look after and take care of his wife, Marie E. Wyman, who was then non compos mentis, and particularly requested that Frank A. Taylor, who was then and is now the principal officer of said lodge, be appointed guardian of his wife and conservator of her estate, in case of his death. That this request was made in the presence of others of the principal officers of said lodge. That then and there said three principal officers promised said Charles E. Wyman that said Taylor, or some one of the principal officers of said lodge, would accept of such appointment if granted by the county court, and would in all things care for and provide for his said widow. Therefore, your petitioners pray that said Frank A. Taylor be appointed by your honorable court as conservator of said Marie E. Wyman, or instead thereof, some one other of the principal officers of said lodge be so appointed, hereby pledging ourselves as an organization that such appointee shall faithfully carry out the last wishes of said Charles E. Wyman in that regard, and in all things comply with the orders of this court, as well as the by-laws and rules of said order in relation to the care and protection of widows and orphans. Signed by W. B. Felker, And thirty-four members of the order, Dated Denver, July 16, 1891.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 7-22-1891 The Courts County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy; Maria E. Wyman; Frank A. Taylor appointed conservator; bond filed.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 9-20-1891 Briefs Maria E. Wyman occupied the attention of Judge Allen in division one and of Judge Marsh in division three for some time yesterday in matters growing out of the complications regarding the will of the late Pap Wyman. Judge Marsh ordered a writ of certiorari directed to Judge Miller of the county court by which Maria E. Wyman was adjudged non compos mentis and by which Frank A. Taylor was appointed conservator, certified to the district court. Mrs. Wyman claims that the statements in the petition filed in the county court are untrue. On the petition of Mrs. Wyman Judge Allen granted an injunction restraining Frank A. Taylor and Charles E. Wyman from selling or encumbering in any way the personal property belonging to the late Pap Wyman, which Mrs. Wyman claims those gentlemen threaten to dispose of, and which is located at Petersburg and Grand Junction. The petitioner also alleges that Taylor desires to pay an alleged legacy of $4,000 to Aggie Floyd, but petitioner avers that the will under which it is sought to pay this amount is void.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 12-2-1891 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Maria E. Wyman; hearing on lunacy continued on motion until December 11.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 2-2-1892 Briefs The examination into the question of the lunacy of Mary E. Wyman was concluded yesterday in the county court. The jury found the subject of the inquiry incapable of managing her business. A guardian will now be applied for.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 2-2-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: In the lunacy of Maria E. Wyman, further evidence of incapacity to manage property; defendant excepts to verdict and is allowed five days to file motion for new trial.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 2-19-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Maria Wyman; application made by both sides for appointment of conservator.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 2-21-1892 Briefs W. D. Wright has been appointed by Judge Miller as conservator for Mrs. Wyman, the widow of the late Pap Wyman.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 3-7-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy of Maria E. Wyman; order of allowance to guardian ad litem.
Wyman, Maria E.
Rocky Mountain News 3-11-1892 Court Calendar County Court Judge Miller The following business was transacted yesterday: Lunacy, Maria E. Wyman; I. E. Barnum, guardian ad litem, allowed $50.
Wyman, Marie E.
Rocky Mountain News 12-22-1893 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre: Marie E. Wyman, lunatic; claim of Myra C. Cobb allowed for $100 as second class.
Wyman, Marie E.
Rocky Mountain News 12-25-1893 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre 2613 Marie E. Wyman, deceased; claim of Myra H. Cobb allowed for $200 as of second class; order settling claims of Felker & Dayton and F. H. Taylor for hearing this day vacated.
Wyman, Marie E.
Rocky Mountain News 1-3-1894 Court Calendar County Court Judge Le Fevre: Marie E. Wyman, lunatic; claims of Felker & Dayton and F. H. Taylor set for hearing January 22.
Wystrom, John B.
patient race W gender M age 45 marital status S place of birth Sweden occupation farmer source 1910 census
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