| Show E E BRIM DEAD The Peculiar Circumstances Attending At-tending His Demise Ho Enters the Catholic Hospital Wanders Away and IB Found Nearly Frozen Pneumonia the ResultEd Result-Ed Brim is dead Just what future developments may show is of course unknown but it is safe to say that he did not receive such care and attention atten-tion as he had a right to expect at the hands of those whoare popularly supposed to look after the welfare of patients who enter that building So far as could be learned at a late hour last evening the deceased de-ceased came in from his mine at Ophir and went to the Chft house as usual when he came to town He complained of not feeling feel-ing well and soon thereafter he went tote to-te hospital Early yesterday morning some of his friends who were anxious to Know how he had passed the night telephoned tele-phoned to the hospital and were informed that ho was getting along much better than could be expected Tins was between 7 and 730 Soon after that time Mr Brim was discovered hanging on a fence on Second North and near Seventh West I was evident that he had walked until he unt had exhaustedhis strength and had thrown his arms over the fence to rest He was conveyed to the Chit house and it soon became evident that the exposure had been most disastrous He was only partially par-tially dressed his nightshirt taking the placeof the day garment and this was un Duttonen in places He was cold chilled through as some of those present expressed ex-pressed it and lived but a few hours after being found He was not in a condition to give any very clear account of himself but from what can be learned it was evident that he became delirious soon after reaching reach-ing the hospital aud unnoticed by any o the attendants he had partially dressed himself and wandered away In his weak condition it must have taken him several hours to reach tho pot where hews he-ws found which is nearly three miles from the hospital Mr Brim was born in 1853 and has lived many years in this city and the mining camps adjacent There was considerable indignation expressed ex-pressed by hIs fnend > yesterday that the I rules of the hospital should be so lax as to allow a patient to wander about in such away I a-way and it is evident that at tho time the hospital people telephoned that Mr Brim was all rigtit ho had not been in the institution lor several hours |
