Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-09 | Page 1 | Hospital Patient Leaps from Window

Hospital Patient Leaps from Window Eludes Guards Detailed to Search for Him and Is Killed by a Freight Train. Special ,to Tho Tribune. ANACONDA, Mont., May S. John Jackson, a typhoid patient at SL. Ann's hospital, escaped from that institution Inst night, during delirium, de-lirium, by Jumping from a second-story window, yelling to the startled attendants attend-ants that ho was pursued by devils. All night long Jaclcson eluded tho vigilance of guards who searched for him, and finally, during the early morning morn-ing hours, ho wandered upon the railway rail-way tracks, whore he was struck by a freight train and killed. Jucksou'B body was frightfully mangled man-gled and was cut -almost Ln two i