Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-24 | Page 12 | Insane Man Put in Padded Cell

INSANE IN PUI IN PADDED CELL Motoniian Davis Throws rainier Rooming-House Into a Panic Sunday. BROODING OVER ACCIDENT SAID TO BE THE CAUSE Worry Over Illness of Family Believed to Have Helped Affliction Along. Violently insane from worry. A. E. Davis, a motor-man employed by the Utah Light & Hallway company, was removed from tho Palmer rooming house Sunday morning to a padded cell in tho county jail, where he Is being held pending the action of the lunacy commission. Davis created consternation by his actions ac-tions at the rooming bouse Sunday morning, morn-ing, when he insisted on telephoning to an Imaginary telephone number and. falling to get tho connection, rushed madlv about the house threatening the Inmates with bodily harm. Assistance was sent for to tho police, station and Patrolmen Phillips. Orowthcr arid 0M1-losple, 0M1-losple, headed by Sorgcunt Hookstead. responded. re-sponded. They found the man creating a panic at the rooming house, and after placing him in the patrol wagon removed lilm to the county Jail. Davis has been suffering with moody spells since an accident, about live years ago. in which his car on tho old single track on South Temple street collided with another car one night In a dense fog the collision resulting iu tho death of Motorman Walter Farrell. who was In ehnrgo of the opposite car. "Worry over tho accident nnd added worry from the fact that tle family or Davis has been ouarantlned for the past month with scarlet fever Is believed to have driven Davis Insane,