Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-07 | Page 14 | Delirious Patient Causes Commotion

DELIRIOUS PATIENT CAUSES COMMOTION Grazed by fever due to an attack of ! influenza. Joseph Grosse. a patient at tbel I.. L. S. hospital, climbed through a win-' dow during the absence of a nurse audi escaped tram the building, only to be re- turned by attendants of the institution! before he was able to zet more than a block a ay. according to reports at po- 1 ice head'-pia Tiers last night . i Grosse, the officers declared, was suf- ferint; from a delusion that lie was being! pursued by en em ie ami bided his time , until the nurses left the room. when, ob- j livious to the fact that he was not dressed in customary street attire, he leaped through the window and ran in a northerly norther-ly direction from the hospital. The alarm was turned in and a squad of detectives scoured the northern part of the city. ; while health officers. who w-ere also1 called upon to assist, covered the bouie- i a rd from City 'reek canyon t o Fort j Pnngla s reserv ation. The patient, in the ' meantime, had been captures and returned ;o his room.