| Show ca M r m AIT ASYLUM PATIENT DEFIES GUARDS FOB 12 HOURS THREATENS TO KILL SELF various schemes to capture him prove fruitless until kuperm finally lures bilm to safety chicago dr corn deleted his third day as superintendent of the dunning institution by luring from a root and rescuing joseph daly in insane patient who had defied hospital attendants and others for 12 hours As atwil came the guards fire men and voluntary helpers were sent away daly apparently was to be left to his devices aloft on the cornice of THE MANIAC DEFIED THEM TO TAKE HIM DOWN the five story main building then the superintendent crept up the lad der left by the firemen under cover 0 the gathering darkness disguised as a patient pretending to cover his movements with utmost secrecy he edged his way to daly ive been here as long as you have the superintendent whispered thia Is our chance let s climb down and run while it Is dark daly who had spurned every bait offeree during the day and had threat ened to hurl himself to the ground and to death it any one tried to put hands on him was charmed he tol lowed dr wilhite down and was seized by hidden attendants as he stepped upon the ground JL on arising in the morning daly who is powerful and weighs pounds crept from his ward to the back porch where inmates take their walks there Is a porch on every floor all by a stout iron net ting to prevent escape this netting runs from the ground to the root daly worked a hole in it and worm ing hh way through found himself on the outside clinging to the mesh instead of jumping he was on the first floor he began climbing up clinging to the heavy wire like a squirrel before be had ascended to the next story he was seen by attend ants but as he refused to descend it was thought best to let him have his way the guards believing it would be easy to induce him to come down later several attendants followed daly to the roof he seated himself on the stone cornice and watched them ap they mounted to the summit of the ridge of the root and as a first venture tried soft arguments daly was scornful and defiant he warned his pursuers to leave him alone or he would jump the city firemen at the jefferson station were called they ran a ladder to the eyrie perch of the maniac aa a fireman mounted to the root daly drew back mumbling and renewing his threats the plan was a failure and was given up the ladder being left in place it was now the middle of the forenoon and the roof grew hot in the rays of the midsummer sun daly shifted from one foot to another to save his shoeless soles the crowd saw him remove most of his clothing and wondered what form his dementia was to take next this clothing was laid on the ledge and daly stepped on it he had found cool tooting and cheated the sun for hours through the middle of the day he was seen standing erect against the sky or finding temporary relief in sitting on his am As dinner time came many of the watchers left the grounds asked the others to depart and soon there was not a person to be seen in the vicinity of the building numbers having tailed dr thought he would see it daly would not come down of bis own ac cord when left alone daly however showed no signs 0 quitting his perch it became dusk and at length it was impossible to discern his figure then dr a inspiration came to him the result was as stated that the superintendent lured the patient to safety after paly had been returned to hia ward it was seen that be bad suffered no injury beyond blistering his feet |
