A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

As published in The Buffalo Courier: George Felton of Bemus Point, aged 50 years, will be examined as to his mental condition as he is acting very strangely and assulted his wife August 28 . He was murdered on October 9th, 1893. Not even 2 months later. :-(

As published in The Chicago Daily Tribune: INHUMANITY TO LUNATICS More Stories of Abuse in the New York State Asylum. Buffalo, NY, April 30 - [Special] - Interest in the grand jury's investigation of alleged abuses of patients in the State Asylum for the Insane continues. Charles Brandt, a former inmate, who told among other things of cruelty to ex-Assemblyman Frank Sipp, was approached on the steet today by a man, who, with an oath and a bike epithet, said if he didn't shut his mouth about that asylum case they'd shut it for him. One of the most interesting stories told the grand jury is that of Mrs. Ella Cummings of Fredonia, NY, who had been an innate of the asylum. Mrs. Cummings alleged form of insanity was a belief in Spiritualism, which the doctors there consider to be a form of insanity. She says that cruelties were perpetrated at the asylum and cites the case of one patient who was jumped upon by a woman attendant and her hip broken so that she is now a cripple. 

As published in The New York Times: OBITUARY NOTICE --George T. Quinby, ex-District Attorney of Erie County, does yesterday at the Buffalo State Hospital. Mr. Quinby was born in Menden village, Monroe County,  in 1849, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He was appointed Assistant District Attorney of Erie County in 1881, and in 1888 was elected District Attorney. This office he held until attacked by his fatal illness, in the Spring of 1894. Mr. Quinby was one of Buffalo's most noted lawyers. Gifted with rare eloquence and persuasive powers, he seldom lost a case. He was very small of stature, but his ability and popularity win him the sobriquest of "The Little Giant."

As published in The New York Times: BUFFALO ASYLUM ABUSES. COMMISSIONER ORDRONAUX RECOMMENDS THE DISCHARGE OF THE ACCUSED ATTENDANTS. Buffalo, March 2. - The State Commissioner in Lunacy has rendered the following decision in regard to alleged abuses in the Buffalo State Insane Asylum: To the Managers of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane: Gentleman having been requested by your board to make inquiry into the truth of certain allegations of Frank P. Churchill, late an attendant at your asylum, charging that two fellow-attendants, named Robert H Jones and J F McMichael, had, to his personal knowledge, habitually maltreated patients confused to their care, the Commissioner submits herewith the findings and conclusions to which he has arrived after a careful consideration of the same. The organic act of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane lodges in its Board of Managers the original power of control over all the property and concerns of the institution not otherwise provided

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