January 5, 1950 - Two Patients Force Heavy Bars

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As published in Courier Express (Buffalo, NY):



Two Patients Force Heavy Window Bars 

Erie, Niagara Counties Combed by Police for Men Found Missing During Routine Check 


by JERRY EVARTS

Two Buffalo State Hospital patients, one described as "very dangerous," were objects of an area police search after they escaped about 10:30 o'clock last night by prying apart bars on a window. The break was discovered by a nurse on a routine bed check.

Missing are Mariano Lubesti, 51, who lived with his wife, Louisa, on South Transit Rd., Lockport, and Seymour Gagydowski, 29, who resided with his mother, Rose, at 1003 Erie St., Lancaster.

Hospital authorities called Sheriff Arthur D. Britt of Erie County; Sheriff Henry E. Becker of Niagara County and Richard H. Mack, assistant detective chief, and provided  descriptions of the escapees. Mack ordered a radio broadcast to city and suburban cars in an effort to pick up the men. Police did not know if the men were armed. 

Man's Body Scarred

Lubesti, described as "very dangerous" by hospital authorities, is five feet five inches tall and weighs 143 pounds. He has brown eyes, gray hair and was wearing a white shirt and dark blue trousers. He has bullets scars on the chest, thigh and forearm and knife scars on the back and shoulder.

Gagydowski is five feet seven inches tall, weighs 158 pounds and has hazel eyes and brown hair. He was wearing blue trousers and a brown sweater. Police said he was not dangerous.

Hospital authorities declined to discuss the escape. However, it was learned the men apparently managed to get into the same room through a ruse. Normally, patients are confined in separate rooms.

Half-Inch Bars Bent

The bars which were bent apart are approximate one half inch  in diameter and are embedded  in rock and concrete. The pair probably used a heavy object of some type to force apart the bars, according to a city policeman.

A complete search of the hospital grounds was ordered as soon as the escape was discovered. When a preliminary inspection by hospital personnel failed to disclose the men, a general alarm was ordered.

Police theorized Lubesti would force his younger companion to remain with him under threat of harm until the older man felt they had made good their escape.



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