A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

As published in the Buffalo Evening News:  FEARING ASYLUM, WOMAN KILLS SELF.  Mrs. Susan Schroeder Drinks Carbolic Acid When She Sees Buffalo Hospital Attendant.  Mrs. Susan Schroeder, 43 years old, of 432 Hickory street, died at the German hospital late yesterday afternoon after draining a bottle of carbolic acid in the parlor of her home when she caught sight of an attendant from the Buffalo State Hospital who had been summoned to take her to the institution, Medical Examiner Earl G Danser immediately turned her body over to the family after issuing a certificate of death by suicide. A husband and daughter survive. Some years ago Mrs. Schroeder was a patient at the asylum, but after two years' treatment she was released as cured and has lived with her husband and family ever since. Three weeks ago it was found that Mrs. Schroeder was acting strangely and her condition became so alarming yesterday that it was decided to send her to the hospital again.

As publish in the Buffalo Courier Express State Hospital Conditions Dangerous, Union Declares Overcrowding of Patients, Manpower Lack Charged at Meeting to Seek Pay Increase Appalling conditions at the Buffalo State Hospital, the result of overcrowding and a lack of sufficient manpower, were charged last night as the State Hospital Local of the State, County and Municipal Works of America, CIO, met to demand immediate action for adjustment of employee wage scales. At an open meeting attended by legislators and labor and civic representatives, Andrew T Cummings, local president, declared the institution is such that "describing it as dangerous is treating the subject lightly." Says Staff Dwindling  Because organized appeals during the last two years have not "even begun to bring a solution, or bring wages up to living standards for those employed here," Cummings said the hospital lacks 150 employees on its staff while the number of patients is 550 beyond

as published in the Duluth Evening Herald.  IS MAN OF MYSTERY Middle-Aged Man Who Is of Interest to Physicians. Making Bread and Pastry In Buffalo Stat Hospital.  Buffalo, NY, Sat. 6. - In the bakery of the Buffalo State Hospital is a middle-aged man who is ever a subject of interest to the physicians. He is usually active and goes about his work of making bread and pastry as intelligently as any expert professional baker who is credited with being rational. At times there appears upon his face and in his eyes, as he is bending over the kneading-board, or carrying pans to or from the ovens, an expression of abstraction, a faraway look as if his mind were straying back into a hazy past in search of something almost or quite gone from memory. Three months have elapsed since this man was found lying unconscious on a carriageway in Delaware Park, the supposed victim of footpad. Through the finding of a baker's union due-book, not far from where he lay - a discovery made by