A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

  as published in the New York Times BUFFALO, Sept. 2.- John Kalf, forty-five years old, a patient at the Buffalo State Hospital, died today of strangulation. Kalf became violent, and was placed in a strait-jacket. His struggles in the jacket worked one of the straps tightly about his neck. With his hands strapped to his sides, he as unable to help himself, and strangled.  

  from Buffalo Evening News  HANGED HERSELF FROM TRANSOM OF HER DOOR.  Katie Klotz, Patient in Insane Asylum, Takes Her Life While the Attendant is Absent.  Katie Klotz, 32 years old, patient at the Buffalo State Hospital, committed suicided at 3:30 o'clock yesterday after noon by hanging herself on the transom of the door of her room. Her attendant had been away from her only 10 minutes and four physicians worked over her more than an hour to restore her, but without avail. The suicide was most deliberate.  All the circumstances indicated that the woman, who was unmarried and who had been living with her sister, Mrs. L. Morton at 68 East Huron Street until June 16 last, when she was admitted to the hospital, had placed the deed with the cunning often displayed by insane people. She suffered from acute melancholia and often tore her clothing from her body and scratched herself on the face and arms.  To avoid this the physicians place a muff on her hands which was fastened in a mann