A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

  as published in the Buffalo Evening News on Thursday, September 20, 1894. SHE IS CRAZY A Young Girl Found Wandering at Black Rock Identified as an Ex-Inmate of the Insane Asylum.  The police of the Delevan Avenue Station arrested Lizzie Zink of 395 Sherman Street at Black Rock late yesterday afternoon. The girl was found wondering on Forest Avenue.  She was wet to the skin and did not appear to know exactly where she was and could not tell her name. Alex Sloan identified her as an ex-inmate of the Buffalo State Hospital, from which she was discharged last spring. It appears that her reason has again left her. She will be sent back to the Insane Asylum. 

  AS PUBLISHED IN THE BUFFALO EVENING NEWS:  MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926 CONFINED 18 YEARS; NOW ASKS $200,000 North Tonawanda Man Alleges He Was Detained "Unlawfully, Maliciously, Wrongly." Suit to recover $200,000 for damages which he says he suffered by reason of 18 years confinement in the Buffalo State Hospital for the Insane, was begun Saturday by Owen J Doody of 564 Schenk St, North Tonawanda. Complaints in the action have been served.  The complaint alleges that the defendants "willfully, maliciously and wrongfully cause the plaintiff's detention in the Buffalo State hospital for many years, to the plaintiff's damages in the sum of $200,000." The defendants named in the action are not all living. Two of them, Michael Collins and George Fisher, have been dead for more than a year. The others are A F Premus, former city attorney, John F Ryan, a former police chief, William J Nellie, commissioner of charities, the international Railway and New York Central R...