March 9.--A story more startling than any previously related was reported to-day before the Legislative committee investigating the Dixmont Insane Asylum. The witness was R.B. Parks, a former ...
If, in the year 1860, the Union contained in its lunatic asylums, poorhouses, &c., about 42,864 insane patients ... The most miserable sight! An old man with white hair, fastened to the floor ...
In 1867, the 17-year-old allegedly poisoned ... she was sent to the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as one of its earliest patients. There, she was declared criminally insane. Sketches of Grace Marks ...