Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — MISS NORA CASEY GOES INSANE. [ARTICLE]

MISS NORA CASEY GOES INSANE.

Rensselaer Girl Xow In the Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, Illinois. The sight of a bloody corpse in the dissecting room of the great St. Mary's hospital in Chicago, drove Miss Nora Casey, a graduate of the Rensselaer High School and a senior in the school of nurses at St. Mary’s, violently insane last Friday and she is now confined in the violent ward of the Illinois hospital for the insane at Kankakee, 111. Miss Casey had been studying very hard in the hospital from early in the morning until late at night to take her degree in the nurse’s school in April. This coupled! with a serious sickness while a student in the high school here had weakened her to the point of a nervous breakdown, and the hospital authorities had urged a rest, but Miss Casey was obdurate and insisted on continuing the work that was soon to make her a raving maniac. Last Friday she had classes in the dissecting room and while bending over a dead body at her work, she fell over In a faint. When she was restored to consciousness she became violently insane and was unable to recognize any of the people or scenes about her.

Her uncles, John Casey and Thomas Reed of Carpenter township, were at once notified and Mr. Casey went to Chicago the following day. The hospital physicians thought a long rest might restore her faculties, but the outcome is at the best uncertain. She was taken to the asylum at Kankakee a few days later but her condition has shown but little improvement. Miss Casey made her home in Rensselaer with Mr. i and Mrs. John Duvall and has visited' with them several times since beginning her work in Chicago.