Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1901 — A Dangerous Inmate of County Asylum. [ARTICLE]

A Dangerous Inmate of County Asylum.

George Hellengreen, a demented inmate of the county asylum, has lately been making trouble enough to justify his name if the “green” were changed to “blazes.” He is a Swede and seemingly able to speak only a single phrase in English, and this, a vulgar profane epithet, which he uses with great persistency. He is liable to fly into a rage, at any time, and without cause, and then will attack whoever is nearest him with anything he can get his hands on. One of his worst recent breaks was to attack Mrs. Clark, matron of the asylum, when she went to call him in the morning and came nigh about disfiguring her face for life, by scratching. He is not only a mighty disagreeable inmate of the asylum, but also a really dangerous one, and one of a class which ought to be kept in a state institution especially provided fdr them.