TERRIBLE SCENE IN AN ASYLUM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 3 (Supplement)

TERRIBLE SCENE IN AN ASYLUM.

A correspondent, writing to a contemporary from Rome, reports:—" A dreadful incident at the Asylum in the Tra.stavere, last Thursday, takes it* jlaco among some rocent horrors. Three brothers, ■amed Pinoi, from Palestrina, were in prison for obbery. One of them, showing signs of madness, vas sent to an asylum, in order that the night he better watched. He became decidedly ns'ine, and had to be stretched on a bed; but, lecoming better, had a less painful apparatus sub--titated, one making him, as it were, keep his hand--, '.o LNsc self. However, he so far disarmed tho fearp if his keeper that on Thursday he asked to have the >audage untied, and was actually left in bed with the door accidentally open. Sallying forth as-, ho was, he met the a°yium 'bleeder' with a large pair of scissors sticking out of his pooket. md flinging himself upon the poor wretoh, out lis throat, aad half clipped him in pieces. At this ghastly operation he was found by a urnkey, who threw himself upon him, and then and here strangled him on the floor. It ia hard to say what moral to draw from this, except one I have often hoard, 'Never be good-natured again.' The lirst keeper, of course, was breaking the rules, and tho ' bleeder' piid the penalty. lam told there are ao padded rooms in the asylum, though Pius IX., vho takes much interest in the place, has introduced wme other modern improvements, and changed the character of the place. But the wonder is there are uot more accidents, when you have to deal with oreabares possessing all the strength, cunning, and wickedness of mm without the restraints that usually keep him at least in order."