A CRAZY DOCTOR.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 419, 15 October 1875, Page 4

A CRAZY DOCTOR.

Ellen Case, a young woman employed as a domestic servant in a family at Oakland, Cal. (says a Scotch newsaper) was attacked by a trivial malady, and Dr Pentack was called in. Dr Pentack had long been known as an old man, full of freaks in professional and social conduct, yet he had the reputation for skill in practice. Really he was a maniac, and insanely in love with the girl whom he was summoned to treat. The sight of her ill put the idea into his crazy head that if he could only get two quarts of her blood he could construct from it an exact counterpart of her. This counterfeit creation, he supposed, would be endowed with life, and be in all respects like the original. He announced that it would be necessary to bleed the girl, and he actually let out from her arm the two quarts that he wanted, taking it away in a pail. The operation was injurious to the patient, and nearly killed her. Another physician was sent for, and unon hearing what Dr Pentack had done, he communicated to the police his belief of that practitioner’s insanity. A visit to Pentack’s residence was made at once. He was found boiling the blood in a kettle, and mixing various chemicals with it. He begged to be let alone in his experiment, declaring that his process was certain to evolve a living woman within a few minutes if was not disturbed. The officers arrested him, and he is now in an insane asylum, where he talks about nothing but his process of making facsimiles of human beings from their blood.