A Very Dangerous Lunatic.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 387, 24 July 1889, Page 4

A Very Dangerous Lunatic.

A terrible affair has just occurred at Ulm resulting in the death of two persons. A furniture dealer named Bosch, who lived on the outskirts of the town with hia wife and daughter, has lately exhibited symptoms of insanity. A few weeks ago he made an unsuccessful attempt to drown himself in the" Danube- Last week he became so violent that at six o'clock in the morning Frau Bosch started for tho town hospital to get, an attendant, leaving Bosch in the charge of his daughter. By some instinct the madman guessed the nature of hi 3 wife's errand ; as soon as her back was turned hetook up a table knife and tried to cut his throat. His daughter quickly snatched it out of his hand, but the lunatic's eyes then fell upon an axe which was used for chopping wood, standing in a corner of the kitchen. He seized it and attempted to rush to the upper part of the house, which was occupied by his landlady and her family. The daughter caught hold of him and succeeded in dragging him back, but Bosch, who was very strong, then turned on the girl, pulled her into the couit-yard behind the house, and began to attack her, striking her on the head with the axe. When the madman satisfied himself that the unfortunate woman was really dead, he tore upstairs into the room where his landlady was sitting with her two children ; he struck the woman a blow on the head which killed her instantly, the children in the meantime escaping downstairs. At that moment Bosch's wife arrived with a keeper from the hospital. Bosch rushed at his wife with the axe as .she entered the house, but the attendant, with the assistance of the neighbours, was enabled to overpower him. His hands were bound together, and he was conveyed to the town lunatic asylum. — 4 London Globe.