"Taken to the Asylum"

Title

Subject

The Law, Crime and Punishment

Description

A Thursday, June 9, 1892 Florence Herald report that local black resident Sim Casey was escorted to the Bryce Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa the day before.

Casey was long-known to be mentally unstable by locals however he was considered harmless and his "idiosyncrasies" of believing himself a federal agent tolerated until he attempted to arrest a fellow citizen and then became violent when officials attempted to apprehend him.

Source

Florence Herald

Publisher

Newspapers.com

Date

1892-06-09

Contributor

Lee Feeeman

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Format

Jpeg

Language

English

Files

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