Here's Another Very Queer Case

Insane Patient Escapes From the Hospital

EXPOSED TO THE COLD

Walked Through a Blizzard to Owosso and Now He is Cured

Owosso, Mich., Feb. 9.-- George Sargent has been restored to his family at Birch Run after a series of harrowing experiences. Sargent is a well-to-do farmer, 35 years of age. He was taken with a nervous disease and sent to the hospital at Ann Arbor. He escaped while temporarily deranged and succeeded in reaching here this week. 

Sargent wandered about here on Thursday, in the bitter cold. He was supposed to be drunk, and was unable to speak through insanity and exposure. He begged for shelter from door to door, but was in every case refused. Some one struck him when he tried to force his way to the fire and his face is badly marked. 

At 2 o'clock Friday morning he was taken in at the power house, and his ears were found to be frozen. The employees bandaged them, but he slipped away before be could be further cared for. Sargent was brought in today by a farmer living 13 miles away. His ears and feet are terribly frozen, and he is terribly emaciated, having had little or no food for a week. He is now sane, and will recover, but has aged 10 years on appearance since leaving home.

Supt. Gilmore of the University hospital when asked about Sargent said he had left the hospital on Wednesday. He had money with him and seemed to  know what he was doing, although acting a little eccentric.