In a Madhouse

Happy over the confidence placed in an insane man like himself, Hugh Foye took great pains with the hard sauce he mixed last week for the staff and patients of the Danvers (Mass.) State Hospital. Carefully he measured the proper amount of butter and powdered sugar. Carefully he poured in his flavoring. Laboriously he creamed the mixture. And pridefully he took a taste. The flavor was peculiar. He took another taste, and another. Soon Hugh Foye was dead with a stomach ache.

Chef Rufus Flint, who is sane, took a taste of the hard sauce, and dumped it. He made a new batch and served it to the hospital employes. Thirteen took sick with violent stomach aches.

So delicately poised are the minds of those who work in insane asylums that the superintendent suspected that the 13, having heard of Foye's collapse, only imagined themselves ill. They, however, were not shamming.

Superintendent Dr. Clarence Alden Bonner suspected that a madman, deliberately or accidentally, filled the kitchen sugar cans with deadly cockroach exterminator which the Danvers State Hospital uses in vast quantities and which looks exactly like powdered sugar.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.