A TERRIBLE DEATH.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8089, 29 September 1894, Page 4

A TERRIBLE DEATH.

Paria waa borriu'od on loarning a few weeka ago thai; a Swiss lunatic, a VI, Tabobbier, had boon boiled to do.»bh in a bath ab tho Bicotro Hospital. The nowH eooras too shocking to be true, but rumor rabhor undorotatod bhun exaggerated tho facts of tho oiao. M. Auguoto Tabottier had boon in conu'neraenb ab bho Bicetre since 1871. lie waa subject bo fits of violenb nervous agitation, and to calm him ho waa, whenever a fib carao on, placed for houra in a warm bath, this treatment having a relaxing and depressing action. Tho bath had a Bail' cloth cover, bucklod down with etrapo at bho side like tho lid of a trunk. Thtj babhor'a head emerged from a round holo padded ab the edge. There were six such baths in the same room. Water, hob and cold, waa ouppliod from the bottom, and lot on by meana of a burnacrew kopb by tho attendant. This poison, when Tabottior was in his bath, and well faebonod down, turned on tho bob water and woob away. 110 did nob como back for half an hour. It seema exbraordinary that ho hoard no shrieks, or thab if he heard ho did nob mind them. When ho roburnod lie found thab tho lunatic had boon scalded or boiled to doabh. This attonJanb had been for three months attached to the bath-room at tho Bicotre, Ho waa ordored on no account to loave ib when any mad person waa them. Two obhor lunabica woro witnesses of poor Tabotb/or'a hideous (loath, aud though nob understanding why ho died wero terrified almosb to death thomselvea.