Man Crazed by Gas.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3619, 30 October 1907, Page 2

Man Crazed by Gas.

DENTIST STUNS HIM WITH A HAMMER. George W. Powers, an engineer, went to the Washington Dental Parlours to have an aching tooth extracted, and a few minutes later was carried to the Emergency Hospital with a fractured skull and the affected molar still in his mouth. In the meantime he had wrecked the dental parlour and caused a commotion which required a squad of; policemen to quell. Bowers insisted upon taking gas against the advice of Dr. R. B. Leonard. When it was administered Bowers started in to break up the furniture, and to attack the dentist. Two assistants and a coloured porter came to his rescue, but Bowers had them all down and out in quicker time than it would have required to extract the tooth. Finally, in defence of his life, Dr. William H. Winter seized a hammer and struck Bowers on the head with it, fracturing his skull. This floored the man, and, strangely enough, brought him back to consciousness, He explained that in his delirium he thought that the doctors were attacking his wife. When he reached the hospital he had forgotten all about his toothache. He will recover from the fractured skull.