Not Forgotten

This site is to share public records regarding patients and employees of the Traverse City Asylum, State Hospital for the Insane, Northern Michigan Asylum, Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital.
There is so little information available regarding patients, often known as inmates, that I felt it was important to post, make public, the little information available, as a genealogist, researcher and briefly, an "inmate" shortly before it closed.
My homage to those who suffered.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Murders at the Asylum

From the book, "Northern Michigan Asylum", 3 murders took place there.
The first one, whereby a female patient killed her roommate, was told to us on our tour. At that time, two residents were occupying one room. After this incident, every patient had a room to themselves. This event happened 1905-1906.
The second reference simply states "one patient killed another," 1911-1912.
The third says a patient was strangled to death by another patient, 1913-1914

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