Escape From Asylum at Mt. Pleasant (1889)

MCCULLOCH, HOGAN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 4/2/2010 at 08:25:53

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Oct. 25, 1889

MONTE. REPUBLICAN:--Clerk Patton received notice last Wednesday that Dr. McCulloch, of Brooklyn, had escaped from the asylum at Mt. Pleasant. A guard was out giving him exercise and in some way the doctor gave him the slip. Sheriff Hogan went to Brooklyn and began to hunt for the escaped prisoner. He went to his house Friday evening but could hear nothing of the doctor. Saturday morning bright and early the sheriff again knocked at his humble cottage. "Who's there," was the response in stentorian tones. The sheriff made himself known and told the doctor he had something to tell him. The doctor said he would unlock the door in a minute. After waiting a little time the sheriff again demanded admission. He met with no response. He then went to the kitchen door and again demanded admission. Just then a passer-by saw the athletic doctor bounding through the alley and the sheriff started in pursuit. An exciting race followed. McCulloch bounded barb-wire fences like a deer. The sheriff was in hot pursuit. Finally a corn-field south of town was reached and in this the doctor secreted himself. All efforts to find him were of no avail and the sheriff returned home. About two o'clock Saturday afternoon a telephone message was received here announcing that the doctor had been seen in a corn-field. The sheriff dispatched back for a posse to go out and hunt him down. This was done and the man was captured on the banks of the classic Bear. He was held in custody until Hogan's arrival when he was again taken to Mt. Pleasant.