Died in custody
Name not reported
A person held at the insane asylum at Utica, New York, was killed by another man held there, according to a June 1882 report in the Brookings County Sentinel. The paper said asylum authorities kept the killing out of print for a month. The victim's name and the date of death are not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. A fellow convict, David Poulton, killed an inmate of the Utica insane asylum, and asylum authorities suppressed publication of the killing for a month.
Reported by: Utica insane asylum authorities (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.