ASYLUM INMATE SENTENCED AS SANE MAN.

OCTOBER 20th 1927: At the Bedfordshire Assizes yesterday Mr Justice Rigby Swift sentenced Issac Mitcham, 43, an Inmate of Three Counties Mental Hospital, Arlesey, to two months imprisonment for assaulting Dr. Finiefs, a member of the hospital staff, and threatening to assault Dr. Fuller.
It was stated that the accused rushed out of the bathroom threatening to kill with a wooden plunger in his hand anyone who approached.

Dr. Finiefs endeavoured to pacify him,but Mitcham struck him on the head with the plunger.
The defence as put forward by Mr J. Cremlyn was that Mitcham failing to ventilate a grievance and establish his sanity by other means, took this course. The Judge said he assumed the accused to be sane, and treated the case as an ordinary common assault.

ASYLUM BREWER DIES IN A VAT

This is a very bizarre accident, March 26 1906: On this date the asylum brewer was found dead in a vat of beer, Mr Prime the asylum brewer, was a reclusive type of man who worked independently of his supervisor, perhaps because he lead a secluded life is one of the reasons he was not missed even at mealtimes, also he sometimes took his meals with the hall porter so it was not unusual that he was not at the meal table, Mr Prime the brewer often took leave with permission so it was not totally surprising that the brewery workers did not miss him, strange that they carried on their normal working duties between the death and the discovery of the body, some 40 hours later!

The brewers body was discovered when Mr Thompson, an engineer, wanted to use the brewery engine, he tried to find the brewer but could not find him, the porter suggested that Mr Prime the brewer must be on leave but he was told by the Steward that Mr Prime the brewer was not on leave, the brewery was searched and the body of Mr Prime was found.

Mr Primes body was found in vat three, the steward noticed what he thought was a sack floating in the vat, when he lifted it he found it was a mans leg, after draining the 400 gallons of beer from the vat they found Mr Prime the brewers body, his head was trapped under a coil and his leg trapped under another coil.
The medical officer examined Primes body and found no signs of fowl play, he concluded that Mr Prime the brewer had drowned after being overcome by laughing gas fumes and simply fell into the vat.