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Found the following at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyfayett/esh/esh_newspapers.htm
A hearing on a charge of murder was scheduled in police court today for Raymond Thomas Jr., 38, of 526 Blackburn Avenue, a patient at Eastern State Hospital, in connection with the death of another patient.
Police said WALTER DEATON, 25, of Letcher county, died of a broken neck after being struck by Thomas about 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Deaton had escaped from the institution recently and had been returned a short time before he was struck.
Francis Marsalas, Newport, another patient, said Deaton was sitting on a chair beside his bed trying to explain where he had been during his escape when Thomas walked up and struck him on the side of the neck.
Dr. Charles D. Feuss Jr., hospital superintendent, said today that Thomas "still doesn't realize anything has happened and probably never will."
He described the men as both being "very sick."
"It would be hard to say which was the sicker," he said.
"There was no murderous intent on his (Thomas') part," Fuess explained. "Patients with his type of illness are liable to strike a wall, somebody near them or even themselves."
Fuess said that arrangements have been made to transfer Thomas to Central State hospital at Lakeland, an institution which has facilities to care for the criminally insane, if the court orders or prefers it.
Source: The Lexington [KY] Leader, 05 May 1953, p. 1 col. 1
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