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Note: Urbana Citizen June 21, 1897
Mrs Martha Vinyard was this morning adjudged insane and taken to the Dayton State Hospital by Sheriff McLain. Overwork and worry over the illness of her husband are attributed as the causes of her derangement. Mr Vinyard has been an invalid for a long time and his condition is now considered critical. Mrs Vinyard imagines that the men who were sitting up with her husband were trying to kill him.
June 2, 1898
The recent death of Martha Vinyard of this city at the Dayton State Hospital, under decidedly suspicious circumstances may result in an investigation that may cause the management of the institution considerable trouble.
Mrs Vinyard died at the hospital Saturday evening and the remains were brought here Monday and the burial took place the following day. It was noticed by the relatives that the face was badly bruised and Dr JV Longfellow, the family physician, was summoned to make an examination of the wounds on the face. Dr Longfellow stated this morning that there was a bad bruise on the nose, the tissue having been mashed as if by a blow from some hard substance. The doctor also found a bad looking bruise over the left eye and the appearance of the forehead led the physician to come to the decision that the woman had been struck a blow ever the eye with some hard instrument.
The woman had been confined to her bed for several weeks prior to her death and she had been in such a weak condition that it would have been impossible for her to have inflicted the injuries upon herself and there could have been no necessity for such severe treatment on the part of the attendants.
The dayton undertaker informed Horace M Crow of this city who had been the guardian of the woman that the body had the bruises on it when it was placed in his hands by the asylum officials and that the latter made no explanation of the causes leading to the womans injuries. The cause of death was given as disease of the brain. Mr Crow has written to the Hospital authorities and if they do not give a satisfactory explanation the matter will be thoroughly investigated.
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