WASHOE   [LEONARD, Honora Calahan  5/22/1916]

Nevada State Insane Asylum
News Articles (#14)

Compiled by Sue Silver (/ss)


Reno Evening Gazette, 5/25/1916

INMATE OF STATE HOSPITAL HAS BROKEN NECK
Dummy Elevator Falls in Shaft Killing Honora Leonard, An Aged Patient

	Honora Leonard, who was committed to the state hospital for mental 
	diseases from Storey county in 1883, was instantly killed at noon Monday 
	when a dummy elevator fell and broke her neck.
	The aged woman was acting as a waitress and had brought the last load of 
	food in the elevator and after starting it up again she apparently stuck 
	her head in the shaft to see if it was working.  The rope slipped off the 
	pulley allowing the heavy cage to drop about 30 inches and wedged her head 
	between the bottom of the cage and the side of the shaft breaking her neck.
	Immediately following the accident Coroner Devine of Sparks was summoned and 
	conducted an investigation but held no inquest.  He absolved all attendants 
	at the hospital of blame, as the elevator was equipped with double safety 
	appliances.  The elevator had been operated by the same woman for nearly 10 
	years and she was thoroughly familiar with it.
	The funeral was held yesterday afternoon and the body buried in the plot near 
	the hospital.  She was a native of Ireland and as far as known had no relatives 
	in this country.


Nevada Marriages
Storey County, Vol. A, p. 320

Hanora Calahan and Hugh Leonard, married July 13, 1875
at Virginia City, Storey Co., Nevada

1900 Census, Glendale Precinct, Washoe Co., Nevada
Hospital for Mental Diseases
	Honora Leonard, Patient, 51 yrs, married, no children, b. IRE, Parents both born IRE

1910 Census, Sparks Ward 1, Washoe Co., Nevada
Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases
	Honora Leonard, Patient, 62 yrs, married, 2 children, both living, b. IRE, no parents birth, Dish Washer





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