A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the January 9, 1920 edition of the newspaper.
Insane Man Was Waiter In Town, Had Escaped From New Jersey Asylum And Come Here
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Bristolians will be surprised to learn that they have been eating food served in a local restaurant by a man who escaped from the New Jersey state insane asylum.
Little did they know about the past history of Tony Lagano, employed in an eating place here, who the other day surprised the Gloucester County authorities when he visited the county jail in Woodbury and asked for a suitcase which he had left there before starting for Trenton where he had been sentenced to serve from two to four years on a charge of setting fire to a number of houses in Westville.
Lagano informed the Gloucester authorities that he had been In New Jersey State Prison only a short time when he was transferred to the state hospital for the insane.
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“I didn’t like it there very much,” said Tony, “so I walked out after I had been there a couple of days.”
Lagano seemed to have no trouble escaping as he declared he came here and worked several weeks in a restaurant.
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County authorities communicated with Trenton and Lagano was picked up as he was about to board a trolley car.
When returned to the county jail he put up a stiff fight before he was placed In a cell and yesterday was taken to the Trenton prison.
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