Dow v. State

Claimant’s son, aged twenty-eight years, was a merchant seaman. In 1942 he became depressed over ship sinkings and the loss of his comrades. He grew worse and one night slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt. At Bellevue he was examined and committed to Pilgrim State Hospital being received there on July 22, 1942. On September 7, 1942, at 8:30 p.m. he was found by an attendant hanging from a ventilator handle in the water section of his ward. He had suspended himself by the strap from the restraining sheet in which he had been placed sometime before 5:00 p.m. and from which he *675had freed…