On July 8, 1938, 48-year-old Matthew Bubich escaped a state ward in a private sanitarium in Cleavland, Ohio. At 3 a.m. he removed a screen from the second floor and climbed down the fire escape in his pajamas. He would then show up at his former butcher shop. It's unknown how he had gotten there as the sanitarium was far away.
He would beat on the door with a limb that was 4ft long and 3 inches thick. His wife Anna and 15-year-old daughter Anna who lived in the rear woke up to the sound. Mary brought him a change of clothes, but he would become angry after she was not able to find his belt.
He would angrily go to the butcher shop and grab a butcher knife and locked the door. He told the girls to keep still or he would kill them. He eventually changed his mind and Anna and Mary and her son were told to leave and they did. They went to neighbors and called the police.
Five patrolmen would arrive one of which was 42-year-old Robert Wehagen. Mrs. Bubich gave Patrolman Wehagen the key and he opened the door. When he stepped in he was cautious, but Mathew was hiding behind the door. This was when he slashed down with the butcher knife. As he fell from his injuries he discharged a tear-gas shell. Seeing the man attacking Patrolman Wehagen discharged their weapons and also discharged tear gas.
Mathew was still alive but died a few minutes after arriving at the hospital. Robert was still alive and was also taken to the hospital. While in surgery he died. It had turned out when he was stabbed his intestines were severed in five different places.
SOURCES:
Vidette-Messenger of Porter County July 8, 1938
SOURCES:
Vidette-Messenger of Porter County July 8, 1938
The Times July 8, 1938
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