"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, February 8, 1904 LEAPS OUT A HOSPITAL WINDOW. Lester CARTER, a negro patient at the Douglas hospital in Kansas City, Kas., escaped from that institution last night about 9 o'clock and roamed around that city clad only in a night robe. CARTER was a pneumonia patient, and from the malady had become delirious. A nurse went into his room and tried to make CARTER return to bed. He went to his bed, which was near a window, and standing on it, leaped through. He did not sustain any cuts from the glass in the window and was not injured otherwise, as the ward in which he was is on the ground floor. CARTER finally went to a boarding house on Fourth street between Minnesota avenue and State avenue, from which place he was returned in the police ambulance to the hospital. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================