Patrick J. Murphy death certificate — d. 23 April 1912, 4:30 PM, Warm Springs MT State Hospital, age 56

--- newspaper: State of Montana, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, Form V. S. No. 3 (not a newspaper; a printed form with typed entries, photographed from a bound register) date: 1912-04-23 page: unknown (single certificate; File No. 25, with a pale-blue stamped number 5[8?] 208) transcribed_by: claude-sonnet-5-5 (Claude Code subagent), 2026-10-04 proofed_by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04 method: embedded 150 ppi JPEG (1275 x 1650 px) extracted from source.pdf and turned upright (the certificate lies sideways in the PDF); every field cut into overlapping tiles upscaled 2.4x to 5x with LANCZOS; the faint typed age and the stamped file number re-read at 8x to 18x in colour and red-channel views and set beside clear typed digits from the same sheet; metadata.yaml was read first, as instructed, then every field was read from the image --- [Layout: a printed Montana certificate of death with the left half headed "Personal and Statistical Particulars" and the right half "Medical Certificate of Death". Printed form wording is in bold; the entries follow in plain text. All entries are typed in pale blue ink unless marked [handwritten] (black ink). Where a typed date is typed over the form's printed year-stub ("191…") or over its dotted leaders, the combined reading is given and the printed commas are kept. "[blank]" means the space is empty.] Form V. S. No. 3. (OVER) **STATE OF MONTANA** **BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS** **CERTICATE OF DEATH** [so printed] **File No.** 25 [typed in dark ink] [stamped in pale blue above and to the right of the 25: 5[8?] 208] **Registered No.** [blank] (If death occurred in a Hospital or Institution, give its NAME instead of street and number.) **1. PLACE OF DEATH** **County of** Deer Lodge **Township** Warm SpringsGovernment & wartimeWarm Springsfrom 1877The Montana asylum for the insane, in the Deer Lodge valley north-west of Butte; run under contract by private physicians until the state took it over in 1912. Commitment followed a hearing in district court.More in Key terms → or **Village** Warm Springs **No.** [blank] **Street** or **City** [blank] **2 FULL NAME** P. J. Murphy ## PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS **3 SEX** Male **4 COLOR** White **5 Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced. (Write the word)** Married **6 DATE OF BIRTH** Unknown [typed in the Month space] …, 1… [the printed "1" begins the year; the Day and Year spaces are otherwise blank] (Month) (Day) (Year) **7 AGE** 5[6?] yrs. [mos. blank] [ds. blank] **IF LESS than 1 day … hrs. or … min.?** [blank] **8 OCCUPATION (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work** Bartender **(b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer)** [blank] **9 BIRTHPLACE (State or Country)** [blank] **PARENTS** **10 NAME OF FATHER** Unknown **11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (State or Country)** Ireland **12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER** Unknown **13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (State or Country)** Ireland **14 The Above is True to the Best of My Knowledge** **Informant** J.M. Scanland **Address** Warm Springs, Mont. **15 Filed** [blank] 191[blank] [handwritten signature] J. M. Scanland **Registrar.** ## MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH **16 DATE OF DEATH** April 23rd, 1912 [typed across the dotted line; printed beneath it: (Month) (Day) (Year); printed at the right end of the dotted line: **191…**] **17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from** Mar. 23rd, 1908, **to** Apr. 23, 1912, [the typed "08" follows the printed "191", so the line literally reads "19108"; the typed "1912" of the second date overprints the printed "191…"] **that I last saw h**im **alive on** Apr. 23rd 1912**, 191…** [the "im" is typed after the printed "h"] **and that death occurred on the date stated above, at** 4:30 P.M. [typed] **M.** [printed at the end of the dotted line, so the line ends P.M.M.] **The cause of death\* was as follows:** Exhaustion of [second line blank] [third line blank] **(duration)** 4 **yrs.** [blank] **mos.** [blank] **Ds.** **Contributory (Secondary)** Secondary Dementia **(duration)** [handwritten] 2 **yrs.** [handwritten dash] **mos.** [handwritten dash] **Ds.** **(Signed)** [handwritten signature] [F?]. C. Knight **M. D.** Apr. 23 1912. **Address** Warm Springs \*State the **Disease Causing Death**, or in deaths from **Violent Causes**, state (1) **Means of Injury**; and (2) whether **Accidental, Suicidal** or **Homicidal.** **18 LENGTH OF RESIDENCE (for Hospitals, Institutions, Transients or Recent Residents.)** **At place of death** 4 **yrs.** [blank] **mos.** [blank] **ds.** **In the** 6 [typed above the line, between "the" and "State"] **State** [blank] **yrs.** [blank] **mos.** [blank] **ds.** **Where was disease contracted, if not at place of death?** [blank] **Former or Usual Residence** S. Bow. County **19 PLACE OF BURIAL OR REMOVAL** Butte, Mont. **DATE OF BURIAL** [blank] 191[blank] **20 UNDERTAKER** Sherman & Reed **ADDRESS** Butte Mont. ## Printed margin text and edge of the scan [Left margin, printed sideways: a bold printed line, cut off by the black binding shadow, of which only the bottom edges of the capitals show: [illegible; the lower edges of the last words fit "…RESERVED FOR BINDING."]; then:] WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK. THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. N. B.—Every item of information should be carefully supplied. Age should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSI- CIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact state- ment of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions on back of certificate. [Along the far left edge, only the ends of lines of a facing printed page of the bound volume show; not part of this certificate and not transcribed. Along the right edge, the page edges of the volume.]