New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-07

TIE KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CHARGES.
REopENIyG OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE AL
LEGGED ABUsRs--rFsTIMONY OF THE COMPLAIN
ING INSTRUMENTATION STATEMENTS.
The Hospital Committee of the Kings County
Board of Charities held special meeting yesterday az
the Hospital in Flatbusb, to reopen the investigator
into the charges OF iltreament alleged to have Deen
received By Mrs. Maria Pennington and Eliza j. Grahai
while inmate Of that institution At the last session Oh
the Cor uee on Aug 81, neither Of the cOmpainants
were present.
MIRA pepnio stons testimony was substantially as fol-
lows She became patient in the institution on June
l. she partially parayzed at the time ana WAS rs
signed to ward No %; the nurse then was haheo MAJ
garet Hardy; the nurse used to swear great deai az
her and slapped her In the face when the witness s'o
she would tell the DOCTOR the nurse struck her In the
mouth and Knocked out four Of her upper teeth ire
witness did not complain TO the doctor or matrcn tne
nurse also struck her in the mouth with cup ana choKed
her. called her names and often beat hcr rs so was
child, she helpess at the time; one day MIS-
Pennington stated the nurse dragged htie crippeu
girl into the by the neck OF her dress ana put
her IN the bathtub she beat her while In the wafer
after Dr. Smith who first attended the witness left Dr.
Bsw was to have attended her. but he never gave her
any medicine or advice Dr. Brstow spoke 10 other pa
tents in an abrupt cross manner to Mrs Pennington ne
only spoke once and then told her 10 get mp ana walk
across the room she in the hospital two months
She was afrad to the Doctor when Mrs HARDY STRUCK
her on account of her threas. Mrs. Penningons nus
band brother-n-law, and little son came to see
her and brought her food, for she was nan
starved; the nurse absent on two occasions
while the witness in the hospital; on inc
second occas ion in at II p M she had pech
driukiug Ms. Pennington said sue was piack ana phe
from her hip DOWN from the beatings OF the nurse INC
Matrou visited the ward about once week sonetmee
Mrs. Hardy very kind to the witness ~,
DR. Herbert +. Williams OF No. 900 GTand-aVc, BROOK
lyn at the request Of the committee. examined Mrs
Penningtons mouth. and testified that the gums showed
that the teeth stated have been Knocked ont must
have been extracted at least four six months ago
Eliza j. Graham testified that she lad Deen pattern III
the Hospital, and Ward No. %. The second gay
the witness there the swOre at her she had
her take Mrs. Pennington by tho meek ana
beat the crippled little girl In the oah-'uo
The food was very poor and the witness dld not ge
enough it, she heard Dr. Brstow use an unKihu
word but once and then he told an old woman TO smut
M" Mrs Pennington never complained to her tlat DT
Bristow unkind. MISS Graham corroborated the
story Of Mrs. Hardy's drunkenness Mrs pennington
did not tell that her teeth had been Knocked out nor
did she slap her. The witness said that her
| treatment good, with the exception OF the 1000
At the conclusion of Miss Giaham's testimony MIS-
Pennington was recalled and said that she had told Miss
cussed their wrongs together while in the Asylum ana az
| home Z. ID. Moran. night Waterman at the Hospital,
said that he had let Miss Hardy in on the nghl aluue
to; 10 was between and 10 o'clock, and she Was sober
A. Korer clerk of the Hospital showed by his books tit
Mrs Pennington had been furnished from July IA 10
Aug. IL. by DE- BrstOws orders, Win 80 mix punches
| and - bottles of beef tea. -,
The investigation then declared closed ana inc
Committee adjourned to report to the Board OF Colh's
| sIoners at their meeting on Wednesday next