The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-28

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played any violence toward any person.
%-Did q OF these men tell you that one
OF the patients In the room had struck Mes
mers A.-No; but one told me he Tell from
his bed.
@-Wss there any implement, or frsg-
ment OF broken vessel, found in the room?
A.-No
Q-What are your duties at the Hospitsl2
Al am attendant in the third ward.
Glow long have you been in the Hos
pital, and by whom were yea employed
A.-Fiiteen months. and was employed BY
DR.. Everts.
Odd you read an article ID the Journal
Nesmere Al did.
0-What are the duties Of the night
watch about seeing the patients7 How often
ought he to see the PATIENTS Alt is his
duty to go INTO the dormitories every round
he makes.
.Q-TAst wonld be every boar? A.-Yes,.
Sin
at 3 o'clock, and that he was in that room an
hour before Mr.. Mesmer was found? Axe
did not.
Q-Hsye you, during your - months in
the Hospital, seen men brutally treated by
the attendants? A.-No. sir: not st all.
Odd you ever see a man knocked down
by an attendant? A'-No, sir.
Odd you ever seen an attendant stand
on a mans neck while he was laying on the
floor? A.-No, cir; / did not.
Q-Do you know that the bylaws pro-
hibIt attendants from striking patients
Ayes, sir.
Q-Do you know that there is a rule
against the Ill treatmenuO of patients A.
Yes, sir.
Q-Has your attention ever been called
to that fact? A.-Ies, nr.
Q-By whom? A.-By the attending
physician.
Q-How do you know there is such a
rule? A-By reading the bylaws OF the
institution.
Q-On any special occasion during the
present administration Of affairs was there
a special order issued IN regard to this mat
ter? A.-There was two months ago.
Q-Had any officer OF the Hospital called
your attention to those csrtsin rules in the
printed regulations? Ayes, sir.
This concluded the interviews taken by
the reporter.
PRESIDENT FIsHBACK's STATEMENT.
Woodland invited me to come to his Office
two or three times before l went. Finally,
about 10 DAYS ago, i went there, and be told
me Of some revelations he proposed to make
in regard to the management OF the Insane
Hospital; that in the interest of the Enquirer
he had put a man in the institution, TO be
paid by the Enquirer, to make investigations
or watch the management ther sof. He then
read to me a letter from Mclean, of the En-
quiTer, directing him to make the investiga'
ton referred 10, and asked ii 1 would order
an investigation. l said to him that my
theory was hat daylight should shine
through all public institutions and that il
he could satisfy me that his charges could
be sustained by reputable witnesses l would
guarantee an investigation. He then prom
ised that he would prepare the charges and
anhTTf than IN me in OrdaF that Il mich
submit them to the trustees. / called at thu
time appointed, but he had not yet writer
, the charges up. He stated TO me that hi
witness was present, at his solicitation, Il
meet me, and desired that | would have
, talk with him. Then Jerry Hutchinson
: THE witness presently made q statement Il
me OF the charges he had TO make. | told
Hutchinson that | would moi act upon hi
!. statements without he could substantial
i them with credible witnesses. / told hin
that be had been guilty of d"isreputabl,
transactions last fall a year in regard Il
, selling the poll books OF the county to Sher
if Presley, and that ! would not credi
. anything he would say in regard to the mat
. ter Hutchinson said L ought not Il
: blame him for that, that MI
Dick Bright was familiar with tn
transaction and justified it. In that con
! yersation L said TO Woodland that I hat
> known for some weeks that this matter hat
{ been discussed by the Rspublicans, and tina
something of the kind would be done Il
break the force of the good financial show
' ing that the new management have mad
. since they have been in control OF tn
benevolent institutions. The report o
the Blind Asylum showed that we ha'
J saved nearly 20 per cent OF the appropris
D ton, and covered it into the treasury
that the report of the Deaf and Dunn
Asylum did show that we were saving abou
: 81 500 per month, and that the forthcomin
report of the Insane Asylum will show ths
. we are making a saving there of betweef
! 5000 and $4,000 a month. He denie
working in the interest of the Republicsl
party, but admitted that he had been i
y consultation in regard to thism matter wit
i John C.. New and Colonel Dudley.
THOSE POLL BOOKS.
ReporteI-How did Hutchinson get a DC
sition at the Insane Asylum?
Mr.. F.-He got 1t through Jim Woodard
! who in some way influenced Senator NJ
Donald to get the position.
: Rep.-What did you mean by your refer
{ eDce TO John Presley and some poll books
Mr.. F-Why, John Presley confessed I
: me that he had bought the poll books of th
, First ward from his man Hutchinson.
4 'Rep.-What did be give for them?
Mr.. F.-He gave Hutchinson q horse an
= buggy.
. Rep.-NothIng else, Mr.. Fishback?
9 Mr.. F.-Well, about a month ago. job
Presley asked NE not to discharge Hutch
9 Inson from the Insane Asylum. He said
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