The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-04-04
Telegraphic.
SHOCKING CRIMES
Perpetrated in the Massachu-
sets A ms-House.
Patients Starved TO Death, Babies
Dosed with Morphine, and
The Dead Eaten by
40 j0. Rats.

Governor Butler put In before the Chart.
Sole Institutions Committee OF the Leglsia.
ture, II not broken down, will substantinte
the allegations made In the annual message,
and II adds tale OF horror that IL almost
Incredible. The story was told by Chas.
II. Dudley, the former night Waterman at
the State Aims house at Tewksbury. He
described the sequel 10 his detecting Assist
ant Superintendent Marsh robbing the
dead. house. Marsh told him to keep still
about hat he had seen and said: "We
have got to have some pay for our trouble
IN taking care OF these critters. :"
Dudley also testified that be saw
light In the trunk room several
times after the inmates had retired, and 90.
Ing In quietly one night he saw Mrs. March
opening pauper's trunks and taking cloth
Ing from them. Mrs. Pope, the house.
keeper, told him she had seen the same
thing and that the most valuable dresses
were taken by Mrs. Marsh TO her private
store room and made over for the Davis
girls, her relations. The witness told Of
some twenty children In one ward who
used to cry at night because Of hunger.
They were placed at the table with other
Inmates and had to look out for themselves.
One night he went TO the buryug- ground
and saw four
BODIES REsURREcTEp
and driven of toward Boston In wagon.
The state Of the food for the inmates OF the
Aims house and the insane was always very
poor and the quantity small. The bread
was sour nearly all the time, A man who
drove the hospital team told witness that
he had taken up sixty eight bodies in eight
months. The man was dissatisfied then.
IN axyf1 a.sh In oh
dred,' which, he said, Tom Marsh
had given him. Witness was afterward
appointed, with his wife, TO the care Of
the female insane. The beds were of straw
~ a rotten condition, with insufficient
clothing. Most OF the women were with
out underclothing or shoes and stockings
They had only calico dresses. This was In
July. The cells were also In filthy condi.
tion. Ina cell In the attic witness found
woman lying on the straw perfectly
naked. The straw was bad and filthy. He
was told by one OF the assistants that this
women had been In this cell about year.
She was so violently insane that she would
tear her clothes. She was so near skele.
ton that she would not have weighed over
forty pounds. His wife clothed her
and he had the rooms cleaned out.
She had had only one meal a d1y, carried
70 her by an idiotic girl who said that she
had always taken care OF the old woman.
| Witness allowed her TO continue doing so
but watched her and found that she threw
| the food away md came back with the
empty plate, telling witness that b woman
hau eaten slI the food. He then carried
| the food himself, and the assistant took 4,
into the room. In a few weeks they had
the woman out OF the cell aud down into
the sitting room, so changed that her
own husband did not know her
Speaking Of the treatment Of infants, Mr..
Dudley said; cat night they were In
charge OF one OF the infants. One night !
said to her that she didn't seem to have 10
much trouble with her babies, as they
seemed 10 be quiet all night. She said she
She took down bottle and said that when
they got troublesome she gave them three
or four drops out of that and they we're
| quiet all the rest Of the night. ! asked her
what II was, and she said she didn I know |;
II was something the nurse used. smelled
OF it. and found II was
MIXTURE OF MORPHINE.
She said she was put there for punishment,
and she was determined 10 make her work
! "a easy as she could. l asked her II she
she s was giving wing them a ''e She s ssid
she didn't know and didn't care. told
her II was liable TO kill some OF them. and
she said that she did not care how .many OF
| them died; II was none OF her business.
| Out OF the scventy-three babies that were
born there and that were brought In during
the first year we were there only one was
alive at the end of the year. That was lit.
tle Jimmie Riley"
The Governor; 81 should think he was
. peculiar child. -
Witnasp. 80 ffar tha., JiaI 7 4
man, Tim, - with small box under
his arm, going from the house to the dead
house. think that was what they carried
| the dead babies In. They never had any
service over the dead during my term
there. A man whose expenses were paid
by a benevolent lady Of Boston, and who
| came there as q sort OF missionary, said to
me one day; This ia very healthy place.
| have been here about three weeks aud YOU
haven't had any deaths here. said,
YES, we have, ',for had known OF more
| I am an official to take charge OF funeral
| services. ! said, You don't seem to We
| In the right place. II you are really
| IN earnest and wish TO ofiiciate at funeral
| place yourself between the house and the
| gate almost any night and you will have an
| opportunity, that is provided they will walt
for you.' The witness testimony was not
| stricken out on cross eXamination. The
hearing will be continued Tomorrow.
| Miss flaming testified she got so much
| apiece for transporting boxes, the contents
Of which she did not know. SAstook UP
the business after the death OF her brother,
who was previously engaged In it. Thos.
Marsh, Jr., paid for this work The latter
thought II would be announcement to have
the work done by any one else, 40 she took
II up, Gov. Butler examined witness very
sharply, and endeayored to make her
acknowledge she knew what was being
transported, but witness would moi
acknowledge II. She had been paid az late
a. last November, and there had been
boxes transported since. Mrs. Charlotte
| A. Thomas, Of Andoyer. In charge OF Ger.
tain departments Of the aim .house, testi.
fed Dr., Pease, the. female doctor who
attended patients. evidently did not know
her business. Three patients lost their
lives through her treatment. She had dif.
6culty IN getting clothes from Mrs. Marsh
TO lay over the dead, and heard the inmates
complain that good clothing was taken from
too long and when the father came for the
body block Of wood was put into the COT.
IN and service held over that. The face Of
On insane girl who had been laid out was
eaten by rats. Ofthe 1915 pounds Of buttor
made per month one pound day was given
the inmates. The balance went to Capt.
Narsh. SKINNED milk waN given tho In.
mates until forbidden by the inspectors.
She had been told by Mrs. Marsh to take
the hAnnels from the women when she
knew II would endanger their health.
When company was expected wonderful
ohange was made and everything put In tho