New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-03
ABUSES AT THE rEwNSBURY ALMSHoUsE.
THE SALE OF DoDIEs-FILTHY CELLS ScASri
CLOTHING AND INSUFFICIENT FoOD-sLAodh-
TER OF INFANTS.
10y TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIDUNE.l

CLOTHING AND lNoUfflClENI fON1
TER OF INFANTS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
BosToN, April 2-lhe Legislative investl-
CATION into the charges preferred by Governor buer
against the management of the Tewks5ury Almhouse'
was continued this ternool and evening. Dodey E"
former night watchm IN was again examined When ne
surprised young Marsn. the assistant superntenoeh III
smritng away bod one night Marsh said oy way VI
apology: "Wo have cot to have come pay loT oi
trouble In taking OF those critters He tosncu "
seeing Mrs Marsh 60 into the basement and secretly re-
move dresses and clOtlng from the trunks ana ooA %
supposed to belong to female inmates inc """o''
said:
Several times I saw two men taking ont connS OF
bodies from the buryIn gronnd. The men wcr' M'n-
ming his negro and they started OF toward b'son'
as suppose food for the inmates and insane was
always very poor Tho bread was sour nearly ali mo
time and the quantity very small, especially ior
those VINO had to work tue farm spoke ABOUT IL
once TO Captain Marsh, ana repotleu e'PS'
c.alIy the condition OF tho hungry chiiuieh'
He said lie guessed that they got enough
/ said / thought that thoy DIDN'T, ana mat "'i
several times carried them pieces OF bread lie loluo Nv
didn't wa Mt me do that any more. Thomas Ha'i VINO
dr We the hosp nj team might told me he had taken
m sxty.egbt bodies inside OF e hit months ana had go'
very tic extr, pay for IT, The next night he sno"ru
me roll of bills and said that Tom had made parity
right with him.
Ia the Female Insane Asylum tho straw Dcde Were
rotten fairly steaming with 1.b. Most Of tho women
wtr. without undertaking shoes aud stocKl g''
nothing but q thin calico dress This was IN Jhy'
Ths cells were in hltly condition.
In the attic IN another cell, found woman lying on
the straw perfectly naked The straw was Ddd anu
Glray. Tb, woman had been In this cell abou year,
AMI was sad TO be so Violently insane that sh' "o'u
tear her clotles. she would have wei ,hcd moro
than forty o rnds My vile immediately clothed her'
n al. ,,t, al Sha "A al
meal "a day. carroI q hcr by idoftc grl whO SAID
thai she nal alwigs tIksn caro- OF Tue old woman
found ;ha the Z RI threw the foo away. cured the
1 e. food myself AM IN I'VE Fix weeks, We ha TIC
woman ont or the c, AMI down mo the stting-rOon'
30 ch ugtd that her husband did not know her Her
nam was Mary barron When the trustees came. they
nscI for her and refused to believe me whcn pointed
her 20 them.
TGc insane women were employed In the care OF pa
ticnts afflicted with contagious di'el G.. Cap
tain Marsh said that IN insane person conld
not take disease Ito said they wer3 brought
there TO die when was the night watch usei To
GO 10 the founding bIldlng at nigh to that the fir
were kept up At night tie infants under tho care
Of an inmate. One night sad 10 the woman IN cha go
that she didn't TO nave much trouble win rr
babies formerly they scnei 10 10 qn'' an NY ~.
She said that she lad found way To Keep u en-
Guiei. She took down bottle, anl sa!d mat
when they got troublesome she gave then thteo
or drops ont OF that. AID they were quiet an inc
rcst th~ night took II AMI snccl OF u, ana lounu
that u mixture ~ morphine. she slld ina sue
was put there for punishnen'. and was de'ei-
mined 20 mako her work IA easy as sho cOh J.
tuld her thai ia DE 81 ki some Of them and thc
said she Didn't caro- II II d sue dldht care any
10 many OF them diet All me Dapcs ma WSlo orn
tbcrc and that were brought IN during IN nrs' OF
VIC were there seventy thee. k ow about them
my wife had 10 count then OdtOf the seventy
three tua We knew OF, Only o"c odDe was u'o ~ tHo
end The year"