Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-04-03
ruE rEwksBURx Alas HOUSE.
More Evidence Takes by the lnvesti.
eating Committee.
Rosrox. April 9

BosToN, April =
The committee on public charitable insti.
tutions this afternoon reeumed the nearing oi
evidence in relation to the State Aims House
at Tewksbury. the room being packed.
The examination of ex-Watchman Dudley
was resumed. When he detected Mr. Marsh,
a. he had before testified the conversation
III AT had ,nsued, Mxr,h telling him {" keep
still about what he had seen of the Loading
Of bodies at the dead house. Marsh said:
I'VE have got To have some pav for our
trouble taking care of these critters. VII.
ness gave the detail of The case of man
who was put into \ cell intoxicated and died
in four Gavs from neglect. lie saw a Ilyht
in the trunk room at night several times
after the inmates La retired. and going In
quieiiy one night saw Capt. Marsh and wife
opening the paup,r. trunks ami taking cloth
ing irom them. Mrs Pope. the honse-k-rp-
,r who is n,w employed in Mid'iietown,
Conn. told him she had seen the same thing
and that most If the auslle dresses were
taken bv Mrs. Marsh 10 her private store
room and made over for the Davis girls lher
rrlaiivrs). The hear,ay evidence about Mrs.
Pope was only admitted .fter n long discuss
iun Witness told of ~ children in one
warl Who us, Il To cry 1T night because Of
hunger. They were iced al the table with
the older inmates and hal To look out for
themselves. One night, cut of curiosity, he
went To the burying ground and saw four
bodies rr>urr-cled and driven of The State
affords for inmates and insane, always very
poor, bread nearly al the time and tie guam
Iirv was very smal. and especially for those
who had To work about the farm. l spoke
about it once to Capt. Marsh and reported
especially the condition IF the hungry chill
,iren. lie said he guessed they got enough.
said thought that they didn't. had taken
the liberty several times to carry them pieces
of bread. He told me he didn't want me to
do that any more. The allowance of other
food was verv .lrnder. man who drove
the hospital team told the witness he had
taken up 6S bodies IN s months. The man
was dissatisfied then, hut the next day
showed u few hundred which he said
Tom (Marsh) had given him. Witness
was afterwards appointed, with his wife. to
the care of the female insane. The trunks
uf the insane had been taken away the beds
vi straw were in q rotten condition, with in
sufficient clothing; most of the females were
without Undertaking, shoes and stockings,
will, only thin calico dress (this was in
July); the cells VT Re all in filthy condition.
The witness d. tailed one case of an insane
woman in dirty cell in the attic. She was
entirely without clothes and almost a skele-
toh, \thC osSiSttS e"iu sioiShiy ihS"hS anu
would tear cloihes). She had only one
meal day, carried TO her by All idiotic girl
" Eo said that she al always taken care of
that woman. lie watched and found she
threw the food away and came back with the
empty plate telling the witness the women
had eaten all. In hve or SIX weeks he had
the woman out OF the cell and down IN the
sitting room. She was SO changed her hus-
band didn't know her. Her name was Mary
Barron.
Gov. Butler-What was her husbands
name!
Wltness-l don't know. lie lives IN Bos-
ton.
Gov. butIer-Never nlind the newspapers
Will bring him to me tbmOrrow morning.
On cross examination the witness testified
to the inaItention of physicians to urgent
cases and especially when sent for. Insane
women were sent from one part of the in>ti-