The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-04-05

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funeral services held over the c"iiins filled
with wood.
,pDrrrusAL srAEIIISG PARTICULARS or THE MANNER
IN WHICH BODIES WERE DISPOSED oT N TIIE MAS
sACHUsETTs CHARITABLE INSTITUTE.
BOsToS, April 2.-The Committee ON Public Char
liable institutions resumed inquiry into the manage
ment of the State aims house, at Tewksbury. Ex-
watchman DAILY testified that when he detected
Marsh, Marsh told him TO keep still about what he
had seen of loading bodies at the dead-house
Marsh says: We've got to have pay for
trouble taking care of these critters" Witness
gave details of n who put into cell intox-
icated, aud died in four days from neglect. Saw
light in the trunk room night, several times af
the inmates had retired. and going in quietly
night, Capt. Marsh's wife opening trunks and
taking clothes from them The hOusekeeper, now
in Middleton, 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. Twenty children in the
ward raised cry at night because of hunger. One
night. out of curiosity, went TO the burying ground
and saw fonr bodies resurrectei and driven of in
wagon. Stale food for the inmates and insane was
always yerr poor The allowance of other food was
very slender 4 man who drove the hospital team
told the witness he had taken up 6s bodies in eight
months. The man was dissatisfied then, hut the
ne II day showed few hundred dollars, which he
said Tom Marsh had given him. Witness after
wards appointed with his wife, To take care of the
female insane The Trunks of the insane had been
taken away. beds were of straw, in rotten condi-
ton with Insufficient clothing the cells in filthy
condition. One insane woman was IN dirty cell
in the attic. She without clothing. Assistants
said she violently insane, and would tear her
clothes She had only one meal a day. carried her
by diotir girl. who. he said had always taken
care of the woman. Watched. and found that the
rirl threw the food away. and came hack with
empty plate. telling that the woman had eaten all
the food In five or six weeks had the woman out
of her cell, and in sitting room, 80 changed that
her husband did not know her. liername was Mary
Barron.
Gov ButIer-what was her husbands name.
Withess-I do not know.
Gsv. Butler-Seyer mind. Newspapers will bring
him tomorrow morning.
On crosseramination, witness said that Of the
seventy.three children who came there in year
only one lived
BosroN April 3.-Thr investigation into the man
agement of the Tewksbury slm--hOuse resumed
much apiece for transporting boxes, the contents Of
which she did not know. She took up the business
after the death of her brother, who had been prev
ously engaged in it. Thomas Marsh, Jr., paid for
this WORK The latter Thought it would be ncunyc-
nrnt tn have the work iorc hy any ono rls. 80 shc
took it up.
Governor Butler examined the witness very sharp,
ly and cndeavorc,l to make her acknowledge she
knew what was being transported, hut she would
not acknowledge il. She had been paid as late
last November and there had been boxes trans
ported since.
Mrs Charlotte 4. Thomas, OF Andover u charge
of certain departments of the alms-housc, testified
that Dr. Peas, the female doctor who treated the
patients. evidently did not know her business
Three patients lost their lives through her treat
ment. She had difficulty in getting clothes for Mrs
Marsh TO Law over the dead, and heard inmates
complain good clothing had been taken from them.
In one ca-r a dead child had been kept too long.
and when the father came for the body block If
vU,.i put into the coffin aud service held over
that. The face Of All insane girl who had been laid
cut eaten by rats. Three hundrv'l and twenty
i've pounds "f butter were made per month. onc
pound per day was given the inmates. the balance
went TO Capt. Marsh skim milk given the in
mates until forbidden by the Inspectors Had been
told hy Mrs Marsh TO take fannels from the wo
ncn When she knew it would enlanger health. aud
when company expected wonderful change
made in anything possible. Investigation adj