Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-22
CRUELTY TO WOMEN.
Charges Made Against tho superin-
tcndcnt and Matron Mahoncy.

Charges Made Against tho superin-
tendcnt and Matron Mahoncy.
Notice was served on The BEE last Tues
day that the board Of county commissioner.
would yesterday receive such complaints as
might be made against the management Of
the Door farm
In answer TO this, The BEE yesterday
filed with the clerk OF the court the follow.
ing charges against MIR. and Mrs. John J.
Mahoney;
Befor the honorable board OF county COM
missioners OF Douglas county, Nebraska.
James b. Haynes
VS.. 1,-,.
John J. Niahonoy and Complaint
Mrs. John j. Mahoney.
The COMPLAINT and information Of James
B. Haynes, an clector of the county Of
Douglas, made before the honorable board
of county commissioners of Douglas county,
Nebraska, who being first duly sworn on his
oath says that ho has reason TO believe and
does believe that John j. Mahoncy, superiu-
tendent of the Douglas county poor farm,
and Mrs. John J. Mahoney, matron OF the
are now and Tor several months
past, been guilty of habitual ana
willful neglect of duty and of gross
partiality in the sdischarge of the
duties assigned to them under the law and
under their appointment as such superior
dent and matron by the board of county COM
missioners IN the following partoulars
That said John J. Mahoney and Mrs. John
]. Mahoney have been guilty of cruelty to
women IN delicate condition committed TO
their charge and TO infant babes and other
inmates; that said Mrs John j. Mahoney
has used and habitually uses obscene and in
sultng epithets to destitute females and in
mates and has exhibited violent temper to-
wards them; that the said John j. Mahoney
and Mrs. John j. Mahoney have permitted
the said poor house and county
vermin and filth; have neglected
the wants of the sick committed to their
care; have permitted the son Of the said
John j. Mahoney and Mrs. John j. Mahoney
to crully treat and i'll use imbociles confined
in said poor house and hospital, have utilized
the time and labor of women retained by the
county, as nurses for the use of the said Mrs.
John j. Mahoney; thNt the said John J.
! Mahoney has lnhumanly treated and allowed
his assistants to inhumanly treat and dissect
bodies of deceased inmates of said county
poor house and hospital; that the said John
j. Mahoney and Mrs. John j. Mahoney are
wholly unfit for the places they now occupy
as superintendent and matron under the APP
pointment of the board of county commits
sioners. JAS. Is. HAYNES.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 2ist day of March, 1889.
Seal. N. p. FELL,
Notary Public.
Unfortunately Mr.. Edward Rosewater
editor of THE BEE, Is out of the city aud
could not sign the complaint, and as the time
allowed in which to make the same was linn
tied, it was deemed expedient to do so to-day,
the document being signed by another gentle
man connected with The BEE.
This document was read in the presence of
Mahoney and the commissioners. Upon mo-
tion of Mr.. Turner, the clerk was ordered to
have a copy served on Mahoney, together
with summons to appear and make answer.
1t was proposed to set Saturday as the time
for hearing evidence, but Mahoney said he
would insist on the three days allowed him
by law, SO it was ordered that the summons
be made returnable at o'clock Monday
morning, and that the hearing of evidence
should begin at that time.