Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
HORRIBLE RRvELALIONS

Testimony in she investigation of the
 Management of ChicaGo's Public In-
 sane Asyium-Cruelty and Murder at
 the Hands of Attendants-An In-
 mates Arm and One Rfb Are Broken
 Another Dies From Cruel Treat
 ment.
 CHICAGO, May 20.-The most horrible reve- lation yet made in Judge Prendergast's in- vestigation of the management of Chicago's public insane asylum was reached to-day in the testimony of George Hill, an engineer, now running an engine for the Lake Shore road MT. Hill is @ shrewd looking man, with black hair and moustache and 8 straight forward manner that carried conviction with it. He said he wss admitted to the institu- tion at Cunning in January, 1888, and was discharged es cured the following May. He was not violently insane when he went to the asylum, and on his arrival was asked by an attendant named Locke if he was insane. He said he was not "Well," replied Locke, Eve will make you d-d sight ipsaner than you are now"
 Then another attendant named Julian or dered me to sweep out the room. replied that was not there for that purpose. "You aint, eh? We will see about that" "Then he knocked me down and kicked me in the body and mouth and kicked two teeth out. I tried to cover my face by getting my head beneath bench. My arm WIS over it, and through a space in the back of the bench. Julian turned the bench over to get another kick at my face. In doing this my arm wes broken" Hill rolled up his right coat sleeve and showed about three inches below the el- bow a huge lump where the ends of the broken bones, lilly joined, stuck out. "Tney knocked me down again." continued Hi,l, s'and broke one of my ribs"
 "My arm caused me great pain and I had not proper treatment. One day Julian said let me see that arm and he took my coat off. Then he rubbed the arm with linimsnt. That was the only attendance I had. 1 tried to see the doctor but Julian told me that if dared to speak he would kill me right there. I told Supsrvieor Jones that I was badly treated aud he said he would send me to another ward. Then Locke and another attendant from Ward "D. l." held me down while Julian kicked me in the head and breast. I got up blesding and said would have justice some day. You d-d,' said Julian, i've will give you all the justice you want and he stl dck me in the face and knocked me down again. That WEI all that was done to me, my arm and lib healed up in kind of way and got along el! right. One day poor fellow named Levi was brought in. He did not know enough to go to the dining room end we3 showing him the way when Locke a3ke me what wes doing. Julian came up and Locke said, 'the d-d fool. I'll show him how, and Julian grasped Levi by the hair and throw ing his head back jarmed 8 big piece of bread into his mouth. Levi tried to run away and hid in one of the rooms where he was caught by Julian and locked up. They struck him in the face, knocked him down and jumped on his stomach. Lsyi's face turned black. Get up,' they said, and they picked him up and threw him on the bed. The poor fellow died that night. The court room was as still as death during the awful recital The witness wes told to bling in his wife to corioborate bis story, end Dr. Harold Meyer wes instructed by Judge Prendergast to examine Hills arm and rib.