The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-21
HEARTRENDING.
The Cook County Insane Asylum
Under tho Management Of the Most
Atrocious Brutes.
A Supposed Insane Patient Tells O
Most Revolting Story.
Ho.Is Cursed and Kicked and Cuffed
and Handled Like Mule.
His Tooth Are Knocked Out, His Arm
and Rib Broken--Mad Because
he Isn't Crazy. They Attempt
To Make Him SO.

CucAGo, Ill.,, May 20.-The most hor-
rble revelation yet made in Judge PEN
dcrgast's investigation oi the management
OF Chicagos insane asylum was that
reached today in the testimony OF George
Hill, a locomotive engineer now running
IN engine on the Lake Shore q Michigan
Southern Railway. Mr.. Hill is a shrewd
looking man, with black hair and mus
tachc, and a straightforward manner that
carried conviction with IT, lie said he was
admitted to the institution at burning in
January, lSSS, and was discharged as cured
the follow ing day. lie was not violently
insane when he went to the asylum, and
on his arrival was asked by an attendant
named Lock II he was insane. lie said ho
was not
"Well," replied Lock, Eve will have
you ID sight insaner than you arc
now"
''rhcn another attendant named Julian
ordered me TO sweep out the room. | re-
piled that | was not sent there for that
purpose
you amt, eh?" hc said. Eve will SEQ
about that
Then he knocked me down and kicked
mo in the body and mouth, and kicked
two teeth out | tried to cover my face by
getting my head beneath a bench. My
arm WAS over It and through u space In the
back OF the bench. Julian turned tho
bench over 10 get another kick at my face.
In doing this my arm WIS broken"
Hill rolled up his right coat sleeve and
II. IL.
elbow huge lump were the ends OF tho
broken bones, lily joined, stuck out.
They knocked me down again," con.
tinurd llill aud broke one OF my ribs.
| My arm caused me great pain and had
no proper treatment One day Julian said.
let me see that arm. aud hc tore my coat
of. Then ho rubbod the arm with lini-
mcnt. That was the only attendance
! had. | tried TO sec the doctor, but Julian
| told me that u dared 10 show IL lac would
| kill the right there. told Supt Jones
| that | wns bidly treated, and lac said lao
| would send inc In another ward. Then
Lock aud another attendant from ward ID
W / held me down while Julian kicked
me la the head aud hrcasi got up
bleeding and said ! would nave il. = =
| some day You d-d ---, said Julian,
we will give YOU oil the justice YOU want
and hc struck me IA the face aud knocked
mo down again That was all that was
done to INT; my arm aud iib healed up in
u kind Of a way and got along al right
ono day poor fellow named Levi was
brought IN. lie did not know enough to
20 10 tho dinlng.room aud | was showing
him lhu way whom Lock asked me what
| was doing. Julian canc up and Lock
said the H-- won't cat IN show him
l l.. I..N. 4 a
| Levi 10y the hair aud throwing his head
f.ck iammcd big piece ol bread into his
mouth Low tried 10 iuu away aud hide
In ono OF the rooms. There he was caught
| by Julian and Lock. They struck him in
the face. knocked him down aud Jumped
on his stomach. Lewis face turned black.
Get up, they SAID. but lac could not
move. and they picked him mp and throw
him on thc bed. The poor fellow died
that night
Tho courtroom was still as death dur.
Ing the awful recital. The witness was
told 10 bling la his wife 10 cOrroborltc his
story, aud Dr. Harold Mover was instruct
cd by Judge Pcndcrgist to examine Hills
arm aud his rib.
Further evidence WIS taken 10 tho ef-
feet that the attendants were brutal in
their treatment ol patients. one inmate
was cruelty beaten ior going TO bed with
his socks on, aud II was a common thing
for tho attendants 90 come into tho wards
with clubs and drive ilc patients 10 bed,
using their sticks with freedom. IL was
further In evidence that the food was in
sufficient IN quantity, and that the cloth-
ing aud bedding furnished were entirely
inadequate ior the comfort OF the patients
ia cold weather County Phylician Todd
testified that Robert Burns, who was
beaten to death by attendants IN the asy-
lum, did not die Of consumption. as was
stated by Superintendent Herman In tho
certificate Oi death.