Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-24
That Is the Way Three Male In sane Asylum Attendants Conveyed a Poor
 Inmate.
Pulaski Heights All Aroused Over What They Declare to Be 8 Monstrous
 Outrage.
Interviews With the People Re- garding the Brutal and UncaIled-F0r Pro
 ceeding.
Little Rock Tribune. 1

scene of more than usual ex- citement for the past week. The people have been unusually agitatcd, so much so, indeed, that they have been unable to restrain themselves, and havepublished to the world the cause of the e0mmOtion.
 From what they say 8 great out rage has been committed upon q poor unfortunate inmate of the insane asy- lum by three male attendants of that institution.
 The facts as gathered by the Sun day Tribune are these
 On Thursday the following letter was received at this office:
 PULASKI HEIGHTS, Little Rock, Ark, July 1S.-MR. GoULD.-Dear Sir: think it my duty to report to you-that you may write it up for your paper-something that occurred in our neighborhood. A patient from the insane asylum escaped last Monday. She ran to a neighbours house and begged them to hide and protect her as the attendants were after her and would kill her.
 She ran into 8 room and hid under a bed. In a few moments three men (for such they call themselyes) came, went into the room, caught the woman by the hair of the head, dragged her from under the bed, and out through the yard and off to the asylnm-one holding her by the hair, the other two by her feet.
 The idea of three men not being able to take one poor crazy woman, who is not violent, awayin fdecent) style!
 Please do not publish my name. But the persons who saw this, and at whose house it occurred, are re- liable persons, and will go before a court if necessary and swear tO if.
 Iris shameful how some of the at tendants abuse the poor patients. Yours truly, Mas l. E. DICE.
 Mrs. Dice is a lady of honor and re finement. Her standing in the city is of the very best.
 By the kindness of Mir. Harry Pitt ard we were driven in his carriage Thursday night to Mrs. Dice's resi- dence, where a long interview was had relative to the contents of the home of Mir. W. F. Whitehorn, about half-mile northwest of the asylum, on the extreme summit of the Heights. This was the place where the poor insane girl took refuge MT. Whitehorn and a Mr. Wiley, who was for a long time Deputy United States Marshal, were standing near the house when the poor woman fled into the premises. She entered the house and said the attendants were chasing her and would probably kill her. She crawled under a bed. In few moments three male attend ants of the asylum came up and asked if MT. Whitehorn had seen the "escape." He told them she was in the house. He desired to keep her there and have her returned to the asylum. They entered the ehouse and brought her out, one of them holding her by the hair of the head, clear from the ground, and each of the other attendants holding one of her feet. They carried her across a large front yard, out of the gate and some sixty feet distant in this brutal man ner. They then threw her upon the ground, and one of the attendants struck her three savage blows upon the back with his flat hand. At this point the poor woman wept and walled piteously, and continued to do so till far away i'll the forest.
 She vas then yanked from the ground and jerked about, and finally the inhuman creatures jOstled her out of sight of the protesting and angered spectators.
 Mrs. Sallie Murphy, a beautiful daughter of Mr. Whiteh0rn, was an witness of the whole proceeding, and denounces the conduct of the men as brutal in the extreme and wholly uncalled-for.
 Mrs. Murphy spoke of the run away inmate as large, robust, fine looking woman.
 The names of the girl and the at tendants are not at hand.
 Miss Alice, another beautiful lady, daughter of Mir. Whitehorn, is anoth- CT witness, and her exasperation au the hideous demeanor of the attend ants knows no bounds.
 The smaller children of the family were all alarmed spectators.