The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-21
INSANE ASYLUM SCANDAL.
THE RULES AT THE INSTITUTION
ARE VERY LAX.
Inmates Escape and Go TO Macon
With Female Attendants. Work
for the BlalOck Committee.
From the Macon News.

From the Macon News.
The police force of Macon has been
kept busy for the last two or three weeks
hunting for escaped ''lunatics" from the
asylum at Milledgeville.
And in each case the climatic" has
been accompanied by woman who has
been or now is one of the attendants at
the asylum.
Two young men from Macon and one
from Savannah, who within the last two
or three years have been sent to the asy-
lum to avoid the disgrace of criminal
vellance of the police.
One of them, Bob Kent, is now in the
city prison waiting his return to the
changing, and another one, who left
here under stress Of circumstances, has
been arrested in Milledgeville and sent
back to the asylum.
Evidently something very wrong exists
in the management of the asylum.
About two weeks ago Kent was arrest
ed here with his companion. 1t was evil
dent from their behavior that there was
something wrong, not necessarily men
tally but morally. in their makeup. So
they were arrested at the cemetery where
they had spent the day, and were docket
ed for disorderly conduct, a general
charge including many heads.
The young woman was evidently very
much distressed at the situation in which
she found herself. She was discharged,
however. In giving an account of her
self she said that she was an attendant
at the asylum, and that she was engaged
t. the man whom she had accompanied,
and that she was going to marry him.
1t is unfortunate that the young wo-
man was not better informed as to the
causes that carried the young man to
the asylum instead of the penitentiary.
The fact of the matter is that a Jury
sat upon him at the request of his rel
atives and found that he was undoubted-
ly luuatiC because he had married two
wiyes.
A week later another patient and an
other young woman attendant at the
asylum turned up in Macon, and their
peculiar actions attracted the attention
of the police.
The man in the case originally hailed
from Savannah, and while the exact ma
ture of the crime that made him a luna
tic is not known here there is every reas-
Ou " huOW budG d. d ltudJlC u6 was d
failure, whatever he may be when he as
sumes his other role.
At any rate, he was accompanied to
Macon by a female attendant at the asy-
lum, and, following her back to Milledge-
Vile after she left him here, he was taken
back to the peniten-asylum.
This week another case comes up.
Within the last few days young man
well know here, and who has been pa
tient at the asylum for some time, Ca ne
back accompanied by young woman
who is or has been an attendant at the
asylum. She has been warned that it
may be a little too warm for her if she
remains in Macon, and probably left to-
day to attend to other lunatics at the
asylum.
To judge by the attractive appearance
of the young women attendants who
have looked after the patients" in Ma.
con within the last few weeks the paths
OF some of the lunatics lie in pleasant
places,
Perhaps the Blalock investigating
committee might take this matter up
with benefit to the asylum, its autkori-
ties and some of its inmates.