The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-28

Is Charged Against Brutal
Attendants
At THE INSANE ASYLUM
Horrid CrueItieS Sworn to-
Things Too Vile to Print


been secured which no person in Kansa
should miss reading. Dr. Wetmore, goo
old man, is al Emporia, being abused a.
a scoundrel by the Populist papers o
Kansas; that =, the Popuiist papers OUT
siGe Of MS own county; those within al!
county 90 not dare. He is there in seclus
ion, abused as a scoundrel, but Truth ha:
marshalied her forces on his side and i.
coming to his rescue. The evidence vii
not down.
The first affidavit tells a pitiful story.
Il is from Fred Zimmerman. an inmate
of the asylum from June. 1897. until Feb
ruary. 1898, when he was discharged as
cured The treatment Of Funston, the col
ored man, is a terrible thing, sounding
more like French detective story than
like a reality on the bright, nappy sun-lit
plains Of Kansas The affidavit is con-
drmed by H. @. Hall in another affidavit
And Hall, in his affidavit, tells a blood
curdling story, tale Of the horrors suf-
1eged by man VINO had once borne arms
Tor his country.
Other aifidayits reciting the sad story Of
Jacob Waggoner tell of a condition which
Is pitiabie. The affidavits follow
FRED ZIMMERMAN AFFIDAVIT.
STATE Of Kansas. Osborne County, IS.
Fred Zimmerman, of lawful age. depo-
ses and states, that he was an inmate of
the Topeka insane asylum from June. 1897.
until February, 1898; that ne was ac-
quainjed win James Funston, or Fuse
ton, commonly known as Hooky jim; that
the said HOoky Jim was also an inmate
Of said asylum; that ne saw the said
Hooky jim treated with great cruelty by
the attendants of the asylum; that a few
days before the said Hooky Jim died he
va sabUsed in a very cruel manner. being
beaten and kicked SO that the room had
the appearance Of a slaughter house; that
this beating and abuse occurred about
January 70, 1898, and that the said James
Funston. or Hooky Jim, as ne WAS known.
lay IN a stupOr until about January Is.
1898. when he died. This adiant further
states that he often saw patients struck
and kicked by the attendants upon the
least prov0cation. That it was no use to
speak 10 the physicians about this abuse
as they would simply laugh about it.
Also one Harlan Chick was upon a GER
tain occasion kicked down and beaten and
kicked by the attendants and finally
dragged out of the room in an uncon-
Ecious condition; this Chick was from Jew
ell county Kansas. The patients received
no relief from tsge doctors, as they paid no
attention to the complaints Many more
instances of cruelty came under his OBJ
servaton. but the above are sufficient.
(Signedo F. ZIMMERMAN.
Witness:-H y. CRTST
State Of Kansas Osborne County. IS.
Subscribed and affirmed before me this
18th DAY Of October. 1885
(Sea) H. F. HILLEBRANDT.
Notary Public.
Commission expires May 8 1885,
HARRY c. HALLS AWFUL TALE.
State OF Kansas, Shawnee County. IS.
Harry G. Hall being first duly sworn.
Opposes and says: I am resident Of
North Topeka. Kansas. and have been for
Two years last past. I was appointed TO
the position Of attendant at the Topeka
insane asylum in September. 1897. and con-
unued ia that position until March l. 1895
During the last six months I was at the
asylum served as night Waterman. I
was discharged from the institution bv
DR. We,more. september s. 1SgS was
appointed u the position in the asylum as
Popullst / voted for Bryan and Leedy 4
NJ the election TWO years ago. / am a
member uf the Topeka fiambeau club. 1
am stu Populist and believe in The sin
Sic tax principles. bu; while a Popuiist
! do not understand that the principles /
or the party require its members to en-
dorse the brutality and debauchery which (
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