The sun., 1900-12-19
THREE HOSPITAL
NURSES PLACED
UNDER ARREST
Bellevue Employees Charged
With Cruelty to
Patients.
STORIES OF INHUMANITY
DIR, John W. Moore, Head of the
Insane Pavilion i'm the Hos
pital, Strongly Denies
Tales of Alleged
Brutality,
STORIES OF INHUMANITY


the insane pavilion at Bellevue hospital
have been arrested on warrants issued
by Coroner Fitzpatrick for kicking and
beating Louis II. Hilliard, patient
there. The men arrested are:
Clinton Marshall, nurse in the pa
vilion.
Edward o. Dean, nurse in Bellevue.
J. II. Davis, nurse in Bellevue.
The three men arrested denied their
guilt.
Charges of shocking cruelty by male
nurses to patients in the alcoholic ward
of Bellevue hospital have been laid be-
fore Commissioner Keller, and an investi-
CATION has begun that promises even
more sensational revelations than the
Hilliard case.
Thomas w. Wright, a young man of
good family, makes the charges. They
are corroborated by DR.. James Lent,
himself Bellevue graduate; by men
who have been patients in the ward, and
by relatives of patients who have died
and whose bodies bore evidences of the
treatment that they had received.
Helpless unfortunates are beaten,
kicked and choked daily and nightly,
Wright declares. They are neglected by
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| signals arranged to give the alarm when
any one in authority approaches.
| But the most startling charge is that
patients are drugged to death in the
ward. They are given Knockout doses
of narcotics whenever nurses feel like it,
| Wright alleges, and he gives specific in
stances in which patients were sent into
Inconsistencies and never woke up.
| IT ic oscnrtal that whom n pntipnt rp-
| fuses to tOke medicine an instrument of
torture known as 'persuader" is used.
1t is coarse pillowcase made into a
rope. 1t is passed around a patients
neck and twisted until he succumbs to
strangulation. Money, Wright AYERS.
| will buy proper treatment.
Wright's Charges.
Wright entered the ward as patient
on Nov. II. He remained until Dec. 16.
He became convalescent within four days
after, he entered and being intrusted
with certain duties about the ward, be-
came familiar with every detail of what
occurred in the place. He declares he
himself was treated with the greatest
kindness.
The names of those against whom
charges are made are omitted from his
|
session of Commissioner Keller.
One of the cases referred to by Wright
is that of Frank Heinert, aged Sc, of 81
East Seventh street, who was admitted
Nov. IL. His wife visited him on Nov
12. Heinert exclaimed when he saw her
God be thanked you are here! They
beat me last night, Go to the police ant
tell them about it. They'll set me free
I'm dying of thirst, and they won't give
me water. Bring me a bottle of seltzer.
Next day when Mrs. Heinert called sh,
was thucderstruck to find her husband
dead. Marks on his body showed that h
had been in a struggle. Alcoholism
was given as the cause of death.
Wright says that helper in tie ware
told him that Heinert had been "done up
by the nurses.
HE added" Wright says, "that tn
marks on his body We're entered in tn
condition book after his death to protec
, them from trouble.
"On page No. 30 of the condition boo
is the world alcoholic written in rathe
large letters under the mans name an
number. Crowded in after the word al
coholic' and on the same line is the wor
commissions written in small back hand
followed on the next line by the words
On chest, abdomen, legs, both arms
E does not need any handwriting expert t
{ prove that the commissions on chest, abdt
men, legs and both arms were not wli
/ ten at the time of his being received int
the ward as 'alcoholic.'
!. Whnt DIR. Moore Says.
DIR. John W. Moore is the physician i
charge of the insane pavilion at Bellevu
\ and also of the alcoholic ward. He denit
I the stories of alleged cruelty told b
: Wright.
"Matters are run in the alcoholic war
{ much the same as they are in any otht
ward in Bellevue hospital" he said.
have never as long as 1 have been col
Z nected with the ward seen any indication
l. of cruelty or undue violence.
}. "Needless to say l would not stand sue
abuses should ever learn of them. p
n ! tients are brought in here who are at IL
t. lowest ebb of life, so to speak, and mar
n Of them are in delirium. The care
l. such patients is a very hazardous unde
taking. They often want to fight. Tht
a sometimes have murderous mania, al
~ many nurse has to fight hard for life
=. dealing with such persons. As for Il
- allegation that morphine is administer,
in the word with murderous intent, it
laughable.
n "I remember Wright very well. He T
Is ceived good treatment here. He nev
v complained that he was abused and ne
ie er had any reason to.
Gas to the alleged system of signalil
rs by which the nurses warn each other
IS the approach of the doctors know not
It. ing. | never heard of such signals.
es 81 court the fullest investigation as
the way in which the alcoholic ward
er rum"
IN One of the nurses in the alcoholic war
M who would not give his name, also deni
rh | Wright's allegations.
Il have seen patients here with murd
in their eyes," he said, "and it usual
' pe requires several nurses to handle su
i Nv men. These are the patients who give
ie fight whenever they get chance"
Cnire DIspeis war rsumors.
,r- Santiago de Chile, Dec. 1S.-The &C
la ernment Of Chile has invited tenders
in 10000 tons of coal for the railroads a
ro- 400 freight cars This is looked upon
oly dispelling the rumors that Chile is hk
to be at war in the near future.