The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
TWO SENSATIONS SPRUNG
Especial to THE Jersey city News.

TRENTON, Aug. 8, 1901.-Many sensa-
tional features marked the second day
yesterday of the investigation into the al
legged mismanagement of the food depart
ment of the State Hospital for the Insane
near this city. w. o. Miller, the attend
ant, who was on the stand when the IN
vestigation was adjourned last Monday,
was recalled as the first witness He de-
clared that the food served was not ht
to eat He said that he had known many
instances of the inmates having been
made i'll in his hall by the bad food served
to them
: A sensation was sprung when Attorney
! Walker, representing the Board of Man
ayers, asked if the witness had seen any
: bad eggs served in the institution. He
/ said that he had.
3, when was the last time that these
; bad eggs were served?" asked Mr..
J Walker.
This morning"
"Where were they served?''
; I'm hall No. 2'
| Attorney Walker asked that a sample
/, of the eggs served at breakfast yesterday
/ morning should be sent for and also that
sample of the milk which formed a
part of the breakfast bill of fare should
be brought into the investigating room.
1t had been declared by the witness that
| the milk served to the inmates and the
! attendants was sour.
| Two eggs and quart of milk were pro-
; 6uced before the committee. One of the
eggs was broker by Judge Thompson,
! who took a Whit of it. He offered his
fellow members of the committee an OPP
portunity to sample the ripeness OF the
eggs under dispute, but each of them, m
! Guiding the Governor and Mr.. Andrews
who had declared himself as being an eN :
rert, on eggs, absolutely declined to take
a chance.
Judge Thcmpson looked at the fellow
members of his committee as tfcugh ne
did not blame them for their aversion to
the specimen of hen fruit submitted Tor
their inspection. Carefully depositing the
egg on the table in front of him he called
for another. This egg proved to be in a
1 little hit healthier condition than the
other. This, ne said, was fit to eat. al
though he made no offer to demonstrate
this fact.
Corroborative testimony was given py
tbe attendants to the effect that stale
and rotten eggs on the table are the rule
rather then the exception, ard that ire
ouently from three or four eggs proken
after they come to the table, orly one
good one would be found.
The milk having been brought and found
IN be far advanced in the stages OF sour
ness. an effort was made to discredlt the
very proof asked for on the ground that
the milk might have turned during the
four or five hours intervening between
breakfast and the commencement Oh the
investigation.
After Miller had been dismissed from
tie witness stand he arose from MS sea-
and looking directly at Governor Noorhees
exclaimed:-
"Gentlemen. I have told all I know
about this matter under oath in response
to vour questions. But I want to say IL
addition that my evidence has been en-
tirelv urbiased and was given wholly with
.the rurpose of benefting the unfortunate
inmates of this institution. They are TO
he pltied and hope that the result OF th.s
INQUIRY will change the condition under
which they are now compelled to exist
This statement by the witness created a
decided sensation. Warden Hayes and Dr.
Ward, medical director of the asylum
both started to their feet and even Gov
ernor VOORHEES, looked as though the de-
claration of the witness was a complete
surprise 10 nli,i.
Judge Thompson was the first to re-
cover from the shock and insisted that
tba witness take the stand again under
oath.
"You have no prejudice against Warden
Haves or any other of the officials In
charge of this institution asked Judge
Thompson m ,o
..T have not" replied Miller. Il have
.aen Mr.. Hayes but two or three times
md T scarcely think that he knows me.
certainly do not know him.
The investigation was resumed at ABOUT
II o'clock in the morning, when w. ..
Miller was recalled to the stand TO re-
sume his testimony from the point at
which he left off last Monday.
At the opening session only three mem
hers of the committee were present, put
the Governor came in little later ana
manifested keen interest in the tesu-
monv adduced. Mr.. Miller was taken IN
hand by Counsellor John II. Backes ana
questioned concerning his statement that
a number of patients had been made SICK
by the food they had eaten. The wit
ness asserted that one of the patients mad
been made so i'll from eating the cabbage
served that he vomited.
What is the greatest number OF pa
tents you have seen made i'll at any one
timer" asked Mr.. Backes.
MATTERs OF FACE