The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
DRAWING BLOOD.
The District AlmShOuSe and its Man.
agement Exposed.
LETTER TO The COMMISSIONERS
Facts RsOied in a Specific and Direct Manner,
With the Signature Atachsd-The Commits
slOners Must Fish or Cut Bait ~ with The
Sunday 6lObs-Thsrs is No Middle Ground
For Them.

lldA Duullt bGnllultIl uldN De
aroused at the disgraceful management
of the Aims House The Sunday
Globe assumes the necessary risk il
giving space to the following article
Whatever penalty may be attached tC
this expose its editor will cheefully ac
cept in the interest of oppressed hu
manity and in an effort, however feeble
or Intellectual it may be, to defend and
protect the unfortunates who have
neither defenders nor, as it appears
protectors among the public servants
appointed for that purpose. The Dis
trict Commissioners cannot ignore this
public arraignment without identify
ing themselves with the oil cials accus.
ed by Mr.. Blanchard
The following is the article. for which
we make The Sunday Globe response
ble by its insertion and for the publica.
ton of which its editor Is ready to pay
any penalty the despotism under which
the District groans may choose to in
t1ict, through its courts or its hirelng
employees.-ED. SUNDAY GLOBE.
WASHINGTON, May l6 1901.
To the Editor Sunday Globe.
The following letter was delivered
TO the District Commissioners last NO
vember S, 1899, for which the inmates
OF the Washington asylum commonly
known as the poorhouse'D have re.
ceived not only no redress, but the bru
tai ,.illtreatment of said inmates contin-
ues still to 90 on "even with more vehe-
mence than ever:
WASHINGTON ASYLUM,
! November S, 1899.
ITO the Commissioners District of Co
lumbia, etc.
"Gentemen The undersigned, in
mate Of the above institution, humbly
/ lmplOres your honorable body, to re-
move from over US one +. Nj. Everett,
who is kept on duty here when his ap.
poin tment Is that of watchman at the
work house.
"lis almost daily brutal, insulting,
Overbearing, dOmiueeriug iltreatment
Of the inmates for the past -four years
! has rendered this application for re-
dress imperative, since we can get no
redress from the ntendent StOuten-
burg.
I "A few Of the many instances of his
bluN tuhuuCb VIII W tNlutuCeu DY
citing two several cases only for
want Of time and space, to wit:
ION one occasion, recently, be cursed
and damned one of the inmates in an
outrageous, uncalled for manner for the
heinous (y) crime of splitting on the
/ back stairs, leading from the outside of
the building to the ground, the inmate
not being guilty, but just because he
( hated the inmate.
"And on another occasion, without
any cause hatever, he Of. NJ. Everett
raised a loaded cane over the head of
an inmate George Meissell) threaten
] ing to knock his brains out, and did 90
so far as to first strike him on the leg
and then punch him in the stomach.
J Many Instances Of the kind during
the last four years can be enumerated.
herewith furnish a list Of the
; names of the inmates who can each for
; himself complain of his brutal conduct
to them, but they are so terroriZed by
y this fellow (backed up by the Intend
anti that they are afraid to instigate an
| investigation, but also afraid to testify
unless they are guaranteed protection
from this fellow (Everet), as well as
the Intendant himself.
! aAANhNN anu lOlutdIdutt nave
ceased to be a virtue and we can no
/ longer bear with his conduct. TO con-
| clu re, he became So grossly insulting to
the Matron only short time ago that
he had 10 60 10 her and apologize.
| " Hoping this VIII not be treated idly
or pass unnoiced, / again humbly inn
! plOre you genu men to protect us, the
inmates, from this man, whose highest
position ever attained was oveTseer over
prisoners.
" am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
your obedient servant.
"[Signed.l CHAs. BLANCHARD,
Inmate.
IN. b. The following are the names
Of the inmates who will not only verify
the above, but who can tell more than
is herein: George Meisell, Henry Sisson,
Jas Altman, Z. Wilson, w. Hopkins,
j. c. Wheate, Mr.. Donnelly, Mr.. Trun-
nell, George Brownley, Michael Hill,
Mike Bernhard. Mr.. Campbell, VIM.
Haines, Mr.. Mccall, A. n. Dunnevant,
John Phillip Kennedy and other in
mates.
so far as the Intendaut(S
is concerned he is a most as bad as this
fellow Everett, as he backs him up. A
few If the Intendant's i'll treatment
= viii be sufficient to cause an overhaul
ing of his acknowledgements. The wit
nesses herrinbefore given can tell good
deal, and the officers Of the workhouse
also.
On one occa ion the Intendant (Stout-
enbuTg) on his approaching one of the
inmates, gentleman Of good standing
in this city, hOllere at him in a loud,
boisterous, bullying manner, "Stand
up How dare you sit down when /
, approach" This il generally his man
ner aud treatment OF the inmates, as
though they were prisoners in mill.
tary prison and he even demands them
to " take yer hat Off! - in his presence
when he never removes his Mr.
, Wheite was quite an invalid at the
I time, and can tell more than space will
allow here.
; Mr.. A. n. Dunneyant, an inmate
, but assistant clerk to Mr.. Tndall, hai
also received from the Intendant STOUT
enbuTg) quit lot of illtreatment a
divers and sundry times, saying tina
. St1utenburg IntendanD often even
, off, like torpedo in his abuse Of hin
p (DunnevanD
These are only a few instances o
Stoutenburg's (lntendanD conduct to
/, ! wards the inmates and on one occasion
. he flew at one Of the inmates in a men
acing attitude, calling said inmate 81
d. lying -."
The Commissioners either through
a negligence or an air Of "dOn 't-care-a
n darn" for the paupers many Of whom
n are men well raised and accustomed t
# life's comforts, but unfortunately here
/. allow this fellow Stoutenburg to hav
full swing, and take his ipse-dixit a
. against any and all Others, hence tn
Il inmates get no redress from abuse here
II The former matron "Mrs. Richie,