The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-09

Results of Deputy Attorney General
HadIey's Investigations.

Those people that are said to belong to
the insanity trust have certainly been
doing a land-office business" declared
Cassius c. Hadley, deputy attorney general.
yesterday. Mr.. Hadley is at present en-
gagged in making for his chief an exhaustive
investigation of the proceedings taken in
the various insanity cases that are alleged
to have been worked up" during the past
few months by members of the so-called
trust" He said that thus far his discov-
cries led him to the belief that the Dis
pensary doctors and other people about
the station house that have been men,
toned freely in connection with the "in-
sanity trust" formed the habit of filing aft
davits against about everybody that Wis
tied the building and acted in the least
strangely. They would file an affidavit
and then name either Nichols or one of
the Dispensary physicians as the attending
physician said Mr.. Hadley. 1T also
strikes me as a little queer that Police
Surgeon Christian was almost invariably
designated as the examining physician and
Nichols as one of the attending physicians.
Christian picked the soft BERTH for he
drew a fee of Sc in each case that he han
died. while Nichols only got pay for two
days at SIPS per day. l think there is no
doubt that he was entitled to only one day,
If any"
Mr.. Hadley says he has also been struck
with the persistence with which the women
about the station house have figured IN
these insanity, cases. Another significant
discovery made by the deputy attorney
general is that Justice Lockman has figured
in every case thus far investigated.
whom the affidavit was filed" said Mr..
Hadley, and again he would figure as one
of the justices called in to sit in the case,
but he was always there in one form or
Mr.. Hadley said that a favorite charge
against persons in these cases is that they
fly into a passion without cause" He
found this accusation to be the basis of
quite a number of the cases investigated
yesterday and Saturday. He came across
the cases. of two people. a man and a
woman, of the same name and residing at
the same address, but the papers did not
state their relationship 10 each other, and
the basis for the insanity charges here also
struck the deputy attorney general as
rather fiimsy. Delaney, who drives the
Dispensary ambulance, filed the afidavits
in both cases. Expert Delaney believed the
woman to be insane because of her
strange actions and talk and because of
a delusion manifested by talking ram
blingly on the subject of religion" Mr..
Delaney evidently thinks spiritualism a
form Of insanity" said Mr.. Hadley. for
he alleged in his affidavit against the man
that he imagines he is in communication
with the dead Both the man and woman
were said to ''hy into passions without
cause" a peculiar fact was that Delaney
knew the address of these parties. vet was
unable TO furnish the address of a RESPONSE
BILE friend or relative of the persons who
were threatened with incarceration in an
insane asylum.
Mr.. Hadley said the members of the AL
legged insanity trust" nave filed a great
many more affidavits on which people were
acquitted of the insanity charge than on
which they were sent TO the asylum. but
fees were collected regardless of the out
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