The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-08-18
WAS NOT SENT AWAY.
State Treasurer Jennings Makes State
ment About the Columbia Hospital
Matter.

Several days ago there appeared in
The Herald and News an article stating
that white man in the last stages of
consumption, very weak and unable to
walk, got off the Southern's passenger
train in this city, claiming to have been
sent away from the Columbia hospital
in this condition and that the hospital
had not provided him with ticket to
carry him home and that some one at
the State house had written a note to
the ticket agent securing transporta-
tion for him to Newberry. The man,
who gave his name as John Cook, said
that his home was in Grcenville. The
mans statements in regard to the
alleged ill-treatment by the Columbia
hospital were very generally circulated
and they were printed for the purpose of
giving the hospital an oppol tunity to
set itself straight in the matter, and
without an intention of rejecting upon
the hospital or the people of Columbia
| in any manner whatever. The mans
statements were printed as they were
IiehuCs 1iS PSoPlS VI lNC"OClly Souttl loI
believe them unless there should be no
denial from the hospital and The Herald
| and News so stated in these words:
1.-THE people of Newberry refuse to be-
lieve that in this civilized age such a
course would be pursued by any hospit-
| al anywhere" But there was "some-
thing wrong some where" and the man
statements were printed for the purpose
Of getting the matter cleared. The
following from the Columbia State of
Saturday puts the matter straight.
No injustice was done the Columbia
hospital by The Herald and News. In
fact, the Columbia people would have
been done an injustice had they been
given no opportunity to correct the i'm
preston which the mans statements
necessarily created The State says:
An injustice has been done the man
agement Of the Columbia hospital re-
Gently. The Newberiy Herald and
News recently published a story from
sick man 10 left the train there and
complained that he had been sent away
from the Columbia hospital in a deplor-
able condition and penniless. This
stat ement attracted the attention of
the State treasurer, Capt. r. II. Jen.
nings, who yesterday gave to The Srate
a statement showing that the sick mar
evidently suffers from some kind OF
vagary and that he was not turned ou
of the Columbia hospital.
Capt. Jennings said yesterday: 81
notice in your issue Of this MOI nlDg al
article from the Newberry Herald ant
News under the heading Something
Wrong Somewhere, and as | happer
to be TIE some one at the State house
me 1tioncd, | desire in the interest O
tt 18th and fairness to state the facts a.
| know them.
"Mr. Cook came into the treasurer
Office in the forenoon of Saturday as
rccollect and said that he had come from
Aug Lsto, Ga, where he had been in
hospital and was discharged with frc,
dying with consumption and wanted /
get to Newbelry, where he had worke
IN a colt IN mill. | saw he was feebl
, and needed help, and gave him awha
money I had ard think the other me
in the Office gave him some. wrote
letter to Mr.. p. |. Welles, superinten
dent of the Southern railway here, an
2 asked him if he could do SO please t
' give him free transportation to New
, belly. | saw no more of him. II
said not word about the hospital i
3 Columbia, nor al out Grcenville bein
i his home, nor of + s having a wife an
child. He scened somewhat dazed an
: all the information | got from him / rt
! ceived in answer to my questions. y
Supt. Welles was in Savannah yes
: terday and statement could not h
! gotten from him.
q The hospital authorities asset mos
y positively that the stricken man we
5 not an inmate and his case was NJ
known to them.