Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-09
INSANE BETTER FED
SINCE THE INQUIRY
It is Charged That Gloves Threat
eDsd 10 Make Or. Foster
walk The Plank.
FORMER WAS ONCE A REPUBLICAN
Lazy Live Off of the Crazy" Denied
as Well as Many other Accusation.
Which Hurt-Aospi,al no place For
Old so'dlers-so TestltIe. Dr..
southa1l, an Expert.
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WILLIAMSBURG. VA. June s.
Another sensation was sprung In the
Eastern State hosupital investigation
today. The morning was spent in
listening TO the testimony of Presi.
dent Lyon e. Tyler. of William and
Mary College: Rev. w. a. Il. Good
win. pastor of Bruion church. anil
Judge Taylor Garnctt a former mem.
Der of the board, all of whom spoke
highly of DR.. Foster both as man
and as an officer Of the asylum.
Judge Garnctt had retired and the
session was almost concluded when
Colonel Lawlcss. counsel for DIR. Eos.
Ter, sprung his sensation, proving by
the three Spencer brothers of VIII.
iamsburg, that e. II. Cloves. Il
former member Of the board. had
said That he hated DR.. Foster ami
would see 10 it that he was made
to walk the plank" as superintend
ent of the institution; that when
Cloves had secured his commission
us director of the hospital he men.
toned the matter a.;ain to Robert Lee
Spencer: that in the summer Of
1913. shortly after Or. Foster hal
been reelected superintendent, Mr..
Gloves brought DIR. Hcndersc IN 10
Williamsburg and introduced him to
j.. b. G. Spencer as the next super
m tNnIpnt ,r
Cloves Once Republican.
1t was also proved that Cloves was
once a Republican. This testimony
was introduced to disprove the state.
mcnt made on the stand by Cloves
that pleasant relations existed be-
tween DR.. Foster and himself and
to to show that II was Cloves
intention to turn DR.. Foster out and
put In superintendent of his own
choice.
Rev. Mr.. Goodwin also enlivened
matters when, in speaking of the i'm.
provements in buildings al the negro
hospital. he said:
Negro Race Well Cared For.
81 should certainly say that the
legislature has seen fit to extend IA
ors TO the colored people which
they have not extended to the
whites"
Judge Garnett said that Mr. Cloves
and Mr. Cole had attempted to rob
the superintendent of all his minor
appointments and that it was only
OIL the matter being taken to tho
general board that they desisted. He
spoke highly of the work of DR.. Eos.
ter and of Dr. Williams, whom lie
said he regarded as an upright gen.
tleman. and enc who could not have
been guilty of the charges that have
been brought against him.
Better Food For Patients.
1t was brought out in the evidence
that since the investigating commit.
Ice began its work biscuits have been
added to the breakfast fare at the
hospital. and that they had been call
ed "Sadlers photo graphs by the pa
tents.
Mr.. Cole. the local member OF the
board. said that Colonel Taylor's
statement that the local 'director
seemed TO think that he owned the
hospital" did him an injustice. He
also denied the truth of Hon John
s. Wise's epigrammatic statement
that in Williamsburg 'the lazy live
on the crazy"
DR.. Southall testified regarding the
fifty old soldiers who are confined
in the asylum. He said that they
were all old men who needed plenty
of fresh air and not the confinement
OF an asylums ward