The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-15

Or. Alden said: "Thc man has hat
enourh-stop!" Shockley, Altschulei
says was badly bruised and was put
to bed in the strong room. This was
at o'clock and three quarters of an
an hour afterwards, Altschuler says
the bath room incident took place
This was about 10 o'clock
Altschuler says he spoke to the at.
tendants about this matter at the time
and was told that he was an employe
here and that he had better keep still
he would get mixed up In It him
jco, Altschuler says he told friend
cia, an about the case at that time,
/ ysician whose name he refused to
give, but he did not deny that It was
DR.. Bear, and he said the friend ad.
! vised him that II he wanted to hold
his job he had better keep still
He did not tell 1t to DR.. Alden until
two weeks after he had left the in.
stitution, when he stated that DR.. AL
den said he always did have a suspi.
cion that Shockley died from his in.
juries and Altschuler made the reply:
Altschuler's testimony gave various
allegations of cruelty. He said that
he had seen patients choked as pun
ishment, jumped on, struck, choked
with towels around their necks and
whipped with buggy whip that left
welts on the body.
In regard to the Prosser case Alt
schuler said there were no marks on
Prosser's body when brought to the
hospital. DR.. Nicholson's record shows
Prosser's body was bruised when he
came here. Altschuler says he saw
Ellis choke patient Art Pinney as a
punishment and strike him. Ellis
jumped on Patient Bairds stomach
with both feet, while Baird was in
bed Ellis jumped on Patient Ben
Fitzsimmons and abused him until the
patient cried for mercy.
Ellis put towels around patients
necks and choked them a hundred
times. Ellis used a buggy whip on
Rowlett until the welts showed on
the body. Ellis said this treatment
was tame as compared with other in
stitutions.
Altschuler says he never told DR..
Alden or DR.. Nicholson about these
things until he left the institution
In regard to Altschuler's drinking
he said:
Gentlemen occasionally take
drink. Sometimes | had a small flask
in my grip but nobody ever saw it.
Nobody ever saw me under the influ-
ence of liquor-that is, while on duty"
He says Byerly was struck by
Shockley in the fight the blow bring
ing blood on his forehead.
Ellis often allowed Patient Weiser
to strike other patients.
Shockley was a powerful man and
would have been dangerous if he had
gotten up. Six men were piled on top
of Shockley beating him.
On cross examination, Altschuler
said he formerly worked for Baum
Bros. in Norfolk, but refused to say
whether he had any trouble with them
when he quit.
Mr.. Altschuler was called down for
impudence and disrespectful answers
to Attorney Robertson. Altschuler
said the first cruelty commenced when
Ellis came. When asked to name
hundred instances when patients were
choked with a towel around their
necks, he named three, Carl Lichten-
berg, Patient Mears and John Gillick.
Asked if there were a hundred he
said it might have been eighty-five,
that it was of such frequent occur.
renee nobody could keep track Of it.
He admitted that he never reported
a single instance Of cruelty to DR..
Alden until after he left the hospital.
The reason for this was for fear OF
trouble with other attendants.
When asked in regard to the six
men piled on top of Shockley he said,
Rats, Judge Robertson, I didn't mean
they were on top of him. meant they
had hold of him."
He did not name any who were, as
he first said, on top of Shockley. He
says the charge in VOLTS letter that
Shockley was jabbed with a broom
stick until he bled, was without foun-
dation. He never saw any such Incl
dent This charge had been traced to
Altschuler's story.
In regard to the bath room occur
renee, he said Byerly was pounding
Shockley's head against the wall and
that Ellis and Wiles were kicking the
big patient, who was standing up, in
the stomach. Shockley was over six
feet tall.
Mr.. Altschuler testified that every
one in the institution, from the super
intendent down to the dishwasher,
drank. The statement was made when
he was in rage over questions that
were propounded to him by DR.. AL
den's attorneys. Afterward he re-
tracted and said that in his oath in
this particular he was only joking. "I
was only joking about this drinking
business" he said Somewhat con-