The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-07
WILL NOT BE
 SENSATIONAL Report of Hearing to Be
 Filed Soon. MOST CHARGES ARE DIsPRoVEN Some Changes May Be Recon mended by Commission. 4horough Investigation Into Claims of Murder and Mistreatment Has Revealed Lack of Serious
 Foundation.
MOST CHARGES ARE DISPR0vEN
RY WILL .. sHEEHAN.

tai for the Insane will file its report at the Governors office today or Monday. The report will not be sensational, that much can be safely predicted.
 The Commission, consisting of Chair man J. c. King of Jefferson County, Senators H. F. Reese of Dallas and W. M. Hayes of Limestone, and Represen- tatives Gaston Gunter of Montgomery and J. J. Arnold of Calhoun. came in yesterday morning and held a session at the Capitol throughout the day.
 The Commission is now engaged in writing its report from the record of the voluminous evidence and it has but a short time in which to do the work. Under the act creating the Commission the report must be filed within thirty days after the approval of the act by the Governor. This would make the report due on Sunday and 1t IS under- stood that the report will be filed on Monday, the first legal day after the expiration of the legislative time limit.
 No intimation of the nature of the report has been given out. But It IS known that the evidence taken on the TuscaIoosa trips of the Commission and at the Birmingham sitting has put an entirely different aspect on the allega- tions made against the hospital man agement
 marked change in the sentiment of the commission since 1t went deeper into the evidence bearing upon the first sensational charges made. It Is con- fdently believed that the commission will find that there were no grounds for the horrible charges first made.
 AIn1 aANr changes of the system at the hospital --hich commend themselves to the meIn- CTS. but 1t Is not thought that the recommendations will, if carried out iake any sweeping changes in. the resent ayMtena. It is believed that a9- CT an especially thorough exazninations he commission will find much at the hospital land in its management 10 commend.
 How the Charges Came Up.
 The charges as originally made were so horrible as to astound the State. Pack of the charges, as the prime mover, therA was Hugh M. Parton, real estate dealer of Birmingham, who had spent more than two years in the hospital. MT. Harton came out through a habeas corpus proceedings and he came out with a bitter hatred of the hospital and all connected with its management.
 He got in touch with several ex-pa- tients and several ex-nurses and from them he obtained some sensational af- fldavits in which more than one mur" der at the hospital was alleged.
 These charges he first presented to Probate Judge Greene of Jefferson County. who advised him to get Rep resentative J. c. King to present them with the af1davits to the Legislature. This MT. King did without vouching nf al tained in the affldavits Mir. King submitted them to the Legislature with the simple statement that they were of such nature that they should be investigated
 In this the Legislature was agreed and a committee was named. but the task was so large that a legislative committee could not handle 1t in it's limited time. So an act was passed creating a commission of investigation and giving 1t life of thirty days.
 The Commission for a month past has been delving into the charges. It has examined 125 witnesses, made two ting each in Birmingham and In Mont Eomery. The recorded testimony will at least number 150,O00 words. x
 Many Charges Prove Untrue.
 It Is an open secret that the Com mission found most of the charges
 
 One sworn statement declared that a woman patient was murdered, when no patient of that name had ever been in the hospital, and when the only patient having a similar name was still alive and hearty in the hospital
 One patient submitted a written statement declaring that another wo- man had been killed by the nurses when as a matter of fact, she was at the hospital and in excellent health when the Commission went out for the next days hearing.
 More than one ex-patient and dis charged nurses swore that Dr. Due had been murdered in the hospital As a matter of fact. Dr. Dues widow sub mitted a statement declaring that Dr. Due was seriously i'll from a nervous breakdown when he went to the hos pital, that she had two special nurses to wait upon him until the end, and that she herself was a frequent visitor to him in the hospital, and that he had received excellent care.
 The Commission stopped the hospital authorities from introducing evidence in reference to Dr. DueS case, having been convinced that the charge was ab- solutely baseless.
 It was charged that patients named Paulk, Johnson and Hines were killed by, the brutality of the nurses. The Commission, after a thorough search for the truth found that there was no evidence at all of the mistreatment of any Of the patients. with the possible exception of one. It was shown that in every case, except one, the patient had died of natural causes and there was no evidence to corroborate the assertion that they had been mis- treated.
 The case of young John Hines of Lau- Iderdale County, obtained special inter- est and search from the members of the Commission. It was shown. how ever. that Hines had died a violent death and in a struggle with a nurse.
 It was shown. too. that his injuries were caused by a fall over a bench. and that the hospital authorities im- msdiately notified the officers of the law so that a thorough investigation could be held. The same statement