The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-22
CRUELTIES AT
 THE HOSPITAL Mrs. Crenshaw Tells of
 Experiences, SENT THERE BY RELATIVES Montgomery Woman Gives Story of Narrowing Details. Declares The Nurses Were Cruel and Punished Any Inmate Who Re-
 ported Any Improper Action
 To Authorities.
SENT THERE BY RELATIVES

Alleging she had been sent to the Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa without cause, solely because of the prejudices of a husband and daughter, both of whom she denounced as of unsound mind, Mrs M. F. Crenshaw, of this city, appeared before the Asylums Investi- gation Confusion yesterday morning and gave testimony concerning her eighteen months experience at the in- tsitution.
 The story of her life. as given by her on the witness stand. was extremely pathetic, the graphic recollection of it, causing the one testifying to break down under interrogation. and to answer with & tremor in her voice and tears in her eyes the questions which tho attorney and members of the Com mission asked of he..
 Chairman King called the Commission to order shortly before II o'clock. with only Mrs. Crenshaw present to give tes- timoHy. Senator Hayes and Representa- lives Arnold and Gunter, were the others of the commission, besides the chairman, who ith attorney Chiffon. attended the session.
 Upon being sworn M-3. Crenshaw said
 
 ough Street, this city, and that she made her living by nursing and sewing. She was an inmate of the hospital she said, from January, 1903. to June, 1904. going to the asylum from Montgomery.
 Mrs. Crenshaw said that she had been asked by a number of well known Montgomerians to appear before the Comission, and to testify concerning her treatment at the asylum. Seeing an announcement of yesterdays ses- sion of the Commission in the paper. she stated, she had decided to come before the commissioners and to place before them facts she had gathered during the months of her confinement.
 Hew She Was se7t to Hospital.
 The witness began her testimony by stating that she had been sent to the hospital through a husbands and daughters prejudice. She sald that four applications, had been made to the Pro- bate Judge to have her committed, all of which had failed. and that upon the filing of the last, she voluntarily offer ed herself for confinement.
 The witness further stated that her husband, Fl. Crenshaw, who resided near Ramer was of such unsound mind that he was disposing of all his prop erty He Imagined. she said. that both his wife and children were crazy, and because Of khe fact that she had pro- tested against the property disposition, she stated. her neighbors trumped up against her charge of insanity, and continually harangued the courts in the hopes of having her sent to Tuscaloosa.
 After being at the institution while, she stated, she made request to be re- moved, without having the request honored. Finally, she sid, she man. aged to escape from the hospitals bounds and to reach & house tenantedby a Methodist preacher in Tuscaloosa, of whom she asked protection. The preacher. she said, left he room osten- sibly for the purpose of getting his coat. Very shortly. she said, two of the asylum guards appeaSed at the house and conducted her back to the hospital. where her first punishment w2s administered.
 Arrived at the hospital she stated, Miss Buck, of the woman's department at the institution, t0ek her clothing away from her and clad her in the rough garments used by the violent pa