The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-28

 EVIDENCE Ensley Patient Tells of
 Crime. OTHER TESTIMONY GIVEN Investigation at Tuscaloosa Ad- journs to Birmingham. One Patient Declared That pr. searcey Lal Deserted the Democratic Party
 and Vas Now
 Populisf.
RY WILL n. STEPHAN.

A~@NAAAN@N~~NNN Tuscaloosa. Aug. 7--(Special. )--In- tes of the Alabama Hospital for the Insane, followed each other on the stand, one after the other. today, and their testimony was as widely different as the deiusions from which they suf- fered and from which they argued be- fore the state c nmission of Investiga- ton.
 One witness was quite sure that the men were worked too hard. He was equally sure that he had seen in fifteen year three cases of cruelty praeticed by nurses. He was quite positive. too. 1 that he had been mentally ruined by some scoundrel practicng criminal hyp- notism upon him.
 A second patient ddi not think the nurses were cruel, although g patient talked about their supposed cruelties. He had seen only one instance and af- ter this guilty nurse had been dis charged. He was absolutely convinc- ed. however. that Dr. Searcey had turn ed traitor to the Democratic Party. had become Populist, and that Dr. Searcey was mistreating him because he re- mained q Democrat.
 A third patient declared that he had yer seen any cruelty and that none was pract-ced at the hospital. The nurses treated the patients lgind- ly and most of the patients had gotten DSEtcE koOu Inhn l4Sy ever udQ AC nome The witness knew that something was wrong with his mind, but he could not tell just what 1t was,
 A delicate and gentle little woman brought into the room a double hand ful of statements she had written charging cruelty and abuses, but when she got before the Commission, her fear was pathetic. She was painfully ner- vous and her mind was filled with de- lusions She called them impressions.
 T have seen crueities,Y she would say. but when got to thinking about it I don't know whether 1t was fact or whether it came from my impress sions, It may be due to my own im- presstons."
 So, the testimony differed as to the character of H. s. Harton, the ex- patient, who brought the charges and who is spending freely his money and 1 his time in trying to prove them. One of the patients declared of him:
 aHe was an agent of God who was sent here to help these poor unfortu- hates"
 Another patient said of Harton:
 He was quarrelsome. dangerous man and was actually afraid to be around him.
 A. W. Shepherd, a former nurse at the hospital. said of Harton;
 ''He was the meanest man that ever saw in or out of the hospital
 As the commission was ending its days work. sudden and startling piece of testimony on the death of young Hines, of Lauderdale county, who is thought to have been killed by q nurse last August. was given by pa- tient from Ensley. This man said he stood out in the hospital yard and saw young Hines sitting In a window. He saw g nurse named Curry rush up to Hines and give him an awful kick in the stomach. The witness swore he heard the compact of the mans foot against Illness body. A short while after this. Hines dLed from an injury of the stomach.
 The commission loks upon this as important evidence and the Ensley man was taken over the story again and again. He was then carried into the yard to point out the spot on which he stood when he heard and saw the kick He pointed out the exact spot to the commissioners.
 The commission will leave tomorrow afternoon at o'clock for Birmingham where 1t will be in session Thursday and Friday.