The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-19

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 He saw cruelty visited on patients while he was there. He saw an old gentleman 80 years old held by the shoulders while another stamped him in the stomach. Ramsey was the man who did the stamping. He had then been there fifteen days. There were other cases
 He saw a man named Hedley chok ed Hedley was unruly and they pun ished him after they got him down. They choked him until he was insensi- ble. He was purple in the face. They kicked him in the stomach and in the side MT. Craft was the man who threw him down and choked him; there were three nurses beside. He saw men whipped with gas sticks by the men who turned on the lights He heard the patients cry out when they were struck.
 Asked about the diet he said for breakfast he had a small piece of light bread and some trimmings of beef. which were often spoiled. For din. ner he had rye bread: one day in the week they had what they called a stew; sometimes a few biscuits. For supper molasses and grits.
 There was . policeman there named Lopez who had bcen i'll treated and was put in the cross hall, a room where pa tients were punished. He. the wit ness was sent to clean up his room by Night Watchman Ramsey. He refus- ed to do this and Ramsey threatened to beat him. When he refused another patient was called and he did it.
 He was sent to the sylum for eat ing morphine and drinking whiskey.
 On being cross questioned by Judge Chiffon he stuck to his story, telling in detail of circumstances. places, etc.
 MrA Wilson TestiAes.
 Mrs. Solomon Wilson lived in Mont gomery. is 3S years old and had been an inmate of the asylum twice. She was last sent there July of last year and came out March 1 of this year.
 There was a young girl brought there: Miss Hawthorn was her nurse. The girl would not take her milk and the nurses threw her down. sat on her and forced the milk down her throat She had seen this girl thrown down and dragged.
 She had seen a Mrs. Moore stripped of all but one garment and dragged around the room. The room was not cold. There was just a cot in her room but no pillow. They dragged her by the hair of her head; two or three nurses would do this. Miss Hawthorn was the head nurse, there was a Miss  nurses would sit on Mrs. Moore.
 She also knew a Miss Lulu Crump who was made to wear wet clothes and locked in her room. The girl begged for dry clothes.
 As to herself she said she did not remember what treatment they accord ed to her when she first went there. She knew a nurse dashed her medicine In her face because she could not take Ghe. told of cnokfnO fhfnCs dirty water.
 The witness talked about several other patients in the hospital. one of whom was a Mrs. Schannan. She said they all complained of the poor food. Mrs Schannan was locked up for com plaining and at one time a Miss Coch- ran struck her over the eye.
 The nurses, she said. cared nothing about the condition of the patients but only of the condition of the hospital.
 There was no attempt to regulate the amount of clothing a patient would wear. sometimes they would have five pieces on. sometimes only one.
 If a patient does not give a nurse much trouble and helps in her work, they were all right. witness said but If not they were treated cruelty.
 She had written a letter to her moth CT. witness said. and found 1t later torn up in the waste paper basket.
 MT. Gunter asked whether the cruel ty occurred the first time she was there or both times. She said both times She did not believe the doctor knew anything about the cruelty.
 On cross examination she said the doctor had noticed Mrs. Channon's eye after 1t was cut and spoke to the nurses about 1t.
 HartOn on the Stand.
 1T. NJ. Harton of Birmingham. who Is responsible. in a way. for the inves- tigation. said he is in the real estate business and had been in 1t eighteen years; he is 45 years old.
 He was sent to the institute in Jan uary. 1905. and discharged May 20. 1907. He was sent there by some doc tors in Birmingham: he did not know what for
 On his arrival they took him to a room in which there was but mat tress. He refused to go in. when they caught him by the head. threw him down and kicked him until he was un conscious. He woke up the next morn ing naked, and vomited about a pint of blood, They took him to a bath that was ice cold. He wanted to fix his own bath but was caught by the head and thrown into the water; when he was taken out he was almost unconscious.
 A1teTWdrO ne was put Into room which was full of vermin. He became sick and they took him out and put him in a hospital where he lay for month between life and death. It was there that Lon McDuff struck him while Bob McDuff held him. He com plained to the doctors and to pr. Scar cy himself. They did not pay any at tention to him but treated him like a dog.
 He knew Hines. He did not see him killed but saw him kicked and whipped with a broomstick; one broomstick they broke over him. Asked what was the occa sion, the witness said he was just a lunatic, he wouldn't work and med dled with other peoples business.
 He Saw Johnson Killed.
 He knew a man named Johnson and saw him killed. He was kicked to death Winters was the man who knocked him down. Johnson was stamped on Sunday, Witness saw them through a window On Thursday they whipped and kicked him and on Friday he died in the cross hall without any one with him.
 Witness said he was first to get to him They raised the mans shirt and saw that his whole body was mass of bruises He wanted to stay and help the men but was told to go out and let him go.
 Dr. Woodruff visited him once and after Johnson died he asked the doctor what he died of and he said perftonitis
 He saw pr. Bondurant whipped un-
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