The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-27
TESTIMONY
 CONFLICTING
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0N-NfL ------------------------- ------ uel H. Rogers. through letters and by the testimony of other witnesses The witness brother was suffering from an ailing knee which confined him to his room. Enoch Rogers said he had re- ceived several letters from inmates telling him that his brother had been hurt by being struck with razor strop. One of these letters came from Bob Watts, the Marshall county mur- derer, who was confined in the hospital for awhile. Bob Watts wrote to him from the jail of cuntersville three days before he was executed.
 On receiving this letter Enoch Rog- CTS immediately went to Tuscaloosa to investigate his brothers condition. He found him suffering 8 great deal from his knee. His brother told the wit ness that he had been struck by nurse with razor strop and that he had also fallen from the wall while climbing on the back of another patient trying to escape.
 Dr. Searcy told the witness that he had been informed that his brother had been struck with a razor strop and that he had also fallen from the wall while trying to escape. He said, however, that in his opinion. his broth CTS condition was due to the progress of his disease, ''paresis." In reply to question, Mir. Rogers said:
 T have implicit confidence in Dr. Searcy and the management. If Dr. Searcy will examine my brother and tell me positively that his bad knee | is due to the disease from which he Is suffering, I will be satisfied"
 Mrs. R. A. Price, a discharged nurse, who lives in Tuscaloosa, declared that | cruelty was common practice ln the women's wards" She declared fur l thermore that the nurses were banded together to protect each other in any | thing that came up. yc2- ChOIged and Beaten. sa q
 She described two cases of cruelty which she had seen. the first of | these she saW a Mrs. Dean rushed to one of the "cross halls" where she was | choked and beaten over the head with a slipper. by Emma Watts and Lilly | Sapp They beat her with the heel part of the slipper. They choked her. too
 She also saw Miss Susie Harris choke Mrs Sewall and beat her with a slipper because she would lie on the bed all day and would not sit ID any. Mrs. Sewall died about a month later and according to the witness, she had been very sick all the time. although | but little attention was paid to her.
 She had never heard of any women | being choked to death or being killed i in any way. Cruelty went in other wards, because she had seen in the yards other patients whose heads were bruised and had knots on them. She said all the .-urses, with one or two exceptions, were very cruel to the pa- | tients.
 'why were you discharged?" Mrs. Price was asked.
 T was told that was discharged be- cause did not go to- the dance when 1t was my time to go. but that wasn't the way of It." replica the witness. But I was discharged because I didn't band in with the other nurses. The nurses are organized to keep the doc- tors from knowing what is going on"
 She denied positively the testimony of Miss Crump. who swore g woman had been killed in her ward
 One specific instance of cruelty was described by J. A. Lindsay, a former named Turner beaten by Harvey sar- tain, Leslie Carver. and Will Frank lin.
 Patients Complained.
 The patients were accustomed to complain a great deal. They were worked harder than ordinary men. but the general rule was to let them rest when they asked it, although some of the nurses would not permit them to rest. He had never seen any of the patients in a bad condition from over work.
 Allen Hinton, an ex-nurse testified that there were frequent reports of cruelty and mistreatment and the pa tients made charges of this sort. He had personally seen very little of it The nurses, in his opinion, were paid too little. He had started on SIP a month and was receiving $22 a month when he was discharged.
 How was the food?" Chairman King asked.
 "The grub was mighty rough," re- piled the witness.
 He denied the statement of Ray, a former nurse. who swore that the wit ness kicked patient.
 Tbe dinner adiournment was had al