Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-21
CAPT. SQUIRES EXPLAINS.
EDITOR VIRGINIA CITIZEN:

LDAAOR NllAEEN
Kind Sir:-Please allow me space in
your paper Cat my cost to explain
article in January oath, also article in
January 31st.
First, | wish to say l would not notice
either of these articles were it not for
receiving three threatening letters
without name signed to them. wish
to say that whoever wrote them is
coward and can find me at home at any
time.
L wish to explain my position in re-
gard to my good brother, DR.. Treakle,
and his trouble. His brother, X. A.
Treakle, and myself entered bond
of 81, 600 on December Goth, 1907, to re-
strain and control him until placed in a
hospital and that night left with him
for Baltimore, MIR. James Hall accom-
panying US. We arrived in Baltimore
the following day and went with him
to the Gundry Home at Gainesville, Nd,
where signed the obligation of the
Institution with DIR. Treakle (he sign
ing the same) for four weeks, the fee
being twenty-five dollars per week,
which paid and hold receipt for and
all other expenses of his going to the in
stitution. Also Mr.. Halls expenses to
and from Baltimore. wish to say did
this at the request of his brothers, they
saying to me that they would pay me
back all expenses.
Now, Mr.. Editor, in your issue of Jan,
uary 3lst, under "a Correction" YOU
say: eve have been informed that
the article in last weeks paper relative
to DR.. II. B. Treakle was not definite
enough for all to catch his exact posi-
ton, so we herewith give what is un-
derstood to be more accurate report.
DR.. TreaIle was adjudged temporar-
lily insane from excessive alcoholism
and was sent to the Richard Gundry
Home, Gainesville, Md, where he re-
manned for about three weeks at his
own expense until he was pronounced
perfectly well by the physicians in
charge and was honorably discharged
by the professors of said institution. -
Mr.. Editor, as you know partially, OF
in whole, the part l took in reference to
DR.. Treakle, what do yNu mean wher
you say 1--WE have been informed that
the article in last weeks paper was
not definite enough for all to catch hi:
exact position, so we herewith give
what is understood to be more -accur.
ate report" You use the word Eve
in this article. Do you mean to say t.
the public that have come home after
caring for my brother the best ! coulc
with kindness and money and lied to the
community? This is what understand
from your article headed ga Correc.
ton" and shall hold your paper strictly
accountable for the same. L wish to
say further that the court did not order
DIR. Treakle to be taken to the Richard
Gundry Sanitarium at Gainesville, Nd.
and l had no idea of placing him there,
knowing nothing about it, and on arriv-
ing in Baltimore called up the Shepard
Pratt Hospital and assertained that
could not place my friend there because
he had been adjudged insane from ex-
cessive alcoholism in the State of Vir-
GINA. Also all of the others, even the
Catholic institutions, would not take
any who had been adjudged insane by
excessive alcoholism and was referred
to the Gundry Home, which is chartered
by the State of Maryland for that pur-
pose alone.
[Signedl GEO. p. SQUIREs.
Ocran, Va, Feb. II, 1908.