The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-27
THE CONDITION Is DEproganIr
cannot Get Dangerous Insane I'm the
asyium--white Woman Placed I'm
Wake Jaii-Admittance Refused
at the AsyIum.

An insane white woman OF Garner.
Wake County. II now In jail in Ra-
leigh. Many dangerous insane are
confined at the County Home. The
authorities at the Asylum claim they
nave no room for them. The last
Democratic State Convention pointed
with pride TO their management Of
State affairs. They can't saw their
attention has never been called to
the matter before, for We had the
same disgrace two years ago and
they promised to provide ample
room for all the insane persons of
the State. Why haven't they done
1t? II they already have the room.
why is 1t white women of good fam
lily have to be placed in prison with
hardened criminals? It is a disgrace
to the State.
This Ii no Republicans lie" we are
trying to palm OF. Read the follow
ing from Tuesdays issue of the Ra-
leigh News and Observer:
"A white woman, of good family,
named Ellen Hicks, of Garner, Just
| twenty-five years Of age, is in Wake
County Jail, her people and the Clerk
| OF the Superior Court, Mr. William
Russ, being unable to have her TAX
| en- into the Central Hospital for the
| Insane, Raleigh. She had been cared
| for by relatives, although her insan-
| ity had been such as to keep in con-
| slant peril the home. Her people
failing to have her taken at the Asy-
| lum, were finally forced to petition
Mr.. Russ to have her placed in Wake
| County jail. Mr.. Russ applied at the
I Asylum for admission for this wo-
| man and eight other patients now
/ cared for by the county, but admis-
| sion was denied, DR.. James Mckee,
the superintendent, replying that
there were 500 beds for women at
the Asylum, and that every bed was
| occupied. The names were put on
the Asylum file.
There are eighty-three patients at
the County Home, of which number
thirty-two are insane, this number
| including the colored insane. Super
intendent Rowland stated last night
| that he had never made a real ur-
| gent request for the admittance OF
| colored patients to the Eastern Hos
| pital at Goldsboro that was not
| granted, but that he was unable to
get white patients in the Asylum at
| Raleigh. There are seven cOlored
dangerous insane and two dangerous
| insane white persons at the County
Home. He was obliged, he stated, to
keep ten men steadily at work all the
time to keep them out of serious
trouble. He has there a white boy,
eighteen years old, who is becoming
worse, he said, every day, and he
cannot place him in the asylum.
Zone of the white women at the
County Home is dangerously insane,
and Mr.. Rowland stated that the
grand jury had several times recon-
mended that she be sent to the Asy-
lum, but the authorities there had
said there was not room for her.
"Mr. Rowland declared that keep
ing the insane at the County Home
caused an unsanitary condition there
and that it interferred with the
health of patients.
Hubert PAUL., young white
man, was confined at the County
Home He made an assault on the
superintendent and at the last term
of Wake Court was committed to the
ward for the criminal insane at the
penitentiary."