Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-14

beat you up. They did me up pretty
badly this morning. Perhaps it was
my fault, but couldn't help it.
You know" he continued with his
explanation, they My give you a
bath when they expect you to have
visitors and this morning when You
sent word that you were coming they
gave me a bath and a shave George
gave me the bath and he has been par
ticularly mean to me. He is brutal.
cold-hearted and unfeeling, and sub
jects you to all SORTS of petty annoy
ances and patience had ceased to be a
virtue with me and | deliberately
made up my mind to have the satisfac-
ton OF smacking his face just once.
Strikes Attendant
I'm the bath room after he had sub
Jected me to number of petty annoy
ances and caused me needless pain bv
his talk | picked up a wet towel and
wrapped it around my hand so that
there could be no possibility of my
hurting him and slapped him across
the face.
He at once attacked me, knocking
me down and kicked me in the side and
body. When / got up and before l was
set on my feet he knocked me against
the bath tub. and then number of
other attendants came to his aid and
they gave it to me pretty hard.''
Parsons explained his use of the
towel to pad his hand for the reason
that he was large, powerful man, and
to strike another man a blow with his
bare fist he believed would injure him.
At no time during that visit was Mrs.
Parsons able to lay her hands on her
husband because of his injuries, and
when she mentioned the incident to tile
authorities and asked for an explana-
tion she was told that Parsons had
allen h71f h
self.
December IS Mrs. Parsons again Wis
tied Patton to see her husband and
found him strapped to his bed with
shackles on his wrists, his face a mass
of cuts and bruises and his body liter
ally black and blue from blows re-
ceived by him from attendants, accord
ing to his statement.
His nose was split and lip cut and
his chest seemed one great bruise and
his limbs from ankle to hip were a
mass of bruises. He had also been
kicked or struck in the groin and the
effects of the blow plainly showed
Charge Injuries to Accident
Asked how he had come to be in that
condition the hospital authorities in
formed Mrs. Parsons that her husband
had attempted to escape from his room
when an attendant had entered and
had run into the partly closed door,
striking against 1t with his face. There
was no attempt made to explain the
cruel and cowardly blow in the groin.
nor the bruises and abrasions of the
body.
That visit was the last made by Mrs
Parsons to the asylum, because she was
informed by the authorities that there
was no need of her coming or even of
writing, as her visits only annoyed her
husband and even her letters We're not
appreciated by him and did him no
good.
January - of this year she received
report signed by DR.. Blair which
among other things stated that her
husband was in splendid physical con-
dition.
February 2, in letter to Mrs. Par
sons. Dr. Blair reported practically
the same condition, but in a letter to
Deputy Sheriff E. II. Hutchinson of
same date DR.. Blair stated that Par
sons was in a bad condition, both men,
tally and physically.
February rs DIR. Blair reported to
Mrs. Parsons that the general health
of her husband was good, but that he
had lost some in weight and that mem
tally he had not improved but had
developed homicidal tendencies.
No further word was received from
the asylum until the day previous to
Parsons death, when the brief tele-
gram informed her of her husbands
demise.
Met by News of Death
Mrs. Parsons left the next morning
for Patton and was received by DR..
Wilson, acting superintendent. who
told her OF Parsons death. stating that
he had passed away quietly and that
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