Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-06
MRS. L|NDNER WAS
IN ASYLUM, SAYS
ANOTHER WOMAN



cisca Hinkel in every particular. Mrs.
Lindner said her mother often COM
planned of the brutal treatment of the
nurses in the ward, and on one ocr
casion a great number of bruises on
her body were explained by nurses to
be the result of a fall from bed Mrs.
Engel died in the asylum in 1906.
Denies E~mployee,s story.
So far as her mother was concerned
Mrs. Lindner said the testimony of
Mrs. Marshall, the Essex County Hos
pital employee, to the investigating
committee, was untrue. She said Mrs.
Marshall testified hat a record of a
patients clothing vas always care
fully kept, and the clothing returned
when the patient die or left the hos
pital. Mrs. Lindner said her mother
had such valuable clothing, the gilt
of friends and relatives, and that some
of this clothing was. sent to her after
her mothers death.
That the Kitty" of Mrs. .Lindner's
acquaintance. and the Mrs. Catherine
Lindner, so carefully described by Mrs.
Hinkel, are one and the same woman,
seems to have been established. Mrs.
Hinkel said Mrs. Catherine Lindner
was known always in the ward and to
her friends as kitty Apparently,
Mrs. Francis Lindner's testimony UNI
earthed by the STAR, ~corroborates
everything Mrs. Hinkel has said, and
also positively puts the patient kitty"
or Mrs. Lindner, in the asylum. There
Is no record that she ever left it. ana
she is not there now.
Tbat yorfta,, Of thn nrnIinainpru re-
port of the hospital committee of the
Board of Freeholders which has been
Investigating conditions in the Essen
County Hospital for the Insane at
Overlook, which deals with the skele-
ton mystery, is not conclusive, because
the mystery has not yet been dissi-
pated and the investigation is still ON,
The report will be made to the grand
jury this afternoon by Chairman Ben
jamin Haskell. of the committee.
Prosecutor Mott gave the members OF
the hospital committee to understand
today, in plain, unvarnished terms, that
he was very much dissatisfied with the
progress of their investigation into the
County Asylum for the Insane. Tic
said the freeholders were responsible
for discipline of the institution and that
under the law they could be held to ac-
count for their trust.
AS a result of this criticism, mem
bers of the committee decided to hold
another meeting Saturday and perhaps
one the following day.
The report deals with the fire
at the South Orange Avenue Hos
pital on June 80 last. when some
of the attendants on duty were
under the influence of liquor; the case
of the patient, Mary Bauer, who was
dead n buried for nearly three
months before her relatives heard
about it, and other minor cases which
showed that the records of the institu-
ton have not been kept as they should
be.
In the Bauer case it developed
that there were two more records
in. some Of the visitors books
which gave the correct address of Mrs
e. Kisewetter. of 1873 Clinton avenue
q daughter of Mrs. Bauer. One o
these entries was made under the dat
OF May 10. 1906, and one under octo
Der 10, 1908.
Under the last date an entry wal
found, which showed that Mr.. an
Mrs. Koether, OF ) South Orange ave
nue., had also visited Mrs. Bauer, ant
on July IA, 1906, Mrs. Conrad. of s
Wallace street. had visited her.