The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-14
NO DUNGEON.
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wall ana to the south dlnlng room.
There was nothing that looked like
dungeon. Then DIR. Potter made his
statement to the committee that his
daughter might have gotten mixed.
Mrs. Guilford was not with the party
then, being engaged in visiting pa
tents, but the committee gave DIR.
Potter opportunity to suggest any
other places which he might wish to
he visited, but he suggested none. This
ended the trip Of inspection.
After DR.. Potter pounded on the
floor Mrs. Guilford led the way to third
! hail, one of the best III the women S
department. She couldn t tell which
room she occupied there and said she |
coulda't remember anything that hap
pened there Then she went to first |
! hall, another one of the best ones, and
pointed out q room which she occupied. |
From there she took the party to |
second hall, but concluded she never |
! had room on that hall. Thence she |
went to eighth hall to see q Miss |
/ White, a patie9t from Bennington |
whom she said saw her almost killed |
| by Mrs. Morrill,, who was Mrs. Gull |
ford S nurse at the time she alleged
her Jaw was broken. Miss White |
wouldn't say anything except to as
sert that, being a patient, her testl-
mony wouldn' t count.
Senator Leaevens then asked Mrs. |
Guilford if there was any place or
room, other than those already visited,
where she would like to 90, and she
replied in the negative
From here the party returned to
sixth hall and made the measurement
with tape to locate the alleged trap
door, going thence to fifth hall again.
which was the one visited at the be-
ginning. ''This is where | saw a pa
tient killed. asserted Mrs. Guilford.
- How was She killed. inquired The
Reformor man. ''SLe was knocked
down by the night watchman right in
, front of my door, was Mrs. Guilford s
answer.
Mrs. Guilford, members of the com
mittee and others including the repre-
sentative of this paper. went into the
room and looked over the narrow tran
som, through Which Mrs. Guilford
said she saw the affair. The visible
area was small. \ person Of medium
height standing in the middle of the
hall was visible below the shoulders,
hut net to the waist line. The edge If
the floor on the opposite side Of the
hall could Just be seen. \ person
standing two feet from the door of
Mrs. Guilford 5 room could not be seen
at all
The party with the exception of Mrs.
! Guilford went then to the basement to
see the tunnel under the road from the
! main building to the Marsh building,
I containing water and steam pipes, but
4 Or. Potter did not consider that OF
G any Importance and the rest of the
G time was taken up by trying to locate
: the dungeon and trap door.
: Upon the return OF the committee
, to Mr. Bacon 5 office this afternoon
an affidavit from DR. T. A. Ladd, dental
!. surgeon Of North Adams, Mass, was
!. introduced In this he stated that be-
: fore She went to the Retreat he had
= examined and flied her teeth and they
! were III correct position and alignment.
!, III the summer Of 1913, after her re-
lease from the institution, ne examined
!, her teeth aud found the lower molars
= and second bicuspid teeth badl. loos-
:, ened and tipped to the inside against
y the tongue, apparently from the effects
II Of a blow which fractured the aiyeolar
l. process around the teeth
/ Or. George r. Anderson testified
4 that he examined Mrs. Guilford i teeth
i this morning and found one tooth
r tipped inward. lie considered that it
It was probable that this had been 50
since the coming of the second teeth
# lie found no indication Of fracture
d The tooth out Of alignment is tipped
n al an angle Of about - degrees.
" Rev J. Fredril Virgin testified that
% ne frequ ntlv visited the institution tc
o. see about - communicates of St. Mich
Il ael S Episcopal church who are confined
there and that. he had never been III al
(, institution where il was so easy to see
patient and where such courtesy was
u extended visitors.
/. DR.. A. L. Pettce testified that he ex
:, amined Mrs. Guilford S mouth thi!
= morning and that he found no indica
y ton Of fracture. The second bicus
pid on the left lower jaw is ont o.
- alignment In his opinion it IS crowded
- out BY the pressure Of the other teeth
Is rs there is not room for all in the Jaw
e The second bicuspid tooth ON the uppe
al Jaw had been extracted, in his opinion
w. to give room for the other teeth.
n lie said, in answer to Q question, tina
ay where tooth is hit hard enough I
p pat il ont of alignment the nerve al
al most invariablr dies. The nerve in tn
st second bicuspid in this instance
IL alive Ii that tooth had been put on
y. of alignment by a blow it must hav
or been bv an instrument no wider thai
at the tooth, and, in his opinion, such
an blow would have left a scar, but h
found none.
~ Yesterday afternoon Dr. Taylor 0
r. the Retreat testified to the treatmen
an given Miss Lucy Farnum OF hailfa,
who climbed over gate while on
no walking on the Retreat grounds an
~ Gisocated one knee. DR.. Cram Of Co
j. rain had testified that he did not thin
-, it was properly treated. This mornin
"a Or. G. r. Anderson of BrattleborC
90 testified to treating Miss Farnum at tn
Memorial hospital. Both testified tina
the Young woman S treatment was bot
skllful and professional, DR.. Andcl
son adding that the knee joint was on
Of the worst in the human body t
h. treat and that any injury to 1t whic
destroys the ligaments as III this cas-
iS liable IN result in permanent in