The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-26
REVEALS
RUINOUS ASYLUM
SWINDLE inmate
Welts on Body Tell
Of Treatment in
State Hospital;
FALL Says Nurse

Her fraii. thin body a mass Of ugly
welts and bruises. Grace Davis. 20.
lies on a cot In her mothers home
at 22eS Seventh ave.
Grace has just come from the
Western Washington Hospital for
Insane at Steiiacoom. She was re-
LEASED on parole and brought TO Se-
lattle wednesday. after. the mother
charges. the eiri was brutaily beaten
at the arylum- ----------r--
1t makes me nick 1t heart when
think Of what Grace has gone
thru. OF the inhuman way she has
been treated and the beating she
received said Mrs G. r. sampson.
Grzce's mother. is there no re-
drcss?"
Nine years ago Grace underwent
an operation at the old Pacific hos-
pital Afterward high fever made
her delerious. She had hallucina.
lions. and seven months later was
sent to stcilacocm BY the doctors
who examined her.
MOTHER TOLD
1T WAS HOSPITAL
Il signed the papers because they
told me Il wRs hospital and she
would receive proper treatment and
would soon be we'll" said Mrs Samp-
son. IL had known Il was an in.
sane asylum ! would never have con-
sented. AL Grace needed was rest
Iand care and good food--it was
simply q nervous brcakdown--and
now see what they have done 10
her.
Il went down to see her every
other Sunday. She seemed to Be get
ting better At first
After she had been there about
three years she got 70 much better
that took her out on parole. But
then l fell sick. and We were poor.
and could not keep her. So I had
to take her back. since then I've
had just one trouble after another.
But ! always managed TO see Grace
occa asionally.
The first time I became alarmed
was last Christmas. When I went in
I was told I would have to so up to
the ward II wanted to sec my
daughter. They told me she was IN.
and that they suspected tuberculosis.
APPEARANCE SHOCK
10 MRS. SAMPSON
when ! saw Grace I was shock.
ed beyond words She was thin--al.
ways before she had weighed about
100 pounds--and seemed to have fear
Of some sort preying on her mind.
When asked her what was the mat
ter she just looked scared and shook
her head"
soon after this Mrs. Sampson was
taken III, and had to go to hos
pital She did not see Grace again
until last Sunday.
They said at first l could not sec
her Sunday" Mrs sampson said.
But threatened to go TO Tacoma
and get writ OF hsbeas corpus or
something. and then they said
might go up to the ward. The at.
tendant tried to prepare me for
something bad. l know. but what l
found-Oh, II was terrible,
NURSE EXPLAINS
1T WAS FALL"
"The nurse said that mustn't be
surprised at what saw. for Grace
had had fall.' l went in. and
almost screamed when I saw her.
Her face was black and blue. and
her body was so sore and painful
she could not get into a comfortable
position. And she looked as II she
had been starved for weeks.
The nurse went out and left US
there alone for few minutes. She
closed the door. and as there are no
knobs on the inside. there ! was
locked In the ward' I asked Grace
how she had boon hurt, II some one
had struck her. she looked scared.
and whispered. 'Yesr Then l asked
her who II was, and she put her
finger TO her lips and said:
"'you can't say what YOU want 70
In this place
when the nurse came back I Do
manded TO know what had hap
pcned. and she told me that Grace
was violently insane. one Of the
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