The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10
LIITLETON Will SIFT
us. HOSPITALCASES
n. Y. Lawyer With Ireland
and Jewell to Pass OH
Veterans Charges.
CRUELTY Is DETAILED
Rossdale Tells of 80 Pound
Man Being Beaten at
Kingsbridge.
UNCURED DISCHARGED
UNCURED DISCHARGED
II
Sane Men Put Among Insane
Patients, Representative
Specifies in Report.

Martin w. I.ittleton. New York law
yer. was selected yesterday as the
public member" OF the committee
that is to begin tomorrow morning an
investigation of the Veterans Hos
pital 81 In The Bronx. His associates
will be DIR. Guy .. Ireland and Major
f. III. Jewett, both of the United States
Veterans Bureau, Washington, with
DIR. Ireland as chairman. The first
hearing will be held in the hospital at
10 o'clock.
Representative Albert c.. Rossdale,
who has been threatening an exposure
in Congress If the Veterans Bureau
did not institute bona fide inquiry,
said last night that when he called at
the New York office of the bureau
yesterday the regional director, Major
Lent, and DIR. Ireland tried again to
have him consent to the appointment
of . committee drawn wholly from
the Veterans Bureau. They assured
him, he said, that the bureau knew
more about the problem OF the hos
pital than outsiders could know.
II replied" said Mr.. Rossdale. that
II they would not put at least one out
side man on the committee / would
have nothing to do with the investiga-
tiop. because the public and the pa
tients and employees of the hospital
would have no confidence in a bureau of
the Government investigating itself. l
asked them to appoint some man whose
name would mean to New Workers a
fviia ra MT nf off md Faf ind lodi
ness.
Unknown Man First Chosen.
after agreeing to this they sug-
gested and introduced me to man who
is fine gentleman and who had been
a member of Governors staff, but
who, If / am not mistaken, is not known
TO the general public. / could not APP
prove his appointment. SO after several
men were discussed Mr. Littleton was
= chosen and he has agreed TO serve.
The hearings will be open to the
--.,ress and to representatives OF the
American Legion and other veterans
organizations. 1t is agred that patients
who testify will not be disciplined or
punished in any way
MI. llOSSUdlG sent yesterday 10 III.
Charles n. Forbes. director of the Vet
Grams Bureau, a letter In which, at Col
Forbess request. complaints against
the conduct of the hospital are reduced
to writing. Later man who said he
was George Fowler, former patient
called on Mr. Rossdale and said that
about two weeks ago he saw q patient
OF the name OF Golding beaten by an at
tendant in the hospital. Goldng, weighs
only eighty pounds. lie had been Or
dered 10 bed and refused TO go, where
upon an attendant subdued him with
his fists.
Fowler said he appealed TO nurse
who was near by and she remarked,
Yes. that fellow is getting too flip.
Fowler told the Congressman that he
stole out Of the hospital on Friday
evening and walked the streets all night
in order TO tell his story.
Letter Sent to Forbes.
Mr.. Rossdales letter to Col Forbes
follows
The following Il q statement of con-
ditions at the United States veterans
Bureau Hospital. No. 81, OF which |
wired you the other day requesting
that you appoint committee TO inves-
tigate and then make such changes as
win remedy and improve the conditions
there.
Il. That an assault upon physically
weak and helpless inmate of ward s.
suffering from paress, by name OF
Nicholas Samson, was made by two at
tcndants, which resulted in crushed
ribs. broken wrist and both eyes Sc
vcrely blackened. That these two at
fendants were not suspended from duty