The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
SURGICAL CASE
AT PENAL FARM
IS UNDER FIRE
Nurse Without License to
Practice Carved Inmate,
Says EX-PriSoner.
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Dr. Gillespie to amputate his
finger"
Given No Pain Relief
Throughout the time waiting for
the amputation Rogers was given
no opiate or sedative to relieve pain,
declares Smart's sworn statement.
The farms petty offenders, ac-
cording to affidavits to The Times,
find that the pleading of illness as
an excuse for lodging work may
visit upon them medicines to make
them uncomfortable.
The "gOldbricker' is in danger of
really being sickened by vial of
medicine as much as he is of feeling
the weight Of fist or cane or the
meager diet of bread and water in
the hole
Smart's affidavit says, Il have seen
both - and DR.. Gillespie give
the men a purge, make them take it,
and then laugh about it.
Given CurSOry Test
When a new inmate of the farm
steps up from the bus or auto that
brought him to its portals, he
undergoes cursory physical exami-
nation that depends for the most
part on the bill of health sent to
the farm with him and signed by
the county doctor from where he
was sentenced.
The inmates throat is swabbed
for germs Of disease.
The examination is not pleasant.
ANY one familiar with epidemic
scares knows the "gagging" feeling
when having his throat swabbed
Thomas Bland, Negro, of GIG
North West street, was a fresh
fish at the farm around March II.
Bland was sent there on the
charge of stealing a sack of coal.
The farm was no new place to him.
He admits being there before.
Jaw DisIOcated, He Says
On other bitches" he served as
houseman for E. L. Arment, assistant
superintendent of the farm, and
sometimes called Captain Arment
by sworn statements of former in
mates.
THE first day I went to the farm
on this last sentence I gagged when
they stuck something down my
throat" says BANDS sworn state
rlent in telling of the throat exami-
nation.
1T made the doctor mad Che re-
ferS to the man in charge of the
hospitals laboratory when 1 gagged
and he grabbed my jaw and knocked
it out of place.
Then" continues B n S
affidavit" an old doctor Che prob
ably refers to Doctor Gillespie, the
farms physician, put a couple of
towels in my throat and put my jaw
back in place. I had to go back to
the hospital to have that done. My
Jaw was hurting me and l couldn't
eat"
II have seen as high as eight
prisoners in chains. They were
working in the quarry and the
shale-pit They were unruly prison
ers.' amplifies BANDS affidavit.
Charges Guard With Beating
Il have seen Guard of the
poultry line beat a man up with
his fists He knocked him down. l
have seen Guard of No. 10
labor gang knock a man down as he
was coming out of the dining room.
If they don't like you. they pull you
out of line and hit you. You don't
,1,t+o !, to III OF u 10 rrof
hit" declares the former houseman
of Arment, in his sworn statement.
Released from the farm on June
IS, Bland reports an improvement
in conditions at the farm, in his
sworn statement.
we started getting good food
about a month ago when they put
a fellow to work in there who used
to work in lunchroom in In
dianapoliS. They have real cOf-
fee on Sunday morning, but on
other mornings they don't have
what's real coffee I had eggs only
once, on Easter Sunday says Bland
in his statement.
Given Better Treatment
AS houSeman for Arment during
his SOlourn at the state farm, Bland
admits verbally to The Times that
his treatment was better than that
accorded the average prisoner.
Bland slept near Theodore LueSSe,
red agitator. on one stay in the
farm and declares in his affidavit
that LuesSe talked Communism to
him.
In the statement of Richard Gill
lette, indianapolis, another former
inmate of the farm. it is charged.
under notaryS seal, that other OPP
erations besides the one performed
on Green have been done by the
pseudo physician who acts as male
nurse at the state farm.
Gillette'S affidavit declares. lone
doctor has charge of the hospital
and has an assistant, a Mr..
This man -- is not a physician,
but on two occasions has done e.
operations. One on Clarence
Green OF Muncie. Ind. the other an
operation on the abdomen of a COL
ored inmate, don't recall his name.
He does all the work of a physician
for reason that the regular doctor
doesn't stay at the farm all day :"
No N-Ray Equipment
, The farms hospital has no X-ray
equipment for determining bone
fractures or other internal injuries.
statements to The Times assert.
One affidavit relates a special cell
for certain types of prisoners in the
hospital. 1t is called the hospital
Jail"
Food in the hospital is of better
grade and more nourlshing than in
the main mess hall.
1t is the one place that all in
mates would like to work in and
the one place where the minds of
the labor gangs are focused at roll
call when keeper curses and says.