Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — INSANE ASYLUM HORRORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INSANE ASYLUM HORRORS.

Patients Permitted to Mangle and Maim Each Other. The investigation of the Cook County (Ill.) Commissioners into the management of the Dunning Insane Asylum began Tuesday. Thirty thousand words of testimony were taken at the first sitting.

Toward the end of the day’s sitting came a horrible story, that in detail was more barbarous than the story of the Pucik murder. It was told by Dr. McGrew, resident physician of Dunning Akylum. Tt concerned a battle between two mad men, who had fought in the corridor of ward 2 while Anderson, accessory to the murder of Pucik, was on watch. These two

patients quarreled over some silly, child ish difference. They came to blows. They tore at each other's faces and rolled about the floor. One of them, in the frenzy of a raving maniac, act his teeth into the face of the other He bit off his nose and spat it out on the stone floor of the corridor. The maniac with whom thi« patient was battling sprang away from the death grip, fell bleeding and screaming to the floor, saw the flesh torn from his own face, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed his own nose to a pulp and swallowed It. He said that would make it I grow again, and Anderson, the attendant, looked on. This was the sworn testimony | of Dr. McGrew, resident physician at Dunning Asylum. While it was being I given one of the commissioners turned j sick and pale. Julia Addams, one of the committee, covered her face with her J hands and clutched at the arm of her chair. Although the inquiry was only begun, enough was drawn ont to show that groat abuses have been practiced in I the asylum.

HOSPITAL. FOR THE INSANE AT DUNNING.