Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 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 Fucik murder. It was told by Dr. McGrew, resident physician of Dunning Asylum. It 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, childish 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, set 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 this patient was battling sprang away from the death grip, fell bleeding nnd screaming to the floor, saw the flesh torn from his own face,, stuffed it into his mouth and cheWed his own nose t£ a pulp and swal lowed it lie said thtit’ Would make 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 given one of the commissioners turned sick and pale. Julia Addams, one of the committee, covered her face with her hands and clutched iat the arm of her

chair. Although the inquiry was only begun, enough was drawn out to show that great abuses have been practiced in the asylum. U

HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT DUNNING.