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Evening Session.
All of the committee were present.
William Wilson, sworn, testified:
By Dr. Butler:
Q. Have you been employed at the hospital? A. I have.
I was employed in the gas house last winter
Q. Were any patients employed in the boiler room?
A. There were two out generally that
wheeled coal for the fire room and the coal
I burnt in the gas retort.
Q. Did the same one wheel for you that wheeled
in for the boiler room? A. Yes, generally
Q. What were their names? A. Peter Haynes
was there all the time, John Woodman was
there occasionally, Tim [Turner?] was there, and
Gov. Ingalls.
Q. Was Peter Haynes employed every day? A. Yes, he
was out every day, from the morning
hour of work until the close.
Q. Have you seen him treated by any employe
of the hospital in what you should call a cruel
manner? A. I have.
Q. State the case? A. He was occasionally employed in 
the fire room by the engineer who had him at
the forge to turn the blast, which turns by a crank.
And I have seen the engineer, as I thought