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[page 288] Q. I wish you would. A. I can recollect one case where a boarder was choked very badly. Q. State it to the Committee; state the whole facts? A. Did you say you would not ask me the names? Q. I dont care about the names. A. It was a boarder who was taken down in one of the bathrooms, and she was choked so badly that it made me sick. The blood settled under her eyes afterwards she was choked so bad. Q. What was the patient doing at the time this occurred? A. I dont know; I think she did some thing to the attendant. Q. What did she do to the attendant? A. I dont know; I dont know anything about that. Q. Attempted to or did inflict on the attendant some personal injury? A. I think so; I think that was the cause of it, I dont know. Q. Some bodily injury? A. I think so. Q. And this was in punishment or retaliation or self defence of that? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know whether it was in self defence, or not? A. I dont think there was any need of doing that in self defense. Q. Was the attendant in a state of anger at the time?