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[page 912] Ques. Whether or not this last year you have not taken occasion to express to persons who were about to commit friends to that asylum your full belief that their friends would be kindly treated and cared for in every way and the result would be beneficial to them. Ans. If you will make that into three sentences, I will say yes to some and no to others, I have a recollection of one case lying sometime back and of one case occurring since the legislature convened. I will state exactly what occurred; a friend of mine said he proposed to put his wife in the hospital here and asked my opinion. I said I should hesitate, I should be very cautious before I did it; and I said I will see you again. I think I said you better see Dr. Harlow and describe the case and think more of it. By and by I saw him and he described the case to me. After the case was investigated and I understood it and found that she was a harmless, quiet woman, that would keep still entirely, and one that was apparently hopeless, I advised him that he had better put her there for a while and see, that in my judgment, a patient in such a condition as that would not suffer any very great injury, but if she was a violent patient and they would have to struggle with