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[page 899] patients' finger. Ans. No sir. Ques. Is there a patient who has had his hand put in bad condition by you within a week or two. Ans. No sir. Ques. Have you said anything to Howard Smiley about a patients' being hurt Ans. No sir. Ques. repeated. Ans. I have had trouble with a patient within a week; I think it has been just about a week; his name was Longfellow. Ques. Describe what was done. Ans. The morning that I had trouble I went and asked Mr. Besse one of the south hall attendants if he would sit in the dining room while I went and got a pitcher of oil to oil the floor with; he said he would. I came back into the hall, went to the bathroom in the closet and got the oil pitcher and waited till he came into the dining room and Mr. Turner was out. I went to the treasurer's office and telephoned into the middle third on the female side and asked him to come out and get me a pitcher of oil; he did so. I got the oil and came back into the hall, and get I think about half way down the hall and I heard a noise in the bath room; I sat the pitcher down, and ran back to the bathroom;