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13:11, 4 January 2022 diff hist +1,121‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NTE ‎ Created page with "[page 183[ treatment, as physicians understand that term, over here in the Maine insane hospital is up to the test? A. No, I dont. Q. Is it up to the test in modern medicines..."
20:01, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,121‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NTA ‎ Created page with "[page 182] of it? A. I cannot say. Dr. Parker never told me that Dr. Harlow resigned or wanted to resign, or anything; I never had any talk with Dr. Parker in my life about Dr..."
19:54, 27 December 2021 diff hist +914‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDk ‎ Created page with "[page 181] Pembroke, and I am not the authority of them all. They might have reported that. Q. They knew you were coming here, and was it not reported you would have the plac..."
19:49, 27 December 2021 diff hist +914‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDg ‎ Created page with "[page 180] him there. Q. You knew nothing about his coming? A. No, sir. Q. Had no knowledge of it? A. No sir. I tell you he is the worst mean to control I ever saw. I cannot..."
19:42, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,006‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDY ‎ Created page with "[page 178] Q. Did you know that I ever-? A. I know you used to give orders I didn't know anything about until I found out afterwards. Q. Did you know that I ever gave orders t..."
19:35, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,002‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDU ‎ Created page with "[page 177] written things, but I did not, supposing that some thing would be done by the legislature, and I was not going to forestal [forestall] my action; I was going before..."
19:30, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,037‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDQ ‎ Created page with "[page 176] historical matter in another institution; I know nothing about that; never heard of it until I saw it in that paper Q. Did you furnish facts to the writer of this a..."
19:25, 27 December 2021 diff hist +991‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDM ‎ Created page with "[post 175] Q. Do you indorse scurrilous articles? A. Others call it scurrilous. Q. Didnt you just call it scurrilous? A. I dont call that scurrilous. I meant in the sense as a..."
19:18, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,025‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDI ‎ Created page with "[page 174] that you didn't write it? A. Yes, sir. I never wrote such language. Some times I wrote a good deal coarser hand and some times a good deal like that; but I never w..."
19:10, 27 December 2021 diff hist +937‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDE ‎ Created page with "[page 173] Q. What enables you to be sure of it when you could not state a moment since? A. My hand writing varies. Q. Do you mean to say you write in different hand writings..."
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19:04, 27 December 2021 diff hist +931‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1NDA ‎ Created page with "[page 172] Dr. Butler: The witness is not obliged to answer unless the question is asked him. Witness: I don't know who wrote it and haven't the least idea at all. Q. Nor an..."
18:57, 27 December 2021 diff hist +970‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mzk ‎ Created page with "[page 171] anything about it; and that has been printed. Q. You wrote that piece? A. Yes, in the Portland Press. Q. Ever see a writing on the subject in the Boston Herald? A...."
18:52, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,096‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mzg ‎ Created page with "[page 170] one of the other officers was to be removed upon my coming. And I spoke to Mr. Richards about it and told him I thought it was a very wrong thing to do there; that..."
18:43, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,018‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mzc ‎ Created page with "[page 169] kept by the steward under his charge, teams at the hospital? A. Yes, sir Q. Did you have your own team there? A. Yes, sir. Q. To come and go and use as you chose? A..."
18:38, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,039‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzY ‎ Created page with "[page 168] legislature took off? A. It was the trustees and not the state that discharged me, yes, sir. Q. Did you send that claim or bill to the Governor + Council? A. No, si..."
18:31, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,010‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzU ‎ Created page with "[page 167] was a chance, if Dr. Harlow didn't live until he was two or three hundred years old, that there might be a vacancy and I might be superintendent. That is all I can..."
18:26, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,009‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzQ ‎ Created page with "[page 166] me like a cucumber bottled up over there That is all the request I ever made. Since that I never made an request of the trustees, except once. Q. When you left did..."
18:09, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,008‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzM ‎ Created page with "[page 165] Q. Acting in-? A. Good faith Q.- perfect good faith throughout? A. Yes, sir. I asked Dr. Harlow several times, when any little difficulty occurred, if I was doing m..."
18:04, 27 December 2021 diff hist +943‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzI ‎ Created page with "[page 164] were you scrutinizing the management of the institution with a view to take yourself the place of the superintendent? A. No, sir, I never did that. Q. Never had tha..."
17:58, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,001‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzE ‎ Created page with "[page 163] Q. Was that really the inducement which you had in your own mind for coming here? A. I should not have come- Q.- to supplant the superintendent? A. Not to supplant..."
17:53, 27 December 2021 diff hist +992‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzA ‎ Created page with "[page 162] Mr. Baker: Well, I will ask it. Q. Dr. Neal, what other inducement than the salary was there for you to leave a position which paid you a higher salary, and come do..."
17:46, 27 December 2021 diff hist +977‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mjk ‎ Created page with "[page 161] Q. When it occurred didn't you always know it was due to some temporary difficulty with the pipes or to the fact of a drouth [drought]? A. Yes, sir; no question abo..."
17:41, 27 December 2021 diff hist +996‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mjg ‎ Created page with "[page 160] Q. Was it not due to an insufficiency of rain? A. No, sir, there was plenty of water in the river, and they could have got it. Q. Was there water in the reservoirs..."
17:35, 27 December 2021 diff hist +965‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mjc ‎ Created page with "[page 159] Q. Didn't the treasurer have to be consulted to know what finds there were? A. Not by um, but by the superintendent and trustees. Q. Didn't he have to be consulted..."
17:25, 27 December 2021 diff hist +969‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjY ‎ Created page with "[page 158] were quite often wanting those books, and they would get torn and it would be a loss to the library Q. And when you spoke to Dr. Harlow about it he thought the bett..."
17:20, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,014‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjU ‎ Created page with "[page 157] Q. Those would be about the extremes would they? A. There might be some times a very warm day, and the steam would get up so it would run up to 80 Q. They will run..."
17:14, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,008‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjQ ‎ Created page with "[page 156] on the matter. The committee are men who do not need to hear a witness badgered in this sort of wat; and I submit that he should dispense with this unnecessary- Mr...."
17:09, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,030‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjM ‎ Created page with "[page 155] Q. Dont you know how he died? A. I dont know how he died. He might have been hung for all I know. Q. That made up your second instance of tainted meat? A. Is that t..."
16:41, 27 December 2021 diff hist +965‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjI ‎ Created page with "[page 154] say; smelt very strong, stronger than I would want to eat a hog. Q. Ever know another instance of that sort while you were there? A. No, sir. Q. To whose attention..."
16:35, 27 December 2021 diff hist +995‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjE ‎ Created page with "[page 153] question: whether, after you reported the first instance of what you called tainted meat to Dr. Harlow, the difficulty was not remedied and you didn't find it after..."
16:29, 27 December 2021 diff hist +897‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjA ‎ Created page with "A. Yes, sir. Q. Personal knowledge? A. You mean that I didn't report myself nor saw it myself? Q. Yes, that is what I mean? A. That is all I can say. Q. Then you have personal..."
16:21, 27 December 2021 diff hist +983‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTk ‎ Created page with "[page 151] Q. Is it a fact that while you were there you lived better than the patients? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you complain of that to the superintendent A. No, sir, it was not..."
16:13, 27 December 2021 diff hist +982‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTg ‎ Created page with "[page 150] there but once? A. I know of others that had been reported; I say I didnt see them; they were not brought to my notice but to Dr. Harlows notice. Q. Didnt you eat a..."
16:07, 27 December 2021 diff hist +959‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTc ‎ Created page with "[page 149] Q. Perhaps you task doesnt run to corned beef? A. Yes, I am very fond of good corned beef; but I dont like it there; a good deal of it patients can not eat or any b..."
15:58, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,003‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTY ‎ Created page with "[page 148] Q. What did you mean by using the expression: you didnt try to hunt it up? A. Never in any case, unless the attendants reported to me did I try to find any. The att..."
15:49, 27 December 2021 diff hist +926‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTU ‎ Created page with "[page 147] A. No sir. Q. Have you say you discovered tainted meat three times? A. I believe I have only mentioned twice. I didn't report any more tainted meat. Q. Didn't see a..."
15:41, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,012‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 146] and felt incapable of looking into the matter much. Q. When was that? A. I dont remember now; along when he first came there as trustee. I complained to him about t..."
15:33, 27 December 2021 diff hist +970‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTM ‎ Created page with "[page 145] A. He and his wife together- you were not here before? Q. No sir, I was not. A. The first time I brought it out to the Dr. he and his wife were in his office. And t..."
15:26, 27 December 2021 diff hist +888‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTI ‎ Created page with "[page 144] didnt occur in the very wards you had the charge of? A. Yes, sir. I make no complaint about cleanliness? A. As I told you, he and I didn't agree on that matter of t..."
15:05, 27 December 2021 diff hist +999‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTE ‎ Created page with "[page 143] know as I do. Was he under you or not? A. He was not under me quite; I could not say that he was under me. He was an officer there in the institution. Q. Was it not..."
14:59, 27 December 2021 diff hist +960‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTA ‎ Created page with "[page 142] Witness: That is an opinion. Yes, sir. Q. Were the bath tubs washed out after slops passed through them? A. When it comes bathing day they are always attended to. T..."
14:49, 27 December 2021 diff hist +917‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDk ‎ Created page with "[page 141] kept right along. Q. In that particular place? A. In each of the three wards. Let me explain now so you will understand. There is a dining room on each floor of th..."
14:44, 27 December 2021 diff hist +933‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDg ‎ Created page with "[page 140] to be a very good reason for that, on the ground that there might be something in there that would clog up the closet, and would of course pass through the bath tub..."
14:39, 27 December 2021 diff hist +868‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDc ‎ Created page with "[page 139] Q. You would not state positively that you did say to him at that time that there ought to be a towel to each man? A. I would not say as to that at all but it would..."
14:34, 27 December 2021 diff hist +886‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDY ‎ Created page with "[page 138] Q. So what you asked him he did do? A. I could not say that he ever did. Q. If you made a complaint to the Dr. was it not a part of your duty to know if he acceded..."
14:29, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,052‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDU ‎ Created page with "[page 137] until this last year. Q. Keep yourself to my question. Will you say there were additional towels furnished after your application? A. I will say what I have stated;..."
14:16, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,012‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDQ ‎ Created page with "[page 136] to Dr. Harlow? A. There was not a towel for each man any time I was there until this last year. Q. Will you answer my question? A. I cannot answer it any other way...."
14:05, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,010‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDM ‎ Created page with "[page 135] A. I dont object to that. They look very well as far as neatness is concerned. Q. Now about the bath rooms a little bit, and the towels. You say there were not enou..."