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[page 771] Q. What did you do there? A. I have painted and glazed through the hospital. Q. Did you ever see and case of what seemed to you to be cruel treatment of any one in that hospital? A. I did in one case. Q. What was it? A. One day as I was passing through the halls, when I opened the hall door I saw several men in the middle of the floor, and there was one man lying on the floor. And as I passed along it was a patient that worked in the bake room; and the attendants took him, and as I understood it, they wanted to carry him into the bathroom. And I went about and opened the doors, as I had keys. And they carried him down into the bath-room and laid him down on the floor and one of these attendants got onto his stomach with his knees and jammed him considerably. And when they got off from him he was about remedied. And he laid there some considerable time before he got up. Q. You are not familiar with this word "churning"? A. I had heard that expressed down there, but never knew what it meant