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they take out a good many, and at other times Some of the patients work out every day as regularly as any man. Q. Is it a custom that the attendants there in the hospital make their patients do their work. A. Yes, I consider it is. Q. Men and women? A. That is what I always heard (I dont know about the women.) Its a good deal of it. Of course the attendants help some By Dr. Butler: Q. Did you mean to say that it was commonly understood among the patients that they should not report one and another? A. Among the attendants Q. Yes. A. Yes sir Q. Do you know a man by the name of Sweney there? A. I know there was such a man there, yes, sir Q. Did he do work down in the coal shed? A. Yes, sir; he was at work there when I left Q. At what time? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you or not know that he continued that work until within a year or two? A. I dont know I am sure Q. You dont know as to the condition in which he went home? A. No, sir. Q. Nor what became of him when he went home?