Show THE EMMON3 SANITK CiSE The Defendants Experience at i Bloomlngclnle Asylum WASHINGTON D C January 17 Mrs Emmons continued her story today to-day beginning with her experience at the Bloomingdale Asylnm When the was taken there Dr Nichols was absent and did not return for nearly a month Meanwhile Dr Brown had tried to make her take medicine which she be lieved was doing her harm She deceived de-ceived her nurse and concealed the medicine and began thentoget better Dr Brown discovered that she had not rake 1 tile medicine and came to her aW aWSAID SAID HE WOULD MAKE HER TAKE IT and talked of stomach pumps and things of that kind She said she made up her mind that he could not make her take f Well she went on he was sronper than I but I made him rak OT dose of that medicine Her He-r < W i i Hi I did not see him for three Y A ieii he came back he was like a cur ioat had heen whipped and I kiiowHiat he < coul 1 not do the same thing again She said thnt while in the hospital she had heard and tried to foret or nt to hear the shrieks of PEOPLE WHO WERE REALLY MAD So she tried to amuse and help the poor peopfe about her That she said was called a delusion a wanton appreciation of my position No it was not it was because I did not want to go mad By helping to amuse others I could forget mv own trouble At > night when 1 wished to sleep she went on I heard the shrieks Of those who were really mad and I decided that I must have sleep OR GO MAP MYSELF She said that the lights used to be putout put-out at 9 pm In order to have something some-thing to occupy her mind she learned to write in the dark She used to write little stories and every kind of nonsense that came into her head Mrs Em mons then gave an account of her removal re-moval to the Butler Hospital Providence Provi-dence her release and her return to Washington |