Show Cruelty Cruelly to toI Patients jJ Pa atiel ts is tsI I I Disclosures of a Most Nature Inmates s Afraid to Ia 1 Lest Lesi They be bc Punished for foi fo So Doing r Beaten Bate With wiil Slung l ParI arl of the III Jl is a Kentucky r Case Louisville Ky ICy April Ap 1 11 nAK As the re result reo suit sult of ot an al au Investigation Into charr 8 of ot alleged cruelty on tho part Int of ot tho the at attendants of ot the tha Lakeland Insane asylum hunt lum situated about 11 1 miles mie front from this city cl some IOle disclosures of a startling starting na an nature ture have been made A dt number num er of pa patent patients tent have testified before the Investigating gating committee that they have IUne been thin thu victims of cit acts of cruelty cruel and some of oC the th witnesses stated that they feared to tell tel alt all ni they thuy knew on account of tho tilo fact that they the would suffer at tho the hands of oC the attendants at the elope clore of the tho examination According to t the testimony of one of the favorite forms Corms of punishment for slight infractions of ot tho Iho rules on the part hart of oC the patients won wail Wil a n beating with a slung shot formed of oC a ft I sock Hock In Ia which a n potato or some Homo other hard harl vegetable ble had been heen placed Somo of at the patients declared diar lar J d th the they y bad Imd frequently boon been be on l One had lund been taken Into a it hack hael room and t 11 to a n chair an lu attendant following with witha wih a Ii I leaher Ml The Tho witness who told this story Ilor did 1111 not know Imol what had hall or o 0 CUre In II the hack back room 1001 r Bruised on the breast and legs of If ono o ot of t the patients l were shown BH au II proof that ho he hail Imd ben been kicked by the tho attend attendants ants and It was ivaa as developed that IhaL shower baths were vere also 1190 used ns as a a I means neuis of ot tin the heln held punishment tl patients being hell while cold water was allowed to drip drill on them Two ruo 11 attendants after being closely blosI questioned admitted that they thuy th y hail had kicked and ald choked choke patients patents hut but paid 1111 that they had been Iel forced to do flo HO so HOIn 10 jit In II as ns they the hind had been leen at attacked tacked The Investigating committee will con conk continue UK its IN labors next week ami tutu tt It t Is cx ec el that a report will w 1 soon be lie pro paved pared for or the board boar of ot commissioners of at atthe the tho asylum n lum under who hos supervision tho the Investigation Is II being conducted |