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Show ASYLUM HORRORS Attendants Stand By and See Butcheries Committed. SICKENING BARBARITIES In a Chicago Mad-house-Two Insane Men Fight Like Sayage Beasta and CculdHave Been Separated by AttendantsThe Attend-antsThe Beciial Was Most Horrifying and Sick9ning. Chicago, Aug. 20. The investigation investiga-tion of the county commissioners commission-ers into the management of tbe Dunning Dun-ning insane asylum began today. Thirty thousand words of testimony was taken in the first sitting. Toward the end of the day's sitting came a horrible story that In detail McGrew, resident physician of Dunning Dun-ning asylum. It' concerned a battle between two madmen who had fought in the coiridor otward 2, while Anderson Ander-son accessory to the murder of Pucik, was on watch. These two patients quarreled over some silly, childish difference. dif-ference. They came to blows. They tore at each other's faces, and rolled about the floor, while Anderson looked on. One of them while in a frenzy of a raving maniac, set his teeth into the face of the other. He bit off his nose, I and spat it out on the stone floor of the corridor. The maniac with whom this patient was Datuing BpmuK an ay irom the death-grip, fell bleeding and screaming the floor, saw the flesh torn from his own face, stuffed it into his own mouth, and chewed his own noee to a pulp and swallowed it. lie said that it would make it grow again, and Anderson looked on. This was the sworn testimony of Dr. McGrew, resident physician at Dunning Dun-ning asylum. While it was being given one of the commissioners turned pale and sicKened. Jules Adams, one of the committee, covered her face with her hands, and clutched at the arm of her chair. McGrew made the story more offooHvo hv the wav he told it, bo far as his manner was concerned. It was not an unusual occurrence at Dun- D1At' the end of that story somebody whispered to President Healy of the commissioners: 4You said there was nothing to investigate." Healy looked up. His face was pale, and his eyes full of horror ot that story he had just heard. "Goa forgive me," said he, "I did. But I did not tnow did not know these things." . A Ithough the inquiry was only begun today, enough was drawn out to show that great abuses had been practiced in the asylum. Most of the evidence given today was regarding the routine ' management of the institution. |