Viewing page 156 of 284

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

3.

kept confined in damp cells without clothing enough to cover them, and being covered from head to foot with loathsome vermin, together with their being cow-hided and knocked about in a manner both as outrages, as unnecessary. What will prove this fact clearly, is the scared back, head and face of the maltreated deranged.

For months these deranged were not allowed a change of underclothing, to wash themselves nor their clothes, though they have begged F. Hall to allow them to.

It was refused by F. Hall saying, "you shall stay in there (the cells) until you rot and die you had no business getting crazy."

One George Smith (white) suffering from acute derangement, who was said to have formerly been a member of the 20th New York State Militia was in jail from February 1866 til April 1866, when one day he was found dead, and the following statement is made, as to the cause of his death.

A number of witnesses at that time confined in jail, who have been examined seperately and not 

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-09-07 15:41:42 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-09-08 09:45:07