Viewing page 163 of 284

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

10.

would fire again saying "you will try to break out will you G–d d–n you", and it was with great difficulty that Mr William Hall Keeper of the jail could restrain Mr Brooks to cease from firing.

On the following day Doctor Dove attending physician at the jail visited the wounded men, and after examining them remarked that he could not assist them, no attempt was made to extract the shots from the wounded men, some of them suffering very much.  They were refused water to wash the blood off or bathe their wounds, and bandages to bind them up.

One of the wounded lay for several days and nights with nothing but bread and water to sustain him.  Said Mr Hall and Brooks rarely if ever were known to go among the male prisoners unless armed with a revolver, and neither of them have ever been known to maltreat or strike any of the sane male prisoners.

The "Yankee or Colered sick prisoners do not receive kind attention from these Keepers, or medical aid to any extent, and have to 

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-09-06 15:37:50