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witnessed the brutal treatment offered to the Female prisoners of the City Jail, white and Colored, by Frederick Hall, Chief Keeper of the Jail, and his Assistant John Brooks.

I have seen said Hall strike female prisoners with the Jail Keys, prison Locks and with his hand, and have seen him when they were down, tramp and bruise them with his boots, and so severely that the Soars produced by the assaults, remained visible for months on the persons of those, thus inhumanely treated.

I have particularly noticed the treatment received by George Smith, confined at the City Jail, who was deranged, and is said to have formerly been a member of the 20th N.Y. State Militia, and who died in April 1866 while in confinement.  When I entered the jail in the month of March 1866 I found said Smith confined in a cell that was swarming with Vermin, the door, wall, floor and his person were literally covered with them; said Smith (now deceased) was generally of a quiet and mild disposition and I never knew him to make my resistence to any one, or make any attack, only at times he would hallor.

Said Hall would often slap with his hand, the said Smith to the floor and against the wall of his cell and after he