Report of the Trial of Dr. Wm. H. Stokes & Mary Blenkinsop, Physician & Sister Superior of Mount Hope Institution; Before the Circuit Court for Baltimore Co. MD., Held at Towsontown, Tuesday, February 6, 1866 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... pose it was true that Mary Fleming had heen ill-treated on a dozen occasions that would not disapprove this Report, because the Report only speaks of general treatment. It does not individualize. It does not speak of particular acts. It is a general summing up of the condition of the Hospital. Specific acts would not disprove them, for it is not inconsistent with them that particular acts of unkindness many have been exhibited by the attendants. If they go back to 1858, they can go back to the beginning of the Institution. If they can shew iudividual acts of bad treatment, we have a right to introduce evidence of particular and individual acts of kindness. If they can offer specific acts in Mary Fleming's case, they can'offer them in any other case;. and we can offer evidence of kindness in particular cases. Such a course would lead to an investigation of the entire number of upwards of three thousand cases, which have been treated in the Asylum from the beginning. The trial would be interminable. Therefore I think the question is irrelevant, because it does not have any legal tendency to prove or disprove the issue joined in this indictment. The Court.--Allow me to ask when Miss Blenkinsop first became connected with this Institution? Mr. Gittings.--In June, 1864. The Court.--Does this question go to anything before that time? Mr. Gittings.--Yes. In 1858, Mary Fleming was out of the Hospital before Miss Blenkinsop came there. Mr. Ensob.--The question asked, if I mistake not, was as to the general treatment of Miss Fleming in the Hospital. I was not present at the trial of this case on Friday last, but I understood that your Honor admitted our right to go beyond the time specified in the statute. If we can show anything prior to that time, then we can sho...