Nellie Bly - Ten Days in a Mad-House - Chapter 12 - Promenading with Lunatics
CHAPTER XII.PROMENADING WITH LUNATICS. I SHALL never forget my first walk. When all the patients had donned the white straw hats, such as bathers wear at Coney Island, I could not but laugh at their...
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View ArticleNellie Bly - Ten Days in a Mad-House - Chapter 13 - Choking and Beating Patients
CHAPTER XIII.CHOKING AND BEATING PATIENTS. MISS TILLIE MAYARD suffered greatly from cold. One morning she sat on the bench next to me and was livid with the cold. Her limbs shook and her teeth...
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View ArticleNellie Bly - Ten Days in a Mad-House - Chapter 14 - Some Unfortunate Stories
CHAPTER XIV.SOME UNFORTUNATE STORIES. BY this time I had made the acquaintance of the greater number of the forty-five women in hall 6. Let me introduce a few. Louise, the pretty German girl who I have...
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View ArticleNellie Bly - Ten Days in a Mad-House - Chapter 15 - Incidents of Asylum Life
CHAPTER XV. INCIDENTS OF ASYLUM LIFE. THERE is little in the wards to help one pass the time. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several...
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View ArticleNellie Bly - Ten Days in a Mad-House - Chapter 16 - The Last Good-Bye
CHAPTER XVI.THE LAST GOOD-BYE. THE day Pauline Moser was brought to the asylum we heard the most horrible screams, and an Irish girl, only partly dressed, came staggering like a drunken person up the...
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View ArticleNellie Bly - Ten Days in a Mad-House - Chapter 17 - The Grand Jury Investigation
CHAPTER XVII.THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION. SOON after I had bidden farewell to the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum, I was summoned to appear before the Grand Jury. I answered the summons with...
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