or cause him to be arrested and wrongfully, forcibly and unjustly conveyed to the insane department of the Philadelphia Almshouse and there to be wrongfully, wickedly, and unjustly deprived of his personal liberty, to which he was and is justly entitled, for a long space, to wit, for the space of two days and upwards, and to be from therein conveyed to the Asylum for the Insane, known as the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, and to be there wickedly, unjustly, maliciously and corruptly confined, restrained and deprived of his personal liberty for a long space of time, to wit, for the space of eighteen days and upwards, and whereas also the said defendants, and each of them, in pursuance of their false, wicked, malicious and corrupt combination and confederation and agreement, as aforesaid, did afterwards, to wit, on or about the 25th day of September, A. D. 1866, to wit, at the County aforesaid, arrest him, the said plaintiff, or cause him to be arrested, and wrongfully, forcibly, unjustly, maliciously and corruptly confined in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane for a long space of time, to wit, for the space of fifty-five days and upwards, from which custody and durance vile so unjustly and unlawfully imposed upon him, the said plaintiff, by the said defendants, in pursuance of the said unlawful conspiracy, combination and agreement, he obtained his liberty by an escape. Yet the said defendants were so bent and determined upon the injury, harassment, impoverishment, oppression and ruin of the said plaintiff, that they, and each of them, on three several sequent occasions, in furtherance of their said false, wicked, malicious and corrupt conspiracy, combination, confederation and agreement, caused the said plaintiff to be arrested and taken to the said Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, when and where he, the said plaintiff, was for a long time deprived of his personal liberty, his rights as a citizen violated, his health broken and injured, his credit and standing as a citizen and a man of business greatly injured, and he himself deprived of all means to render aid and assistance to himself or others having claims upon him of a marital, social and parental nature, and these wrongs were so continued, extending over a space of three years and more, and other and grievous wrongs to the said plaintiff, then and there to his great damage, and contrary to the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. By all which plaintiff avers that he is much injured, and has sustained damages to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and therefore he brings his suit. H. R. WARRINER, Attorney for E. Haskell. INDEX. PAGE. The Charge to the Jury..... Statement... The Trial..... Escaping from the third story of the Insane Hospital........ Feeding a Patient with a Pump...... 3 6 7 9 11 14 20 21 Petition to the Legislature.... An Act for the Admission of the Insane to Hospitals...... An Act for a Board of Charities...................... 34 35 37 Haskell Leaving the Swamp, with a Broken Leg. Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Thomas Paine.... A Peep into the Blockley Almshouse, and Buzzard's Banquet Room. 120 A Suit against Kirkbride and others for Damages........ A Suit against James H. Horn and others for Damages....... 124 .125 1 |