WHAT A FEMALE REPORTER DID

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1753, 30 January 1888, Page 4

WHAT A FEMALE REPORTER DID

A girl of twenty ou the New York '* World* " etaff of reporter* wan oommi«iloned to obtain information concerning the treatment of inmates of the city's Insane hospital on BinckweU's Island. Ne!)y Biy feigned insanity, frlghtotitd 'he people of the bouse whore she wan temporarily boarring into bavinc bar •rre^tcd, was taken before a police court, and by ft c ommltiod to B <llevue H'.Bpirnl lax tocatninatl 1 n B« <o li»f mental sotted- j nee* Hre three phy?iuhM« — < lie city'e j loi'-tnity exoo'ts — p<-ouounoed h*r lnaam>, junn Kftd hf-r cOuunsU v '-'<i »o BUckwell'B Island A*y nm. Tfo*»*oMc», **»i> emir, rhs» na.vfl* ->-A phiMoi'«r»s »' the fHjnou. B ;l>v(i« *ilf>spita: w «fe B'ic e^efa y .upud bj a oier* plrl. »otftll> uninformed •>• vo the pe>et»ii>»rit"e» of d mni>ind pur-:.ou«, mD of ih*m, au«r>.itiQKly, h.-lpingher forward to the asylum which h»r mission required hr i« gain %o ; :«'» '<> a* ho inmtte. Thin ctory (• strange hot <ruo, and the young lady reporter is now w -ifm? np a hiato<y of what, ehe saw <at will etir up tne dry bones na they haven't been rattled for a 1 dk time. Her uperitncm shows how mnoh reUanoe »my be plaitd a poo the •lleged t-xpertt whose decisions have In numberless cages saved the neaks of orirrlnals who deserved hanging, and inoa»-cerated m the a«ylama p^rfoo'ly sane people who deserved freed, m. Nellie Bly is or;e of the brightest womon m the country, and has already become quite famous by her remarkable strokes of enterprise, and it is natural to suppose that when the experts discovered who she Was they felt like kicking each other until thel- teeth fell oat. The narrative she Ib publishing. diioloßis remarkable in«tancea of oruelty, brutality, and neglect no the pa*t of the asylum management, and there will be numerous ladies aud gentlemen m that department wtio will oheerfully join tho " experts " m the giddy whirl of an » 1-round kioklnsj tn*t:h.