A MORMON LUNATIC ASYLUM AND ITS HORRORS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1029, 11 November 1882, Page 3

A MORMON LUNATIC ASYLUM AND ITS HORRORS.

Dr G. A. Tucker, an English gentleman from New South Waifs, with letters of introduction co Governors of State and territories asking permission to visit insane asylums and gaols, publishes a loiter in the New York Tribune, giving n description of bis visit to the Utah Insane Asylum, situated three miles east of Salt Lake City. On August 23, accompanied by United States Marshal Ireland and Mr Neal, of Louisville, Ky., father-in-law of Governor Murray, Dr Tucker visited the Utah Insane Asylum, which is under the chi irge of Dr Seymour R. Young, nephew of Brigham Young, and three Mormon commissioners. Dr Tucker says he found 21 patients, nine females and 12 males, in the most filthy condition imaginableSome were in iron cages outside the main building, while others were in irons bound hand and foot. Of these patients two were perfectly sane, and have no idea why they are confined. One of these sane persons is a man by the name of Sherman, who has teen confined for 10 years. He was robbed of his wife by a Mormon polygamist, and has been confined in this place ever since. He appears to be a gentleman who has seen better days, and is from the East, This man is

j in one of the cages in the yard, which he | has fixed up in a tusiy manner with- crude I touls of his own make. A daughter of j John Taylor was formerly confined iu this I asylum, but she lias boon removed to a I private bouse in tbe city. Her insanity 1 was caused by her 1 ather endeavoring to | force her into polygamy. The inmates of j the institution are punished with a club |or strap The club is for women and the strap for men. Dr Tucker closes by sayin" :—‘l have during the last four months visited four asylums in New South Wales, three in Victoria, two in Adelaide, two in Tasmania, throe in New Zealand, one in Honolulu, three iu California, one iu Nevada, and one in Utah, and in no instance have I seen sights so horrible as those of to-day.’