Dr. Anderson Denies Cruel Treatment of Alice Coltrain Who Committed Suicide, July 13, 1926

Dr. Anderson Denies Cruel Treatment of Insane. . . Report of Cruelty Made by Wake County Coroner Denied. . . Dr Albert Anderson Superintendent of the Hospital for Insane, Asks for Complete Investigation into the Death of Alice Coltrain at that Institution a Few Days Ago—Coroner Charged Cruelty

Raleigh, July 13 (AP)—Cruel treatment proceeding the suicide of Alice Coltrain, an inmate at the state hospital for the insane, who hanged herself with one of her stockings last Friday night, was responsible for her death, L. ? Wiering(?), Wake county coroner, charged in his report to the clerk of court.

But tonight Dr. Anderson, superintendent of the hospital for the insane, ?? a letter to Dr. G.M. Cooper, to whom complaint was made by the coroner, welcoming his investigation of the conditions under which the patient killed herself. In this letter the superintendent pointed out that the woman was violent and that so many as six attendants were necessary to place her in her room. He declared that she was placed in a room with few windows and without furniture only because she was violent.

Under the law, Dr. Cooper said tonight, the State Board of Health will make an investigation.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Wednesday morning, July 14, 1926

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