The New York herald., 1872-07-11
charge and rescue him from the clutches OF Pope
Jones and his PhiIlstines Of Randalls Island.

charge and rescue him from the clutches OF Pope
Jones and his PhIlstines Of Randalrs Island.
THE FOOD SUPPLIED.
Kenney reports that breakfast consists OF rye cof-
fee and about 0ne-eghth of q loaf OF bread which
Is usually sour; dinner OF less Tor about one tenth
OF loaf of bread, and soup In which he has seen
SPIDERS, cooKRoAcHEs AND OTHER INSECTS.
once per week boiled beef Is added for dinner and
three times per week very rank butter. They work
from halfpast seven A. NJ till noon, and nom one
TO halfpast four p NJ. supper takes place at twenty
and at eight p. M. they locked in their cells until
half-past five the following morning. Fifteen min
utes are given them daily for play and recreation.
THE BRUTAL PUNIsHMENTs.
Kenney AYERS that the most brutal punishments
are inflicted. and gives names and dates In the
school, for the slightest offence (missing lesson,
for instance) they Will strip boy from shoulders
to calves, tie him down over bench, and. with
and he ialnts. Sometimes, he declares, the whpper
continues to apply the rattan during the time the
boy Is unconscious. He instances the case of Leo
were so treated. The former for not having his
lesson. about the Goth Of February was stripped.
WHIPPED UNTIL HE TAINTED.
The whipper did not even then discontinue his
he"a S Wnen the % sss %
pants Off at night Kinney says Leopold found
them CONCEALED TO the wounds, and he could not
TEARING OPEN THE WOUNDS IN HIS FLESH.
He slept IN them all night, and next morning got
The case OF kitgammOn Is even more
REVOLVING IN ITS DETAILS
He reports that the Sunday following the first re-
volt this little fellow turned his head during SER
vice. was taken out, tied over o bench, stripped
and whipped till he tainted. The chastiser con-
tinued to
PLY HIS RATTAN UPON THE UNCONSCIOUS LAD,
and only desisted fifteen minutes after he recovered
consciousness; he then attempted to walk, but fell
down exhausted and was carried to the hospital.
He reports another case of whipping that resulted
In Mr.. SprOul, who assisted Mr.. Jones In the chas-
tisement, being slightly stabbed. Peter DonnOy,
who has been since discharged for making noise
with his feet In school, was whipped. During the
operation ut was in February last) he
SEIZED KNIFE AND CUT MIR. sPROUI.
For this he was locked up for three months on
bread and water, and
WHIPPED TWICE WEEK
for month. About the time OF the first revolt he
managed to escape from his cell, was detected by
Keeper Mullaly and committed by Mr.. Jones to the
Workhouse. Donnolly put in thirty-twO months
there. IN violation OF all rules, KenRey says, boys
are kept there until they are even
TwENrY-FOUR YEARS OF AGE,
and he says that James Woodruff, william Sprou,
James Rogers, James Fitzgerald, John Findlay
Joseph Quigley, Fred Appey, John Reynolds
Michael Lawlor John Sullivan, Peter Demorest,
long after they were twenty-one years or age.
Kenney further asserts that they used to
TIE THE BOYS UP BY THE THUMBS
and whip them in that position until after the
enseute, when one Of the Illustrated papers gave
cut OF the mode of torture and it discontinued.
the revolving cruelties practised upon the boys be
true the Randall's Island House OF Refuge for the
reform or Juvenile delinquents IS one of the most
Infamous villanies OF this century. For the credit
OF our city and State 1t is to be hoped that Kinney
eXaggerates; but the main facts recorded above
denied he will produce further testimony in sub
sanitation of them,