The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-04
GIUSEPPE vANDEUsER.
Close of the Investigation Before
Coroner Croker.
BARNARD EYOsERATED BY THE i JURY.
AN EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT.
The Coroner Commits Barnard to Await
the Action Of the Grand Jury.

Tue Ac,tOu u lIC UlSuu jury
coroner croker yesterday continued the investi-
ration Ia the case OF the Italian boy, Giuseppe
Vandee ser WHO died after receiving injuries in the
Five Points House OF Industry, at which institu-
zion ne was boarder. The prisoner. Charles Bar
nard, accused OF having beaten the boy most
cruelty. was promptly present at the Coroners'
once, at eleven O'Clock, with his counsel.
TESTIMONY OF THE CONSULTING PHYSICIAN.
DR.. Hunt, consulting ply stefan to the House of
INDUSTRY, was the frst witnessed examined
Am regular practising physician; saw the boy Van.
6snser On Monday week ago at the insta9n wa
Or Rounds told me ne feared i case OF eerebro
that he then lay in stupid condition.; after getting
n s95 Sy 5ow bs wss s OF wh ar
cold aad blue about me bps could deleet the pase Pvt
and Srandy and milk eight drops aoonite to hall
sss s Ss ss oa az the and
%a to be % sea seen sasSe hsay
PERSON would produce Collapse, ana We @OmGopsthc
SSc sl: ss eosP:s
had under ood p%a
SScs rs chila suarns diaIrh@s stat Of eoi
s cause a ssou,ts ' dose
ON ns ns1 s,a.rS ssG'' asusS
ss u s h%sissS not e
tss the s.s asan IN
about twenty minutes after / left; have been
nected with the institution since year ago last March
the resident physician occupies subordinate position
70 prisoners counss-i do not think that Ave or six
SSws from s would t the collapse ss
70 oSsI ar wSSd be me state q ssapie saW INC
the recovery from such condition
there, but understand they resumed after my
indication Of rom shock exposure to cold
on the as
and several windows
since hat ere must have been some other
% and the the
the helping causes to death aid not hear While was
Sss !n4n na ps s whipped .,
y..Is; .h0st might g proaSssa y aSs
h Dod
epnion sn %Ssn e S1s The would
DO Is. % sne on % the
he after h tsa asssd bath the child
SUPERINTENDENT BARNARD's STATEMENT.
william S. Barnard, superintendent OF the Five
Points House OF Industry, was the next witness:-
ally Know hs the the
records show but forgot TO look at them,hers the
bookGharles Barnard Is my brother; he has been EN-,
ss - NJ
sSsrd ST
SSfces myself; during M Smiths absence ap-
ad 2ss ssass ss fs his in Ss
utulion-boarders children who are kept free. and
vandeuser DsSnssd to Iarsnts
s
sickness that day between eighs and nine oslosk
5eh0od ease Of spotted dd NOT bear Of the
turning 70 New York was called away aonaay "
, s Ia OF my Ssa Is Nan ss
Boston Journal; at about ten O'Clock application was
10 s ~ ns %0 an a she
the Sna a. ns to s as It a Ss
70 .aae the child out I'd npd Ss S S to
an rs We ws 1se
take R we have legal control over Children Who pay
board ett with !ree by we have eoniroi
many children y hs n;titutiSn toaay bat Tues
as many as IS in the institniiOn; we could not
We'll crowd in e,d TWO boys sleep .5Duef n
sSo beds are placed together and three sleep them
Whole s s0ys se a Of SuGn
ely ass Sy 81 the s % az Of
sickness to the physician Charles Barnards duty
Monitors ia cSsrse dor%opy and four
sse IN the ward nns the M
70 June 1874 and LETT June q his mother taking
ss:,p asn,ssd July K and rs%as sss 81 house
e e.. e sss5s VA
me 8 month ss him and his brother Domeni
wafer Is fSrnishsd from the laundry and there no
se n the on gndsy DO not hin TIE water
Monday morning the children rise t a. SIX ocOeG
e inc and the
IL. sse the Of s 70 not haze M saas
used rattan the LADY principal Of the school has
tuition 70 whD boys they have diarrhaa some
TIM Children 90 to he Bathroom each morning only
wash their faces ana hands, Saturday forenoon they
81 50 Of this case have never heard
benny put a bat s
sanctions we have had spotted lever in the institution
xaror here wanted to have ths answer stricken out
Whip boy: Tor HAVING disTrhaa;, Alter some ais,
DR.. FAssIN's TESTIMONY.
DR.. Charles Fassin was the next witness
pfasn sv but no:
caled.to the boy vandeuser at the parents resi-
s ave NJ He seus s
sons s the %o,nfT told me she had aken me child rom
whipped she had some'medicine in the house, bromide
Sia not sna Wish os ns
me %;S ~ sa I'd
and saw Dr. Rounds s whom told that the child was
Inc institution, would be there in about ha an
doctors would ocecs on
sne same evening the mShe s TO ny ofs and told
me u .hs morning and would give Y, n" notiaeaton
amined the body think that the boy had commissions
from the fright had got in the morning the mother
told me that the boy had been whipped and 10 The
whipping I then attributed the COMMISSIONS think
washing child who had history Of four FIVE
passages 10 darrhea would produce convrlsions
am epuion after hearing the testimony here, that
the the result of the thr Of
Ioy while he was sufe ring from diarrh9a.
THE BOYS TESTIMONY.
Deputy Coroner WINNIE then read the testinony
OF the House OF Industry boys-LpOns, Van Duche,
Kelly, Bache and Smith. The jury ex
pressed desire TO see and hear these boys
Tor themselves Coroner Croker warned
them that these boy were still inmates
OF the House OF Industry, aud had been during the
period that had elapsed since they gave their tes
timoBs, and OF course, under such circumstances,
there was danger that, one way or another, they
. might have been tempered with. The boys were
placed on the stand, one after another, and the
,E,0roner's fears were realized. According to the
ioOys' story now only few strokes had been given
tvandeuser. and boy went so far as 70 say thai
when he WAS giving his testimony to the Coroner,
limo whether