The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-18

In JAN at Lewiston. lie was br0ugnt Dack ana
in three days gotup conspiracy to 60 over the
fence and put the shackles on him, He was
sent to States Prison and now writes as tol-
lows:
THoMAsToN, May 6, 1877.
Master Wentaoorth-Dear Sill, u write to let
you know that am well, and hope these few
lines will find you the same. L hope you will
come down here this summer some time for !!
should like to see you very much. L should
like to speak to you. If 1 had been good boy
while in your school should be free now. If
had taken your advice and gone home when
you met me at Haverhill l should not have
been here today. You don't know how many
times have regretted it. You do not know
how glad was to get letter from you for you
always give me good advice l did not once
see the goodness of it as | now do. N
do not ftrget to answer this letter.
From your humble servant,
LLEwELLYN BUBIER.
Ir regard to Winship, the fourth boy, put
the handouts on him when he had dangerous
weapons. Have detected him in preparing to
letters from him and neither of them indicate
that he was used hard as Mr.. Hllman says.
The last one received is as follows:
THoMAsToN, April 7Lh.
Dear Friend-Mr. Wentworth have wished
more than once that was back in the school
and under the influence of my dear old teacher
l used to think it was hard to study my lessons
and have teacher watching me, but thete is
nothing would not give to have the .oppor
tunity now. L wish could BE- among the boys
once more and l would know how to give
them good advice. My advice would be learn
all you can and obey your teacher
The boys who came down in my gang are all
well Good by,
Thomas E. W1NsH1P.
never recommended to the trustees that
Mr.. Hillman be discharged. The school has
been much improved since came here The
food is better and the boys are b. tier clothed
than formerly. The internal arrangements
are much better and the sickness has not been
as much this year as others by 70 per cent.
There is but one shackle in the school and that
has not been used since last June Mr. Hill
man never visited but one sick boy in the
school, and then not till asked to. The case re-
ferred to was where boy was given up to die
and 1 asked him to talk with him, and he did
SO for few moments. Was not his practice to
visit the sick room at all. He simply held one
service on Sunday and never assisted in devo-
tional exercises. Now we have clergymen
from the city to hold service. Among the num-
Der who have been here think of Messrs
Hill, Gibbs. cWhinnie, Hincks and Burrage.
We have from an hour and half to Two hours
spent in Bible exercise now each Sabbath, and
once month have review. Mr.. Hillmau did
not interest the boys and the subordinate Off
GERS listened to him very reluctantly.
This closed the testimony, and Mr.. VintoD,
one of the trustees, asked to be sworn as he
udu d sU3teultut w udho I1o Sdiu.
The first intimaton had of these charges
was last Friday when Mr.. Adams spoke to me.
He gave me a list of the names of those who if
called upon would furnish information in re-
gard to the matter and gave mesa letter written
by Tim Kennedy. L then decided to investigate
the charges and gave permission to Mr.. Adams
to invite all who knew of the above to come
forward and tell it. On Monday Kennedy and
Hyde called on me and took down their
statements and told them to notify all who
knew anything of the matter to appear at the
investigation, have notified all l could get
access to to appear and give testimony at this
time. Have not notified by letter anyone. Mr..
Gould and 1 conferred and agreed that Mr.
Hillman should receive a written notice, and
he wrote it in my presence. Mr.. G. has also
Office and stated that there was harsh
and inhuman treatment and thought it should
be investigated. l asked him for the names of
persons on whom should call for facts and he
gave me Aver, Noyes and Fitch, former en-
ployes. He said Fitch would know as he had
been assistant superintendent, and he wanted
me to see Mr. Fitch | called on Mr.. Gould
and talked with him about it. We concluded
to investigate. We decided to see Mr.. Fitch at
once and find out what he knew. A note was
sent to him and the next day he called Mr..
Gould, Mr.. Fitch and myself were closeted for
some hours. We told him why he was called
and that Mr.. Hillman had said he would give
all the information wanted in the matter. He
in regard to cruel treatment he had net seen
any. He said no boy had been punished in
manner he could condemn. In fact, he said
that he didn't think there was any bad treat
ment His complaints were simply of per-
sonal nature. AS he knew of pothing harsh
we decided to make no further Investigation.
Since then the talk has been revived and hence
this investigation We have endeavored to
make it thorough aud complete. We did not
call all of Tim Kennedy's witnesses from the
fact that no one believed them.
Mr.. Gould, the chairman of the board, stated
that the interview with Mr.. Fitch, which Mra
Vinton spoke Of, was as stated. He then said:
asked Mr.. Fitch to cone here to-day and
tell the truth in regard to the whole matter, in.
dependent of what he had formerly stated. He
was invited by note and verbally but did not
pro mise either way. l told him that it was his
duty to appear for the public good and assist in
settling the matter. | have invited all whom
L thought knew of the affair to appear and
tell what they knew.
The tru stees were of the unanimous opinion
that the charges were dsproved and they en-
tirely exorerated Mr.. Wentworth, and so the
fizzle ended.