Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
The CASE OF the BOY GRAY.
The Beard Of Dirssssrs or ths Hsms
Investigating 10 saa Lsskins
for RuaaWays.

Today Hons. L. L. Crockett and d.
R. Sessions, Of the Board Of Directors
Of the Orphans Home. Carson, visited
Gold Hill ON q tour Of investigation y
to the recent whipping Of Willie Gray.
They arc also locking incidentally for
James Ksaly. Walter Booth and John
Cassidy. who have also run away from
the Homo.
There can be NO doubt that the Direct
ors and management Of the Orphans
Home have trying times with their
charges. The Directors say that oil
their trouble oomss from taking bali
orphans. The Board 10 now suffering
from the spite Of . discharged laundrsss
who 10 writing notes 10 the living par
ents OF the halt orphan inmates and
prejudicing those parents against The
institution by untruths. These q
onymous notes tell the parental
heart that the half orphan 10 not
we'll fed and is abused; that presents
sent to the Home for the inmates never
reach the little ones, sto. These gentle
men allsgs further-and they ought to
know and doubtless do-that insured.
tions are melted among the children and
they are eel up to do much mischief BY
those Who are outside. With oil these
things and the pervsrse ways into which
children often fall before they reach the
Home, Directors and management have
oil they can contend against.
The question Of close confinement and
q reduction OF rations to bread and water
AZ means Of discipline In eases whore
unusual stubbornness and rebellion are
shown, has been sgitated. As yet there
ia no place at the Home where this
method Of treatment car be tried. The
members Of the Board here today think
that II would be an unvarranted step to
attach q reform school 10 the Home and
say that should ''closs quarters" DO con-
s,ruetsd for the children there would be
Q terrible bowling throughout the State.
Such and 90 great are the difdeulties
which beset Board and management In
conducting the Home. Order. they say
and we all know-must be preserved.
The question IL "what moro san DO
done and what better than Ii done 2"
As to the whipping Of the Gray boy,
MI, Mills who saw II did not think 1t
too severe and Mr.. Mills 10 q humane
man. The Board having visited the
News Office whence first came publicity
Of the boys condition. went on to Wiz
Rinia, to find the lad himself and to
talk with those who saw his back and
arm nearly o week ago.
The Board 10 doubtless conscientious
in Its doings relative to the Home. Gold
Killers and Comstock people know Mr..
and Mrs. Mills, and believe them to be
as we'll fitted as any persons to have
charge OF the Home. The boy Gray
needed correction; there 10 NO doubt
about that. The boy got what all who
saw his back and arm pronounce 10 DO o
cruel whipping. It Is doubtful II any
| one here believes the good OF the Home
requires the removal OF the presentman.
sRement. The thing required 10 APP
parsntly o milder application Of the rod.
and that its use may be supplemented
by some other method Of p%unishmsnt
| which shall be more humane.
The members Of the Board In Gold
Hill today seemed to think the bruises
on the Gray boy could not have been re.
oeived at the Home-that he received
them after he left there. At any rate
they are investigating this point. Should
II be found to be true. the News apollo
Rizes in advance for all said. II the boys
bruises were received at the Home the
boy got what he did not deserve. and the
Board will see that the like does not
occur again.