Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-09
caonrnal anl Uourier.
Monday tfcrning. Jan. 9, iSe2.


erRted. In Warmers Hall Centerville, Saturday afternoon, was tried the civil suit of Levi B. Munson vs. Dewitt Warren, the suit being to recover damages on account of the alleged undue whipping of Munson's son Frederick by Warren, the latter being young Munson's school teacher. The hearing took place be- fore Justice Andrew J. Doolttle in Warmers Hali, before & house full of people. George A. Tyler appeared for the boys father and Henry Futile, of Hamden, defended War ren. It was alleged that November 30 Schoolmaster Warren whipped the Munson boy so severely that he was unable to attend school or even to leave the house for several days afterward. The plaintiff wanted $lO0 damages for the sufferings he sustained.
 The boy Frederick Munson was first called. He is about 13 years of age, bright looking boy He testified that he had been whipped very severely for slight cause, that he only 'cisted" to get the attention of another boy who had his pencil, whereupon the teacher ordered him to remain after school, and then, when the two were alone, chastised him, hitting him about 30 times with dog wood stick about four feet long, as big around at the butt end as his forefnger; l and that he broke the stick upon him and | threw the pieces into the stove; that he had l black and blue marks on his legs where the teacher whipped him One mark was shown l to the court.
 The boys father testified as to the marks on his boys legs, and that the whipping must have been very severe. Mrs. Emily Warner corroborated this evidence, as also I did Milo B. Humiston and the boys grand father, w. E. Munson.
 ! Carrie P. filling, little girl, testified to hearing the blows, and that the teacher struck Al blows-she counted them: ehe said the stick was smaller, she thought, than had been said. a The school teacher for bimself said: ''On November 30 I whipped the Munson boy. He
 had an advertising card with an obscene DIG
 ture on it. I have not got the pictures } burned them. A boy named Webb filling
 said that this boy was showing him these DIG
 lures. told young Munson that he ough
 to be ashamed of himself for drawing this ob
 scene work and I then whipped hlm this + 1 the identical stick that used on the boy
 (stick here shown to court). He behaved quite
 insolently when asked him if he though
 he could behave himself. Once before
 punished the boy. The Munson boy denied
 that he had the obscene card, and did no' l see him have 1t. l only know Wnat tn'
 boy filling told me about the card" Ih' teacher admitted that he struck hard, bu
 that he was sitting down when he whipped
 the boy. He did not know how many time
 he struck. Then the department record O
 the boy for that day and month was pro
 duced It was a good record for the boy
 and the teacher admitted that his deportmen
 was good up to that time. II did not tel .. him what whipped him for when l began, 1l l concluded the teacher
 Weber c. filling was called, and testifie h that Munson showed him the obscene card : and that he toek the card to the teacher Il > did not tell the teacher that the Munson bo 2 wrote the obscene stuff on the card.
 Miss Alta Dorman said she thought it wa l. an ordinary whipping, and then Frank 4. Warner, Miss Ira Crawford and Miss Nelil
 Gilbert testified that the time of whlpp1n
 was not as long as had been stated.
 E. The boy was called again and denied th ;, statements made by the school teacher Tt '1 garding the obscene card. This ended tn a testimony, and after listening to argument Is the justice decided in favor of the defendant r- he to recover the costs. An appeal wa
 taken to the Court of Common Pleas.