New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-19
ALL AGAINST BROCK WAY.
50 FAR THE WITNESSES HAVE EtEN tNANl
NOUS IN CONDENININi HIM.
MORE TALDS OF CRUELTY EEcITED AT THE
INVESTIGATE y YESTEHDN-A

MOl'E INLfIS OF tKt Eli "i-N''''N - 49,
INVESTIGATES YESTEIDAY-N
FEW SCARS SHOWN
The Emira Recormatory investigating 'orl-
mi;tee continued it's work yesterday AT the AS'of
House and examined many witnesses VINO aiiesei
extreme cruelty the part OF ). IL BrocK"ay' inc
superintcndent of the Reformatory The story Of
his alleged abuse Of power was told In narrowing
details. and every ex-inmate OF the institution VINO
testified Yesterday pictured Mr. Brockway rs th'
leader Of a band of demons who pracused the
most inhuman harbariy. The principal charges
are padding until the victim swoons pounding ana
kicking the victim until he falls. claiming man
on his back to a stone floor In dark ana gloomy
cell keeping him there for days with nothing nut
bread and water to live on. making prisoners 30
work they physically Incapable OF doing SUCK
ing them with red-hot irons. and lashinG them for
failure and on every occasion of the slightest
offence hitting and punching them win canes anu
sticks and otherwise maltrea;ing them
Samuel Gross said: "When ! went to tn" Re-
formatory weighed l30 pounds. ! weigh liz ponds
now and ! am rupturcd and injured Tor NE as
the result of my sulerinss at the hands OF Mt.
Brockway." DR.. Smith. of the committee OK
annined the boy. and announced that ther" was TO
actual rupture although there would De but Tor
the truss the boy wore. Gross said that AZ inc
paddinss Keeper Winnie and Colonel Halpin
helped Mr. Brockway 90, -. ,,.,....
Mrs Magdallna Smith. Of NO lO2 East thirty
Grst-st. told the following story: My boy was
in perfect health when he went to the Reiormatory
| first, saw him after he had been tn'fc wv"
wears He was then near Heath. He had p'"h III
the hospital one week. ana was too weak 10 move
hut they compelled him 10 walk down To the recrp-
lion room to me. found Il" had an aDs'eSs
on his neck ! asked Mr. Brookway to let me tike
him home but he said my boy was shannlins
Illness later he sent him home. and in ten
months he died" ,. J.,
Another witness testified that on one occasion h"
had been nix and stuck with a red-hot poker. lie
showed n scar on his neck as evidence
Andrew Kenny, of Brooklyn. who was sent 10
the Reformatory for burglary In the third d"Eree
was a witness He testified that he had been
padded and kicked In the bathroom by Mr.. Brock
way for not doing his work he described a good
many OF the tortu:cs he had heard or. and, IKE
sufrcrings Of many other inmates. but ne had
never had any Of them himself, except IN" padding
and kicking. -, -,-,
This witness asked II he had been arrested
since he returned from the Reformatory- He said
he had been arrested for playing policy. Judge
Gilbert wanted to know II the boy lived in BROOK
lvn and being answered in tho affirmative, ne
smiled and said that accounted for It, go
There were many eothcr witnesses who testified
to the alleged fortunes but they showed a lack OF
irtelligoncr i'm their evidence. The witnesses Tor
MIR Brockway and his attorneys laugh al the tales
told by the eliminates and say that the punish
ments inflicted upon the boys were no more than
they deserved. and that they were neither in
human cruel
The committee adjourned last night 10 meet again
In Elmira Tuesday. December Y.