Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-03-04
THE SCHOOL WHIPPING CASE
Testimony In the Arrest of Profs
Sellwood and Carnahan.

There was an unusual attendance at
the circuit court room to hear the trial
Of Prof. Sellwood and Miss Carnahan
for whipping Clinton Mccormick.
Judge Bonham stated case 10 jury for
defendants.
A. o. CondIt, public prosecutor,
stated case for state. He confessed the
right OF teacher to inllict some punish
ment, but not severe and unusual.
Judge Bonham said Mr.. Sellwood
was Christian gentleman and the boy
was obstinate, insubmissive, saucy, and
muttered and complained. The right
10 punish was right Of the teacher,
In the interest Of society aud for the
good of the child
Clinton Mccormick sworn Was mt
school March l; kept him and Matilda
Byrne after school; Miss Carnahan got
6ellwood and they both whipped him
on back and legs; Sellwood held his
hands and she whipped him; she did
not tell him what he WAS being
whipped for, except whispering.
REORGANIZATION: Had been going
three years; Miss Gwinne, Miss Morris,
and Mr.. Long. Condit objected TO ask
ing about his conduct on former occa-
sions. Objection sustained, Counsel
Hunt said boy was not on trial for his
character or misconduct. The ques-
ton was one OF assault. not OF the past
conduct.
Resumed; Witness told Miss Carna-
han he would not come out 10 be pun
ished; Sellwood then came and brought
him out. boy shown stick (lt was
= stlfi hazel rod, splintered at one end
DIR. Smith; Examined boy Thurs
day; there were dozen or more blue
wslts M wide as his finger on his back
and legs; flesh was dIscolored were
made with u stick; TO question, whether
punishment was unnecessarily severe
or not, Bonham objected over-ruled.
Witness stated that punishment could
be administered without bruising. etc.
Cross-examined; No permanent Ia.
jury was done the boy.
DIR. Byrd, Saw boy Thursday even
Ing; hia back aud legs were pretty badly
strlped up, ~ though he had got
severe thrvshing; there was some dis
coloratlon; he must have been struck
hard 10 have raised such welts with
his clothes on.
Cross-examined; Boy was not per
manently injured.
Clinton Mccormick recalled; Coun.
eel asked that jury be allowed 10 see
boy undressed. Boy was taken into
Jury room, granted, Boy had coat ON
aud two shirts, felt pretty well,
Matilda Byrne Was kept In I'M 4 p.
m; heard Miss q. aud Sellwood talk.
Ing down stairs, they came up, boy
wss called out. would not be whipped
by two, ssllwood caught him aud Miss
q. whipped him. she stopped aud Mr.,
ssllwood whipped him, he kicked
st Miss Carnahan; Mr. Long came up
Afterwards; she did not tell what she
whipped him for, Cross examination,
Did not hear boy use any bad language.
he Kicked at Miss G., she did not kick
boy.
las. Mo Cormick; Was going TO
whip boy myself. but went TO schoal
liut aud saw teacher, and concluded
that be had been punished enough;
Mis- q. said she had whipped boy on
general principles. she had been laying
up whipping for several weeks, boy
had black and blue stripes sroond his
sss and bach; Il was all one color ffom
he wclts; boy Was suspended aud
,unlshsd afterwards; ohiecssd to ~
|irsclors only could susasndi over
ulss:;, sss;lxood sAid he whipped boy
nr language he ussd. crossexAminA-