The evening world., 1894-07-27

chuckline as though he was thinking OF
the fine fun he was going to have
beating me. ] stood there looking at
him and l thought then and have
acting like crazy man.
He did not know | was looking at
him. but when he turned and saw me
he sprang at me with the paddle and
gave me n blow with 1t that split my eve
open. Then he kept on whaling me until
l was near dead"
Samuel Potter. Il negro. said: The
second time I went in they told me to
take off my clothes and I lust stood
there looking anthem. Brockway called
me a black darkey. and grabbing up the
paddle went for me; hitting me oyer the
Another time just the same thing hap
pened. ! fell 10 the floor then. Keeper
Sample kicked and punched me me many
face down on the floor kicking me
around the head. and face as well AS
| around the body
John Il. Coary said that when he was
transferred to Clinton Prison two years
ago he was 30 weak from the treatment
he had received in Brockways torture
chamber that he had TO be carried to
the hospital at, the prison. When he
turned to plead for. mercy Brockway
hit him over the head and punched him
in the jaw, loosening one of his teeth
which afterwards came out.
When I got into the bathroom" he
said. "Brockway said to me: Oct over
/ there. YOU criminal: get your pants
down After ] had received one blow
TO the floor. Halpin kicked me in tho
head. and then he stood me up again
so Brockway could continue his pad
ding"
The witness showed a scar over his
left eye. as the result of a kick he had
received from Halpin. Coary said that
his face was SO dsfgured by the beat
ing that Brockway told Officer Sample
and into cell where nobody could see
him. while there | sent for Dr. Wcy,"
said Coary. "lie wanted to know IL I
haa been d9wn to see the old man
! time
Or, Rush had given him and other
convicts cigars and tobacco on the way
here.
George zelis swore that Brockway
struck him SO hard that the skin
leila and found the scar 1t is four
inches long and from one to one and a
given the boy twenty-four blows at
one beating; leila accused the paddler
Thomas J. McCabe, jr, said that he
as soon as possibl although his maxi
mum sentence is twenty years. While
on parole In New York. McCabe said,
some one wrote to Elmlra that he had
liceman. Although his brother made no
complaint against him, McCabe was
taken into custody and hustled back to
the reformatory. He was not even given
a hearing.
Mr.. WINS objected to Judge Gilbert =
questions on that subject.
I'VE want to show the injustice this
law works" said Judge Gilbert; land
we shall Insist that this commission
shall call the Governors attention to
the hardships the law works upon the
citizens of this State"
II fully appreciate this" said Or.
Flint 1T certainly does work great
Dentist Darby, of Elmira testified
that in his opinion Inmate Coary could
not have had a tooth knocked out by
Brockway, as he had described.
PERSONAL--Michael Howard, No. 1859
George =. Alderman. No l.OO4 Thomas
Decker, No 2,223: ia mes Boyd, No. 1855
George Wogan, No. $500: Charles Fay,
No. 3,2Sl; John McNulty. No. 1892; .Io-
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