The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-09
WHIPPLE SCHOOL SCANDAL
GOVERNOR COFFIN IS MAKING 4 THOROUGH INYESTIGATION.

Is at Present Unable to Tell Exactly How
 Much the State Will Lose-Has Taken No
 Action in the Matter Net Other Than to
 Continue the Investigation-Mrs. Ham
 mOnd's Whereabouts Unknown
 Hartford May Ex-Governor Coffin is still busy Investigating the Whipple School for the Deaf, Two of the young lady teachers at the institution were in conference with him Monday, as was also States Attorney Lucas. The gov ernor has several more new cases re- ported where money has been received from the state as aid for pupils who have not been in attendance at the school There is appearance of whole sale robbery, planned and oonsummat- ed with the most careful reconciliation.
 The prospects are that the investiga- tion will show that the state has been illegally mulcted of sum at least $S,00O and may exceed that Payment of the last bill has not been made, so the state will save that amount, which Is about $3,200, but of this over $500 is bogus. To 0 reporter the governor said that llG lldO ltikG1l llO ctGllOll Ill lAlC lAlSbthSA further that to continue the investiga- tions. q have learned" he said, "of several cases in which the pupils have not been at the school. am unable to state just how much the state has lost through the Whipple school These cases of which I have been informed to-day are not yet known to me in detail. expect to have the facts tomorrow, but I have information sufficient to show that the further the investigation Is car ried on the more evidence is found of the state paying for pupils who did not receive the tuition"
 Then you have not stopped the inves- tgation yet?"
 'No, shall find out as far as possible just how much the state has lost, going back as many years as it is possible to trace the career of pupils. Previous to 1889 it has been difficult to get informa- tion, but all the pupils will be discover ed and the whole affair thoroughly gone over"
 Do you have any idea just how much the state will loser"
 q am unable as yet to tell just how much this sum will be. The two cases of which have already spoken amount to nearly $2,000 and the others may be as much more or even greater. I can not tell until I get an exact report on the matter. It is often hard to get at the facts, for the course of the school covers eight years. Some of the pupils are not over five years of age"
 Has the school done any worthy work at all, governor?"
 ffOh I 4or l1oA hod From people who are well informed re- garding the instruction, learn that 1t Is wonderful how the children who stu dy there are taught to converse or more particularly to understand conversa- tion. I was told this morning that person standing twenty feet From pu- pill read a postal card and that the child by merely watching the lips of the speaker was able to tell what was said. They are thus taught to become fairly proficient in the use of the language"
 AT THE SCHOOL.
 Wylie A. Whipple and his sister, Miss Jennie May WhippIe, who are in charge of the school, did not know where Mrs Hammond was when asked, for she gave no information of where she was going nor when she would return She did say when she left week ago that she would not be back that night but that she would write in few days In fact, Mrs. Hammond always kept the Whip pies in ignorance of where she went or what she did. Wylie A. Whipple is about forty-five years old. He knew nothing of the charges against Mrs Hammond until told about them. He talked quite freely as to matters in gen. eral about the school, buthe knew noth- ing of the affairs of the management He supposed Mrs. Hammond was in Philadelphia, where her daughter, the wife of Dr. John l. Michigan, resided She married him about a year ago. Whipple is the superintendent of the boys in the school and his sister is an instructor in writing. Neither of them were left in charge during Mrs. Ham mond's absence. There are twenty-sev- en children in the school, more girls | than boys, and their ages range from | seven to seventeen years. Grace Adams | is the instructor in artlclation and her | mother, Augusta Adams, attends to the | etc.
 The Adamses come from Oakhill, Green county, New York. They were | iiOt dJ lile ScHUOl MOnudy nor was MISS | Lena Whipple of Laurel Hill Norwich, who is employed to instruct the chill dren in the advanced studies. There are twenty-siX rooms in the big house known as the school, two and three beds being placed in the sleeping rooms and three to five children occupying | them The pupils are in excellent health and have thus been favored, for no doc tor has been called in there in three years. The children usually go home during the holidays and at other times they are in attendance at the school. The Sarasine girl and Mabel Allen, the girls who 1t is claimed Mrs. Hammond | the state $175 each for every | year, have not been at the school for five or six years. The Whipples remem- bered both of them as being at the | school at the same time.
 The pupils now in attendance range | from five to eleven years, averaging about twelve, All nationalities are rep resented; some have parents, others are nrrhane Tn many chea tha taoohare