The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-17

| over not very far. 1t was In the plupgeroom,
and we have those chairs around there where
they wash, and she put her hands on each
side of that She Is tail, and leaned over some
| Q.-Is she a stout girl2 A.-she is a very
| large girl, tall-taller than am.
Q.-You gave her only ten strokes7 A.
| That is all.
Q.-Just ten? A.-That is all.
Odd you whip her any more or any less
severely than your ordinary whippings? A.
Well l should say it was about an average
whipping.
Mr.. Patterson-Let me ask right here for my
information, because 1 didn't examine those
places. When girls are put in solitary confne-
ment is there not provided a certain placer
What is the nature of the place? How long Is
the room? Just tell about It.
Mrs. MITCHELL was going TO suggest we
have look at the place.
Mr.. Patterson-We can go in and see 1t to-
night or Tomorrow, perhaps. Alt is a room.
There are two rooms We have two OF these
rooms, and each is about the size of this one
from the door should think and wider.
Q.-What have you in them? A.-That would
be about twelve feet square-nearly twelve feet
square.
Q.-What have you in them in the way of
conYeniences? A.-There is a hot and cold
water faucet and a marble washstand and a
patent watercloset, just the same as we have
in our Ioilet-room.
Q.-And the bed? Ave have no bedstead
in there, We did use 10 have a bedstead, bat
they used it 10 get out with, and we had TO
take it out, and, think, just about five COM
forters. 1 guess the girl is in there now; we
just have about five comforters, and she
spreads those down that she wants to lie on
and uses the others for covers.
Mrs. Mitchell-And lies on the floor? A.
Yes, right on the floor.
lis there a'windOW7 Sc Ia oa
window with q screen and curtain like that,
and also large window over the door. Out
side is porch.
GA window like that in this room? A.
Yes, it does not come down so low 1t ex-
tends about as high as the upper screen there,
or about as low.
Q.-They could not climb up to that: A-oh,
yes. they get up and sit in the windows.
Q.-And there are bars across it, of course?
A.-outside there are strips of iron. In the
first place there were bars and they were just
set in the mortar and could be taken right out
so we had 10 put them out
Q-These bars are put in the ground up and
down as grating? Ayes; not grating, but
strips OF iron, guess, go across that. There is
one window and then there is an outside door
leading down in a court. don't let them out
there, because the court is insecure; but over
the door there is e transom.
Q-With grating-bars over it? Ayes, it
has grating over it.
Q.-There is ventilation2 Ayes, and in
the door that leads into the room there is a
door with sheetiron on the inside and little
place in there about that size.
Mr.. Patterson-Wen, then, they are not
really uncomfortable there outside of the fact
OF being alone? A.-No, sir.
Mrs. Mltchell-And without bed. Did you
say they used 10 have bed and you took it
out? How does the girl get up in the window?
A.-They don't use it to crawl up with. They
used 1t for q leverage. You know those iron
bedsteads all unscrew. They used them for
crowbars and one OF them would punch hole
in a wall in few minutes. There are two of
fashion.
Q.-What food had theyf A.-Only bread and
water. Each girl has towels and soap and q
piece of sapolio and cloth to scrub the floor
with if she wants TO and broom to sweep out
and dustpan.
Q--How long do you usually keep girls in
there? A.-For running away they stay there
four weeks.
Q.-Just on bread and water? Aust on
bread and water and occasionally lemon or
some fruit and an orange or some onions or
something of that sort. We don't give them
those things every day though.
Q.-Just bread and water? Aust bread
and water.
Dwell, sometimes they are whipped and
put in there as well? Ayes; we used 10
whip them for running away.
Q.-And put them in there as we'll? Ayes