Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-06-30
CHARGES AGAINST HART.
Board Of Control Prepares a Brief
of the Allegations Which
Must be DiSproVed.

Madison, Wis, June 25.-[Special. j
Judge Lyon, on behalf of the state
board of control, has indicated the points
upon which Supt. Hart Of the Waukesha
industrial school will be expected to fur
nish evidence in defense. There are
eighteen points which the testimony of
the prosecution tends to prove, and on
which the board desires further testi-
mony. Most of them come under the
general charge of cruelty, but one or two
relate to the conduct of subordinate OH
GERS, the use of liquor, etc. The things
which the testimony has tended to prove
are:
1. THAI in August, 1895, j. G. Hart,
superintendent of the industrial school for
boys at Waukesha, in the office Of said
school, unreasonably and cruelty whipped
two inmates of said school.
2. That in September, 1895, he violently
and angrily kicked another of the inmates
of the school, in said office.
B. That in October 1895, in said office;
he unreasOnably and cruelty horsewhipped
the boy Hayes, and another inmate OF
4. That in the same month and at the
a small II, boy about II years o OF age: 90
fee he cruelty struck, kicked and horse
whipped the boy Huettner.
g. That in August 1896 he struck std1s lin in
fined in the cell for escaping.
Z. That about August 1, 1885, he
whipped the boy Kruger, cruelty and with
s. That in April last he struck the boy
Kruger in the face, knocking him against
the wall and kicking him and afterward
whipping him violently in his cell with y
strap.
8. That he whipped the boy Goetzenberg
in Il cell, angrily, with a strap, striking
him forty or fifty blows, and cutting his
10 That he fnstigated a fight in the of
fee between Mr.. Davis, an employe In the
school, and the boy Mecinick, in which the
latter was severely punished by Davis with
his fists.
IL That the ''barrel punishment" de-
scribed in the testimony was cruel pun
ishment, if not necessarily So was
cruelty and inhumanely inflicted by his
direction.
IL That he was seen upon the grounds
of the industrial school under the influence
of liquor. Also that when in Milwaukee
after clippers from the school he became
intoxicated.
Is. That he INDUCED in profane and
vulgar language at the school in the pres
ence of some of the inmates.
IA. That he confined inmates of the
school i'll unwholesOme and filthy cells and
deprived them for unreasonable periods of
time of sufficient water for drinking ana
bathing purposes and of sufficient food.
10. That in August, 1896, he brought
back three little boys who had escaped
unnecessarily tying them together and com
polling them to walk rapidly in hot day
before the horses of their captors, and
rudely refused to allow them to ride with
u lady who offered to take them to the
school in her buggy.
16 That when informed by an officer
that it was charged that an employe of
the school had solicited an inmate to COM
nit an unnatural crime, he neglected to
investigate the charge.
II. That Mr.. Strong, the deputy stew
ard, fastened the boy Riemer in cell with
a log chain.
49, That Mr. Gleason, a teacher, was
intoxicated in his room in one of the cot
tages of the institution in August, 1896,
and was boisterOuS and prOfane in the hear
ing of the inmates of the cottage.
If any material proposition which the
testimony tends to prove is not enumerated
above, such omission is inadvertent. and
on suggestion such proposition will be
added hereto.