The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-25

institution, but the pants which they
wore were lined. Mr. Jeffries, Mr.. Long
and Mr.. Hall were guards out there dur
ing nv stay: they all were white.
don't think | received any reformation
while | was out there. | went to school
from TO in the morning ana from $3.50
to in the afternoon. but IL was not con-
venient for me to be at school all the
time: / had duties to perform outside.
..When was out tncre we had irish
potatoes. with gravy. corn bread and
light bread for breakfast, soup and beans
for dinner. The food was well cooked
and plentiful. i think the institution is a
good place for unruiy boys. My father
had Brown arrested for hitting me with
tho nitchfork. but the case was dismissed
by the magistrate.
HAD THE BOY RELEASED.
Mr.. James +. Flournoy, clerk OF the
Second Market, was the next witness.
Il had some transactions with the
board. he said. IN reference TO the
Blackburn boy who was charged with
disturbing the religious services at the
Seventeenth-street Mission. The boy was
charged with making a noise by initiating
cat-calls. / subsequently called with the
mother 10 see Mr.. Caskie about the boy
after nc had been hurt and he promised
TO investigate the matter which he did
/ afterwards saw the boys father. who
said he would rather have his son stay
there.
"Mr Dan Butler, who sweeps in the
Second Market. had his boy sent out
, there for stavlng out an night and be-
having badly thinking that he could get
him out after a few months. He tried in
various ways to get his son out when his
] fn~
| finally succeeded through the in
strumentality Of Mr. John 5. Har-
wood of the Board OF Directors.
| The next day ] drove out there with Mr.
Butler to get the boy. Mr.. Brown was
| then out there talking 10 the BLACKBURN
| boy. He had been whipped and in throw
! ing UP his arm to guard against the HICKS
! as the officers told me In August, ne got
the lick In the eye. J'he Blackburn boy
was somewhat wild and his father SAID
/ he did not want 10 have the boy hNe
with his mother, who was stopping with
/ her daughter and her son-in-law. MT.
/ Blake The boy was making 70 a week
/ ana his father did not want the mother
10 get that money. The boys were hot
| cruelty treated while 1 was there. l
think it Is a great institution, but th'hk
| there ought to be some restrictions so
that the Governor can have something TO
/ say and the boys should have the right
/ Of being tried By d jury and have the
| benefit Of a habeds corpus preceding as
provided by the Constitution.
| II was told that Governor O'Ferrall
! WIS eoo, about the Butler boy, but ne
| said he had no power IN the premises.
Mrs Brown did not tell Mr.. Caskie that
| her son had bruises on his arm. l saw her
/ out there about three days before her
! how escaped I'm August. When his mother
/ saw Mr.. Caskle she only complained
about the brulse on his eye. Mr. Chrls-
/ uan. in his letter 10 Mrs. Brown, stated
/ after ne had investigated the mater that
| the boy received the LEX in the eye WINE
! ne resisted the whipping.
Mr.. Flournoy stated that Mr.. Butler
WAS sick with pneumonia and therefore
could not appear.
4 HUNDRED AND TEN LlCkS.
/ Mr.. John j. Blake was the next Wit
ness: ~ live az 1li2 Twenty-siXth street
! h. said. 81 have been TO the institution
/ twelve or fifteen ;imes TO see my brother
| ln-law Blackburn / was out there on
| June Isl. with Mrs. Brown. A boy came
up 10 me while ! was standing near the
horse and wanted 20 know whom came
/ 90 see and I told him. Yes that Is the
hoy who got thtat deVilish beating he
replied. "He and some other boys told
M that he got one hundred ana ten
| licks. saw bruises on Blackburn 5
/ reck and arm. ] have seen shackles ON
some of the boys they must have been
from fourteen 10 sixteen years old. l
was out there two or three days before
| the boy escaped
SHE WAS MlSlNFORMED.
] f.f. w l.
ed. Il am q widow she said 'and live
at 900 east Franklin street and do Sow
ing at home. / have a son at tn insu-
tuition who is now in his thirteenth year.
lie came here on April 18th two years
ago. sent him here and the first /
] heard was. that "a suit had been brought
AGAINST him I'm the city Hall for yagrancy
bv an old Judge. ] was living then at
Abingdon az Mr. COsby's. There was
a lawyer by tine name OF Frank Barr go
| ING around saying that boys could learn
a trade al that Industrial school l was
only in the State two weeks. ] came from
Tennessee. Major Fields took my boy
here. but he had not been taken before a
magistrate.
There was suit afterwards before
Judge Wexford in the Circuit Court and
Il was stated that the boy had been COM
mitted for vagrancy on charge preferred
\ by the Prison Association. i came mere
on November 9th. My boy was not tried
before a Justice in Abingdon. lie was
with me all the time and the paper was
a forgery. When I came down here
heard for the first time that the boy had
been sent To the institution.
"A Mrs. Reed at Abingdon told me that
three Of her boys had been sent 10 the
| institution. I presume In the same way
| | saw Mr. Caske and Mr.. Christian and
told them how my boy bad been sent
there. but they thought he coul6 not
| have been sent THERE without commit
| ment. / have been married twice ana
! my second husband died six years ago.
| The boy was born during my first mar
ragc. his name is Willis WiilCver.
! told Frank Barr after / came back 10
Abingdon on my way 10 Tennessee, where
| wanted 10 visit d sick sister, that he
had mlsinformed me by saying the in
sdtution was an industrial school
4 letter was then read from Mrs Cos
by. OF Abingdon, TO Mrs. Cole. sayini
that her boy had never been tried be
fore Nr. Campbell or any other nagls
trate and that Mr.. Fank Barr, advises
her % send the boy 10 that school Tn
boy had been hard 10 manage and MajO
Field took him to Richmond TO brinl
hir 10 a good place where he could d'
right.
When / asked 10 have the boy sent 4
that school / did not know that coul
not get him out without the consent o
the Board ol Directors before he Wa
twenty-onc years Old otherwise | woul'
not have sent him there