Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-10-31

hand. There are stories, too, that
some of the employees have seen fit to
apply the lash at times to the naked
backs of the girls. The employees all
deny this, and it is probably untrue.
In the opinion of the citizens OF
Mitchellville, who have known the in
stitution from its beginning, and of the
employees, corporal punishment should
be restored and lookup should be
provided upon the grounds. At present
there is no place in which offenders
may be locked. The need of such a
placed was well proved during the riot.
The leaders of the riotous element
among the girls include Lenora Allen,
of Des Moines, sister of the cele-
brated Jeanette Allen, woman of the
town, now in Skaguay, Alaska, who
has a penitentiary record in Iowa;
Amanda Johnson, of Ottumwa; Maude
Jeffries, of Des Moines, whose parents
live on Pennsylvania avenue; Lena
Leonard, of Lake Mills, and Lizzie
Randolph. They are all utterly incor-
rigible. The only person in the official
corps of the institution who has been
able to manage them is Miss Rose Min
tier, who has been there six years.
Miss Mintier is firm believer in the
efficacy of corporal punishment, and
likewise is adept at administering it.
She is about feet inches til, weighs
about 100 and so powerful that it is
said no girl has ever been confined in
the institution who dared to oppose
her. Miss Mintier is not much on NOR
al suasion, but when she looks hard at
an offender it means that trouble is
ahead; she can jerk 160-pound girl
into the middle of next week so sud-
IDENTIFY that the girl never realizes how
much time she has missed.
Sheriff Stout and Captain Hayes de-
voted good share of their time to the
effort to discover how the girls We're
supplied with liquor. 1t is now known
beyond question that large amount
of it has been supplied to the girls.
They say it was brought to the
grounds Saturday and Sunday nights
by some young fellows from Mitchell
vile and Colfax; that beer was brought
by the case, whisky by the quart and
cigars and cigarettes in proportionate
supply. Many OF the girls were thor
|oughlv intoxicated. The officers and
the board of control are thoroughly de-
termined to locate the offenders and
are confidant they will soon be able
to make arrests. 1t is proposed to make
q horrible example of every one
caught. The girls, almost without ex-
ception, were clamoring for liquor
from the beginning to the end of the
riot. Young men came with buggies
to the outskirts of the grounds, and
taking the girls in their rigs, drove
away. They were well supplied with
liquor and cigarettes, and the girls, on
their return would invariably boast of
their exploits - 40 { sAi--
While the girls were in fnossession of
the main dormitory building and hold
ing out against all assaults they raised
a fearful uproar. There were two pi-
amos in the building ahd these were
pounded vigorously, while can-cans
and hoochie-ceochies were done by a
score of girls at a time. In the big
school assembly room the girls smash
ed chairs, piled up the remains of bro
ken crockery and than Brought in a
Aoo VI OiCASSsr~s h1 LII sSoyShs,.r luiS1A Ia
tional lesson leaves and small edition
of the 'Moody's Anecdotes" It seems
that, in addition to the usual religious
training, the girls have been provided
with several hundyed paper bound
copies of the Anecdotes" the board
Of control considering them ideal read
ing for this class of offenders. The
girls evidentlysdidn't agfee with the
boards viewAfor they topk especial
satisfaction in tearing up the bibles
and books of anecdotes. A great heap
of these books were piled in the mid.
die of the room, nearly all of them
torn to shreds.
The girls spent the night in the base
ment of the chapel. The doors and
windows of this room were guarded
by men with stout clubs, but the girls
did not try to escape. 1t was after 8
O'clock before the last one had been
singled out and placed in the base,
ment room. 1t was believed that the
ringleaders of the rioters and the
worst of the participants We're confin,
ed, and while some of the sheriffs beat
the bushes, so to speak, about the
towns suburbs, the rest maintained
guard at the windows of the basement
During the entire night the girls
kept up a constant shouting, singing
and yelling. This was interspersed by