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Girls School Investigators
Are Still Taking
Testimony.
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by Inmates Parents.
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| sembly committee that has been investi-
eating the charges of mismanagement at
the Girls Industrial School failed to reach
any conclusion on a report to the Cover
nor last night.
| While no vote was taken, it is said that
the committee, from the expression of the
members were three to two in favor OF
making report against the present man.
agement.
The committee will meet again-prob-
ably some day this week-and will then
prepare it's report to hand to the Cover
nor.
Two sessions were held by the commit
| tee for the purpose of taking testimony
yesterday. The first was at the school IN
| the afternoon and the other in the Assem-
| bly, chamber in the evening.
| At the afternoon session Mrs. Myrtle B.
| Eyler, together with ex-Trustees Car
nagy and Rue and Timothy Coniff, the
coachman, were examined, and at the
evening session the Rev. George B. Mad
| dock and P. J. Fitzgibbon. former trus-
| tees, and Mrs Isaac Wetherby, formerly
lady manager, gave further testimony.
Mrs. Eyler, in her testimony, denied alb
solutely that she had ever in any way
attempted to convert any of the Catho-
lie girls to Professionalism. She also again
denied the statement of Miss Frances
Day that ankets were used on the Wese-
man girl, and averred that no anklets
were in use in the school at the time.
Mr. Carnagy, in his testimony, told of
a disturbance at the school last Saturday,
caused by two of the girls finding copy
of a sensational newspaper containing an
extravagant account of the trouble at the
school, in the barn.
Mr.. Carnagy had gone to the school
Sunday, but was unable to hold any re-
ligious service because of the turbulent
condition of the girls. He said one of
the number was drumming on the floor
overhead with a bureau or bedstead, !"
he was not sure which.
Another matter developed by the testi-
mony at the school was the fact that the
mother of one of the girls had last week
sent her cake, in the centre of which
was found a, tin baking powder box con-
tanning clippings from some of the yell
low newspapers in which the school was
most vehemently attacked. In the box
were also two letters in which the girl
was urged to escape and make her way
to Morrisville, where she would find
friends.
The records of the school were exam
ined. and it was discovered that during
the month of March last girls had fire.
quent1y been placed in the dungeons, one
of the number having been there for thir-
teen and half days.
Some of the committeeman visited the
d,,poaope md five Of Ina cJ wnre found
to be occupied They learned that one
girl had recently spent thirteen days in a
cell The committee had a fine dinner at
the school, and at eight o'clock they ar
rived at the State House They held the
meeting in the Assembly Chamber, where
the witnesses were tired out by waiting
four hours. Invitations had been sent out
to Mrs. Isaac Weatherby, DR.. Maddox
and P. ]. Fitzgibbon to meet the COM
mittee at the State House at four o'clock.
They were all on hand at the time named,
but the committee was up at the school
where they were taking testimony.
Mrs Isaac Weatherby was the first
witness called. She testified from a
written statement She said that Miss
Frances Day did not resign of her own
volition, but that she was almost told
that here resignation was wanted Miss
Days services. she said, were very salts
factory and as to the charge made by
Mrs Eyler that she had become impudent
the witness explained that the impudence
was given when Mrs. Eyler had thrown
up to her that she had been an inmate of
the school, Any girl of spirit, she said,
would have done the same as Miss Day
had done, and the Board had been unani-
nous in upholding her in her course.
Mrs. Weatherby further asserted that
she had never heard of any complaint
against Miss Day until she had read it in
Mrs Emley's published testimony. Inn
mediately upon reading the testimony
Mrs. Weatherby said, she called upon
former secretary of the board Parker,
who stated that he had never heard of
the charge until he saw it in print
Then followed long discussion con-
cerning the dungeons, in which Mrs.
Weatherby expressed herself as unalter-
ably opposed to them.
The Rev. DR.. Maddox corroborated
Mrs. Weatherby's testimony with refer
ence to Miss Day, and added further that
after Miss Day had rendered her resig-
nation it had been held up by the board
for more than month.
The resignation, he said, was not ac-
cepted until it became known that Mrs.
Emily E. Williamson had position for
Miss Day and even then Mr.. Fitzglbbon
was opposed to Miss Days retirement
from the school.
Concerning Mrs. Eyler's administra-
tion. DR.. Maddox said she has not been
at the school but a short time when E.
r. Cook the then managing trustee, was
anxious for her removal, but this was
objected to by the witness and Mr..
Parker.
Dir. Maddox also took occasion to
straighten himself on the question of the
establishment of the punishment rooms.
He had previously testified that he had
never known what the rooms were to be
like until they had been finished, while
Mrs Eyler and Mrs. Emley had testified
that the dominic was instrumental in hav-
ing the dungeons built.
that he was instrumental in having the
cells built or that he was chairman of
the committee that did the work, as was
testified by Mrs. Emley. He further de-
MED that he had ever visited the cells
Will while they were being constructed, il
company with Mrs. Eyler.
The building OF the cells was done by
4 committee Of which Mr.. Fitzgfbbon was
cha fffna1l and the other members, DR.
Maddox said, were Mr.. Cook, Mrs, ETn-
lev and Miss Atterbury, SO far as he
could remember Instead OF being enthl.-
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