Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-10
of these school entertainments
there-That is, it was the Sisters
school entertainment, was it? Yes

there-That is, it was the Sisters
school entertainment, was it, Yes
sir. One of those you took her
because she had found that hat
pin? l promised to take her if
she would find the hat pin. And
she borrowed one, and in that way
got to 60 to the entertainment?
Yes Sir. Now these obscene
stories which you claim she told,
do you mean they were stories
which she claimed-stories of facts
or circumstances that she claimed
to know about, or were they just
funny stories? l don't think
there was anything funny about
them. Well was it something she
claimed. that she was telling, that
she claimed to be fact? Well l do
not understand what you mean by
a story. Well you testified that
she told you obscene stories.
You remember that, don't
you? That she tried to-.
Tried to tell you them? Yes sir.
Well then she never succeeded in
telling them to you, did she? Well
some of the words she would say
out, and I would tell her that that
did not belong to me; that she
should tell that to Father Garrity
or Father Jungblud. Well l say,
did she claim to be relating facts
when she was telling or trying to
tell these obscene stories? Well
she seemed to be telling them to
me, for the reason that she would
get back there to those places.
How many times did that happen?
Several times. l cannot remember
the exact number Of times. You
never punished her for that? No
sir, | did not. And afterwards she
used to write obscene things, did
she? Well l found them. You
found some bad words on her
book, did your Yes sir. Did you
ever tell her that she would have
to confess those to Jungblud? No
sir, did not. You just told her
that she could tell them to him?
Sir2 You Just told her that she
could tell them to him, if she
wanted to tell anybody? To
Father Clarity. Well on your
direct examination didn't you say
|-Qnterrupting): Or Father Jung
blud. To Father Garrity and
Jungblud TOO? Yes. Father
Garrity or Father Jungblud. Now
when she was contrary, as you
say, about learning her lessons,
you used to whip her some across
the hands? did. How long was
that going on; about how many
weeks or months? Well it only
happened three or four times.
And was that pretty well toward
the last of the time that she was
there? No sir. Along before
vacation? Before vacation. No l
think it was after we started in
again. Do you think you had
whipped her hancs. or punished
her in that way at all, before va
cation? l think l did. hit her
across the hands, the palm Of the
hand that way. (Witness indicates).
And you never would hit her but
once on each hand? Once on
each hand. At a time? At time.
And after you had done that, then
you would turn her over to Jung
blud2 Then Iwould turn her over to
Father Jungblud, yes sir. | think
you said that she would hold out
her hands and tell you to whip
her? Not me; Father Jungblud,
She said she was not afraid of me
because l didn't She never told
you to whip her. What was your
last answer there? She said that
she was not afraid of me because
l did not whip her. Well was
that after you had whipped her?
After I had whipped her across
the hands. She said she did not
mind me at all. Did she ever tell
you to whip her hands? She did.
She would hold her hands out as
soon as she missed the word.
What's that? AS soon as she
would miss the word she would
put her hand out that way. Indi-
cating.) She knew it was coming,
didn't she, anyway? Sir? She
knew it was coming anyway,
didn't she? | don't know whether
she did or not. Now these whip
pings that you had given her
across the hands, were all of them
before the ind of October, weren't
they? Yes sir. You did not
whip her yourself on the End of
OCTOBER No sir. And you did
not see Jungblud whip her the End
Of October? No sir. All the
punishment that you know of that
she received on the End of October,
was the tying her up to the cell
,nno The t,rinn her M To the