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ne GAGGED
IN Cells Known as
IIDa'' and "Japan."
AHO MICE FOR COMPANIONS
ave Charged hra Made Against
Superintendent Rhoadee BY eirIs
Confined In the Indiana Woman'e
Institution.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Dec. 81
Public hearing OF the charges OF
mismanagement and cruel treatment
against Miss Emily Rhoades, superln.
tendent of the Woman's Prison AMI
Girls Industrial School here, was
begun today by the Board of Stase
Charities. headed by Governor Han.
~. The charges were preferred by
bliss Eve. ]. Hall, formerly n teacher
at the institution, and Josephine Stat
ford and jennie Bowers, former in.
mates
Miss Hall testified that on ono OF.
casion che saw Miss Rhondcs dell
erately knock down Daisy Low, col
ored inmate. She declared that Mis-
Rhoadc5 beat the girl In the fac
while She had her down She Misc
saw the superintendent kick Gertrude
Faus. another inmate. and ON ancthc'
occasion beat the girrs head against
tho floor.
While she was filing another o.
u,
she was obliged to coOh decayed liver
for tic girls. Ono tiulo she said
che went to Miss Rhoedes for med.
icine for sick girl and was informo
that Miss Rhoades could not he de
turbed until morning, and the chill
had TO wait.
On cross examination by Governor
Henly Miss Hall became confuse
and testified that she did not PEI
sonal1y know about several charge
In the complaint
Josephine Stafford, whose nam,
was signed to the charges, said tia
Miss Rhoades caught her by the brat
OF her hair and threw her to tn,
floor and held her there for 80 mir.
utes. Another time she said che W.
bound with her hands behind he
back md gagged and kept In solitar'
confinement several days. The ga,
was only removed at short interval:
for her TO take something TO ent.
China and Japan"
Jennie Bowers, former inmat
swore to stories of cruel trcatmen
Under tho girls school there ar
damp. cold cells, Inhabited BY rat
n9d mice. The girls called the 'plac
China" A still moro dark hole unde
the womans prison was known g
Japan The Bowers girl said Mis-
reloaded Knocked her down for cryin
when another girl was being tcrTibl
punished; that she pulled her ~
three flights of stairs by her hal
and that sho was handcuffed nna
gagged IN cell In China" for tw
weeks and fed OH bread and water.
All the time her ankles were T.
irons and the rats and mice rar
across her feet day and nigh
When che was released she had t.
be placed under doctors care. She
testified that uho saw Mics Rhoades
Jam one girls head against tho wall;
knock another Girl down stairs and
compel one girl TO stand till she
tainted. Another vas tied by the
hands to bars Of an attic cell for
hours at time.
Heard "Duli Thud."
Mrs. Caroline Hinkmyer, formerly
music teacher at tho school. said
ono day she heard blow struck
and the dan thud Of somo one fai-
ling. Then girl screamed, Don't
bliss Rhoedcs, don't" She said one
healthy Girl was sent away TO he
punished and returned three daya
afterwards looking as If che had been
sick for throo months.
Mise Elizabeth Kirby. formerly
teacher, I'D phe had seen Miss
Rhoadee h >ck down fifteen year ola
girls. Miss Rhoadea Is largo and
muscular. Mss Kirby said she pun.
,shed n child IN tho school room
for trivial offense, ana Miss Rhoad,l1
entered aud knocked tho girl down,