The Washington herald., 1908-04-30
200 BOYS MUTINY
And MANY ESCAPE
Inmates of Baltimore House
of Refuge in Revolt.
OFFICERS DRAW REvOLVERS
Squads Escape After Hurting All the
Furniture to the First FIOOr-In-
surrectiOn QueIIed After an Hours
Fighting-Twenty Women Present
Greatly Frightened at Outbreak.

| Special 90 The Washington Herald.
Baltimore, Nd. April 29.-Broken furni-
ture was piled fifteen feet high on the
capacious floor Of the dormitory of the
Maryland School for Boys. formerly the
House OF Refuge. as a result of a mutiny
among the go inmates of the institution
tonight.
The trouble started just after supper
when Officers L. A. sturtevant and Ed
ward Bolton attempted to force Henry
Perman to go before supt. James II. Hen
dirk for alleged disobedieuce. Perman
and five other boys turned on the officers
and fought them until the officers over
powered the youths and forced them to
their rooms. These rooms range around
three circular tiers that look down on a
first floor.
When Supt Hendrix appeared at the
rail Of the second tier it was the signal
for a fusillade Of furniture the boys had
stored in their rooms. First chair was
hurled at the superintendent from the
third tier and then came pieces Of beds.
omcers ran to his assistance, ana soon
there was "a downpour of chairs. table
legs, boards, basins, and all conceivable
kinds OF missiles
Two OfHcers Are Hurt.
Prefect A. c. Weston was hit on the
knee with fifteen-pound hose nozzle.
ana OfilceF c. s. Cassard was struck.
Perman, who started the trouble. got his
nose eye, and hand gashed from a blow.
he says by supt Hendrix.
The officers were forced to draw tbaiy
revolvers in an attempt to subdue The
ooys. and 1t is said clubs were used. but
no shots were fired. as the boys put out
all the lights and tore out all the gas fix
lures. Wagon loads of debris filled the
main floor before the insurrection was
quelled The boys had wrecked their
rooms and smashed every pane of glass.
Squads OF boys escaped, some by throw
ing the fire hose out Of a window and slid
ing down. Three boys were captured in
d Tree, seven were caught by the police.
while coming into Baltimore. and five
were caught in the northwestern suburbs.
Says Shots Were Fired.
One of the boys alleges four shots were
fired after him as he was escaping. F:f-
teen are still missing. Supt Hendrix was
badly used up by flying furniture ard the
struggle with the mutneers. It Is thought
| that nearly all OF the go boys in the
institution took part in the outbreak.
The mutiny was at its height and nan.
demCntum resigned just as H. L. Thomas.
one Of the board OF managers. arrived with
his daughters and about twenty ladies.
to give a cantata for the boys. The shouts
OF officers and men, the crash of furni-
ture, and the noise Of keepers and boys
fighting for the mastery, created a panic
among the women. Several nearly faint
ed, a committee to investigate charges
| that Supt. Hendrix beats the BOYS cruelty
held its first session to-day The insti.
tuition is filed with incorrigibIe boys COM
mitted by the police magistrates Of Balti-
more.
The mutiny had been in progress an
hour, when squad Of police arrived 10
quen the disturbance. The twenty-odd
women visitors had been locked in the
parlor