Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-21

I0GIn the 1nIO1mdJlOn 1t mas SOuBu
since the outset on how so much to
bacco was smuggled into the institu
ton. Franklin revealed the modu
operandi.
1t seems the method was for "ous
toners" to leave a piece of money a
the railroad reservoir near the schoo
grounds and return afterward to ge
the goods. Some Whittier parties, pre-
sumably, would take the money ant
produce tobacco later at the rate o
twenty bags for every dollar deposited
there. 1t was done stealthily.
| Russell Webb, the cadet whose In
jured arm has drawn forth much fire
on DR.. Coffin, who fills the dual posi-
ton of assistant superintendent ano
medical officer, was brought up at this
point.
Webb showed his sore arm, charg-
ing that he had not been treated right
by Drs. Coffin and Ellis. The arm
had been broken at the wrist in a run
away accident. Both these doctors sci
the bones, he said. Webb said he had
complained to Superintendent Greeley
| about his arm and the latter promise
to see that something was done, but
| the complaints were vain. He was
| told merely to rub and exercise the
| arm.
Anthony Kyle, a colored cadet, said
McLouth kicked him under COW for
swearing
Asked why he did not report the Of
Tense to Superintendent Greeley, the
| boy said:
'I ought not to have used a cuss
word, so I did not make any COM
plant"
School Carpenter James II. Stewart
testified that he had reported boys to
their captains for using tobacco, but
saw no cruelties anywhere.
Greeley and Coffin Clash
John p. HeaIy, instructor in laun-
dry, mentioned a conflict between SUI
perintendent Greeley and DR.. Coffin.
Healy and a boy in the laundry had
trouble, but as DIR. Coffin upheld the
boy he was kept in the laundry until
| Superintendent Greeley heard of It,,
Again Dr. Coffin put the offending
boy in the laundry and again he was
sent back to the farm.
Healy said he saw Mrs. Willes and
| Cadet Fahey alone in the superlnten-
| dents office about 1880 one evening,
but had not reported 1t to. Supertn-
tendent Greeley.
Kept Desmond's Witness Away
Capt. w. e. Connors, historian and
statistieian of the school, who Is also
deputy sheriff. testified that he was
sent to San Bernardino by order OF
Trustee Desmond to bring back Prem
tice Matthews, q paroled boy, few
weeks ago. He was told to keep him
at the school until the investigation
was over. superintendent Greeley,
however, sent Matthews back home.
| Again Matthews was brought back
on telephone orders from DR.. Coffin,
Desmond in the meantime censuring
| Connors.
The boy was present at two sessions
of the former secret school trustees
inquiry, but was not called on to tes-
tify.
Questioned by superintendent Gree
lev, Connors said Desmond alone had
ordered him to go after the boy. The
second time the youth came here vol
unfairly on the telephoned request to
come.
! Connors said employees of the school
| often went outside of the ground 70
smoke in the evening. They congre-
gated across the street from the school
reservation.
trustee desmond tried to get Con-
nors to admit that he visits saloons.
but witness said he visited saloons and
low places only when he was looking
for runaway boys.
NewIIn Not Cooperating
Trustee Desmond called his col
league. T. i. Newlin, the banker, tC
the stand.
Il Mr.. Newlin was asked to repeal
what Desmond told him one Sunday
over the telephone concerning the re-
turn of the boy Mathews from SaI
Bernardino.
u Mr.. Newlin said Mr.. Desmond tele'
phoned him from the girls school a
!. Whittier asking that he (Newlin) joiI
him in demanding that the boy b,
brought back. Newlin said he did no
see it that way, as the superintendent
had sent the boy away. Hence h
declined to join in the request, thereb!
making 1t an act of the majority o
the board.
Horace Mann, formerly farmer a
the school and now resident o
Whittier, testified that Greeley had or
dered him to strike boy.
"The order was given to me to stril1
Albert Smith. who had an incurabl
disease" said Mann. ut happened II
near the lily pond. Some women wer
sitting there, but I do not know If the.
heard it.
| GTSciey OdiuS Stt'NS DVy
"Greeley told me to put Smith t
work with colt in farming and / toll
him the doctor told me not to pu
: smith at anything that would heat hi
blood because of his sickness.
"Then Greeley told me to knock hir
down with my fist or with club
he did not work. Greeley always ha
some kind of abuse for me-"
"Did you ever divide your salar
with any employer" asked Truste
Desmond.
Chairman Moore ruled this questio
out.
"TI give Superintendent Greeley
week or a month to get his testimon
If necessary said Governors Score
tary Cooper, holly, fretting at delay
"We have got to consider the stat
of California as well as personal guar
rels here. Let us go on
Peck Repeats "Blind Pig"
Night Waterman R. M. Peck agai
took the stand and said he wanted
understood that the "blind pig whic
he said at Fridays hearing was main
tanned in the school was not in til
administration building, but in til
chefs room back of the commissar
department.
Peck said his word had been dis
iDuted since he first made the chars