The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-22
MEAT TAINTED.
SYRUP SOURED.
FOOD TOO OLD
Otherwise the Inmates of the
State Industrial School Fare
Well Under Thomas.
BOYS SEVERELY BEATEN
AND PUT IN DAMP CELLS
OTHERWISE THEY ARE KINDLY
TREATED BY A BENEFICENT
MANAGEMENT,
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Ogden, June 21.-Stories of cruelty. bad
| food Incompetence and graft were re-
peated and amplified by the Witnesses
/ especially by j. H. Scott who was OIL
I the witness stand q good part Of the
I day, at the state industrial school IN
vestigation today. The proceedings in
| the afternoon were rendered more inter
estlng by the presence In the audience
l Of number of prominent club women
I from Salt Lake City. indicating that the
/ investigation is to take a wider range
than at first anticipated. In the even
I ing the investigating committee took
recess to o'clock Wednesday morning,
I so that there will be no inquiry Tues
I day.
At the morning session Dr. Z. NJ. Con-
roy, a former trustee, Frank Ballantyne
and G. Fl. Chandler were requested by
{ the investigating committee to be pres
I ent and give testimony. This was on re-
quest of the attorneys for the citizens
committee. Charles r. HOllngsWorth,
/ clerk Of the board of trustees, who is
acting as attorney for Superintendent II.
/ II. Thomas, was placed on the stand to
show that he kept the records of the
| bOaTd-and that he would produce them
when they were wanted. Later Ballau-
/ tyne sent word that he would not APP
! pear.
Food Bad and insufficient.
Mary Ann Jackson, former assistant
matron at the school. who cooked part
Of the time while at the school, said the
/ food was often kept too long the meat
! becoming tainted and the dried fruit
WOrmy. The syrup, she said, 1ermented
and it was necessary to use soda In It.
/ In the last week in each month there
/ was often a shortage Of food. She told
I Of seeing a boy named Fenstermaker
1 wearing an Oregon boot I'm 1895 until
/ his leg became sore and he could hardly
l get up. She said Superintendent Thomas
I would grumble when she made requisi-
| tons for food
Afternoon Session.
] Much Of the afternoon session was tax
! en- up in a crOss-eXaminatiOn of j. II.
/ Out-little that Mr.. Scott did not tell at
/ the original meeting at the Weber
academy on June Z. His testimony was
I confined largely 10 telling Of taking the
boy Capien OF Green the went by both
namcsl to the SICK room Tor treatment.
and seeing where a piece Of flesh had
been torn from his arm by whipping, Of
I seeing the red marks on the boys backs
when they were in the plunge room; Of
{ the attempt 20 escape by Bates, Trip,
/ Perkins and Wells with the knowledge Of
/ Superintendent Thomas. The testimony
/ showed that Wells Informed the superin
/ tendent Of the proposed attempt. He was
| the leader in the scheme, secured the tools
| from the carpenter shop. took off the
/ screen in the toilet room to enable the
I boys to get out, and then Informed the
! superintendent VINO Jet the attempt pro-
! coed after posting officers TO catch the
I four boys The three were put I'm cells
I on bread and water and whipped, while
Wells was shown special favors.
Thomases All Superintendent.
Much stress was laid on the return OF
| the 17-year-old son Of Superintendent
/ Thomas TO the school one night at II
/ o'clock and his ordering the Waterman
to get two OF the boys out of bed 20
mn no he. rfaHn TaTI
ferred the matter to Scott. who said:
Put away your own horse, you lazy
fellow"
He then referred the matter 10 Assist
ant Superintendent Kneass, who ruled
that young Thomas should put his own
horse away. Superintendent Thomas was
IN California at the time. On his re-
turn ne called Scott into his office and
{ censUred him for the language he used
in addressing his SON. and soon after
[ ward told him he intended 20 discharge
I him on the grounds Of insufficient expert
ence as q carpenter, although he had pre-
viOusly told him he was well pleased with
his work.
Scott told-of working for three weeks
I on Thomas private house ON Madison
/ avenue IN the city and drawing pay for
the entire month from the state. When
I asked if his conscience permitted him TO
/ enter into collision with Superintendent
Thomas to thus defraud the state, he
I said he knew of other Illicit proceedings
for a specific case, he said President T.
3. Evans of the board Of trustees fur
| Eished supplies to the school right along
in defiance of the law, but with the sane
/ ton Of the governor.
Mr.. Scott was asked by Attorney John
son if he did not consider that he-hsd
a special mission; if he were not the
man who prayed on the streets Of Salt
Lake City for golden sword" He in
dignantly denied this and said that he
had a mission, as every man has a mis-
sion.
You have a mission he said to John
son, and then he was admouished by
President Harry S Joseph that ne must
not embarrass the counsel. After thu
laugh died down and on the suggestion
Of n !. Harris he asked Johnson to
refrain from bsdgering the witness.
Why Kneass Was Suspended.
Captain ". f. Kneass. assistant ST.
perintendeut, was called as a witness by
the citizens committee at the close OF
SCOTS testimony He said he had held
his position since Oct. ]. 1898. He related
the incident Of the superintendent boy
going away In a buggy at s in the morn
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