Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-20
Brutal Treatment OF UnfoTtunateS
BY Police Stirs UP North
Bench Residents.
BOY BEATEN WITH A CHAIN
Children Passing to and From
School See Cruelty in
Its Worst Form.
Niien Protest Is Made TO Police Chief,
Women Arc Answered N
Insulting Manner.

A storm of protest against mistreat-
ment of prisoners on the city chain
gang at the hands OF Mounted PATROL
man George Harris has broken out
among the people living in the district
where the chain gang has been work
ing, between C and +. streets. and be-
tween Ninth and Tenth avenues.
According to numerous reputable per-
sons in that vicinity, chain gang prison
ers who have attempted TO escape be-
cause of the brutal treatment which
they receive from Harris. have been
chased through the neighborhood un-
til they took refuge In private homes.
whence they have been dragged forth
and bound to porch posts and tele-
graph poles. and beaten by Harris with
his fists and with a chain, and have
been left chained to poles for periods
varying from three hours to nearly the
whole day, in bitter cold weather.
According to many women living In
that section, the chain gang prisoners
have been compelled to work at street
grading, with the thermometer only
four degrees above zero. insufflclently
clad. without warm gloves. without un-
derwcar, some OF them even without
shoes. others with nothing but low.
summer oxfords, with thin soles that
did not protect their feet from the snow
and frozen ground
These eye-wltnesscs state that con-
dltlonS became so frlghtful that they
telephoncd repeatedly to Chief of Po-
lice Barlow. protesting against the In.
human treatment of chain gang pris-
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ordered to stop binding prisoners to
telegraph poles In cold wenther
Among the army OF witnesses who
have seen all OF these things and pro-
tested to Chief OF Police Barlow and
Lieut. Richard l.. Shannon against
abuse of chain gang prisoners arc the
following: Mrs. Valentine Scroggs. 334
F. street. Mrs Ashley Wallace, 331 z
street. Mrs. NJ. NJ. Price, 329 street:
Z Mrs II. ]. Halton. Jr., AIS d street:
Mrs James Moncarr, 459 E street; E.
n. Engbcrg, 466 street. and his two
daughters. the Misses Lillian and Dell
Engberg;s Mrs. NJ NJ. Kershaw, 472
c street; Mrs. Joseph Buzzo. z64 F
street and many others.
cHAIN GANG NOT OUT TO-DAY.
So emphatic have the people In this
ncighborhood become in their protests
against the brutality shown chain gang
prisoners. that Chief of Police Barlow
this morning did not send the chain
gang out The people in that section
say that they will not tolerate any
more atrocities. and demand that the
chief of police keep the chain gang
away form that locality permanently.
1t is stated on good authority that
Chief OF Police Barlow, alarmed at the
storm of Indignation which has swept
that district, will now change the chain
gang to City creek canyon. where they
Will be put to work at digging sump
holes In the creek bed.
Sensational statements are made by
the women who live in the section be-
tween G and + streets, and between
Ninth and Tenth avenues, where tho
chain gang has been working grading
the streets and hillsides.
All of the above named witnesses
corroborate each other in detail re-
gardlng one of the worst cases OF
abuse. that of n chain gang prisoner
named Jack" Anderson. q mere youth
IL years of age. who Is said to have
been horribly mistreated by Harris
bound to a telegraph pole and
beaten with n chain, handcuffed and
dragged at the end of a chain
While Harris ran his horse up and
down the hill. until the boy had a
hemorrhage, bled at the nose and
mouth. and became unconscious An
derson. 1t Is said. afterwards made a
successful attempt to escape, and ran
away from the city prison. His family
live In Ogden. 1t is said.
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Regarding the abuse of vouny Ander-
son, Monday. Nov % Mrs Talentin.
Scroggs said: 'Tt ,vos ono ~ +hs ,,os,
horrible things evor cow 4, M. IIro
The guard OF tho choi, ,ar,r tori, 49,
poor boy and cbairsd SSn, taIa
graph pole which sto1d ~, ~ o,',,
eqaurc lust above M, 49,, =, a"e s..ssS'i,
could see him clcar,,' TN e. s mnete r., ,
him unmcrcif,,ll,, ~. ne su1io pea. pe
kent bonnd In tha+ -, pi'sod,er was
In the rnor,,n,, ,,r.t,, paS 90 ,loit CLOCK
thar dov i. - eiocA noon OF
thts ,,ai,r,,,,a..,'ls' SIowo OF women IN
tho hr,,s,t,,' " pectlIne aroused by
tas,as s'-...S ",-.s.S =. uio guard and VIC pro-
g., 49, Ssains. MS treating the prisoners
=" .nae Ilaiincr. Inc boy didn't have
M ovel,Sa,. coat or gloves on. 1t was a
Nery colu uay, Inc sight made me cry.
ano. io,s oil otner women cried. We