The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-19
Vile Questions ASKED.


Mrs. r. y. Tracy. who had been en-
pIoyed at the school for three and a
half years. until the past few months.
rs The girls matron. was recalled this
afternoon. Four written questions, of
Il vile nature. were submitted for the
witness to read, and she was then
asked If these questions and similar
ones had been asked the glris during
the time she was matron by Superin-
tendent Thomas in her presence She
replied in the affirmative. Or several
occasions Assistant Superintendent
kpeass was also present, she said. Mrs,
Tracy complained that these questions
were unfit Tor a man TO ask the girls
and that they were a source of great
humiliation 10 the inmates. as well
as herself. She related an incident Of
returning to the school with Miss Ce-
lcstc Conroy after her vacation last
summer and finding TWO girls in the
cell with their hair cut short as pun
lshment for some lnfraction OF the
rules. \ girl, Arbcle Abel, was called
up for correction for relating an indie
cent story, superintendent Thomas
was sent for and in the presence OF the
matron, according TO Mrs. Tracy, i'm
proper questions were asked, and when
the girl refused to comply with Thom-
as s demand that She show him how
she bad been improperly acting with
man before her commitment, the girl
was placed in the ''cell' on a bread
and water diet.
pathetic story of Rosetta Coyle, a
girl who died of appendicitis, was next
related, The girl was taken i'll and
her tcmperatu8 was 105, She had been
sick for two DAYS, when finally she
was ordered brought to the city TO the
hospital. Mrs, Tracy declared that an
old spring wagon was used to convey
her to the hospital. five miles distant
on cold and disagreeable day Every
Jolt of the wagon caused the girl 10
suffer extremely. The girl was operated
upon and died. She said she com.
piialned of the method Of conveying the
girl to the hospital, and Captain Kneans
informed her that it was the super.
intcndcnt S orders.
Evening Session.
VI the evening session. which began
al O'Clock and closed al 9 O'Clock.
the examination of Mrs D. r. Tracy
was concluded, without bringing out
any additional facts.
Mrs. Norris Chapland was called and
her examination consumed the balance
OF the session. Mrs. Chapland was en-.
ployed at the school from October. zoos
until February, 1909, having charge of
the pantry and the officers tables in
condition of the bedding and the mat
trcss furnished the inmates Of the school
as being unfit for the purposes for
which they were used.
ON ono occasion she heard the cries
OF BOYS who were being whipped, which
caused her TO be I'LL for n week Mrs
thapIaud says she left the employ Of
the Industrial school because she could
not get along with Mrs Thomas ana
the superintendent
Before the Investigating committee
got down to work this morning. a short
time was passed IN legal parley by the
attorneys now engaged in the hearing,
The Investigation finally got under way
with Attorneys T. G. Johnson and c.. r.
tiollIngsworth, attorneys for Superin-
tcndent Thomas and Valentine Gideon
and a: G. Agee appearing on behalf of
the charges against superintendent
| Thomas.