Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Monday. Nov. 22
Not only did Mrs. Valentine Scrogg'
OF sS4 f street. and Mrs Ashley Wal
lace. of 3sl E street telephone to tn
office OF the chief OF police on that day
but they described the brutality of tn
guard toward the boy. demanded tina
the victim be unbound from the tele
phone pole at the cooking camp. tolS
the police that the boy had been KEEP
there from 3 o'clock In the morning
until noon, and stated that they object
ed to such a spectacle being allowed
In nm open place where their children
could see It on the way homo from
school.
GUARD USED TELEPHONE.
That Chief OF Police Barlow and
Lieut. Shannon knew about the whole
case can be proved By their own men.
Mrs. Mabel D. Busk. who lives at 462
G street. just two doors north OF the
Engberg home. where the boy was cap
tured and beaten. said this morning.
THE guard came into my home and
asked me II he could use my telephone.
anc told him that he could. He teie-
phoncd to police headquarters and
told the chief OF police that he wanted
the patrol wagon sent out, because the
women in the neighborhood had de-
nanded that n boy prisoner on the
chain gang be taken down from a pole.
The day was very cold. The guard
did beat the boy In the Engberg home,
and tho Engbcrg girls were quite OK
cited over the affair and all OF the
women I'm the ncighborhood were talk
ing about 1t.
II can't understand how Chief
Barlow could dare to deny that he
knew anything about this case. when
he certainly must remember that his
guard tclephoned to him from my own
home Other women In this neighbor-
hood know that the guard used my
telephone, too.
The guard handcuncd tho boys
arms around a post In The rear of a
new house at 31S Tenth avenue, In
plain view from my home and the
boy was tied up and kept there for
long time
The statements previously made I'm
The News by Mrs. Valentine Scrcggs. |
of asa f street: Mrs. Ashley Wallace. !
OF 3S1 E street. Mrs. H. j. Halton. Jr.. |
of AS u street: Mrs. James Moncarr, |
OF 45s street; E- n. Engberg. of
466 C street; Mrs. NJ. M. Kershaw. of
472 c street: Mrs. Joseph BIZzo, OF |
able witnesses. are backed by the adj
ditional corroboration made by Mrs
S VI. Lynch. OF 467 D street who lives
next door to Mrs, Halton.
MRS. LYNCH'S STORY
Mrs Lynch said this morning: THE
story in The News about the abuse of
the chain gang prisoners is true. I was
here in my own homo on the day that
the boy tried TO escape and was tied
up TO the pole and beaten. heard
shots fred. The boy ran into the
Engbere home. just in the rear OF my
house. and begged the girls to hide
him. The guard came In and got him,
and beat him right In front OF tho
Engberg- girls. The whole neighbor-
hood was stirred up about this thing.
II was raining that day. and the
weather was very cold | don't see how
these III ngs could be denied. because
everybody who lives In this vicinity
knew about the affair and talked about
H. | know that some of the women
10 the police
II Chief of Police Barlow wants fur
he- Information, no can get II from
lis own force. II now appears. from
statement made by Mrs. r. w Car
er Of 3l7 Ninth avenue, this morning,
hat Patrolman Stains was one of the
yards In charge of q division of the
bain gang on the day that the boy
Tas bound to the telegraph pole at the
ooking camp.
Mrs Carter appeared to be positive
hat she saw Stains walking along
Iinth avenue. In front of her home.
18th chain gang prisoner. Mrs. Car
er said that she had heard the guards
ring shots. that day, while she was
I the telephone and that after that
he saw Stains with prisoner. She
aid she knew the guard was Stains
irs. Carter stated that although she
ad not seen any of the chain gang
risoners treated brutally, sine had
card other women In the ncighborhood
iscusslng the matter.
MORE DENIALS DUE.
1t is significant that The Tribune =
his morning did not attempt to deny
ne story printed In The News Mon
ay nigh concerning the mistreatment
Roy De Mar II years of age by
eorge Harris. the chain gang guard. C
lst Friday .
Roy De Mar is in the city prison, n
nd Chief Barlow can order an inyes- a
CATION of the charge that De Mar, T
'hilc stopping at the fire Mt the cook =
1g camp to warm his feet. was ridden :,
own by Harris and beaten with a long :,
trap with which Harris ties his pinto -
ony. Dc Mars shoes were broken, =,
nd soaking wet, and he squeezed the -
'ater out and showed Harris what con- :,
ltion his feet were in. The boy should u
c under the jurisdiction of the juv- -
nile court, instead OF In the chain W
ang. He has committed no crime. but a.
as arrested while warming himself te
stove in the Volunteers of Amer d
"a hall, opposite the police station. IL
18th IL other unfortunates, last Tues Il
ay night, and sentenced to 80 DAYS, o.
n charge of vagrancy, In
The Tribune and Chief Barlow have CT
OF attempted to deny The News story 81
bout young Upton, II years of age, q
ho is said to be suffering from pneu-
lonia. c
Nor has any denial been made con- i
erning the case of Frank Schlesinger. 81
ne chain gang prisoner suffering from -
ouple rupture, who was tolG by Dr. Il
rank q. Steel, the city physician. to u
send out and get a truss" Schlesing- a
according to numerous chain gang tc
risoners who saw the affair. laid In tho C:
now for four hours. last Thursday n
forming, In bitter cold weather, when h
lie u 5. observatory reported the
ercury registered only four degrees n
oove zero. Schlesinger begged to be n
lowed to stay by the fire and COM -,
lained that his ruptures caused him -,
'rriole agony. and Harris kicked him cl
me and again as he lay writhne on =,
le ground. the chain gang prisoners -, ~
lege b'
Inc Tribune and Chief Bariow have "
't denied the story about John BLAND
e old man In the city prison. whose
sht leg Is rottIng from the thigh
'wn. as the result OF being allowed
, treatment for Il kick which he re-
lVeu from horse. Bland had served III
10 months up to Dec. IL. He was sent Cl
Jail FOR vagrancy. His crime Is poy- pi
ty and old age ~
lhe tribune and Chief Barlow have p'
( denied the story. concerning the boy -, ,a
the chain gang who was handcuffed Y
Harris, tied to the latters horse ! Is