The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-19

man who produced the most damaging
testimony against the management of tha
school, was Evan Carlson. instructor in
the blacksmith shop from January. 1905.
TO august, 1908. He told of the punish
ment inflicted on boys after a trip to the
canyon last summer Two of the boys
came under his personal supervision
Percy Bacon and Bird Hughes. He saw
these boys after they has been beaten He
mad some of the other boys take Hughes
shirt off and found his back like piece
of roast meat 1t was black and blue,
he said. and covered with blood stains
Percy BacOn's back was i'm similar con-
dition- In addition, a piece of flesh had
been cut out and pushed back in again
and the place was very sore These boys
were not able to work for a week after
this beating. Mr.. Carlson said he became
so nervous that he could not work him
self for a time
dent of the board of trustees he said,
and told him Of this: told him he should
come out and see the boys and bring a
doctor with him. Mr.. Evans told him the
matter would be investigated at the next
meeting OF the board. At the meeting Of
the board q week later, at which meeting
the officers of the school we're present
the subject of the beating of the boys
was not mentioned. DIT. +. M COnrOy,
one of the trustees. told all present that
they should not discuss the affairs OF
the school at their homes, on the street
corners or elsewhere. In reply to a ques-
said he did not mention the matter at the
board meeting because he had laid the
matter before President Evans and he
was afraid of losing his Job. A short
time before the boys were punished Mr.
Carlson said he had his salary raised by
Superintendent Thomas. Two weeks after
the meeting of the board, referred to, he
was discharged and told 1T was best for
the institution" An effort was made to
shake the force of Mr.. CarlsOns state e.
ment by the most rigid CrOss-eXamination.
Questions were fired at him from all
sides not only the attorneys. but the
members of the committee taking hand
in this. He stuck TO his main statements
and would not be driven from his position
by any amount of badgering.
Mrs. Dora r. Tracy. who was matrOn
al the school for three and a half years.
was the next witness She told again Of
the indecent questions asked the girls Of
the school. She told of missing two girls
from her department at one time and
finding them later in the cells in the boys
department with their hair cut short. She
told Of one of the girls. Arbele Abel, relat-
ing an indecent story to some of the other
girls Mrs. Tracy reported the matter TO
Superintendent Thomas. He brought the
girl up and ordered her to tell him the
indecent story. As it had to be related
partly i'm pantOmime the girl refused, and
for her refusal was placed in the cell
Mrs Tracy related the story of Rosetta
COyle. girl inmate, who was stricken
with appendicitis in the school. With her
temperature at 105 she was loaded into a
spring wagon on cold day and hauled
TO the Ogden General hospital There she
was operated upon for appendicitis. and
died. Mrs. Tracy testified that she had
referred the matter Of the indecent ques-
tons asked the girls to DR.. f. NJ Con-
roy. one of the trustees, and he said they
were unnecessary.
At the night session Mr. Tracey was
subjected to z rigid cross examination.
which brought out many facts regarding
the condition of the girls department of
the school and the questions asked by
Superintendent Thomas on various Occa-
sions-
Mrs. Maria Chatland. who was employed
at the school from October 1905. to Feb
ruary. 1903, testified that the bedding was
bad and that the beds were infested with
vermin She also told of the foul OdOT
arising from the boys cells. In regard 70
the boy. King, who was kept in a cell
and beaten before being sent TO the hos
Dital she told of his coming to the dining
room and refusing TO eat. but sitting with
his head in his hands crying. She told of
other whippings when the screams were
so loud that she was made sick for a
week out of sympathy. She said that she
went to District Attorney Harris and told
of these things. He told her to go to Har-
old Peery and he advised her to bring
the matter up before the board of trus-
/ tees. She said she left the school be-
/ cause she could not stand the way things
were going on. At the close of her testi-
mony the committee adjourned until 9
/ o'clock Monday morning.