Evening journal., 1909-12-07
THE EVENING JoURNu, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, i9ce


| ing physician at tho school. testified
that he examined Prefer three days
after the assault and he saw no evil
dence OF the boy having been abused,
/ except for q bruise on the wrist.
Dr. Greenwood said he asked the boy
/ ~ he had been roughly used ana Pfef-
I fer replied not any more than needed 70
subdue him.
The physician stated that be had
seen IN the newspapers about Pfolfer
I being roughly used and it was at his
own suggestion that the boy was
brought 10 him for examination. lie
said he was at the school TO attend
other boys and Mr.. Stewart had not
asked him TO examine Pfefer
Mr.. Handy asked the witness how
he knew that it was three days after
the boy was beaten that he examined
him, and Or. Greenwood replied IL was
two or three days after he saw an
account of the affair in the newspapers,
and it might have been week after
the affair really occurred.
The witness said he had never been
called upon TO attend "a boy at the
school who was suffering from the
effects of a whipping.
Priest Defends School.
The Rev. Thomas G. Waugh, o Cath
Ollie priest, testified that he visited the
school every SUNDAY to teach the
Catholic boys at the institution, who
average about thirty
Mr. Lyman asked Father Waugh
what the boys had told him of their
treatment at the school.
Mr. Handy objected 10 Father Waugh
testifyng along this line on the ground
chat It was hearsay. Mr.. Handy sug-
gested that Mr. Lyman hold himself
to facts.
Mr. Lyman thought Father Waugh's
testimony was valuable TO show how
the boys were treated.
The committee decided to admit the
evidence.
Father Waugh. in reply TO questions
asked by Mr.. Lyman said that none
of the boys ever complained to him
OF having been ill-treated and fur
thermore. he had asked the boys on
several occasions how they were treat
ed and all had said we'll. Father
Waugh said ne had never seen any Of
the boys wearing chains.
Father Waugh, assists the Rev. John
Connolly, at ST. Thomas Church, this
city.
Boys Got Water.
George r. Hamilton. former farm
boss at the school, testified that the
boys under his care always had waite
offered them I'm the morning and after
noon while they were in the field lie
said he left the school on March 1.
Witness said the boys did not get
all the water they wanted but all that
it was necessary for them to have.
lie explained that each boy could have
two or three pint cups of water if he
wanted IL. when they kicked the
bucket around the field and threw the
cup at each other they had more
than enough said the witness
Mr.. Hamilton Identified "a strap. one
inch ana "a quarter wide and one-quar-
ter of an inch thick as the regulation
strap used TO whip the boys.
The witness was asked by Mr. Handy
n he knew the bull strap which one boy
said me was beaten with. Witness replied
that he did and that It was used to "ue
up tho bull" Hamilton advanced the
opinion that the boy was never whipped
with the strap in question. Witness also
identified the chains offered IN evidence
as the ones used ON boys who attempted
20 run away. He said he never saw any
chains with iron bands, which one boy
testified he had Worn.
Says One Boy Used Knife.
John A. Campbell. a former school Of