The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-26
ogden, Saturday, June 20.

I'D a-halped them They wanted me to
come here and tell something that was
not so about the Turner boy, and told
EN- il was none of their business. Peo-
pie is too nosey,' Mrs. Colvin asserted
with considerable heat They butt IN
too much. They interfere with other peo-
pies business too much.
The witness admitted having talked TO
Mrs. Chatlsnd, but would not admit that
She had criticised the school or its man
agement
Everything is perfectly all right about
the school, was her climax.
DR.. T. II. Smith was connected with
the school two years and attended the
bows during the scarlet fever epidemic,
when two Of them di I'd. DR.. Conroy was
called in In serious cases, and DIT i. q.
Beatty was at the school once. MIS-.
Colvin the nurse: Superintendent Thomas
and the other employees gave proper at
tention to the sick. The boys suffered
from no bad after effects. There should
be a hospital at the school the DOCTOR
said. The average mortality IN scarlet
fever cases was from 10 to so per cent, he
said. 1t was higher in institutions; so
that the rate at the Utah school was the
minimum. Later, he said, but nall the
cases were serious, some OF the boys not
going to bed at all. They got the regu-
lar treatment in such cases and the quar-
antine was extreme. The reason for the
scarlet fever and typhoid fever was not
the inefficienCy Of Superintendent Thorn
Rosetta Coyle, the ioctor said. had per-
fOrated appendicitis and died at the hos
pital two weeks after the operation. he
could not say whether the trip to the
hospital I'm a spring wagon had anything
to do with her death. In such cases, he
said, the quieter the Iatient is kept the
better. He had charge of the case and
ordered the girl sent to the hospital, but
did not suggest the ambulance. He knew
of persons suffering from appendicitis
being brought in from Huntsville and
other places in the country in covered
spring wagons, lying ON spring cots. They
did not suffer bad effects from this. The
driver had much to do with it, he said
Menu All Right on Paper.
DR.. Smith had knowledge Of the food
only for the sick. The bill of fare looked
good on paper, he said; il was very good;
all would get fat if IL were carried out
He saw no evidence of starvation in the
school. He came only TO see the sick
He had treated loathsome diseases there,
some of long standing. He did not know
how these diseases were contracted, as
every person suffering from them is con
siderable OF a liar
Lorenzo Farley, a boy of 10, out Of the
school on parole, was put on the stand.
and just then the fireworks went off.
Attorney Gideon asked as to the inten-
ton of the committee with reference TO
questioning those on parole and children
in the school, whether it was to be open
or private.
Three or four started in to talk at
once. Joseph could lie heard to say that
he did not intend to have the past lives
Of those on parole Taked up; that they
were trying to live good lives and he did
not propose to have anything said or
done that would injuTe them.
Judge Agee maintained that the eXami-
nation should be private; that the boys
and girls were subject TO Superintendent
Thomas: that they would be under re-
straint and not free to testify in his pres
ence, and that the committee could get
the truth privately from the inmates, and
in no other way.
Attorney ~. u. Johnson, representing
Superintendent Thomas. took strong eX-
ceptiOns TO this privacy.
These accuseFs. he said. have pre-
scented none but eX-emplOyes. We propose
to present employees, eS-employes, inmates
and others. The prosecution has present
ed testimony to damn everybody con-
nected with the school We claim the
right to produce the boys on parole and
others to show that cO8ditiOnsa are not
as black as painted. The boys on parole
are not under the control OF Superinten-
dent Thomas. The board of trustees can
protect them. This case is not being
tried before the committee alone, but be
fore the people of the state, and we have
the right to place the testimony of these
boys and girls before the public
Just before the noon hour the investi
eating committee went into executive ses-
sion for the COnsid grafton of this ques-