The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-04-21
EMBELLISHMENTS
OF PUNISHMENT
Canon Bell Refused Admission To
MitcheIIviIIe School.
SO GIRLS WHIPPED RECENTLY
Episcopal Rector at Request of Gov.
ernor Visits Industrial School in
Company With Judge Robin
r.. son of the Board of Control.

Des Moines, April 20.-Iowa Even
ing Press:-Upon arriving at Mitch
ellville, Canon Bell, Rector of the St
PauPs Episcopal church, was refused
permission by Miss Garrison, superin.
tendent, to examine the shoulders OF
| The girls in order that he might prove
that the stories of the brutal fogging
of the girls were true. At first deny.
ing that she beat the girls with pad.
die according to Canon Bell, Miss Gar.
rison later pulled open a drawer of a
desk, took therefrom a long wooden
paddle eighteen by one and a half
inches and admitted that it was used
TO punish girls. With the rubber
hose also used, / think Miss Garrison
could make strong man groan, said
he, and / think those girls are more
sinned against than SHINING. The
girls receive much punishment for
such offenses as talking loud or laugh
ing too long and are sometimes placed
in silent room for five days at a
time without clothing. l shall appeal
to the governor and the state board
of control no longer. ! have asked a
fair investigation and it has not been
granted and now | propose to air this
thing through the public press until
the true conditions of affairs at Mitch
ellville is known and the injustice be-
Garrison says the governor and the
state board of control gave their con.
sent to her using the paddle. Judge
Robinson denies this"
Everything has has been apparently
peaceful at Mitchellville since the
recent riot, when eight girls were
brought to the city and put in Jail,
but it leaked out at the school is a
seething sea of revolt and that two
attempts at riot were started within
the passed week but were checked
Canon Bell declares that he will see
the matter through this time.
The Rev. Mr.. Bell was invited to in
yestigate the institution by the gov.
ernor, following repeated stories
emanating therefrom charging the SUI
perintendent with cruelty. He made
the investigation in company with
Judge Robinson of the state board of
control and James Watt and Thomas
Mansfield.
His statement was a general crit
icism OF the modes of punishment,
particularly the whipping of the girls
with a large hose and a paddle, and
the combining of the girls in solitary
room, uncomfortably cold, for "gener-
al meanness."
Yesterday came another story from
Mitchellville of another uprising of
the girls, which was Quelled.
Girl Tells Story.
Miss Bessie Whicher under parole
from the institution conveyed the in
formation of the outbreak.
THE girls in cottage No. refused
to obey some order of Miss Garri.
sons" said Miss Whicher, land re-
fused to go to their department when
ordered. Miss Garrison then called
out her assistants, and with Police
man Baldwin, of Mitchellville, and
three farmers, drove the girls, thirty
nne of them, back into the cottage.
There they we're whipped. This hap
pened last Wednesday"
Miss Garrison verified this report,
saying that the girls had become I'M
ruly and had to be placed in their
cottage. where they were all punished.
Governor Carroll had had no infor'
nation of this affair until it was car
ried to him yesterday and had no
comment to make on it.