The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01
FORMER MINISTERORD TO JAIL
FOR CRUELTY WHIPPING HIS SON
Little Fellows Laccratcd Back
Exhibited to Crutcl1ficld i'll
Court.
BOUND AND GAGGED FIRST
Monroe Campbell Given Fine OF
S1oo and Six Months in
City Jail.

Charged with numerically beating
his ttwelve-year- old son, Joseph, d.
Monroe Campbell, Of $40 East Leigh
street, formerly a member OF the
Methodist ministry, was fined sloo
and sentenced to six months in jail
by Justice crutchlicld yesterday morn
ing.
The principal witness against the
parent was his little son. who trem-
blingly told the court that Campbell
had bound and gagged him last Tues
day morning and then fogged him
with four foot rawhido strap for ten
or fifteen minutes. He told OF how ne
had begged his father not to make
him strip. but the latter had forced
him to take off all except his under
clothes. Then, according to his testi-
mony, the boy was tied hand and
feet. a rag was stuffed in his mouth
to prevent his outcries from making
people outside the room believe that
murder was being done, and then a
beating unparalleled in the history of
court where mans inhumanity to
man is a constant tale. was admin
istered Spectators were astounded
| that the father could have SO far for
| gotten himself. But this was not all.
Justice saw the Wounds.
! DR.. William p. Mathews, who had
| been called to dress the boys wounds,
was called on by Justice Crutchfield
| 10 give expert testimony. The ply
| stefan stated that the boys back was
| covered with bruises and welts, and
| he characterized II as a pitiful sight.
| Then Justice Crutchfield. to assure
| himself beyond reasonable doubt that
/ the boys story was true. ordered him
| back into his private office for exami-
nation. After five days lapse the
boys back was still covered with cuts.
some of them three inches long. and
cash extended over his eye and
across his cheek.
1t was enough. Justice Crutchficld
| returned to the courtroom. His face
/ was white He arraigned the man
with more scornins bitterness than he
has ever used towards prisoner.
YOU are the most inhuman father
have ever known in my experience
OF forty years on the bench. You de-
serve TO be punished. and punished
J heavily. ] sentence you to pay fine
of 500 and TO serve six months in the
City Jail"
There was a demonstration. Every
one thought that the sentence was de-
served, and did not fail to express ap-
proval. Mr. Campbell appealed and
was baiicd in the sum OF $500. with
a. Briggs as surety.
Aroused Great Feeling.
! But, in order that the wounds could
! still be used as direct testimony in the
: event that they heal before the case
: comes to trial in the Hastings Court
Justice Crutchfieid directed the police
5 authorities TO have the boys back
e photographed. The photograph shows
the cuts and bruises plainly.
The inhuuan treatment of the bog
was reported TO The Tlrnes-Dispatct
: last Tuesday. and on Wednesday,
I morning appeared an account of the
. fact that Joseph was sent from schoo
e by Professor w. a. Crenshaw to bf
treated at the Retreat for the Sick
t The boy reappeared later, but was no
e in condition to pursue his studies, anc
r was dismissed for tho day
The only cause assigned by thu
n father for the floggins was that thu
boy did not reach a sufficiently h'gi
mark in his work. He received thre'
dement's on the day Of the beating
His work did not improve with thu
flogging. His condition was not suci
as to promote serious and constan
, study. His mind was more upon hi
! back than upon his book. When tn
: police heard of the cruel beating the.
h hogan an investigation, and arrest fol
: lowed Friday afternoon.
! Campbell has been assisting the Sal
Il walton Army in its opcn-air meeting
. in Broad Street.