Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-05-11
MISSOURI STATE
CAPITAL ITEMS
NOTES THAT ARE OF iNTEREe1
TO MlsSouRiANs.
{. ieS Mention Of Matters as The,
Occur at Jefferson City.
Official and Other.
wise.

CioSeu Dy the report OF william Il.
Cross. secretary of the state board OF
charities and corrections.
One thousand insane persons are
confined in county a%lmshouses with
the sane poor and nc attempt Is made
to segregate them. Eight hundred
feebleminded persons, many Of them
capable of cure under proper care,
are confined in a%lmshouses with pro.
vision only for support of their
bodies.
Fifteen hundred first offenders"
are confined in the state %penitentiary
with hardened criminals. 1t Is these
conditions that. have caused peniten-
tiaries to be called schools of crime"
Less than 10 per cent Of the feeble.
minded are cared for in the institu.
tons for the feeble.minded.
Perhaps the greatest crime against
the commonwealth is, the report says,
the widespread custom of sending
neglected and dependent children to
the state reformatories, where they
are allowed to associate with the
criminal and degenerate. The extent
Of the evil that may be spread in this
way, the report says, is incalculable.
The county jails are schools for
crime. Young men arrested on sus.
picion or for first offenses are com.
PEELED to associate with the depraved.
vicious and criminal.
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The investigation Of the state hos
pital for the insane at Pennington re.
suited in the removal OF DR.. r. L.
Kearney. the superintendent: his as.
sistants, DR.. Henry Lloyd and DR..
Frank S. Weber, and the steward,
Dock Mackley. by the board of man.
ayers. Gov. Hadley. notified of the
boards action. in a telephone con.
ference, approved it. DR.. r. S. Magee
assistant superintendent at Fulton.
was appointed acting superintendent
by the board until a successor to DR..
Kearney is appointed. The investiga'
ton of the affairs of the hospital grew
out of the death of a patient, J. +.
Taylor, who died from injuries re.
ceived at the hands Of two attendants
now held in the Jail at Pennington
awaiting trial upon a charge Of muir.
der.
Gov. Hadley appointed delegates to
represent Missouri at the annual
meeting of the southern conference
on woman and child labor to be held
at Atlanta, Ga, April 20. Some Of the
delegates appointed attended the
child labor conference at New Orleans
two years ago, which resulted in
much beneficial legislation affecting
the labor Of women and children.
From st. Louis Gov. Hadley appoint.
ed Jackson Johnson, George w.
Brown, e. H. Grossman, j. s. Bemis,
c. d. Mernor, w. w. Williamson,
Harry Sharpe, owen Miller and Miss
Charlotte Rumbold. Others appointed
were: John r. Smith and Charles
Sumner of Kansas City, c. L. Ken.
needy OF st. Joseph, Thomas J.. Sheri.
dan of Joplin and j. G. A. Hitler Of
jefferson.
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After 72 hours elaboration the
Jury in the Jack Bullock murder case
returned a verdict of guilty and fixed
the penalty at ten years in the penl-
Tertiary. Bullock was charged with
the murder Of Fay Kicker at the lat
ter's home in Moberly city last De-
cember.
Gov. Hadley has named the follow.
ing as delegates to the third national
peace congress to be held in Balti.
more, May 3,5, 1911. Richard Barthold
member Of congress. Washington, D.
c.; F. M. Rumbold, adjutant general,
jefferson City; Frederick H. Kreis.
mann, mayor: Rev. j. s. Niccolls.
Rabbi Leon Harrison, Judge George
H. Shields, Robert S. Brookings, w.
X. Bixby, Rev. Patrick w. Talon,
Charles H. Flach, Capt. John e. Mas.
sengale, William Burg, George A.
Roth. st. Louis; Darius A. Brown,
mayor; John H. Thatcher, e. C. Ellis.
DR.. 8. NJ. Nell, T. A. Witten, Rabbi II.
H. Mayer, Father William j.. Dalton,
D. A. Latshaw, Prof. j. l.. Underwood,
the Rev, j. Stewart Smith, Kansas
City.
That the jury in the Bullock muir.
der case at Moberly was coerced in.
to bringing in a verdict. Is the charge
made by the defense in filing a mo.
ton for a new trial. The defense
contends the Jurors were told, after
celebrating 20 hours. that the court