The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-03-02
saw an attendant strike one Of the

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Miss Emily Griswold, wearing a
black picture hat, diamond engage.
ment ring and determined look
was the next witness. It was she
who accompanied Miss Longorch
when sounds of beating were heard
Miss Griswold has been an instructor
at the school since Sept. II, 1910
She corroborated Miss Longorch's as.
sertion that the lashings were taking
place and said the strokes were
every hard and very regular and the
screams and means were horrible but
stihed." r.
She Simply Couldn't Endure. It.
Il simply could not endure it,
the young woman said, with feeling,
and I ran to my room and threw my
self on the bed. You ask me if I re-
ported the incident and I must an
swer that did not except in this
way. I was so utterly overcome by
the horror of it all that I could not
leave my room again that evening
and when Mrs. Morse came up I told
her why I was so completely undone.' -
Miss Griswold also told of having
seen the boys forced around in a
circle on run.
Mrs. Anderson, the next witness,
a former employe at the school, said
that Officer Scott of the school had
told her of whipping boys. Mrs.
Anderson was bit hazy as to details
and upon being questioned by Super
intendent Whittier, admitted that it
is necessary to punish the boys at
times but denied that her husband
had been discharged for cruelty to
the inmates.
Sensational statements and des-
criptions of specific instances of tor
ture came from the next witness, F.
E. Childs, a steam filter of Mime
apolis, who, at one time, was en-
ployed at the training school, He
told of having seen the ''spaRking
machine" and described it as sort
OF a box with one end two or three
feet from the floor, two feet wide
and four feet long sloping down to
the floor with the end high enough
so that the boys toes could be
pinioned under it to the floor, and
that there was ring in front so
that the lad could be tied down with
a rope
How a Boy is Whipped.
"The boy would have his clothes
removed" said Mr.. Childs, "then laid
out on this contraption, head down,
a wet towel would be placed over his
body to prevent the cutting of flesh,
yet I have seen boys come from the
beating with their flesh as raw as
beef steak. The beating is done
with a piece of betting nailed onto
a handle. l have seen from 20 to
120 blows given. l saw hoggings
five or six different times. 1 saw a
bunch of five or six boys flogged at
one time. The chief offense for fog
ging was running away but one time
I saw a boy, who stole some tobacco
fogged unmercifully. Superintend-
ent Whittier knew of the f1oggings
and I have heard him give such
orders in my presence. In fact all
cases of corporal punishment are
presumed to be referred to him fol
his O. K. The boys fogged ranged
in age from 16 to 20 years."
Superintendent Whittier cross ex,
amined the witness and sought tc
discredit Childs by making him ad.
NIT that he had been discharged but
the witness said he quit because the
board of control notified him that
"your services are no longer need.
ed which drew a smile from the
committee and the spectators. Mr
Childs said he is now and for some
time has been employed by the Min
neapolis Gas Light Company.
well, that's all'', said Chairman
Rockne, .you may go''.
aNo, not yet'', said Childs. s'Mr
Whittier has been so inquisitive
that I want to tell some more
Lads Nose Broken, Says Childs.
Childs then related that he haG
seen boys beaten by attendants
armed with parts Of tugs until thei1