The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-12
TALES Of HORROR
ON BOYS SCHOOL
Were Laid Before Governor
Harmon of Ohio by
Realtors.

Wheeling, W. Va. Dec. IA
story of alleged tortnree practiced up
(OhioI State Reform school. in the
dreaded correction Cottage" and az
food fed them unit for human CON
sumption. WAS laid before Governor
Harmon at Columbus. by Attorneys ].
]. p. and Frank O"Erien Of Wheeling.
In the nature Of charges brought by Il
Bellaire oma whose son. 1t is AL
legged. has been forced to undergo the
sufferings and miseries resulting from
a years confinement in the Institution.
The sworn statements of the, wo,n-
an will be supplemented by letters
from " Cleveland hoys. nov incar-
cerated in the reformatory. and an
other from a Pellaire boy who was re-
Gently released, the lawyers declare.
The letters from the Cleveland
youths Were 'smusgled" from the in
sti,ution by the woman on the occa-
sion of her last visit.
The woman'S story of conditions at
the reformatorN. as she found them
on the eleven visits she has made to
the school TO see her son. rivals for
ingenious forms OF cruelty the mos,
horrifring tales Of he Spanish 1nqui-
sition. the attorneys say.
Tcn.Ycar.Old Boy Lashed.
Ii tells OF a ten~-year-old hoy whose
/ back WAS dashed and gashed with a
"star-paddle." an instrument Of tor
1ure resembling a alto -nine-tails.
! clotted blood: of heins told by boys
] that they had been fed on dead rats;
Of seeing TWO boys taken to 'Correc-
: ton Cottage for punishment an hour
I later. unable to walk. and other ter
! rible and appalling conditions of
: which she has personal knowledge. the
: Bellaire "Oman's counsel assert.
On. nf s1,o .),aooS lny.,rc -.Sro.,rryoa
kout" by the woman on her asst visit.
Naturday. follow:
Dear Aunt: ] received your loving
taetter and was very glad to hear from
Syou. I want YOU to please send for me
1quick because l am liable to get kill
:ed some way by the brutes that are
cover us here. There is a boy In the
thospital now. His legs n his body
fare swollen UP like a fat hog from do
fling exercise that they make you do.
kThey beat him to death: the people
pdon't know this place Yet.
l. You ought to see the eatinS we get.
"a hog wouldn't eat it. Good God. it's
iwithout milk, and they expect US to
beat. That's what they give us for
breakfast. It's just raw with hot wa
kter, cooked in a big black pot. like
tthe horses eat it. They won't let us
fwear mittens or write for them. We
kehoNel snow without them. We freeze
ITO death.
THE big six-feet brutes beat us with
t%rattans and a piece of leather six
sMnches wid and six feet long. They
iewing on us with all their might. God
.!bless their souls II ] meet one Of them
ION the outside: I'll kill them. They
never leave the institution. only go to
town In the night. but don't worry, I
will take what's coming to me. Dem.
GOT elected. Thav aro all mod ho-
cause they got to leave.
Il tell o In all my letters that l
am all right. but they make us do that
] will tell the newspaper nan all
about this place when I get home. Did
you see the piece in the paper the 9TH
er day. A boy put that in. Don't
write back and queer me now: don't
let anybody know that ] am writing
this to you or 1 will sta here all the
longer"