The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-06
HORR|D BRUTALITY
IN LAWRENCE CASE
Terrible Story Told of the Sc of Policemens Clut
Cause Mrs Taft and others to Shudder
Women and Children Beate Like Wild Animals an
Locked up in Jal-This is the Way Labor is Pro
tected in Lawrence.

of DEVELOPMENTS so rar in the Law
renee brutality probe came this after
noon when Mrs Taft, first lady of the
land, sitting aghast with the rules
committee, heard the story of cruelty
to women and children as John Kne-
bel. of Philadelphia, describing the
scene at the Lawrence, Mass, railway
station, February "a, said:
"I even saw a great brute of a po-
liceman draw his club and strike a
pregnant woman across the alb
domen."
Clasps of horror came from the lips
Of the Wife of the president; half a
hundred other handsomely dressed
women in the committee room sobbed
while stolid congressman sat stunned.
The dramatic recital of the treat
ment of women and children given
by Knebel whose emotion made It
difficult for him to speak ali times,
caused scene. such as probably
never before was witnessed in con-
gressional committee room
Knebel told OF children torn from
their mothers arms to be sent to-
the Lawrence poor farm, after the
authorities had prevented the send
ing of ahe children from the strike
ridden town.
Describes Children.
Miss Margaret Sanger, New York
trained nurse, described the two
shipments of children who had been
taken from Lawrence to New York.
These children were emaciated
and malnutritious," said she. "a
majority of them suffered from ade-
noids and enlarged tonsils In the
first shipment to New York there were
119 children -Four Of them wore
underwear and the weather was Bit
ter cold. About twenty had over
coats. When they were given a sup
per on their arrival in New York,
they grabbed the meat from the table
i'm a manner that would have brought
tears to your eyes"
Tema Comitta, a member of the
Philadelphia committee which went
to Lawrence for the children, de-
scribed the conflict at the Lawrence
station. She told of securing the
consent of thekparents to take ahe
children away and of taking them to
the station.
Thrown I'm Patrol Wagon.
81 took the children and lined them
up two by two in order to get them
through the station door" said the
girl "The children went before me
and when got to the door ! saw a
terrible, struggling mass I just don't
know how It happened. 1t was all
confusion, but / remember that aft
erward the children were thrown in
the patrol wagons. The police would
not allow me to go to the patrol
wagon nor to go to the police station.
L went to our lawyer but we could
not get the cases up before the next
/ Tuesday"
did the police show any warrant"
asked Henry.
mo, they just fell on the crowd
when they came on the station plat
form"
The witness said she had not seen
any one hurt by the police, but that
there was so much confusion she
could not tell much about what went
on.
''Do you know of your own know
ledge that you had the consent OF
the parents of every child you took
to the station?"
I'VE had a consent in writing from
each one"
"One man." she explained later.
"was arrested for trying to send his
own children out Of Lawrence" She
said that detectives had visited the
homes of the children and were about
to leave, and had threatened to ar.
rest the children and place them in
| public institutions.
Representative Berger read a tele-
gram received by Samuel Tipson. the
strike leader, who testified yesterday
| 1t read:
italian Women Beaten.
'The last outrage Of the state po.
lice has been committee on Italian
women. Mrs, Reganoylan was beat
| en- by guards and thrown down Jail
! stairs to basement dungeon. Mrs. Har.
ry Bozah was taken from Jail to the
hospital. Another cruel case was Mrs.
! Frances Bajah. The committee will
collect evidence. (slgned) Haywood"
Berger told the committee that two
of the women sent to tell how they
We're beaten by the police would be
unale to come to Lawrence. One is
still in the hospital, he said, and the
other has been forbidden to leave
her home by her physician.
While Miss Comltta was testifylng.
Mrs. Taft Wife of the president en-
tered the committee room and took
a place on the platform with the com
mittee. She watched the witnesses
closely and listened intenty to the
testimony
Samuel Knebel from Philadelphia,
declared that when he reached Law
renee. the streets were filled with
soldiers, police and detectives.
On the day he planned to take the
children from Lawrence. he said
Marshal Sullivan personally told him:
Those children will not leave Law
renee"
He described dramatically the scene
at the Lawrence station. As 1t pro-
gressed he grew so excited that ht
finally leaped from the witness chail
and gesticulating wildly, exclaimed:
Bloody Work of Police.
"When we entered the station we
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