The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-11-01

WILL WOMEN FORGET
GANGS FLOGGING OF
UNFORTUNATE GIRLS?

VIII the gangs hypocrisy fool the voters this
viii M E. Hay creature of the BOSSES smirI-
ing under progressive mask deceive the voters az
to his brazen standpat record and his gang-molded
principles?
viii Hay, the puppet Of the brutal, dirty dollars
gang, mislead any of the voters by his false
pretenses champion of humane treatment in
penal institutions?
Will Hays false claims make the women voters
forget about nhuman foggings administered to unfor-
unate girls by men attendants in the Chehalis train
ing school?
Will his insincere spouting NOW make the won,-
Of this state forget that the gang put the clamps
on, that the gang whitewashed, and covered up by
fake investigation the disgracefu conditions in the
girls?
Will the gangs ISLANDERS and the gangs false
claims divert the voters from the fact that
l6-year-old GIRL Coldie M. Moss, the victim of
peated barbaric treatment in the Chehalis school,
cried in her agony that she would commit suicide?
And will the fact that this girl, her body torn
and mangled. picked up a railroad track
within week, January 16, 1912, be forgotten
NOW by and because for campaign
purposes M. E. Hay shouts about his humane treat
ment'?
i Will the decent humane people of this state for
get that the gang, seeking dirty dollars, built
sion for the superintendent of the Monroe reforma-
tory with marble baths and elegant suites of extra
bedrooms to comfort political flunkies while the
unfortunate boys fed insufficient food and
herded in a temporary stockade?
i Will the people forget the gangs humane treat
ment' after these boys, some unfortunate by birth,
some driven to petty crime by hunger forced
to open revolt against the gangs policy?
And will the people forget the disgracefu and
degrading spectacle of so of these youths future
citizens handcuffed and shacled hauled across the
entire length of the state from the Monroe reforma-
tory to the Walla Walla penitentary where against
the provisions of their sentences they thrown
in with hardened criminals?
i There you have true sidelight the gangs
Can you expect humane treatment for un-
fortunate boys and girls from system which lives
and fattens at the very expense of human lives?
In January, 1911, when the dsgraceful cond-
become public Hay, following his usual tactics, put
the clamps He handpicked a committee to white
wash, to cover up, and to falsify if necessary
At that time of the girls, in spite of
threats in spite of promised foggings dared tell
of their treatment at the hands of Superintendent
Aspnwall of the school. Aspnwall is old feeder
at the public trough. Hay picked him to administer
the gangs humane treatment to the states
fortunates, not because he had had any experience
or training in that work, but because he had po-
litical pull.
When Hay made his fake investigation the peo-
pie of Chehais and Centraia threatening them
selves to take action in behalf of the girls. Com
plants had been laid before Prosecuting Attorney
Buxton of Lewis county. One of them, made by
girl from the reform school, follows:
For obvious reasons the of the girl is
omitted
81 was flogged three times while in the training
school Mr. Aspinwall beat after raising my
skirts The first beating had from 40 to so blows
4 The second about 25 blows, and the other
about dozen. The blows all delivered upon
the one spot and left marks that remained FOR nearly
4 a month.
il 81 saw marks Grace Ragan another girl, and
they are on her still, my knowledge. She pad
died until she was hardly able to stand up lie
4 down.
II was one of the girls who Mr. Briffet
knock down one of the boys and kick him he
said: Take that, and that, you dog The boy got
the punishment because he had smiled. After doing
this, Mr.. Briffet turned around to some other Off
GERS and laughed.
"The girls are put in dungeon with bread and
water. The dungeon is very cold and it is SO small
that girl cannot lie down and is in misery all
the time The girl gets blanket and the floor
for bed. The foregoing is my written statement
and is true"