The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-08-30
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naked body. Stated that the boys
counted the blows and told him. AL
SO testified that he was a little stiff
the next day and that his skin broke
the next day. He further stated that
when Sheldon struck him that some
of the blows were heavy enough to
knock him down. He was whipped
over two months ago and testified
| that he still has brown marks on his
body. He further testified that he
did not think he had been whipped
too hard, that he had thought so he
would have told superintendent
! HUMPHREYS. He further testified that
he liked Mr.. Sheldons treatment not
withstanding he was black and blue
for week. He also testified that he
tainted on line the next day. That
he suffered no serious effects from
the beating
Earl Swab, age 18, No. 100, home
Twin Falls, Idaho, has been in the in
stitution six months and 16 days,
this last time, was in once before
two years and 2 months. Says that
Sheldon whipped him twice, once
for coming up through the field over
road which they had previously
used. Swab stated that he did not
know that Sheldon did not intend
for them to use the road any longer,
that Sheldon never told him not to
come that way. That Sheldon took
him, stripped him and gave him %
or 80 blows upon the naked body
and beat him from his hips down,
leaving him black and blue. He fur
Their stated that Sheldon whipped
him a second time stating that Shell
don accused him of being impudent
to Mrs. Sheldon. The boy testified
however, that he was not guilty of
the charge but had spoken very re-
specially to Mrs. Sheldon and that
he told Mr.. Sheldon that he had not
been impudent but that Sheldon
stripped him and beat him over the
naked body until he was black and
blue and sore for long time. Young
Swab testified that he been whipped
twice by one of his former managers
George Keefer. That the second
time Keefer whipped him Keefer ac-
cused him of talking to boy on the
silence line. Swab told Keefer that he
was not guilty and that he had not
been talking to the boy but that
Keefer disregarding the boys state
ments and protests of innocence and
ordered him to strip compelling him
to bend over and beat him over the
naked body until he was black and
blue for two weeks. This boy testi-
fed that Jesse and Martin Garnes,
two brothers, has been beaten black
and blue for saying that they would
rather 60 to the penitentiary. And
after receiving the beating were COM
PEELED to stand upon the silence line
and that these were the boys whom
Keefer accused Swab of talking to.
Young Swab says that he has no
complaints to make and that he likes |
the treatment he receives fine.
James Preston, age II, No. 391,
Has been in the school seven months
in Company A, Sheldon is his man
ager. Preston testified that Sheldon
beat him over the naked body with I
exhibit "B" until he was black and
blue for week. This boy further
testified that Sheldon whipped young
Tyse and Paddy Lynch for
running away, giving them Al blows
upon the body leaving them black
and blue. Young Preston testified
that he liked Sheldon fine.
Eddie Hickman, age Is, No. so.
Says he has been in the school over
seven years, that he has no home,
that when he and his brother were
taken from his mother in st. Anthony
and sent to the Industrial School
that his mother went crazy and is
now in the asylum at Blackfoot.
This boy is small for his age thin
poor looking little fellow said that
he thought his mother would get
we'll If he and his brother could
both see her at once. The little fell
ow said that some of the man
ayers treated him pretty good and
,ome of them pretty bad. He testi-
led that Sheldon whipped him be-
cause a boy threw a potato at Shell
lon. striking him. The boy told
Sheldon that Eddie threw the pota-
o. Eddie testified that he did not (
brow the potato and that he told {
Sheldon that he was innocent but that