Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-11-23
HUMPHREYS GETS
A CLEAN BILL
Head OF State Industrial School Ex-
onorated from Blame.

Tie state industrial school at st
Anthony, was exhonerated by thu
board Of trustees of the institution
Monday. Every person connected
with the school was exhonerated from
the charges which were filed ant
which were investigated by tht
board, but new rules as to corpora
punishment in the future were {
dopted. The adoption of the new
rules is considered as a practical
admission that the manner of whip
ping the inmates of the institution
in the past has been wrong but thai
the board thought it better to retain
superintendent Humphries than to
dismiss him, which would have been
the only course if the board had de-
cided that the charges brought a.
gainst the officers of the institution
were true.
Those who voted to retain Superia-
Atendnt Humphriees and to correct
the rules regarding corporal punish.
ment We're O. 0. Haga, president OF
the board; Miss Grace Shepherd,
state superintendent of public instruc.
tion and Mrs. Pugmire. Those vot-
ing against the retention of Mr..
Hun1nhrinC
and George E. Hill, Mrs. May Scott
Workman did not vote upon the a.
doption or the rejection of the re-
port of the board.
File Lengthy Report.
The report which was adopted by
the board of trustees was written by
o. O. Haga, president of the board,
and is lengthy. Mr.. Haga looked
upon the case as direct charge a.
gainst the superintendent of the in
stitution and in his interview last
night when he arrived in Boise said
that the investigation had simmered
down to question of whether Super
intendent Humphries shoould be dis
missed or not. He then said that he
was not in favor of making changes
in a school of this character. The
majority of the board thought that the
school was well conducted and that
there were not sufficient officers and
assistants to care for the children
and recommended that the superb.
tendent make report to the proper
officers asking for more assistants
If he thought they were needed.
Mrs. Workman, who refused to|
cast a vote in the adoption or rejec-
oesthe report, it isunderstood,
saen as she has been
auoard q Faastees
bn was founded an0{
fn the making of the
ychool. For this reason
THAT she could not con-
,fote against the rules made
lsarding corporal punishment.
governor Hawley Absent
Arnor HaWley was not present
4. .he meeting of the board, but he
sent his report in writing to the
board, but it did not reach it in
time to be considered. The governor
vas busy with land board matters
and could not personally be present.
1t is understood that the report of
Governor Hawley takes exactly the
opposite view of the majority re-
port Of the board. In his report, it'll
Is understood that he recommended
The dismissal of the superintendent /
Of the institution and also recon-
nended several changes In the man.
agement of the institution as regards {
he finances and other things in con-
lection Herewith.
George e. Hill of Fremont county, t
Who is also one of the trustees who t
voted against the adoption of the
majority report and wanted the S
dismissed and several k
'ther reforms carried out by the a
'oard of trustees. He stood ith
Governor Hawley in the matter of re-
using to adopt the majority report. c
How Exposure Came h
Tbs investigation was the out $
k&E\ of the beating administered Il
D Ellis Greer, an 11-year-old inmate a
( the institution, who was beaten A
nmercifully by Guard Stanley, who e.
J now serving 6O-day Jail SEN e
snce for the offense. Young Greer
scaped from the Institution and was N
rought to Boise by Bonneville te
ounty officials and exhibited to Gov a
rnor Hawley, who Immediately or te
cred an investigation on psti- al
luon. The investigation F1 m
iree weeks and over 26yNR \, ii
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