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SCHOOL HEAD
HELDF0R CRUELTY
TO Probe Conditions Of InStitu-
tion at FrenChtOWn, n. J.
WIFE DENIES THE CHARGES
1t Is Said Children Were Clothed In
Rags, Sadly Fed, Beaten and Shack
led to Beds When UnruIy.

Camden, n. j., Aug. S.-Henry o.
Kight, former assistant director OF
the Camden Y. NJ. C. A, whose con
duct of the Fairview Training school
at FrenchtoWn n. j., brought the
Hunterton county authorities down Gn
him with startling charges of cruelty
to the children in his care, was ar;
rested at his school on warrant
signed by Assistant Prosecutor George
W. Dunham.
Right entered bail for his appear-
graud jury which will convene tie
first Tuesday in Sept -mber.
The original charge against Kigat
was brought by Edwin B. Sparks, j.,
Of 1923 Marion street, Camden, VITO
took his eleven-yearold son from TIE
Right school less than a week agy,
when he went there Unexpectedly arl
found the boy critically i'll, neglected.
and suffering with various injurE 5
EEss have not yet been fully explaintd.
Frederick S. Kuhl, prosecutor #
dunterdOn county; ordered an invesR
cation of the Kight establishment alz3
the conditions found there were ~
amazing Indictment of the whole syA
tenn of privately conducted quasi
charitable institutions of the kind N
Jersey The children were clothed Il
remnants Of garments, poorly and ta
adequately fed, beaten, shackled 10
the beds when unruly and fed en-
bread and water.
They told of beatings received wiz
implements ranging from hoTsewh9
to monkey wrench. Kight receiv@
$3 a week for the keep of each chfH
entrusted to his care by the count
courts or by private individuals tn
place has been advertised not as III
form school. but as a pleasant institE|
ton for the training of children witi.]
out other proper guardianship.
The charges made by the boys
by the prosecutors Office weres
nantly denied by Mrs. kight- ShJ
she WIS astounded at the charges bf|
ing made, because many of the boAd
who had been sent home from tEsl
school had tried to get back agai
would be returned to Frenchtown d
the court. Si {
Mrs. Kight had been visiting
mother in Camden when the fhsls<
were Hrade agaIngr leT nusBsnd ss.
said they were outrageous.
Developments which followed thea1I
res of Kight indicate that officials q
several other New Jersey counted
may be unpleasantly brought into the
Investigation The whole subject pfOm5
Uses to develop a fitting chapter in nsthfl
long unpleasant chronicle of New Jerl
sey juvenile reform institutions, which
already bristle with scandals and stoT]
les of the neglect and abuse of help
less or parentless children. 3
The evidence obtained by the counvl
prosecutor, who found children VII
neglected sores and bruises, WIFE
fresh marks of punishment and work
ing in an unsanitary environment, Will
be offered by the county. This will be
augmented by statements from resi-
dents of Frenchtown, who for long
time have been bitter against Right,
and by the testimony of Edwin b.
Sparks, whose son, it is said, is dying
largely from prolonged neglect.
Kight admitted that he had punished
boys in various ways, and said he felt
| it was all right, since fiogging and
| that sort of thing were regular fea-
lures of the boys work" at other
schools where unruly children are sent
by the state 20 be trained.