Arizona republican., 1913-08-08

boys. some time back when Harper ! Was away from the school q captain of one If the companies flogged a | boy, but when Harper returned he ] summarily dismissed the man and the 1 board of control upheld him in his action
 1 Governor Hunt was feeling consid- 1 erably inceused yesterday with the news he had from the school. This l is the second time he has been call 1 ed upon to straighten out conditions ! there in the wear and half of his administration The first superin- ] tenGent Frank Brown was removed i for immoral conduct and general un- fitness, after an abortive attempt to keep the real conditions at the school secret.
 ! When Harper was appointed last ] December is was thought that mat ! tcre would ride all right from that i time on. Harper went into office with a reputation earned in the office ol Judge Ben E. Lindsey of Denver, the well known juvenile court au- thority. Apparently he got along all right with the school until a month ago when the exodus occurred and three pr four boys got away. This was the first inkIing that ! there was any trouble there. The sensational disclosures of the fIog- ain@ followed. and now Secretary Os- born is on the ground looking into the matter Harper was appointed upon the recommendation of Secre- tary Ladd a warm friend of Har- per.
 The Boys Own Story. T Was sent tO the school February 20th last for some misconduct while I worked in the Gadsden hotel I got along pretty well. but never had half enough to eat, and was frequently brutally corrected. like the other boys who are also whipped. There are about one .iGNG!cG boys in the school. They are aIl whipped and beaten more or less for actions which the sIpcrinten- dent and captain think they are guilty. About a month ago the superintendent took fourteen of us boys inl1 the hos pital room and said We had put up a job to break into the office steal our commitment papers and break out of the school. We all told him We had done no such thing, but he said he was going to whip us in a manner We woul1
 
 dent. Mir. A. L. Harper talking. and the captain, MT. Cosby. was also in the room. MT Harper had q thick leather strap about eighteen inches long. three inches wide and fastened to a wooden handle. He took one of us boys at a time while the others Were in an ad- joining room and made us strip naked, and then beat us with this strap He CT l. and when he was through my back was a mass of bHsters which had been broken and Were bleeding badly. He did the same to the other boys also. They all had about the same kind of q back as 1 did I suffered aWfUIIy with my sores and got sick. but nothing was done for them in the school. I thought if I stayed there I might die, and so 2G days after I had been whipped. myself and another boy named Jack Hoover. of Portland, Oregon, broke out Of the d0rmitory one night and escaped After we escaped we walked 60 miles and had little to eat. We caught a ride on a freight train part of the dis tanCe, and managed to get to D JuglaS half starved The Hoover boy went on toward his home after we got there When I arrived at home my mother Mrs, F. F. Campbell. saw my back and il nearly set her crazy. She at once com menced to have it attended to by doc tor. My mother was so worried about me that she could not sleep, and every noise she heard at our house she thought was made by the officers of the school coming to take me back. | am afraid the worry was what caused mama to kill herself"
 Affidavit of Boy.
 State of Arizona. Cochise County. ss.
 ], Robert Gray, have read the story above and do hereby depose and say ttat what is written under quotation marks from me is what I told the edit or of the paper and is the truth and nothing but the truth.
 tSiGned) ROBERT GRAY
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 9th day of August, A. D. 1913, at Douglas, Arizona.
 GRACE PFARCE. Notary Public, Cochise County, Arfz. My commission expires Sent 0c 1Q16