The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1914-05-01

serve IHe ndIrOn III question 1Or some
time prior to her departure, and COM
petent to judge.
On my own behalf will say that the
charge that l was informed and had
knowledge of this matron's miscon-
:. duct and ignored the same, or that
icountenanced any other wrong doing
of which 1 had reliable information,
is wholly false, as the transcript of
levidence-even in the case of those
q witnesses who were selected by Mr..
ICallaghan for reasons other than their
lfriendliness to myself-wi1l bear out.
Likewise false, and far more des-
Ipicable, is the unblushing statement
following the Auditors conviction of
the matron of having a paramour, an
employe whom she has since married
that a marriage of convenience be-
tween these two was suggested, pre-
sumably by myself, "as a proper pro-
cedure toward allowing them to re-
main but which was not consummated
because of the objection of Prof.
Gung1, the musical director, who
threatened in such event to resign. !"
This falsehood is merely another, and
an unusually contemplate discolora-
ton of the testimony, which finds its
only basis in the fact that after the
matron and the man who afterWard
became her husband had been dis
charged she told me that they we're
going to be married and made appli
cation to be permitted to remain,
which request was of course denied.
The resignation of Prof. Gung'l, which
he withdrew, was due to misunder-
standing, as he has already and will
readily confirm.
In his report Mr.. Callaghan dwells
in characteristic vein upon tolerably
recent occurrence. Highly sensation
allied accounts of this incident-giv-
! ing rise to still more sensational and
, wildly disclosures" of horrible condi-
tions alleged to exist at the Industrial
School-fairly saturated the columns
Of many of the choice family journals
of Arizona at the time, and next to
the case of the matrons who were dis
charged, formed the piece de resist
ance of the Auditors trial of the
institution. Seven girls-five the
first night, seven the second and four
the third-escaped from their dormi-
tory, through a ventilator in the floor,
and with food they had prepared,
found their way to the guard-house,
where a number of boys, reported to
them as being chained to the floor and
starving, were confined. On the third
night the girls were apprehended.
The details of the escapade, as
brought out by a thorough examina-
tion at the time, and repeated with
great vigor by Mr.. Callaghan, must
have proved to the Auditor discourag-
ingly commonplace, for there was not
deduced single scintilla of creditable
evidence upon which to base con-
clusion of extreme wrong-doing. But
the incident did not fail of furnishing
ground for horror-struck speculation
as to the opportunities thereby afford
ed, and as to what might have oc-
Cured; nor yet of supplying basis
for suggestive intimations, we'll de-
signed for. ready assimilation by sus-
picious and prurient minds, that
something terrible did occur.
1t is somewhat remarkable, consid- !
ering the eager interest Mr. Callag-
han manifested in the incident above |
described and in the moral conduct of |
two matrons long since removed, that |
he utterly failed to pursue an investi-
cation of the rumors which have been |
given wide circulation, and with the |
existence of which he confesses fami-
larity, that a number of female in /
mates of the institution were enceinte.
1t is even more remarkable, in view !
of the steady trend of his investiga-
tions and the evident pleasure he de-
rived rom each lsucious discovery,
great or small, that he actually holds
cation it was considered immaterial
as to whether or not there were, at
the institution, instances existing of /
such actual condition. Whatever
may be the explanation of this sud-
den loss of interest in the logical pur- l.
suit of information regarding the +
morals of the Industrial School, the
ness stand the school physician, who
more accurately than any other per
son could give definite and reliable
testimony on the subject, and thus
JAILED to pursue the only course by
which the ugly rumors Of which the j
Auditor was at least aware might (
either be established or set at rest. 1t {
therefore, became ecessary-though
did not desire to call any witnesses t
tt Mr.. Callaghan's Investigation
ne to request the attendance of DR.. {
Agnes Mckee Wallace, in order that {
he stain regarded by the Auditor as {
might be removed-in or t
Ter tina There might be one single ex- t
eption to the rule by which the in f
Testigation was animated, conducted E
md bound, of placing stains upon the l
State Industrial School. a
DR.. Wallace, in the course of her a
which was not in the t
lightest degree modified by the cross t
Xam1nat1on conducted by Mr.. Gala
han and the Assistant Attorney Cen
raj, definitely and clearly stated that C
here was no case of pregnancy a
mong the inmates of the Industrial d
school, nor have there been during s
er incumbency since the 18th of last a
september. She explained that sew t
raj girls had declared themselves to a
e enceinte, presumably believing that v
y such a story they would secure re- n
1oval to another institution from 1
7hich they could more easily escape, s
ut an examination had demonstrated ! D
he falsity of their claims. In tardy
nd pitiful rebuttal of this clear and