The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
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VICTIM OF'T. B.
Former Penal Farm Inmate
Accuses Guards of
Wanton Cruelty.
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superintendent OF Tie quarry.
"Arment beat me across the head
with a blackjack. He knocked me
down three times and cursed me
while doing It," swears Shipper, in
an affidavit made at his home in
st. Louis.
Guard Nike Finn ran down from
the crusher beating me with a
cane. The cane broke in three pieces.
Force of the blows knocked me
down. Finn sent me back into the
quarry" charges Shippers affidavit.
In defense Of the beating, both
Finn and Arment say they struck
in self -defense.
Shipper made movements to
strike an officer they say in de-
Tense, in a report to Governor Paul
". McNutt.
1.-THE first day at the farm" re-
lates Shipper in sworn statement
of the beginning Of his incarcera-
ton. after I was dressed in, | was
put to cutting willows. The kind
of work was out in the field and
I told the guard I couldn't do that
kind Of work. Then the guard over
NO. 8 labor took me to the hospital.
Il was kept there three days"
Shipper sWears.
He declares that he was not given
food and that the farms doctor
said, IF you can't work, you can't
eat
Then the next day Captain Ar
ment came to the hospital and said,
I'm putting you in No. 10 labor
gang. III make you work or Kill
you" swears Shippers affidavit.
Laughed at Story
st told them when I went to the
hospital that I had tuberculosis. DR..
Gillespie and Armen Che means
Arment) both laughed at me when
I told them that.
Il went out with No. 10 labor
gang cleaning mud away from
rocks in the quarry. They gave me
a W%heelbarrow to push up an in
cline to dump mud off, and I told
them I couldn't do it"
The incline was built, according
to affidavit, by Richard Gillette,
Indianapolis, at the order of Guard
, after Shipper had COM
planned of his inability to work be-
cause Of his lung condition.
Il informed -- that Ship
per was on the bench in the cap
tain's office Garments office.
- got angry at that and
muttered, III fix that Jew tomor-
row-Tm going to make him fall
out, and then I'll beat hell out
of him., asserts the sworn state
ment of Gillette, a former in
mate.
Incline Built by Inmate
THE next morning - ordered
me to build a special steep incline,
which I did, and then he forced
Shipper to run up that steep in
cline with wh~eelbarrows loaded with
stone" charges Gillette's affidavit.
Protesting his physical condition,
Shipper was sent by the No. 10 labor
gang runner to the guard and the
guard took him to Arment, captain
of discipline.
&c." sent me to the captain
down in the hole which is the
farms Jail.
"Armend Che means Arment) beat
me across the head with a black
jack. The blackjacking raised a
couple of welts on my head.
He continues Shippers aft
davit," put me in one Of the cells
and made me put my hands outside
the bars. Then he h%andcuffed my
hands. He made me stay from 6
a. m. until $50 p. m. I got a bowl
of water and one-half-slice Of bread
at each meal.
other Men HandcuiTed
-Four other men were handcuffed
and stood up in their cells as I vas
at the time that this happened.
"None Of us was able to attend to
the needs of nature while hand
cuffed in the cell"
Shipper says he served five days
in the hole" while the conduct re-
port of the penal farm shows soil
tary confinement from Jan. %,
1888. at 1870 p. m, to $50 p. m. on
Feb. 2.
In addition. all good time had
been taken from him.
Captain Armand (Arnent) came
and released me, saying, You go
back down to the quarry, and if you
don't work I'll beat the - out of
you
Il went back to the quarry and
started to work and had to spit
blood. Dick Gillette and Hershel
Rogers saw me have trouble with
my lungs
Back to Hospital
1.-THE runner took me up to Guard
- and he sent me back into
the quarry. I went back down and
worked about one-half hour and
keeled over. LueSse and about six
others picked me up and carried
me up to the hospital.
'They put me in the hospital jail.
It's one of two cells in the base
ment." says the affidavit.
Shipper then charges that he was
beaten by Arment and thrown in
the hole again.
On this trip to the "hole," records
of the state penal farm show that
the man with an arrested case of
tuberculosis served f~fty-one hours
on bread and water in solitary n
fnement.
"Arment beat my chained hands
and said, IN either make you work
Dr. I'll send you home in a box
Shipper charges in his affidavit.
He took me out in a little room
in the hole and beat me on the
head with a blackjack again. He
knocked me down four times" says
Shippers affidavit. Then he sent
me back to the quarry"