The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18

farm routine, affidavits allege.
Guards have admitted beat
ing the we'll inmates.
One of the guards and the assist
ant superintendent of the farm, E. L.
Arment, admit in signed statements
that they beat this sick man.
They starved him, the victim de-
clares, fed him on bread and water,
and yet tuberculosis specialists say
that a fattening diet is a requisite
Of treating the disease that 2reeps
quickly.
Branded as Staller
They, farm officials, worked his
weak bateria-laden lungs at hard,
Sweaty labor, along with the we'll
inmates.
No rest cure. The only rest cure
was being ~handcutfed to a cell on a
diet of bread and water.
They said he was stalling when he
refused to work.
They gave him a superficial exam
nation and said that he-Daniel
Roy Shipper of st. Louis-showed
no signs of tuberculosis.
But in possession of The Indian
apolis Times is a notarized state
ment of DR.. J. J.. Singer, head of
the chest service of Barnes hos
pital, st. Louis, that Shipper was
under his care three times in 1880
for chronic pulmonary tuberculosis.
H~andcuffed to Bars
The farm keepers placed him in
a cell for eighty-nine hours, &C
cording to their own admissions, OF
one occasion, and for ffty-one hours
at another time. During the day.
time he was handcuffed to bars.
The farm officials starved, hand
cuffed and beat a youth whose sole
offense against Hoosierland society
was that he was a suspicious per-
son. arrested in Vincennes on a
charge of vagrancy and fined $50
and costs.
But at the time of his arrest.
about Jan. 13, Shipper says, he had
some small change and a bus ticket
en- route to his home in ST. Louis.
The farm keepers would not take
his word that he had been in hos
pital after hospital for tuberculosis.
They wouldn't even take the time
to find out the truth of his state
ment, he declares.
Sent to Quarry
"Staller! M%alingerer!" they
shouted at him, interspersed with
curses and blows, when Shipper
complained that the labor to which
he was assigned vas too hard.
They sent him back to quarry
labor. They sent him back to rock
dust to add to the rebellion of lungs
that should have been breathing
clean, free air, evidence indicates.
And they built for him, according
to one affidavit in possession of
The indianapolis Times, a special
steep incline to use when he pushed
wheelbarrows full of mud.
just a little extra punishment
which a guard wanted to give him
for protesting a true illness that
they called taking"
No Kindly X-ray at the state
farm vouched for the truth of
Shippers tale of lung trouble.
The farms doctor did not check
his case history with st. Louis
physicians.
Chronic Case of 7. B.
But The Times did check that
case history and it shows that if
Daniel Roy Shipper stalled in his
work at the farm because of lung
trouble that he had a right to stall
and that he is what doctors call a
chronic case of T. B."
1t shows concluSively that clerical
work and the easiest job at the farm
would be none too easy for one
afflicted with the disease from which
he suffered.
Il struck him one blow with a
blackjack which caused no injury,
and which Subdued him." admits
Arment, the assistant Superinten-
dent in charge of the farms dis
cipline.
L then grabbed a cane that was
leaning against the watch house and
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