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Show a;:,,' L'::.a,i : r:: heady to sepo .. j;; ,i::v: ZzlZzl eft':: .... 'Tr;;:i7S3 Fares Eyi-j . 'dczee AduuccdGta; ' l ' ' i r .. 'I ' .The Joint Legislative committee which has been sitting as a court of Inquiry te ascertain condition Ja the State In- . . dustrlal school oi Ogden. completed its 8tEn at the .tnstftutlon last night - and today formulaited Us report to the 1 Legislature. - . . ; Both lde.jt the case were gone Into s tfcoroughjyv the commission taking the testimony many boys and girls In the sthool, the guards, Joseph Wallace the j teachen. Superintendent Allison and raembers of the hoard of trustees. I UaAurs of the JjKmJxy. . V :'Tb nai f the investigation was 4 i n lBufr7 to the xsethbds) of treat-11 treat-11 1ent fUld dl9clPIlB. the sanitary coo-y coo-y ditions .and the opinions of the Inmates V to their needs, no specific attempt ' f PfT into the attempted burning down J tbe ,fcuUdlnS few weeks ago or the f v alleged effort to poison the uperkitend-j uperkitend-j ent and other ofllcers of the school toe-ide, toe-ide, In. .general the Inquiry sleveloped that the statements concerning alleged cruel snd feratai treatment of the hoys and Cirlsjon the part mt Biiperlntendeat Al- j lfcson and Teacher: Wallace were exag- ' ; . eratedj , ( Testimony x Inmate. A 'majority of the inmates who testl- ! ikd declared that they were kindly created And their needs looked after as ' 'well as the rrowded conditions and insufficient in-sufficient accommodations of the Institution Insti-tution would Admit, adding that they derred pich punishment as they re- Others asserted that when a stud-nt serrt xumshrnent he -was beaten with unreasonable and anneeeeeary seventy se-venty and that the practice prevailed of potting the Inmates In the dungeon and feeding them oa bread and water texjiays at a tune for infractions of idsclpHne. Boys SoJxmlt Two Letters. The hoy confined in the school sub-retutwo sub-retutwo letters to the Investigating tmratte One Is a majority report signed by thirty -ve hoys. It denies the troth of the charges made to the legislators who visited the institution a week ago yesterday and asserts that the superintendent, teacher and guards ffe "la klnd' considerate and efficient In the discharge of their duties. It finds fault with the Legislature for not giving giv-ing the school better buildings and larger larg-er appropriations so that a workshop, grmnasium and library can be ln- stalled. AjLotber Seport Made. The minority report, indorsed by the larger boys of the school, is a flat contradiction con-tradiction in many respects of the oth-.. oth-.. -i , r- statement. It recites spectnc in-"' in-"' st-iflces of cruel -punishments and alleges al-leges that Wallace Is so quick tempered tem-pered that he punishes first and Investigates Inves-tigates afterward. ' It cays that Snperintendent Allison Js too old for the position he occupies and that he punished the boys who -told the truth about the institution" . hy cropping their hair close to -their heads. It asserts that recreation is entirely en-tirely lacking; that for nine hours a day the boys are confined in an underground basement; that the food is insufficient and that facilities for manual training and exercise are wanting, The guards and officers are passed in both reports. Sad Habits Eliminated. The committee heard testimony from those who had been inmates of the school tending to show that in many rases the object of reform was accom-v accom-v pltehed; that drink, cigarette and morphine mor-phine habits had been broken up and the boys had become honorable cltisens through the Influence of the school. Evidence was also adduced showing that the Curtis and Reaves- girls who are confined in the ; Weber county Jail On the charge of attempting to burn down the school were dissolute and de- - graded to a marked degree and that the Influence such Inmates exerted upon up-on others in the school was very demoralising. demor-alising. Former County Attorney P. P. Chrls-tensen Chrls-tensen and Judge H. P. Henderson of 1 Salt Lake appeared as counsel for the Industrial school, while various members mem-bers of the committee conducted the examination ex-amination of the fomates. |