Show VV KISS KNEASS TELLS Industrial School SchoolBoys Boys Whipped Until Unconscious Others Wore Oregon Boots JOSEPHS DUAL CAPACITY PRESIDES OVER INQUIRY AND DEFENDS ACCUSED IK Is I the Oregon boot an instrument of tutor This is one of f the Ula questions that forced If uP upon m the state industrial the investigation yesterday At morning ion the boot that tha had been 4 on the th boy Ferris and the boy Fen ie In evidence It Is III Isor a a ker r was was placed Iron or steel contrivance weighing an from ten to fifteen pounds pound which was clamped upon the fo tt feet t ankle and lower part oart of the leg of the offender There It IL was locked while the boy was Wall required to do his day days work In both as shown by the testimony of Cap Can Cantata IsIS tata Kneass the assistant superintendent ud others the boot was waa need because e IC boys bos made persistent attempts to e es ea rape and nd was used as all a substitute for forthe forthe the tM cell II bread brt ad and water and whipping g Captain W E Kneass was waa on the wit RH pest stand m ml oh eh of the morning He told In 9 detail of the th whipping of the seven boss Wy for ar at offense offen committed while I tamping camping UI in the th canyon in July 1906 ii One of the bm bor boYs s was whipped until he ht fainted but bUI he did not become unconscious He Hewa was wa led out by Thomas fp Meyers Each bov be t got from twenty tw nt to blows kiwI The Tn boys admitted they deserved de all ill the they Rot got Superintendent Thomas ex expressed pressed pres ed his hb sorrow over their tran grea Hon before punishment was wu administered The told of the use ue of the Ore Oregon Oreon gon on boot on Ferris Ferr and and understood he said Mid that it had been bee used four times It is I out mit of use WIe now he said Mid Bad Sad Food for School According to tu the testimony of this wit n wholesale supplies were bought from the rolt but bat retail supplies from T B Evans the president pre of the tM board hoard of trustees until anUl recently Among the th hI supplies received he knew of bad currants and bad eggs ena The rile currants wore were re paid for but not used The bill Mil was wasn n 1 IJ C f H chandler a former at ih school told of noys receiving r from fifteen to 10 blows bIo as punish punishment punishment ment In the case aae of Clarence Tripp who escaped esca from Superintendent Thomas he said Maid this boy bo was put in ht the Ute cell on bread and water for three weeks ks until he was wall emaciated and then severely beaten ten He I aId the boy received rt front from fifty to sixty blows from the strap and shrieked In steny with each blow bIo This Thia punishment pur was administered under uDder the direction of Superintendent Thomas A month later this thu bo bor a ain tried to escape and was i fifty lashes lashe These lashes lashea in all I Ica MM eases ca Mr r Chandler said Mid Id were adminis administered t Ted red tn n the bare back and each blow raised a welt wel Agee Ag e Makes Protest Judge Jud e A W Y Agee objected to t the read InK 1111 derk clerk suggesting questions to tf Penal President dent Harry RalTy HalT S 8 Joseph Charles CharlesS S Hol Hot was as chosen reading clerk for forthe forthe the investigating commute At the fit ww aIon He lie is secretary of the board of trustees Later he ho was employed as at attorney attorney attorney torney for Superintendent Thomas and has haa been coaching the accused ever since Judge Agee displayed considerable heat in calling attention to this state slate of af at affairs affairs fairs What he be patti parti terly objected to was the attorney for the accused coach coaching coachIng ing in the president pre of the investigating committee Much lum of the afternoon session H Ion was wu taken up In efforts of the opposing opo ing law lawyers lawyers ye and Harry S Joeph to induce Cap Captain Captain tain tam W E Kneass the assistant super superintendent superintendent superintendent to modify statements he had previously made Mr Ir Joseph took the witness in hand and by questioning brought out the fact that there had in m i recent years yea been more or less Ie improve improvement meat ment nt in the band vocal music the mili mill military military tary organization In the school in the school choul work in religious training Ip la the observance of holidays n the c nyon outings s in printing punting black carpentry work plaster plastering plastering ing lug barbering tailoring gymnasium work farm work horticulture and other lines of work Much of this was what Captain Kneass called callad external Improve Improvement Improvement ment meat due to recent appropriations front from the state He lie said Mid the general morale of the school chool was better because the boys boya were now placed upon their honor The system of parole was explained at some length Indications I of Graft When hen the witness was Wall turned over to Judge Agee Ages for tor the tM citizens committee a II little sensation ws was created creat The pay payrolls payrolls rolls Tolls for September October and Novem November November ber her lOT lIOi were identified by Captain Kneass and then placed pl ed in evidence They Tb y show that at the time J H Scott director director director tor in carpentry at toe the school as doing three weeks work on the private prop property property property erty of Superintendent H H Thomas out in the city William Wilson a carpenter from outside was regularly on the pay payroll payroll roll of the school drawing 4 1 a day da for work done at the school It is clear dear that the prosecution will lay In special stress trees upon this showing although Judge Agee Ages in spite pite of nf questioning qu by President Joseph and other numbers of he com coin comm commIttee m to say sa nothing of counsel for ThOmas ThOmaa refused to show how his the tilt proper time Captain Kneass Knea said he sent Rosette Coyle to the hospital In an open wagon on a cold day da when she was suffering I from appendicitis and that tha he this under the direction of Superintendent Thomas who suggested the conveyance This is ia the girl who died two days later Witness a said that Meyers and Griffin were the only at the school now who were there when ne tie entered the school four years ears ago He spoke of the difficulty in securing good help because of the small pay offered and said that the instructors and officers should be above the ordinary in m intelligence He said many were discharged dl because of failure in their work and training In the case of Evan Carlson Carison the blacksmith he understood that he was waa discharged because he talked en on the streets about the boys who were discharged Rule Books Lacking Asked if Superintendent Thomas ever called his assistants and teachers to together together gether for conferences as to how best to handle the boys and girls or Gr how best to conduct the affairs of the school Cap Captain Captain tain tam Knease Kneass said No He said em were talked to privately when they first entered the school but no confer conferences conferences conferences were ever eve held The book of rules he said was printed before he entered the school chool Since then the supply had run out and that there never had been a anew anew anew new supply Much time was consumed over oer the questions put to a number of the girls in inthe Inthe Inthe the presence of the matron the ques questions question questions tion considered grossly grossl improper Cap Captain Captain Caplain tain lain Kneass was waa present at tn the inquisition inquisition tion but hut did not remember the exact questions and could not be b induced to say whether or not they were Improper He said the question as to whether these t question were rr inspired Im ired b morbid cur or a sense nS of duty was open to question Parley Parl Griffin and Thomas Meyers two old of he If Institution were placed on th tho stand and testified that I they the had worked on Oft Superintendent I Thomas house out in the city when con construction construction construction work was Wall under way wa and that they nad taken details of boys there th re o work Meyers said he secured a release from the board hoard at the time U He Ht for five days ana asia was 1188 paid paki by Thomas out of his bla hi own pocket Judge A W Ages Agee said Mid Just before the adjournment of the afternoon session that he put the payrolls In evidence to show that Scott Meyers and Griffin worked on the Thomas Thoma house at li It time tiute when wilen there was waa an abundance of work at the school There was waa no session and uld an un announcement announcement was made maie ty 1 y numbers members of the citizens committee that all the testimony mony tony for the would be In to today toda today day da The committee will m met jet at 9 S this morning It was wa reported at the Industrial school yesterday that Superintendent Thomas Thornas had been suspended by the board of trus trustees trustees trustees tees pending the th Investigation This re report report report port proved to be an error The fact is that Superintendent Thomas upon his own request had bad been relieved from duty dut by the board to enable him to attend the meetings and look after alter his own defense Assistant Superintendent Kneass is in charge of the school In the meantime |