Show FATHER JAILED IN BEATING BEA TING OF FIVE CHILDREN Brutal Clubbing Told To d dby by Bruised Sick Family of Tots Five children ranging in age from 7 months to 7 years Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day unfolded a tale of brutality brutality brutality brutal brutal- ity which made hardened policemen policemen policemen po po- po- po shudder As a 11 result their father Robert Hall 30 SO of Magna was Mas held heM In Inthe inthe inthe the count county jail on a a. charge charce of intoxication Tragedy was added to the story when it was revealed that their mother Mrs Mary Hall 23 Js is confIned confined confined con con- fined in the Salt Lake general hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital and was not told of ot the affair air We had ice cream but daddy had whisky then he beat us with witha a club Tommy 3 32 years old told tolda a a. Telegram reporter While deput deputy sheriffs were in investigating in- in the story of the beating allegedly administered all five ive children children children chil chil- dren by their lather late Thursday the children were being cared forby for lor forby lorby by the thc Childrens Children's Service Society of Utah Uta 1216 1216 East Thirteenth South street Mrs E. E J. J Wills vms executive secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the society said all five five five- Dorothy Dorothy- 7 Johnny 5 Tommy 3 Bobbie Bobble 2 and Walter 7 months months- bore ugly welts on their bodies and were suffering ring acutely front from mal mal- nutrition Shortly after 5 S s p. p in m. m Thursday Deputy Sheriffs SherIs C. C N. N Fernstrom and nd German Dean were sent to the block blockon on South Fourth West Vest street on report that thata a man in an an automobile was beating five live children children children chil chil- dren with a club The deputies traced the car an anold anold anold old model T to Thirty third Thirty third South street and Redwood road The children children children chil chil- dren told them their father who officers said was intoxicated had beaten them with a club The deputies confiscated the cudgel a wooden stick 15 inches long and 2 inches wide Then the story unfolded The family lives in a two-room two shack in Magna Mana deputies said The mother was admitted to the Salt Lake general hospital Tuesday The children underfed dirty and cladin clad cladin cladin in ragged garments evidently cried constantly from hunger So dadd daddy bought us some ice cream Tommy said sald but he bad had Continued on Page pae Nine Column Two I Accused Father Fath r f hr s 4 x y y AJ fG f kc I i gP a Robert Hall R FATHER JAILED r v vIN IN BEATING OF 5 Continued d from Page Pace On one onet q t i whisky and we drove arou around d and then he hit usI us w wI I ItI can still stilt see my daddy how howle he le got mad at us Dorothy tearfully tearfully tear tear- fully related Friday He got gat awful mad A Not even old month VaIt Whiter Walter r es coped cap A swollen right el eye and face bore mute muto testimony td that Examination by the childre children's childrens so society clety revealed the childrens children's condi- condi ion Uon All are suffering from r rackets and malnutrition Johnny has a t blackened right eye bruises on on n his s face ace and arms and a scar n his nis is neck Dorothy bears bruises her cr her r body and s scratches on he her head bead Ugly black marks marks' are on T Tommys Tommy's arms Bobbles Bobble's forehead and d face are bruised Johnny exhibiting the bruises on his ils arms saidI said I got this when I tr tried d to cover up my face |