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Show REFORM SCHOOL f erate youngsters -who infest Salt Lake. He told of his official experience ex-perience with the two Curtis girls, who are said to be the real cause of the legislative investigation. investi-gation. "One young girl was found guilty of crimes which would shock eyea this committee to hear," said - Mr. Christensen. ''She came of a respectable and what 1 considered to be an ideal family, but was guilty of ap-.palliug ap-.palliug crimes. No charge was made because of her family con-I con-I nections. ' I I Investigated by ! Committe j ' A committee appointed by the Utah legislature has investigated conditions at the stite Reform school, in Ogden and will make a report on the subject to the legislature. leg-islature. The sensation of the investigation investi-gation was a letter produced by Representative Nash, written to him by Mrs. M. C.Wilson, moth, er of the Curtis girls. "I write to you, " she said, "because there is one man at least k who has a heart, one who can feel sympathy sym-pathy even for those poor unfortunates un-fortunates in the reform school. " When examined Superintendent Superinten-dent Allison denied the charge in the iatLer and every other charge, except that hebad whipped whip-ped the Curtis girl for gross insubordination. in-subordination. He bad also, he said, locked her in a lighted cell on bread and water for the same offense. . The Curtis girl was brought from the county jail to testify. She is confined there awaiting the action of the Disu'ict court ( on the charge of arson. "He: ; whipped meonly once," she said. ,'-That was for laughing when he , vas making us live on bread and water. The treatment was harsh and cruel. They gave us good clothes and good food, but the officers were inhuman in their tie tment of us. Mr. Allison whipped me with a strap. One of the guards choked another girl. The only time I was punished pun-ished I deserved it. Two other girls and myself were creating a disturbance by interrupting the school, which was in progress. I knew at the time it was against the rules, but we were merely lauchi-ig and talking. Mr. Allison Alli-son came in and ordeiedusio work. I didn't go at once and he struck me with a strap. I don't know how many times he hit me, but it was for a long while, and I was very tired when he finished finish-ed . He did not strip off my clothes. When he was whipping me my sister told him to stop and when he did not stop she attacked attack-ed him with a pair of scissors. She picked them up off the floor and struck him on the arm. I was kept in a dungeon for fourteen four-teen days and fourteen nights, on bread and water. They kept my sister there, too. I was never treated as harshly as the Nhue-cotton Nhue-cotton girl. The guard thought she was impudent and he seized her by the throat. I know of other cases where the guards mis-treated prisoners. If they had not treated me as they did 1 wo-.ld never have done what I did. " At ibis the girl remembered remember-ed the charge against her aud wept bitterly. A- T. Wright, chairman of the board of trustees, told of his connection con-nection with the institution as trustee and his knowledge of the treatment of the inmates. 1 hey are treated better than the or-ry or-ry seifsustaining family, he aEx- County Attorney Parley P ,1 vistensen of Salt uate was !' calleo to the stand .and made I sensational statements with reference re-ference to certain bands of degen- t ? i k - |