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Show LTV" DENIES ALL THE CHARGES Head of Idaho Industrial School May Be Indicted. St, Anthony. Ida.. Aug. 24. A protracted pro-tracted iuostigatIon of tho management manage-ment of tho Industrial Training school by a state board ended yesterday with the testimony of Superintendent Humphries, Hum-phries, who denied many of tho charges made agalnBt him and branded as unworthy of bollof tho statements of several girl Inmates. Ho testified that ho had not beaten girls onthelr naked limbs, as witnesses witness-es tiad asserted. Ho said he did not know that two whipping straps introduced in-troduced in evidence were in the school. Tho officers and family managers, man-agers, he said, had no authority from him to whip children and In doing so acted on their own accord. Every boy and gin In the school was put on tho witness stand for the defonce. Half of them said thoy had been whipped Tor mlflor offenseB, but admitted that they dcBorved punishment punish-ment and should have had more They Bald that thov had mre than thoy wanted to eat and that tholr treatment treat-ment bv Superintendent Humphries had boon bettor than a father could Klvo. oo |