Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — WHIPPED WITH LIVE WIRES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHIPPED WITH LIVE WIRES.

Electricity Employed to Tartar* Tattle Children In k New Jeroey ••Home-” Electricity as a mode of punishing refractory children Is tho latest, method adopted In a New Jersey re-

form school. The institution is the Mewark City Home, located at the foot of the Orange Mountains in Verona, N, J., and to C. M. Harrison, the superintendent of the home, is due any credit for the invention. There are 300 children iq the home, many of whom have been committed to the institution by Newark police justices. They are said to manifest a supreme contempt for bread and water and the rod, and go the

superintendent and Dr. Whiteborne, the official physician, presumably with the Idea of making the home more pleasant and profitable for its little guests, laid their heads together and the result was something which produced a deep impression not only upon the minds of the children but upon the public as well. This Invention was nothing more nor less than the transposition of an

electric battery into an instrument of punishment. The usual handles used in the instrument have been removed and in the place of one of them a wire brush, two inches long has been placed. The place of the other Is taken by an ordinary piece of wood, rounded, about two and a half inches in length. On the end of It is a flat 1 piece of metal

covered with a thin sponge. When one of the children has committed a grievous infraction of the discipline of the school he is quietly taken into a room where there is no one but himself, the superintendent and the doctor. The sponge-covered electrode is Immersed in water and applied to the base of the culprit’s skull. The other handle or brush is held in close proximity to the child, and when the current is turned on it is applied to his face, neck or arms. The moment the brush touches the child the electric circuit is closed and a severe shock sustained. Superintendent Harrison says the process works to the entire satisfaction of every one with the possible exception Df the child. The case is being Investigated.

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