Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — BOY SAYS TEACHERS CLAWED HIS CHEEKS [ARTICLE]

BOY SAYS TEACHERS CLAWED HIS CHEEKS

Two Women Arrested and Will Be Put nn Trial. Des Moines. May 14. —Miss Maud Ewiug and Miss Ida May Tilden, teachers In the Longfellow school here, were arrested and charged with having beaten nine-year-old David Kaplln until he was black and blue. At a hearing behind closed doors, the teachers pleaded not guilty. Their trial was set for May 22. The teachers accused the little boy of stealing a $5 bill from Miss Tilden. When he denied the charge, he says, they laid him over a chair and beat him with switches and pinched his cheeks and body. An examination disclosed numerous welts and the boys’ cheeks are scratched and bruised.