Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — REFORMATORY UNDER FIRE [ARTICLE]

REFORMATORY UNDER FIRE

Wisconsin Official Blamed Foy Death by Crualty of John 6mt&. Green Bay, Wls., July 2. —Recommendation that the state board of cou trol investigate the system of punishment at the Wisconsin State reformatory is made by the coroner’s Jury which investigated the death of John Smith. The verdict declares Smith came to his death “by cruel and Inhuman treatment ordered by Assistant Superintendent O. E. Bickford and executed by Guard George Boyd."