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Show # Ati&r one of the pupils (, a little girl) had died in the school. lie 'admitted-, that he shoved the agency physician and matron aside when they a&eavored to prevent him from talcing his boy, also gave the industrial ARC her a push which tumbled him down 3tairs when he (the Industrial ifacher) had tried to prevent ham from passing down from the dormitory 1th his boy in his arms; that he did so believing that as one child dd died that morning in school with measles,all of the pupils, being /..imilarly ailing, would die if they remained in the school; that he at $je tine believed Indian policemen to be vested with authority to act 3. such matters, as Ex-agent Critchelo?/, who organized the Ute Indian iti.lico, had told him that Indian policemen had authority to act in all inters pertaining to affairs of their reservation, ever: to arresting fieir agent if the policemen knew hia to be derelict or neglecting his Uty, and that he fBlack Hawk) regarding this instance as one of those ises requiring policemen to act independently, took the matter in his ip hands and acted as he did, which he has since learned was very wrong t which he very much regrets now. (H I commended Black Hawk for hie franJ. admission of the wrong he had jtailtted and his manly expression of regret in presence of the |; the fsenibled Indians, but that^. taking his boy from school the way he did |s a ve^r serious offense as it- waa not only a grave breach of Isicipline but also encouraged other Indians to tak e their children ?om school at that time, through which six of the pupils have died from fposure and the health of many others have been seriously impaired jereby, all of which might have been avoided had the children been left H school under the care of the agency physician and school employees, Ure they would have received prone-" attention and careful nursing. |