In the issue of January, 1911, THE REVIEW published a list of societies
engaged in prisoners’ aid work, with a request that corrections and
additions be sent to the editors. This request is repeated at this
time. Instead of the Kansas and Missouri divisions of the Society for
the Friendless, the following should have appeared:
The Massachusetts House of Representatives recently refused by an
overwhelming vote, to substitute for an adverse committee report two
bills relating to capital punishment—one giving the jury the right to
say whether the penalty for murder in the first degree should be life
imprisonment or death, and the other providing that the punishment
should be life imprisonment.
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_Opposes Walking Chained Prisoners Through Streets._—Dr. Elizabeth
Cassidy, of Denver, Colorado, is urging the board of county
commissioners to provide means for transporting prisoners from the
courthouse to the county jail, other than walking them along the
streets chained together.
“That system is a relic of barbarism,” declares Dr. Cassidy. “Persons
sentenced for vagrancy and other minor offenses should not be chained
together like criminals and be subjected to public gaze.”
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The recommendation of the Ohio legislative committee, as reported in
the last issue of THE REVIEW, that a joint reformatory and prison for
women, under a management separate from that of the penitentiary, be
built without delay, has obtained the approval of Gov. Harmon. In a
recent message to the legislature he urged that appropriations be made
for such an institution.
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_Kansas-Missouri Division._—Rev. Edward A. Fredenhagen, General
Superintendent; Mrs. Edward A. Fredenhagen, General Matron; Rev. J. O.
Stutsman, General Superintendent’s Assistant. District Superintendents,
Rev. George S. Ricker, Wichita; Rev. Jonathan Staley, Salina; Rev.
Benj. Porter White, Topeka; Rev. James B. Bollman, Kansas City; Rev.
Taylor Bernard, St. Louis.
The officers of the National Society for the Friendless follow:
President, Judge T. F. Garver, Topeka; Vice-President, Ex-Mayor Henry
M. Beardsley, Kansas City; Secretary and National Superintendent,
Rev. Edward A. Fredenhagen, Kansas City; Treasurer, Cashier James T.
Bradley, Kansas City; National Matron, Mrs. Edward A. Fredenhagen,
Kansas City.