CRUEL AND INHUMAN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 13

CRUEL AND INHUMAN

NEW YORK SENSATION

WELFARE ISLAND SCANDAL

(By Telegraph.—iYess Association.) NEW YOBK, March 22. Exposing conditions comparable to the degradation at Welfare Island Prison, the new municipal administration completed ,an investigation into the city home for dependants situated on the same island.

. It showed gross mismanagement, cruel and inhuman treatment of the aged sick and dying, and political chicanery and graft on the part of officials. The old and infirm inmates were deprived of their life savings by officials of the institution through wills dictated by the superintendent and through lire policies in which the officials were named as beneficiaries. There was no medical nursing staff for feeble-minded inmates. Choice foods for the blind and sick were stolen by attendants. • ■ . •.

The national superintenden1-. has fled and cannot be found. He banked 84,000 dollars in the last eight years, when his salary was only 28,000.

Under the new-City Administration, correction officials, led by detectives, made a. surprise raid on the municipal penitentiary on Welfare • Island, East River, and found almost unbelievable conditions of racketeering, corruption, and vice with a clique of powerful gangsters virtually governing the institution over the heads of the warden and his assistants. ' »