The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-10
STATE PRISON MANAGEMENT.


urday has a leader on this subject,
which We can not view III any other
light than that of a gross personal
attack on Lieutenant Governor Den
ver. 1t would be a stretch of charity
in us to suppose that the misstate-
ments in the article in question were
the result of ignorance-we know
letter. and therefore must attribute
them to malice. This is a harsh
charge: but we know whereof We
speak. Far be it from Is to defend
any officer against any just charge Of
negligence Of duty or malfeasance IN
office: but the dulIest student of cur-
rent history must know that the con
tIusions arrived Al by the Independ-
eut are based upon premises that
have no foundation whatever in fact.
From time to time this paper has
-iyen a very full history Of the late
State Prison break, and that history
has been given from the statements,
not of Lieutenant Governor Denver,
hut of any and all parties whom We
knew to be in a position to A"or
whereof they spoke.
The Independent says that Gov
ernor Denver has disregarded the
advice Of friends who sought TO i'm
press him with the Importance Of
greater vigilance, and has relied
upon the personal friendship Of the
prisoners to prevent a break. This
statement is not only gratuitous. but
ridiculous. The following is a little
"mixel,' dramatically, but Is one
Of the charges of the Independent:
Even after a convict who had served
out his term had divuiGed the plan
OF a general break to Chief DoWney.
Of Virginia City. and who was 80
positive tina it would take place that
he desired Downey to be always cog
infant Of his (Battlcsuake Dicks
whereabouts. Downey At once com
municated the Information, and DC
additional p~recaution was adopted.
Where the Independent got this
iuformati0n-Or whether ii got any
information-we do not know: but
there is not a word OF truth III the
extract. Denver has never been
warned Of any impending outbreak
save, perhaps, in a general way, and
by parties whom he kHer did not
know rs muc1 of the character anG
intentions of the prisoners as he die
himself. Downev new said no.
sent a word to him about the i'm
pending break, nor did Rattlesnakt
Dick ever intimate anything of the
kind to him. Denver, and ever,
other man possessing Il particle o
knowledge of human character, ex
pecteJ, and still expects. that con
VETS. and not only in the Nevada
Iut every other State Prison. vii
break out whenever they get
chance. But to show how ridicu
lous the above extract is, let us Civ,
4 few facts: Rattlesnake Dick Wa
parIoneI out on Monday, Angus
21st. Recaptured convicta stat
that the first word uttered inside tn
prison about the plan Of the lat
break was on Sunday, Septembc
Hd-thirteen days after Dick left til,
prison. and , weeks before the breal
occurred. Rattlesnake Dick him
self says he knew nothing Of the al
engagements nor plan Of escape
The subject of breaking ont WAS
constant theme Of conversatio,
among the prisoners, and this CAV
Dick a general idea (iust as
knowledge of human nature CAV
every one else that there would b
"a break at the first opportunity tina
PROMISED Gee to the effort
During the week, from Septenbe
ii to the 10th, as opportunity o.
fered. the subject of leadership wa
discussed among the prisoner,
Jack Davis, II of the Verdi ca