Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-08


bread and water; two days had two slices of
bread, which is half rations; was put in on
Saturday, and taken out ON Friday or Saturday,
making seven or eight days; the last part of
the time got half rations; got something to
eat every day; got hungry and desperate and
never get out if didn't stop that noise; had
on a ball and chain, AMI struck the door with
the ball and broke it some; Hall and several
others came in and put all the irons on me
they could; the irons cut my wrists; they took
of my boots to put irons on, and was left
with bare feet for two days.
BY Mr.. Larssen-I was left two DAYS with
irons on; was bucked and gagged with al iron
bolt in my mouth; chewed the string off and
got the gag out; think the warden knew all about
it; heard him talk and saw him in the hall.
By Senator Wedge-Reed sent me some
breakfast; sent for Reed and he came and let
me out; after that when l was caught talking
1 was put in the dungeon; 1 was sick the sum
mer before l came out; had the diarrhoea.
Hall opened the door and threatened to run me
In; made me get out of bed; thought he was
going to put me in the dungeon; / was
pale and he left me in the cell; Reed was
away; spoke to him about it when he got back
BY. Mr.. Larssen-I saw man named Cald-
we'll while coming from the chapel stop to get
paper; Hall pushed him to his cell; heard a
scutde; heard Caldwell scream as if being
choked.
BY Senator Wedge-Saw Hall strike Ooffey
and push him to his cell; saw him strike Will
mopish kind of a fellow and said something to
Hall and he struck him for it; heard Hall
damn the prisoners; his language to prisoners
was low and mean as the lowest gutter snipe
in the city can use; heard him scuf1e with
another prisoner and tear his shirt when be
was sick; don't think the man resisted him;
there was no resist in him; think his name was
Lilly.
BY Senator Buck-I attempted to escape;
did not know it was very grave offense to try
to escape; knew it against the rules to talk;
it is impossible to work by man and not talk:
none of the prisoners obey this rule; was put
in the dungeon eight days for trying to escape,
and went from March to September with a bali
and chain. There was a man in for life from
Mankato for shooting woman; his name was
Weston; he never said nothing to nobody; he
WAS going 10 the water closet and Bordel came
and asked what Weston said; told him he
said nothing but the guard ran him in; Pack
ard ran me in for laughing; he supposed was
talking.
BY Warden Reed-Some men attempted to
escape over the wall; made my attempt the
18th of March; there q com bination the
first time; seven or eight attempted to escape;
FIVE outside the wall; the second attempt was
the cause of my punishment; my talk was not
about escaping; did not apply for release;
spoke to Williams about it; walked around
and ratified the chain; don remember whether
was released on promise of good behavior;
got all the medicine I wanted; don't remember
the date when Weston was run in; have
no doubt he was put in the dungen.
By Mr. Buck-They put the ball and chain
on me for the first attempt to escape, and I
knocked it Oft few minutes before the second
attempt; it was kept on till September;
wouldn't have attempted to escape if had
been treated fair; I was set to work handling
heavy oak plank; wanted to wait till my mate
came to help me; guard told me to go to work
told him the plank were too heavy, and he raj.
me in for it.
By Mr.. Donohue-Was made to wheel slaves
with a ball and chain on; my leg got sore FROM
walking; the majority Of the members of the
Legislature are not smart enough to find GU:
ANYTHING there; they go up and walk around
like flock of sheep and give those fellows a
job of 100000 or $4,000; the contractors fill
the shops full of tubs and pals; they stopped
shipping, and the shops were kept filled Up
until after the legislature had visited; they are
bright stars; then the contractors growled
about shop room; that was old Seymours plan.
By Senator Buck-I was sent up for an acct
dent; they called it stealing horse; got to
playing cards and got strapped; some Of the
boys set it up me to make me walk out of
town; l took horse and buggy to drive to the
railroad, about twenty miles; the buggy broke
or l would not have been prosecuted.