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

from the kitchen, the first day; third day had
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 ma seven or eight days; the last part Of
the time got half rations; got something to
eat every day; got hungry and desperate and
raped on the door; Williams said I would
never get out if I didn't stop that noise; had
on ball and chain, AMI struck the door with
the ball and broke it some; Hall and several
others came in aud put all the irons on mo
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; I sent for Reed and he came and let
me out; after that when was caught talking
was put In the dungeon; l was sick the sum-
mer before came out; had the diarrhoea.
Hall opened the door and threatened to run me
In; made mo get out of bed thought he was
going to put me in the dungeons; saw | was
palo 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 Oald-
we'll while coming from the chapel stop to get
paper; Hall pushed him to his cell; heard a
seutae; heard Caldwell scream as if being
BY Senator Wedge-Saw Hall strike Coffey
and push him to his cell; saw him strike Will
son; knocked him down; he was a crazy
mopish kind of a fellow and said something to
Hall and he struck him for it; heard Hail
damn the prisoner; his language to prisoners
was low and mean as the lowest gutter snipe
IN the city can use; heard him scufle with
another prisoner and tear his shirt when he
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 1t was a very grave offense to try
to escape; knew it waa against the rules to talk;
it is impossible to work by a 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 ball
and chain. There was man in for life from
Mankato for shooting woman; his name was
Weston; he never said nothing to nobody; he
was going to the water closet and Bordel came
and asked what Weston said; I 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 was ombination 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't 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; I 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
knocked it off few minutes before the second
attempt; it was kept on till September;
wouldn't have attempted to escape if / had
been treated fair; I set to work handling
heavy oak plank; wanted to wait till my mate
came to help me; guard told me to 60 to work
told him the plank were too heavy, and he raj.
ME in for it.
By Mr.. Donohue-Was made to wheel staves
with ball and chain on; my leg got sore from
walking; the majority Of the members of the
Legislature are not smart enough to find out
anything there; they go up and walk around
like flock of sheep and give those fellows
job of $4,000 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 Seymour's plan.
BY Senator Buck-I was sent up for an acct
dent; they called it stealing horse; got to
playing cards aud got strapped; some of the
boys set it up me to make me walk out of
town; I took horse and buggy to drive to the
railroad, about twenty miles; the buggy broke
or would not have been prosecuted.