Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-19
Mr.. GOLFER and FOSNES,
The Accusation of the Slanderous Dirty
Work Pension Man Rsfuted


Fosnes, the fellow who under pretense of
being an attache of the pension department,
puts in his time doing dirty political work in
Minnesota, wrote out an interview with HIM
self and printed it in the Minneapolis paper
published on Third street. We should not have
noticed the man save for the fact that he in
dulges in falsehood about an old citizen,
who supplies us the following
CARD OF DENIAL.
l left my work that night about quarter
of six on account OF the brick work stopping
and could not get in the pipe in the gully
drain. l went to the city engineers Office
direct and found none of them wanted there,
and went from there down Seventh to Capt.
Locks Office, No. 252 East Seventh street,
where l remained in private business with
him until about quarter of o'clock. Capt
Lock walked with me to Hoffman avenue, on
Seventh street, and there we parted. When
struck the corner of Seventh and Maria avenue,
noticed two men leaning on the fence. AS
crossed Eighth street l noticed two more in
front of the first house on the left hand side
and saw man coming from my house. We met
in front of these men. He asked my name.
said, "You know me-" He said, "What is
your name"' I said, ''My name is Golfer"
He said, "Do you know me, sir?" l said,
Il do, SIR" He said, "Wbat is my name?"
said, ''You are that man they call Fosnes.'
He then said to the two men with him, "Here
is Golfer" and they surrounded me. He
asked if had seen the statement in the Dis
patch. / said, eyes, 1 did, then said to
him, "You have seen it, and that is true.''.
then bowed myself away from him, and he
replied, 81 will see you On the works on Mon
day." The men looked as if they came for
the purpose OF raising disturbance or fore
ing measures. | was not under the influence
OF liquor, which | can prove, if necessary.
came to town al once 10 have the men ar
rested. | changed my mind sfterward il,
and concluded 10 let the matter take it's
own course. I tGen went 10 the GLOBE
Office and talked 10 Mr.. Hall about the mat.
ter the same night, and the Monday GLOBE
showed the tenor of the conversation.
aeem the man Fosnes scoundrel, and | do
not care what he says. / afterwards asked
what he thought of nv clsim and be answered
that if he said so that l could draw for it right
away, then said, "Why don't you do sop
He answered, "You know what it is" |
then left him and did not see him again until
| saw him on Maria avenue, as | considered he
was not worth seeing and asked no odds of
him. My big stick is my walking stick which
l am compelled to walk with.
WILLIAM Golfer.
CAPT. Locks STATEMENT.
Twas with Mr.. Golfer on the works for
nearly an hour before he quit work. Was
with him to the engineers Office, and then
went to my own work. We transacted some
business that none but a sober man could
transact. 1t was done perfectly satisfactory
to all parties. l then walked with him to
Hoffman avenue, on Seventh street, and less
than three blocks from his house we parted,
1t was about o'clock p. m, and left him
as | found him about 5 o'clock p. m, per-
fectly sober, and know that he did not take
drink while in my company.
M. L. LOCK-
The GLOBE can confirm Mr.. Colder's state
ment relative to his call at this Office. When
he came down, somewhere between and D.
M, intending to have Fosnes and his strikers
arrested, he called at the GLOBE office and
made bis statement as already published. He
was then entirely sober, ard gave no evidence
of having tasted liquor. Fosnes has enough
original sin to answer for without sitting up
| nights to swap lies with himself in cooked up
| interviews.