Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-17
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

the stolen grand jury RECORDS, WHICH, lho
PoSt-Dispatch is having secretly tran
scribed, was given to the public late last
evening. Gov. Crittenden, who Is clearly
connected with the corrupt ring that Is
seeking to run the city, is condemned on
every side, and popular feeling is running
so high that mass meeting of prominent
citizens for the purpose OF denounclng
Crittenden is talked of. The testimony OF
ex-police commissioner John Il. Noxon,
who resigned because Critten-
den pardoned the gamblers, was
published first. He testified that he
had been engaged in prosecuting
the gamblers and that number of them
had been convicted and put in Jail. He
was asked did you ever have CONVERSE
ton with Gov. Crittenden in which he
asked you to let up on gamblers"
Il had q conversation with him q few
weeks previous to resigning-in what
month I cannot say-se7eral weeks pre-
ceding that. There was telegram sent to
my house-it arrived at 10 Or II O'Clock at
night, requesting me to meet him at the
Southern hotel. / didn't get home that
night until II or II. Ny wife showed me-
the telegram but 1t was so late that l did
not 20 to the Southern hotel until
the next morning, and I got there before
he was up. l had a conversation with him
at that time, but l cannot remember the
exact words. He said in substance that
Charley johnson was great enemy Of
ours and did everything he could to hurt
US, that it would be great satisfaction to
Mr.. johnson to have these gamblers prose-
cuted, and if carried through to conviction
it would all rebound to the glory of Mr..
johnson. 1 cannot say whether he said It
was his desire we should prosecute the
gamblers or whether we ought
not to prosecute them just
because it wonld be such a qualification to
Mr.. Johnson. That was about the purport
of the conversation. I never eported the
conversation to but one person. I got the
impression that Gov, Crittenden thought 1
would 4anti6h Ii 10 the c5nef commission
ers, but didn't 10 1t. I wanted to find
cut what he was driving at and whether
there vas anything new. did not think
SO much of it then as did afterwards"
'Now, Mr.. Maxon, can you approximate
about how near the time that the governor
pardoned the gamblers out of jail?'
81 know OF nothing by which I can
place that time"
81 VIII ask you this and perhaps u will
refresh your mind little. Very shortly
after the wholesale pardon OF the gam
blers, the three eolnmissioners-you rself,
Mr.. Simmons and Mr.. Cupples-resigned
Did you not?'
Eyes, sirn
'Can you fix how near it was TO the time
of your resignation:
''My impression is that it was four to
six weeks"
What caused you to think of it after
wards particularly ~
Il could not see exactly what he was
getting at, you know. when he was talking.
I wanted to retain confidence in the gov
ernor, and the reason 1 thought Of it after
wards was q conclusion of my
own. thought more of the
conversation afterward because subsequent
developments gave it a Significance it
would not otherwise have had.'
''What were the particular matters that
made you think of it afterward?"
''The fact of his pardoning the gamblers"
"Did you have any conversation with
him after that bearing upon the subject at
all?"
'sThe week preceding the pardoning of
the gamblers he called at my house in the
evening and thought would sound him
a little and see how he felt and What ne
had to say, and in that conversation, which
has been made public, good many
times he said that Cupples informed him
that Pate couldn't have been convicted,
and that was the excuse he gave for par
donIng the gamblers. You recollect what
The rr,ress said about that, and my conYer
sation was merely to get some reply from
him, but he said nothing. l wanted to get
at what he thought about it. 1 suppose
yoa are aware that the trouble with the
Pate matter was the property. Pate
claimed he had nothing to Go with it, as
his brother owned II. We thought the
question in the case was whether We would
be able to prove that"
did his pardoning the gamblers have
anything to do with the resignation of you
gentlemen?"
at had with my resignation"
''That was the same IN regard to Mr..
Simmons and MIR. Capries, was it not?'
sit was SO told by them in my presence.
There is one statement I would like to
make to this grand ia7y. I don't know
Wh6GESS IL VIII Gb ECJNs CAV ~ AhoJ iS0N w
something. I was approached by gentle
man in this town, suppose because he
was intimately acquainted with me, By the
name of w. 3. Ryder, at that time
secretary of the Peoples Railway com
pany. requested him to tell me who it
was induced him to speak to me about it,
and he said he would see in day or two
if there was any objection to his telling
ne. The result Tas that I never got this
mans name that requested it. 7 have Of
ten asked Mr.. Ryder siEco who it was that
asked him to see whether it could be done.N
The witness also testified that GoV.
Crittenden etarted the blank resignation
business, and that the governor and his
friends secured the blank resignation
of Boland and hinkeGd before they were
appointed commissioners.
When the proposition was made to Chas.
Green, president CT the fair association,
that he could be 2 commissioner if he
would sign blank resignation he kicked
the governors emissary cut of his Office
This was TWO years ago.
Crittenden vas il town to-day and wa
Interviewed, but beyond saying that b
was governor and voald act for the bes
interest OF the state, he did not say