St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-15
HEILPERN REAPPEARs,
But He Is Not the Flashy Little
Bookkeeper of Yore.

Leo Heilpern, attired in well-worn,
tlght-ttting suit of summer goods. re-
appeared at the district court yesterday.
de is the principal witness for the de-
PENDANTS in the old suit of The Column
bia Mill Company against The National
Bank of Commerce TO recover $4,000.
The little Polander knows all about the
checks over which the legal Squabble
occurs, but whether or not he'll tell
what he knows makes him an object of
considerable anxiety to both sides.
Although there is nothing vicious
about the little bOokkeeper, he looks
the part of star boarder at Saltwater.
His hair is just long enough for him to
show trace of the famous part in the
middle. The little black moustache.
the corners of which he tugged
at during his trial, is gone.
His face is pale, and the muscles
are as plain as they would be on
the face of thoroughly trained
feather-weight. His hands are a trifle
long and red, caused no doubt by the
few days work at cleaning boilers
when he first went to prison. If such
thing was possible, he has lost pound
or Two of Poland flesh.
To GLOBE reporter he talked freely
OF Saltwater, and though he looked out
OF the window upon the wide, free
world, said he was satisfied to stay there
until his time should expire.
''Pm in for six years, ';said he, "but I'll
be out IN four years and six months.
For good behavior, you know, a year
and half in six is knocked off. |
don't want to come back here to testify,
because | had become reconciled to
my lot. Coming back TO the scenes of
frnnhlnS fn
have an undesirable effect. Now that-I
am here. though, l guess it will make
no difference. When | get out Pm go.
Ing to return to Minneapolis and live
here l like the city, despite the I'M
pleasant memories I'll have to carry
My wife will not be with me, think.
She visited me at Saltwater the other
day. From her conversation | Judge
she'll get a divorce and go back to Po-
land"
1.-The prison officials" said he, chang
ing the subject. "are very good to US. l
like it much better there than ex-
peced to Tor this reason. am
not cleaning boilers now. l did
keep the prison books. The work is
not hard because my experience as
bookkeeper makes it easy, | suppose.
The prison is comfortable place when
you get used TO it. The beds have
spring mattresses, and each room is
furnished with chairs. a table and other
furniture. We are allowed to keep the
electric lights in our rooms lighted until
Z o'clock in tie evening. We pass our
evenings i'll reading, writing and smOk-
Ing. We are allowed two books per
week from tine library and the weekly
papers. The daily papers are kept
from US. We have organized a
Chautauqua course. which gets on
nicely. Tobacco is furnished US
twice week. On holidays We
are allowed to mingle with the other
prisoners, and have better food. ! wear
Il coat and vest of blue and white, and
trousers of black and white. There are
a whole lot Of people outside Of the
prison who have harder time of it
than we have"
Heilpern has little to say about the
present case, preferring to talk about
that on the witness stand. He was
greatly interested in the testimony of
Zeidler, his former employer. The
motive which prompts the interest. how
ever, is mystery.