The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-15

official conduct. ] he'd an offer TO draw
| his salary. Warden Patten sold Sir.
Blum COW for SO. 1t was his private
property. l collected the money and
paid it TO Mr. Patten. /
conversed with Mr.. Ewing after the
about taking c0nyicts to tine courts and
also before. After the order Ewing said
this world is nothing but a robbery. l
| said did not like 20 hear him talk that
way. He said / robbed DAviess county of
| Sll5 last week. lie ripped out en- oath and
said it was true. He said that the order
robbed him OF 500 per year. lie asked
me to do what could to have the order
reacinded, and wanted me to see the war
| den.
de ssid that he had nothing against the
management, but the directors bad treated
| him unfairly aud that he was going TO beat
! them Tor reelection. lie said no man IN
! the world could run the prison as well as
Warden Patten and that he Was getting
| be ter.
Cross examined-I had one or two little
| spats with the warden. but We fixed it up
very easily. / did not draw up my resig-
nation because Patten said | was dishon-
! est. | did have my resignation. AMI |
| talked with the warden. and he talked
me out of it. / thought of going into
business. / told Ewing l hated to
| hear him talk about it. He did
| not tell mo that Warden Patten wanted to
! get this money himself; did not know
! that he travelled on a pass aud collected
| money from the counties. understood
/ that this had been done before the new
! law, raising the salary of the warden and
! deputy warden. which says they shall
have SO much and no more ior their ser
| vice.
did not say myself and Warden Pat
/ ten had loaned this money to Mcdonald;
| ! sell the cOnvicts such articles as they
need, by order of the directors The arg
est round sum occurs on the holidays.
One man may buy s. worth and divide
| among his fellow coRyIcts. l fur
nished Capt. T. Sanders S240 worth
| souvenirs; he made this investment Tor
! BOOKS lie sold cigars for one. We buy
| most OF the articles in Jef!eTsonviile and
some in Louisville and New Albany. All
the meats come from Louisville; We
! buy 37j pounds of fresh pork every other
day that must come from Lou sville.
| We buy our sat- meat here; we
| buy Wholesale sales; We do not
advertise for bids. The warden does not
SUPERVISE the purchases OF our dining
! hail he can examine the books. The di-
rectOrs and warden ordered Us to separate
| the dining-room account from that OF tie
/ state and the surplus ID turned back on the
| table. Still We have occasionally little
surplus and that Is turned into the clerA q
] Office
Warden Patten then took the stand and
read a long and elaborate defense OF his
management going into the details of
! the situation very fully and exhaustlvely.
| lie concluded as follows:
"Of the number OF convicts who
made complaints before the COM
mittee, nine in number not one
of them had reasonably good
shown on the punishment record to have
received corporal punishment. al, or
nearly !, have very bad records and are
the worst element in prison. There are
| 80 exceptions, but very few.
The governors and their private secre-
taries, the state board OF health and
| state charities AMI its secretary, MIR.
johnson, have alwsvs chad unlimited jac-
cess To the prison and have freely mingl q
with the cOnvicts aud csnversed with
them IN the shops. cells ana other places
without restriction or hlndrai ce.
| The secretary of the beard of
state charities has always made
his visits without warning, dropping IN
/
ALWAYS ming cd With the m n without the
prsFenco Of an official or gusrd. and Ia no
case have | ever hsA6d any complaint
from one of the number who complained
! Of mistreatment before the committee.
Some few have complained OF psrtialitv
on the part Of guards. Such ihiRg does
not exist, nor could II exist as there Is no
occasion for il as the officers and guards
could not. under the present management,
receive any benefit Tor favOritism or par
TALLY.
JEFFERSoNvILIE. Feb. To- Special. =
The prison investigating committee met
| ~ 9;4j q. III. Senator Sweeney moved
that the committee adjourn at 9
D. m. further testimony 20 be taken at
! Indianapolis If necessary. The warden
objected. He hal witnesses many of
then conVicts. Love aud supported the
objection. He wantsd to introduce the
testimony OF ex-COnyict BG,lou and men
mentioned by him. Senator Bingham
thought the committee owed it TO itself to
got back to the capital. Swesney's motion
carried.
Patten testified on cross-examination
that he knew nothing OF an alleged con-
solidatinn OF the ClSggstt company. Under
| the ennis-ClAggett company they had
| 100 men. In Nav, 1891, they wanted il to
terminate. Did not know whether they
continued to put ia new machinery be-
tween May and july. They were always
putting in heW machinery. Witness ex-
! planned how loss to the state would occnr
| by n change of contracts. Tho contract
expired at definite Time but conLra ctors
must have time to linish their werk il
tears up the shops aud floors; ne
did not refuse q higher priced contract
from Sullivan il belonged to tbs board Of
| directors; IL wou not have be-n profit
of $4,000 per year the lace value OF the
bid would not necessarily show ths profit
l don't think Sullivan would have signed
90 easy a contract As the Claggett COM
pany. lie bad no personal knowledge Of
Sullivan's character. he simply went dc
cording to the evidence no had in believ-
ina him a scounIrel. He had changed bis
mind since. Ciaggett left tue impression
on NV mind that mis- brother William mad
bought out Dennis, but created suspicion
that Sullivan had = share in IT,
TO the question OF Love why he did not
advertise Tor brickbats, witness answered
he bought them in tue market and no
bond was required because It was no use,