The San Francisco call., 1895-10-13
DIR. MANSFIELD rs OUT.
Resigned When Censured for
Accepting Money for a
Prisoner.
ST. CLAIR BREAKING DOWN.
The Hesper Murderer Likely tc
Collapse When Led to the
Gallows.

SAN QUENTIN, CAL, Oct. 12.-The
Prison Directors met here to-day in regular
session, full board being present. War
den Hale demanded an investigation of
the published story that he had allowed
| Convict Gardiner, incarcerated for life for
murder, to visit his wife in San Francisco.
He denounced the charges as absolutely
and unqualifedly false.
| Captain of the Yard Edgar Commits
| sary Major Thorpe, Assistant Commissary
Alden, Captain Jamison and Captain of
the Guard Birlem were sworn and testified
| that Gardiner could not have been absent
from the prison without their knowledge,
and that he was never so absent. The red
| tape necessary to get convict from within
| the walls was fully explained and most of
| the morning session was taken up with the
matter. Convict Gardiner was also sworn
and denied that he had ever been outside
| the prison grounds since his incarceration.
| The board finally decided to request the
| Chronicle to furnish it any evidence in
| that papers possession as to the truth of
the story, and to ask Mrs. Gardiner to ap-
pear before it and tell what she knows.
The board will subpoena witnesses in the
matter If, on examination of the law, it
decides it has that power.
| General Henry Elchoff, District Attorney
| Martinelli of Marin County, Colonel W.
! F. G. Hasson and J. E. Walsh of San
Rafael appeared before the board in the
matter of securing convict labor on roads
within the county, as allowed by law. There
| has been considerable friction between the
county officers and the prison authorities,
arising largely from a misunderstanding
as to the attitude of the latter.
| This was satisfactorily explained by the
| directors, and the result of the conference
is that Warden Hale will on Wednesday
meet representative of the citizens
| of Marin County and go over the
| ground of the proposed highway. The
two will then estimate the probable ex-
pense and figure what proportion should
be borne by the State and what by the
county.
The figures for the States share will be
submitted to the Board of Examiners and
if allowed by it the work will be begun at
once. The county will be required, how
ever, to furnish a campetent roadbuilder
to act as foreman over the convicts.
A proposition to insure the six boilers
in the jute mill for term of three years
was accepted from Mann e. Wilson, San
Francisco agents for the Hartford Boiler
| Insurance Company.
The premium to be paid is 5000, and in
return for this the company insures the
boilers for $4,000 and agrees to inspect
them every three months.
During the afternoon, in executive ses-
sion, the board considered the case of DR..
Mansfield, who received $50 from friends oi
| clio iy,x hNc haI 4ba1y +aI
him to write a letter to the Governor
urging the granting of pardon.
The physician admitted receiving the
money, but stated that it was to be used
for the purchase of delicacies for the sick
man, and denied most emphatically that
it was intended to influence him in his
action concerning the urging of a parkon.
There was no evidence of evil intent. but
the prison has a rule which forbids officers
or guards receiving money for the benefit
of any prisoner, and requiring such money
to be deposited with the Warden.
The doctor was pretty severely hauled
over the Goals for violation of this rule
and the matter ended with his offering his
resignation and its being accepted.
Warden Hale tonight stated emphati
cally that he did not for a minute suspect
DIR. Mansfield of evil intent. but that tc
his private knowledge the physician had
been for four months planning to resign
his post and remove to San Francisco.
Mansfield himself is surprised and rather
hurt because the directors appear to look
with suspicion on his action. There has
long been friction between him and the
Warden, and he intimates that he will
have story to tell before long.
DR.. W. ]. Wickman of San Rafael is at.
tending the PRISONS sick for the present
DR.. Lawler, former Health Officer, is q
candidate, and DR.. Casey, who runs on
one of the ocean steamers, is also men
toned. The latter is a nephew of Director
Hayes.
The board to-day paroled A. r. Hitch.
cock, who was sent up from Humboldt
County for five years for perjury. The parole
cases of NJ. H. Wood from Mendocino for
manslaughter, and Thomas King, in for
five years for burglary, were laid over for
six months.
The application for the pardon of James
Bowe of the San Francisco Letter Carriers
Association, in for three years for embez-
element, was denied. A letter from Judge
Daingerfield strongly urging its denial had
much to do with the boards action.
st. Clair and Hansen, the bark Hes
perian murderers, were brought up from
San Jose this afternoon by Secret Service
Agent Harris and Sheriff Lyndon of Santa
Cruz. They were handcuffed, and had
their legs chained together. Marshal
Barry Baldwin came up on an earlier train
to arrange for their reception.
The men were stripped, bathed, mea-
sured, and put in stripes, then taken to
the condemned cells which they will leave
only to ascend the gallows. Baldwin has
secured death watch in the persons of NJ
Murphy and A. ]. +. Nolte. The con-
demned men seem to take their fate easily
but st. Cla IRIS nerves are evidently at yery
high tension and the officers declare him
likely to break down on the gallows.