The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-15

Sept. 3, 1895. He SAID he naQ Deen d
guard there two years and seven
months. He was filing out with
his line when he heard a rustic behind
him, and looking around, Convict Ro-
gan slashed him in the face before he
could protect himself He went for
Rogan, who retreated and threw things
from the table at him.
Deputy Warden Lemon came UP and,
knocking Rogan down, said to Pow
ers: I'll take care Of this man, you're
hurt" So Powers got out and had his
wounds dressed. He was laid UP from
Sept. to Dec. 10 or II, and again after
wards when his eye was operated on.
He lost the sight of one eye, and was
disfigured for life.
THE scars on my face" said Pow
ers, quite pathetically, "are the best
evidence whether they were made with
a vinegar bottle or knife"
In regard to Peterson, the convict
who, according to one of the Minneape-
lis Witnesses was assaulted by Pow
erS the latter said:
Peterson refused to work On some
shoes as ordered by one of the citizen
| workmen, and they had some trouble.
L went down there and Peterson came
for me with a shoe. 1 reached for
him with my cane, but he ducked and
the cane broke at the handle. The
handle was just glued on and it had
become soft from the perspiration Of
my hand, l suppose. Cunnean, the
workman, handed me back the cane,
and L hit Peterson again."
III quit. [ won't resist you" Peter
son then said. The second blow, wit
ness thought, struck Peterson under
the arm
Asked in regard to the Lee case,
which occurred the morning of the
day the Investigating commission first
| Went through the prison. Powers said
he heard Lee growing about something
| and then saw him get up and begin
| punching Crowley, who sat next to
him, in the face. Witness hit Lee over
the head with his cane, and Lee drop
! ped into his seat. Powers then told
| Lee to come out and he did, and Pow
erS handed him over to Colligan.
Powers identified the type of knife
with which the cutting by Rogan was
| done. He had no other trouble. On
! cross examination Attorney Penney
! threw some doubt on Powers knowl
edge of the style of knife with which
he was carved. Peterson, he said; had
a shoe raised in a striking attitude and
witness struck him, partly in self-de-
tense and partly for the protection of
| the citizen employee
When Mr.. Penney had finished his
| cross-examination, Mr.. Harrison asked
| Powers if Lee called him or made a
| signal to him the morning of the
| trouble in the dining room, and Pow
| ers said if Lee had he did not see it,
Judge Flandrau asked witness if it
was not considered best to quell such
| obstreperous cOpvicts immediately. and
! Powers said it was. 1.-The quicker the
| better"
WHAT GUARD BLOOM SAW.
Charles A. Bloom, a guard in the
| prison for nearly six years, said that
! Clarke and another convict had some
trouble in the shop Aug 10 last. They
| We're IN charge of Guard McIlree down
at the other end of the shop. McIlree
told the men to break away and one
of them wanted to, but Clarke would
not. McIlree tried to separate them.
put was not having very good luck.
Bloom thought. Finally Clarke picked
up hammer and tried to hit McIlree
who was holding him from behind.
Bloom approached and hit Clarke on
the head with his stick. A convict took
the hammer away from him.
Bloom also told the commission about
the convict Olson, who, according to
one OF the ex-convicts who had been
previously examined, once started on
dead run around the shoe shop as
though insane. Bloom said he had or
dered Olson up to court for something
and Olson wasn't going. He reported
1t to Assistant Deputy Warden Glen
non, who went after Olson, and the
latter then started to run Glennon
caught him but did not club him.
Bloom was also in the dining room
the morning of the Lee episode and
heard Lee call Crowley a son-of-a-.
Mr.. Harrison asked Bloom if at the
time witness hit Clarke, McIlree had
the conyict's arms pintoned Bloom
said that Clarke had at least one arm
free, the hand in which he had the
hammer. Clarke had had another fight
with the same convict as recently as
Saturday last.
THOMAS Cunnean the shoe shop en-
ploye with whom the convict Peterson
had had the trouble related that in
cident. He cOrroborated Powers testt
mony save that he aYerred il was
Powers whole cane which he picked
up and handed back to him He had
not seen any conYicts with gashes in
their heads and had had no talk with
any one connected with the defense
regarding what he would testify to. he
said. on cross examination
The commission then adjourned until
1:30.
MILREE DESCRIBED IT.
John McIlree, formerly chief of police at
Saltwater, and guard at the prison since
April last, was the first witness in the aft
ernoon. He described the ARRAY with Clarke
After he got the men separated, he said. he
succeeded IN pushing Clarke along the table
little way until Clarke picked up the ham
mer and tried to hit him with it. At the
time Bloom hit Clarke with the cane he was
at witness side and behind Clarke
The reason Clarke could not reach him
with the hammer, witness said, was not be-
cause he had Clarke's arm pinioned, but be-
cause he had his hands under CIarke's arm
pits, and his body was therefore some dis
lance behind the convict.
MFALL IMPEACHED EWING.
o. McFall, a guard at the prison for five
years in April last, said he had charge of the
crew in the unloading the car of sisal at the
time that the convict Anderson was hurt
Deputy Warden Lemon, he said, was not
there until after the accident. He had two
men in the car rolling the bales out, and
six running 1t back thirty feet to the ware
house. four working with the block and
tackle to hoist it and two on top of the pile
in the warehouse. Anderson was rolling
the bales back. The bales were thrown down
from the car on some bales which had been
left there, and this one struck endways and
bounded on Anderson's leg, breaking it.
There were no planks, as Ewing had testi-
fed he said. Four convicts carried Ander-
son away after the witness had sent for the
deputy warden. Either witness or Deputy
Warden Lemon had ordered the men where
they were. Lemon did not jerk Anderson
while he was ON the ground and try to stand
him on his feet. Not word of Ewing's
testimony is regard to this incident he said,
was true.
Witness was a spectator of the trouble be-
tween Forester and the man Hahn in the
gallery in the cell house. McFall said Hahn
had pulled his coat off, and Forester told
him to put it on. Hahn did not, and For
roster jumped and hit him and knocked him
down. McFau had always found Hahn
peaceable enough. He was in witness
flock" for time. but had never worked
under him McFall said he superintendent
the hauling of the provisions from the depot
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