The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-01

did; which was it?'
''Ths deputy lined US UP and told us to
then talked to u.s."
When you were in the solitary did you
always give the prisoners bread and water?"
Il always did. One slice of bread and
what water they wanted
Was that by orders?"
Il don't know whether they ever gave me
those orders or not"
Were you ever ordered not to give
prisoner in the solitary bread and water?"
Never"
STUCK TO HIS STORY.
Witness described an assault made on Rose
the st. Paul man, recently pardoned. by
Lemon. The visit to the prison then
called up again. Flannery said:
Il took party of my friends UP and while
| did not care to go up there they wanted
to, and I took them up to see it. When We
started through, about eight or ten went in
ahead of me. and when 1 came up, Capt. Tay-
lor, the turnkey, told me l could not go 10.
l asked why and he said that's the wardens
orders went in to see the warden, for
While had seen enough of prison life for
me. did not like to be snubbed that way
there before my friends | said why can't
sofa; 1 am citizen Of this state! The
warden said Yes but happen to be run
ming this institution now. I says You may
not be running 1t long.
Judge Nethaway then endeavOred to get
Fiannery to dispute the G o b interview.
1t turned out that the facts as stated in the
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er in his testimony. except for a slight con-
fusion, arising from the application of the
term solitary to the building part of the time
and again only TO a portion of the building.
Commissioner Harrison asked Flannery to
describe some of the men he saw beaten, but
he said they all looked alike to him. Neither
could he tell what conversation passed be-
tween them. He specified again the incident
of the man who ran out of the solitary and
into the shop. This man was kicked out of
the solitary. That was an every day occur
renee.
Did the warden ever know of these
things?"
Did you ever tell him."
No Lemon has been warden over there
not Wolfer."
SHOES HAD NAILS IN.
The second witness of the day was an ex-
convict a st. Paul boy, who was sent up
for four years for burglary, serving three
years His first testimony to abuses con-
cerned an old man, whose name he did not
know but who appeared to be insane. Oc-
casionally he would take a fit in the shop
and start running around One day he did
this and Guard Bloom sent for Assistant
Deputy Glennon, who walked him up the main
street, punching him with his cane Il don't
think l ever saw him after that" said the
witness.
Amy other cases?" asked Mr.. Penney.
There was an Indian, life man. l don't
know whether he was a full-blood or not
don't know his name. He came up in the
store room one day and asked Keeper Bord-
well for another pair of Shoes He could
not talk much English, and had to point to
Indicate what he wanted. The nails were
hurting him, he claimed. Glennon who was
the assistant deputy then, told him the shoes
were good enough for him, and tried to push
him down the stairs, but the Indian was a
big fellow, and came pretty near reversing
the thing. Then Bordwell shut the door when
they got to the top of the stairs, and we
could not see the rest of it, but there was a
noise as though they had rolled down the
stairs. The Indian had one shoe off show
ing Bordwell where the nails hurt him
DO you know a negro convict named Bru-
deem. or something like that"
Yes; Brudeen."
Was he assaulted or abused?"
Yes. Frequently he was in trouble He
celled about four cells from me, and came
down the stairs about that many behind me-
One morning he got down to the bottom of
the stairs before did. 1 don't know whether
he fell down or was pushed down, but he
came down in a hurry"
Once l saw Glennon punch him with his
INST and hit him with his cane. He said: You
black - of a , I'll learn you some
thing"
Did he use profane language?"
Yes; he was very profane."
DO you know James Maresch?'
Yes; he had the cell next to me- One day
Glennon came running down the corridor and
said to him: Why don't you attend to your
business. Maresch said Il am ATTENDING
to it, and Glennon said: Don't YOU give me
any back talk, you or anybody else in here,
or you'll lose you - - head
Il n
derson?"
Yes; he was the swede that got his leg
broken in the Irvine shop. He was stubborn
and one day l saw Lemon hit him in the
neck with his cane in the shop"
DID you know convict named Connors?"
Yes, sir
What Connors?" interrupted Judge Netha-
way.
what Connors was ito" resumed Mr.. Pen
ny.
Il don't know his first name" rejoncd the
witness He was doing something one day
and Costello. the guard sent for Lemon. As
soCn as he the deputy coming Connors
began to cry, and ran away. l was mixing
colors near the window in the corner of the
paint shop and l could see Lemon taking Con
nors toward the solitary. He had hold Of him
with one hand shaking him, and with the
other he was punching the man with his
cane"
COULD NOT REACH WOLFER.
"Did you ever ask to see the warden"
Yes; but | found, while 1 was there, you
could only get to him once month I gave
Parker the guard a notice for the warden
once but did not see him until the first.
1t might have been two weeks after that
L wrote two or three letters to the board
OF managers, but l never got before them"
We're you ever in the soitary?"
Yes, two three times. The first time
was for using profane language to another
convict. Fhe second time [ forget what
| was sent up that time for, but by the
way, while l was in there there was a fell
low named Davis, about three cells from
me. One night two of the keepers came in
| could not see who they were, because the
doors were shut, but they went into his cell
and beat him. could hear him hollering
leave me alone. do you want TO kill me-
and could hear the sound Of blows and their
curses and swearing"
Did you ever see Colllgan abuse a pris-
oner?"
Yes, once when I was in the third grade
he abused the fellow in the cell next to me-
He knocked some bread or something out of
mice and rarIn he coll
stopped to pick it UP again, Colligan kicked
HIM
On cross-examination, the witness admit
ted that he had been sent to the reform
school a boy for incorrigibility, and that
he had recently been indicted for burglary
but had been acquitted. He went into full
details concerning the fellow who fell or was
thrown by him on the stairs, and told how
this prisoner looked up toward the top of
the stairs and exclaimed some of you Irish
men come down and slug me-
His story was not shaken as to the Incl
dents he testified concerning.
ALMOST A BOY.
very young ex-convict, only twenty |
three years of age now testified concerning !
seeing Deputy Warden Lemon hit Rogan on !
the head with a cane, and said he once sent |
word by Coligan that he wanted to see the |
warden, but he never did. On the morning |
he pardoned from the prison, he eX |
planned to the warden that guard mad told |
him when he heard of the pardon If I'd |
been in there that morning that Rogan was |
struck I would have beaten your head off" |
The warden had inquired into this and told |
the guard that he had investigated and |
found that the witness did not have anything |
to do with the trouble.
Judge Nethaway intimated that as he and !
Lemon passed out of the senate chamber |
Monday night, the witness had said to Lem |
on ''We'll swing you off YETI but the wit |
ness insisted that what he said was to a |
friend of his concerning Lemon 'They ought !
to hang him." Mr. Nethaway then read a |
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