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

the deputy. slipped and fell and the deputy,a
cane rolled to one side. The solitary guard,
Gallagher, picked up the cane. Lemon seized
the convict by the neck in both hands and
apparently choked him. Glennon struck
Thompson with the cane"
DO you know Thomas Fleury2n
Yes, sir
What kind of man is he?"
He is man As to 90 years of age small
with gray
DO you know about any unusual punish
ment inflicted on him."
THEY MADE FLEURY SUFFER.
Last time the legislature was over. when
We came in after dinner we heard some one
making speech up in the dining room
About three or four minutes Of l we saw
two guards taking Flegry up toward the soIi-
tary. He was brought back IN fifteen minutes
or half an hour, by Assistant Deputy COlligan
Then two hours later. when most OF the
legislature had gone, Fleury was called out
by Deputy Lemon and when he came back
Two days later, he had been reduced from the
hrst to the third grade"
DO you know a convict named Reed?"
Yes. sir"
lid; Do you know about his being sent to the
He was away from the shop for a while
heard he was in the solitary
Wa vas ne changed when he came back?'
had one was b reduced t to the third grade and
back with injuries?"
I got
accustomed to that after a while"
do you know anything about citizens being
abused in the PRISON.
one day two convicts in the shop where I
was got into fight and one of them got cut
badly about the head. | took bandana
and helped him fix up his head. After the
that he wanted me to distinctly understand
that It wasn't part Of my business there to
NEEDING with the conyicts, and after that il
l saw convict's head being
SEVEDEn EDnNr rrr-
1 need not interfere. go 81 49,
What do you know about COIligan's de-
meanor and treatment of prisoners?''
lie was always surly." -. 80.
How about Deputy Warden Lemon -
l., lie seemed to be too hot-tempered TO be
in charge of the convicts"
On cross examination Bergpren rahaarsad
the story of the Reed and Fleury and TbCHnp-
son affairs without contradiction The de-
Iense offered to show some animus against
ness pass but Berggren insisted that ON
that occasion Lemon had treated him pleas
antly and he had shown no spirit
DEFENSE STARTED THEN.
Tbs closed the accusatlve testimony. and
Judge Nethaway called a coIored convict who
had spent twelve years and a half i'm tbe
prison, his life sentence had been coplmutej
TO twenty-five years. He was now on parole
he 4 t never seen any convict struck. but
TO TESTIFY by State Agent Whittier
lie denied having had told Witness Elan
merry, in the morning, that he was afraid IN
tell what he knew He said he had I5nayg ~.
tiannery long time and Flannery had told
MIN he did not like some of the officers but
hdd not asked him to testify.
ONE WANTED TO GET OUT.
Another paroled prisoner, sent up for rob
Dery, from Hennepin county told about his
experiences in the solitary After Warden
Wofer came he always got bread once and
water water three times day, but during Garyin's
i'm hrno
examination this man said that he had once
trled TO escape in 1892 or 1898 and il de
veIoped that on the night that he planned to
escape ne saw by mirror he had in his cell
Jack GlennOn at the end of the cell house
mat afternoon, however. he was tipped
off, that they were ON To his nIan LII
were going to shoot him whom be aar,a az an"
SO ne dId not try to get away that night
Did you tell Mr.. Wofer that the G o b a
, toIu MN that newspaper men were try
InS, 10 pump me and l was afraid they might
make make trouble for me, and l wanteS pro-
Were they G lob e mem"
,,a do not know. They were newspaper
n, Did you tell Mr. wolter they were Globe
NO. II may have. thought they were Globe
Witness tried to describe tbs mon Ono
ne SAID was a tall slim fellow with gray
IN MS hair and moustache the latter being
U ,ritt c I;tsf me other was smaller man
with little stdeburns.
He insisted that he was telling the truth
ana that he was not afraid so to do
day. lo' the
As Warden Wolfer wanted to go TO the
prison congress at Austin, Tex. last night and
a. ne alSo wanted to be present at the near
ings, and as the attorneys. ali of them bad
business IN the courts aside from the in
2 fI go II va h4al!y decided to adjourn ua-
NJ az. Dec. 10 with the understanding that if
Inat time, word should be seRs to Mr Farmer
trip. saw MN Ihe
1t was also determined that the next meet-
ing should be held at saltwater
~ IN the meantime, Attorneys Penney and
5IetnaWay VIII go to Milwaukee to get the
in the Cream City S''Ni"s