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

the deputy slipped and fell and the deputys
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 Fleury?"
What kind of a man is he?''
He is a man IS to 90 years of age small
little little over five feet. probably; hair sprinkled
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. heard some one
making a speech up in the dining room.
About three or four minutes Of 1 we saw
two guards taking Fleury up toward the soIi-
tary. He was brought back in fifteen minutes
or half an hour, by Assistant Deputy COllgan
Ihen 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
do DO you know about his being sent to the
He was away from the shop for while.
heard he was in the solitary
was was ne changed when he came back?"
he was reduced to the third grade. and
mad one hand tied up"
IA Any other instances of convicts coming
L don't remember of any other got
accustomed to that after while"
ah,, 10 you know anything about citizens being
abused IN the prisOn2"
One day two eonvicts in the shop where
was got INTO hight, and one OF them got cut
oad bo about the head | took a bandana
ana helped him fix up his head. After the
conFictS were taken away Lemon told ma
that ne wanted me to distinctly understand
thaf It wasn't part of my business there to
saw convict's head being
SEVERED FROM HIS BODY
need not interfere r'
What dc you know about Colligan's de-
meanor and treatment of prisoners?"
lie was always surly." -. -.
How about Deputy Warden Lemon ?"
:. ne seemed to be too hot-tempered TO be
In charge OF the convicts."
On cross-examlnation Berggren rehearsed
tle story OF the Reed and Fleury and ThCmp-
s son aaa a1 without contradiction. The de-
Lemon on account Of some trouble over wit
tbsf pass pass oqt Berggren insisted that on
antIy and he had shown no spirit
DEFENSE STARTED THEN.
Tbs closed the accusatlve testimony. and
Judge Nethaway called a COlOred convict VhCr
mad spent twelve years and half i'm the
prison, his life sentence had been commuted
10 twenty-five years. He was now on parole
He had never seen any convict struck but
had heard that they were. He was requested
" LSSblly ny state Agent Whittier.
He denied having had told Witness Elan
merry IN the morning that he was afraid 10
tell what he knew. He said he had known
tbii liza, long time and Flannery had told
MIN he did not like some of the officers but
had not asked him to testify
ONE WANTED TO GET OUT
Another paroled prisoner. sent IN for rob
oery, Tom Hennepin county told about his
experiences IN the solitary. After Warden
WolIer came he always got bread once and
water three times a day, but during Garyin's
time they did not give him bread On cross
examination this man said that he had once
trled to escape, in 1892. or 1898 and it de-
Veloped that on the night that he planned to
escape he saw by mirror he had i'm his cell
5 1S GIennon at the end of the cell house
IHdC AFTERNOON, however. he was tipped
OH that they were on to his DIan and
were going to shoot him when he came ont
SO ne dld not try to get away that night
Did you tell Mr.. Wolfer that the G. / q h a
was naTaSSing you to tell what you knew2'
told him that newspaper men were try
ms 10 pump me and l was afraid they might
lection "'"'7~ p'o-
We're they G lobe mem"
,,, 40 not Know They were newspaper
NO, Did ID! you tell Mr.. wolfer they were Globe
r,o ~ mi may have. thought they were Globe
Witness tried to describe the men. One
ne said was a tall. slim fellow with gray
IN MS hair and mOustache the latter being
cut close. The other was a smaller TaaT
with little sdeburns W
lie insisted that he was telling the truth
and that he was not afraid SO fo do 1''''
day. ''"'i'oie lo' the
As Warden Wolfer wanted to go to the
prison congress at Austin Tex. last night and
as he also wanted to be present at the hear
iuss, ana as the attorneys, all of them had
ouf3ines5 III the courts, aside from the in
curry, 1t wa finally decided to adjourn 1is-
M NJ Dec 10, with the understanding that if
VT. Fehney should be detained in court mt
trip. ~ save hIIn the
r IT was also determined that the next meet
IN the meantime, Attorneys Penney and
NethaWay Will go to Milwaukee to Get tba
G r tEl ION OF former convict now residing