The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-18
FORESTER LOSES HIS JOB.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE FURNISHED
THE TIP THAT REALLY CAME
FROM ALEXANDER.
DIR. MERR1LL's CONTRADICTIONS.
His Various Statements rs to HnI,n's
Head Appear. to BE Very Hard
to Reconcile.

Der expense lists of the state prison at
saltwater, which have been filed dur
ing the week in the Office of State
Auditor Dunn at the capitol.
They de- not show that any appro-
priation of state moneys has been
made for the purchase of horse meat
for convict diet as wasrtestified to by
one witness, but they do show that a
number of guards have received extra
stipends since the G o b e began It's
publication of prison charges, and sim
gularly enough these are the very men
whose testimony was most positive and
graphic acquittal Of Deputy War
den Lemon from any charge of brutal
ity or inhuman treatment of prisoners.
The expense list shows that Guards
Parker, Bloom and Stilkey received
$3.50 each for extra work in prison
night school"
Bloom is the man who testified him
self to having smashed convict on
the head from behind with a heavy
cane, an act in it's silent heroism suffi-
GENTLY. inspiring to send his name rat
proudest figures in human history
with his $3.50 douceur for night school
work in one hand.
Stilkey did yeOman service. He tes-
titled that Glennon did not throw the
Indian down stairs from the store
room, and he got $3.50, too.
Parker testified, principally, to seeing
Forester knock Hahn down twice
This was hardly material to the charg-
es against Lemon, save as it contra
dicted Forester, but Parker also got
$3.50 for night school work.
McFall, who bitterly resented Ew-
ing's claim that he and McFall were
in charge of the crew that was taking
the sisal out of the car when Ander-
son was hurt, is shown by the pay
roll for November, 1897, to be a wall
guard still, although he testified that
he had been in the prison five years.
The pay roll also shows that Tom
Alexander has gone to work again at
the prison, he having worked three and
one-half days there during November,
for which he received from the state
treasury $7.57. Alexander left the
prison in the summer, and was the
man who gave the G l o b the first in
formation which, pursued, brought
about the investigation.
One day at the state fair, Alexander,
conversation with a G o b report
er whom he knew, said that the state
prison was resting on a volcano which
would one day go off and shake the
state from center to circumference
Alexander said there were things go
ing on In that prison which the people
of the state of Minnesota would not
stand for" If they knew them.
Alexander, although he was in the
prison service at the time of a num-
Der Of the incidents testified to by the
| witnesses, was not called by the de-
Tense. During the early stages of the
investigation Alexander and Jack Glen
non decided to go on a hunting trip
when the commission met because mel
| Their wanted to testify. Alexander had
| a grievance against Lemon, which was
| reported as the cause Of his giving up
| his position. But before the investi-
| cation was over Alexander was back
on the prison pay roll, and Lemon
| story of why he changed it will some
| day be made public.
The same pay roll shows that GuarG
| Windolph, who, according to the testi.
nony Of one Of the witnesses had told
this young fellow as he left the prison
that If Windelph had been in the din.
| ing room the morning of one of the
rows under investigation, he, the youns
convict, would have had his head beat
en- off. Warden Wolfer explained t.
the commission that this Guard Win.
dolph had admitted making some sucI
remark, and the statement was quietly
given out that Windolph had been fired
for this, although it did not appear il
the testimony in the case 1t appear;
now, on the evidence of the prison pay
roll, that Windolph has been put tt
work again. and drew $14 for his ser
vices for the last few days Of Novem
Der. Perhaps some one was afraiC
Forester" would get him to testify
against Lemon. A-- --.-,-..
Westergreen is due to be heard from
soon.
The Forester bugaboo was one Of tn
farce comedy incidents of the entire in
vestigation. From the early stages O
the investigation until it's very close
the most overworked stage property Il
Bassanio Nethaway's repertoire wa
this man Forester, who was pictured
as a hateful, discharged guard, wreak
ing petty vengeance at the cost o
the ruin of a state institution. AS
matter of fact, this man Forester
as he was more or less disrespectfull
referred to at times, did not original
| the inquiry into the prison investiga
ton at all, although the prison peopl
thought he did, not knowing of AleXan
ders tip, but did take interest enoug
therein when the expose began, so tina
he did not flee from the fullest pub
licity, but came. at the request Of tn
G l o b e, some distance, to testify at tn
inquiry Since then he has been in
formed by the concern which then EN-
plcyed him, and to the office of Whic
frequently visits were made before For
roster testified, by an emissary Of tn
prison, for some purpose or anothe1
that his activity in the prison inquir
was distasteful to the concern, and h
has been released from service. TIL
man who sought the office in questio
so frequently in the hope, possibly, {
calling off, Forester, was not aske
about his activity" by Judge Meth
away, who put him on the stand, a.
though Nethaway did lay some stres
on questions Of similar import when