The San Francisco call., 1897-06-01
CRUSHING
OUT THE
REVOLT
San Quentin's Warden
Resorts to Drastic
Measures.
GUARDS INSTRUCTED TO
SHOOT.
Order to Be Restored Though
Every Mutineer Is
-. Killed.
PRISON DIRECTORS ADVISE
FIRM ACTION.
fhe Hose Is Turned On the Con-
victs and They Cease Their
Snarllng Clamor.
GUARDS INSTRUCTED TO
SHOOT.
Order to Be Restored Though
Every Mutineer Is
Killed.
PRISON DIRECTORS ADVISE
FIRM ACTION.
fhe Hose Is Turned On the Con-
Victs and They Cease Their
Snarllng Clamor.

SAN QUENTIN. CAL, May 31.-''War-
len Hale is instructed to enforce order
md discipline if every convict in San
Quentin prison must be shot"
This was the emphatic answer Of the
Board of Prison Directors to-day to
Warden Hale's application FOR instruc-
ion to quell the present prison mutinv.
IN top OF this came a special message
rom Governor Budd in San Francisco de-
laring that all prisoners who refused to
b 70 work at once would be denied
kstoration OF their citizenship upon their
discharge from prison and that no appli-
alton for executive clemency in their be-
= hlf would be entertained. AS result
rider is in a fair way TO be restored and
he prison tonight is as quiet as a ceme-
: cry.
=. Three members OF the Prison Board ar
ived at o'clock to discuss the gravity of
be situation and decide on measures to
uppress the refractory prisoners. They
tere Directors Hayes, Fitzgerald and
wilkins. Director de Pue kept in touch
18th their doings by telephone. At first
he prison authorities professed TO see no
igniicance in the presence of the direc-
Drs, but it is n ot every day three mem.
ers of the board meet by accident in
-Earden Hale's Office. Director Fitzgerald
lade the trip by pleasure launch with a
arty of friends.
The three directors went into executive
sssion O. clock with Warden Hale and
Ierk Ellis. The situation at the prison
ias discussed at some length. Warden
Hale related the circumstances attending
Le strike, and his efforts to suppress or
bate it. He explained that he was not
clined to resort to extreme N cas- ures
nIess he had the consent and approval of
ie board.
This he was readily granted. All three
the directors were heartily in favor of
iking q stern course. Director Hayes
bought protracted course of starvation
light be expedient. Director Wilkins
oted for the fire hose as an instrument to
ring the constant yelling and cursing 10
end. Even tricing by the thumbs and
ogginR were suggested, but it is not
keIy that these punishmenls will be in
Oked.
Warden Hale was empowered to use
by force he may deem necessary to break
he mutiny at once. Yelling in the cells
. to be punished with a douche from the
re hose. Prisoners who persist in stick
lg their heads out of the cell wickets or
laking any attempt to come out of their
uarters are to be shot down as if they
ere sheep. Badgering the guards, loud
onversation or any infraction of the pri-
on rules however slight, is to be summa-
1y dealt with.
Governor Budd was informed OF the
of
pproyed of it. He Immediately notified
Tarden Hale that he would do all in his
over tc assist the directors, and promul-
Ated an order to the effect that all prison
IS who refused to 60 to work at once or
lded or abetted any further resistance
iould be denied restoration of citizen
alp on their discharge. The Governors
lder was sweeping in its nature, as it was
irected against even all sympathizers
ith the revolt, and contemplates the 1ul
Etent of the power of the executive for
ich an occasion.
Immediately after the directors con-
uded their deliberations the following no.
ce was posted in the courtyard of the
tison:
NOTICE.
At q meeting of the State Board OF Prison
AAVSAO4SI ASAN bu4S dhg dt Cdu QUSnLlus the
flowing resolution was unanimously
1opted
ResoIred, That the Warden is instructed to
lforce the most strict discipline, and In case
ny convict attempts to come out of his cell
lthout order from the officers in charge, or
!iuses 20 obey orders from said officer, after
wing him warning, all iorce shall be used.
Id, if necessary, offenders wIn be shot down,
w. E. HALE, Warden.
nards' quarters also.
Warden Hale will offer all who wish to
to work tomorrow morning an oppor-
anity. Seventy of the men in the tanks
lpitnlated this evening, and were allowed
return to their old quarters. From
lmmon-sense standpoint, aside from the
rath that will now fall upon them, the
,itude of the remainder of the convicts
ould appear ridiculous. They may be
BE to sustain themselves on bread and
ater and thrive on the sunless atmos-
here of the tank cells for weeks. but in
ie end it would seem that they must
ipitulate with disadvantage.
But tight here a factor enters into the
tuation tnat ought to have no place in
tnal institutions. A sort OF shuttle
bard politics reaches out of the rear way
the prison. Men have come TO San
hentin and retained their pull after don.
ing the stripes. Some of the miscreants
no demolished the dungeons on Satur-
ly have friends outside, TO whom they
ok for assistance, and the. strange
trt of all is that in the past these
friends" have been equal to the task of
terting some mysterious influence in be-
- A -
te present proportions ought apparently
lcall for at least a wholesale loss of cred
1; but Warden Hale says that this is a
hitter for the Prison Directors to pass
BON, and at to-day's meeting this course
hs approved.
The convicts appear to have confidence
their own resources to head off any