The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-17

disposed of, but the visitors looked over
the stewing cauldron, and inspected
the interest the huge bake ovens,
stacks of white bread, and the flour
store house, where, on top of the great
piles of sacks, kittens frolicked with
careless disregard of the official digni-
tar1es, and proved that contentment
prison, at least
Then the visitors looked over the
bath rooms and the laundry, and then
went into the big cell house, before
they Inspected with interest Claus
Blixt's domicile, and the chapel, where
they were shown the scene Of Charles
Hahn's encounter with the prison
guards, which, 1t Is claimed, was the
precipitation of his removal to the
Rochester asylum The sanitary and
Yent1lat1ng arrangements were looked
into, and the party visited the object,
perhaps of the chief interest-the hos
pital and the solitary.
FOUND THEM CHAINED UP.
Three of the cells in the solitary had
their handsome little wooden doors
locked, but the others were open. On
the closed door in each case was a
card with the name Of a convict, with
the charge against him and the hour
and minute at which he was confined
in the commodious, but hardly COM
Portable, cells.
After the commissioners had exam
ined the odd little wooden platform
raised an inch or two from the floor,
which constitutes the only sleeping
place in these solitaries, Deputy War
den Lemon directed that the closed
cells be opened, and Convicts Peter
Curry and Fritz Rohde were found
handcuffed and chained to the grated
doors within. The commissioners in
spected the handouts and found that
they were evidently not tearing the
flesh in any way. The cards on the
outside of the cells denoted that the
prisoners We're confined there for at
prisoners were confined there for, at
7:l5 Saturday morning, lighting on
had, therefore, been in the solitary
nearly eighty consecutive hours.
Judge Flandrau read one Of them a
very brief lecture:
Why don't you reserve your hghtlng
for your country?" he asked.
IF they'd let me out of here I'd be
glad to fight for it," replied the prison.
err with some show of enthusiasm.
Deputy Warden Lemon then explain
ed that the prisoners had shown signs
OF a desire to be released in the fore
noon, but that he had continued them
III confinement in order that it might
not be said that they were let cut just
before the arrival of the investigators.
The third prisoner in the solltarleS
was Edward Lee, The central figure In
the disturbance of yesterday morning,
as testified to by DR.. Hedbeck. His
hands were released from the grated
doors temporarily. so that he could
turn around and show the inspectors
the gaping wound in ;he back of his
head. 1t did not develop in the testi-
mCny of the day with what the wound
was made, bur It is Supposed that 1t
was where the quarts cane struck
Lin in quelling the disturbance. The
commissioners inspected these canes,
OF & part of them at least, looked
through the hospital, enjoyed breezy
chat with Cole Younger, studied the
Bertison system OF measurements,
throughly inspected the hospital and
the "bug-house'' or crazy cells" and
then went through the shoe factory,
engine rooms, wood anG machine shop,
where the school supplies are made.
and finally found very interesting
field in the binding twina plant, which,
it had been explained Informally in the
morning, had made $4,000 to the state
in the last year, bringing the prison
within Sc, 13 of being self-supportjng,
to say nothing Of the saving it afford
ed the farmers of the state, who were
enabled to get lower prices on Irvine.
1t was 4 o'clock before the tour of
inspection was finally ended.