The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-23
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of brutal or extraordinary severe


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instances of brutal or extraordinary severe
punishments.
JABBED HITTER's HEART.
Yes" said O'Meara. There was con-
Wet there by the name Of Fred or FRANK
Hitter. When the men were filing out he
might have been eighth Of an inch out OF
line, or something like mat and the dep
uty warden was standing right by the door:
He jabbed Hitter with his cane pretty hard
right under the heart and Hitter complained
tosane about it .afterward in the shop, but l
did not give him any satisfaction. go
What did the deputy strike him for p
Il don't know, SIR But can understand,
too, If am allowed to tell a conversa tl3i
| l had with him. 1t was one day in the fall.
| We were out in the yard, and there was
| barber named Sullivan out there shaving
| the men. Lemon said to me, says ne, BE
| careful of that man. And said ala NOT
see he was very dangerous. He was allowed
| to shave the men, and like that, end Lemon ION,
the deputy, he says to me, i knocked lb MN
and I says: Surely YOU would not do that
without provocation, and the deputy says
| ooh, he was talking back.
| day, and there was fellow in one OF the
solitary cells crying for his motheT, anu II
touched O'Meara's heart and he Weht
outside and sat down, and when ne saw Tue te
| deputy again he told him he didn want 20
be detailed on the solitary, ana Lenl1n sou ~,
that sort of thing didn't have any , erect on
him at all 81 &C. could st here e those f fellows
pay tough" said Lemon. notlGe La. Sns.t
Lemons hotel amt ver< q ar with these
And | says continued oMeara ''if I
was naming it, l wouldn't call 1t Lemon
hotel. I'd call it Lemons inf1rmary, ana
noticed wasn't detailed or on duty 10 'he SUI
''One day the deputy warden, he says TO
! the guards as they were getting ready 10
/ go: There are too many gettlng llto me
Il n
reported Next day wnSr G aed t'ir, insI
i around for my reports, l handed MN JG u.s.
one, and he says: L expected ten or WEI or
/ from YOU and l says: I wont let Ina or az
! der of the deputy's brighten me, | reported oa
man for talking and ! warned Hln ar oIiI9
and ne was talking again ana l ~ tet' 49, aI
! not to report convicts for minor olfenseS'
( ard 10 give them timely warning .tono
! oMeara sail tina: when he ~e1;I ELL mere re
/ Warden Garvin had told HIM never u
strike convict unless in self defense 5l anu 4ar
I that order had never been rsscinded SO IA
! as he knew by Warden " oifef. ne ma
| tried to obey that rule and would never I'VE,
strike Jrisoler without great provocS lou.
He had demonstrated this once IN tne Cue oe
OF convict named La Forge VINO no. w " ;
/ threatening to make trouble, ana W4th-ss u
! nc. even strike him. ,
''oh. yes interrupted Judge Nethaway,
with biting sarcasm, mes the leli "a H. STo
wanted to got at after some one else had MIN
! Gown TT.
mo didn't" rot3rted O'Meara VITA spirit.
| Don't you try to intimidate me win your
| phrascology."
! The commission and the counsel wan;ei
| other specific cases. and O'Meara struck q
! new trail.
M'NIFF WAS "BUG-HoUSE.
when had charge Of the crew dgging
! the paint house bank away, there was
! q convict in nv lot named McNif. Nc
/ Niff came to me one day and his eyes were
rolling and he appeared to be insane, ana ne
said he wasn't going to work any more. lie
! had too much work t0 do, and he was not
/ going to stand it. says to him, take your
| pick ard SHOVEL and go back, McNin, and
! So to work, and I'll come and hep you IN
| a few minutes" and / ''jollied' him. and that
| seemed to kind of appea5e him, and he went
! back and next day Glennon, who was the
assistant deputy then, he came along ana
| says: How goes it % and l"sayS, ~ OBJECT
! to having inEane men worHingain my creaw,
! and he says. who's that" and says Nc,
| Milf, ,, and he says: oh. he's bug-house,
| and gays 9'' What's that?' and he says; fer
had never heard ths, term. then: andsIhe
! says ON, he's got wheels, and l says,
| That's right" and he says: Il guess you've
! got the RICH, word, he's insane" | says,
How do you account for man Of his ply
! s;que" he was not very tall OF stature but he
! had broad shoulders and locked strong
How 90 you account -, says ci for ms 6 o
"Oh. too much of the solitary L guess. L
| asked that he be taken cut of my crew be-
! cause he might assault somebody there and
! after that he was takenAef to the asylum at
! Rochester and heJjumped through car
window at the depot a. Saltwater, and 1t took
four men to hold him when they gCS him 10
the asylum.
II always was suspicious of old man Heen
i after | found he was stealing. He took
towels and had lot of them up on the
| third floor slowed away. Once the deputy
says to me: Why didn't you report the -
! old stiff, I'd like to take white out of him,
/ by which suppose he meant he wanted to
! put him in the solitary"
Witness testified that for two days in sue
| cesson a convict named Davis employed in
his shop bothered him with incessant re-
quests to be permitted to go to the closet.
! His suspicious were aroused that one of the
| citizen Workmen was bringing nDavis some
| thing. He finally ordered Davis to the ply
! sican and reported the citizen to the fore
/ man. Mr. Bronson. The physician reported
that Davis had taken morphine enough TO
kill six men, and the citizen workman was
| discharged During the investigation of this,
! at Assistant Deputy GlennOn's instance, wit
ness had spied on the men from behind their
machines, d practice for which he was re-
buked by the warden thereafter.
WAS UNFIT FOR WORK.
what DO YOU know about John sher-
| MANI" asked Mr.. Penney.
! He was man VINO mad been excused from
working in the shaking room, where they
| shake out the sisal grass and hemp and,
there is lot of dust, and Foreman Hanion
| wanted me to report him for not working
harder. l told Hanlon it was not my place
! to make any such report and he jumped out
/ and ran ever to the deputy wardens Office
and they came and took Sherman off to the
! solitary and he was there seven or eight days
| and when he came back he was a physical
! wreck He was a man of poor physique
! anyway and when he came hack he was as
| thin as a rail and that nervous l told the
| sisLant deputy he unfit to work, and L
was afraid if l put him to work he'd have
| his fingers cut off in the machinery, and ne
| didn't go to work and Sherman told me he
| wanted to see the beard of managers and the
| warden and the governor, an he had hear
ing before the board OF managers, and he was
| exonerated which practically meant that he
was uujustly punished, for their action re-
stored him to his grade, which he had lost
| when he came OUT of the solitary.
Asked about Deputy Warden Lemons de-
meancr the witness said
| "He seemed to beaa man of ungovernable
| temper. He would have no control of his
| temper. at all. Sometimes during these as
! saults u would be difficult for him to- speak
| and he'd hustle the prisoners out unceremoni-
ously."
Senator O'Brien quizzed O'Meara somewhat
to remove an expression which he thought
! was given by OMe4ra that the investigation
Of the board into Sherman S case was forced
and not voluntary. This was explained TO
every ones sltiSfaction5l
Warden Wolfer asked O'Meara about the
cells in the solitaryyi and O'Meara said he
| had not been in thee solitary much and did
! not know much abouto the windows in the
/ rear side of these cells.
The noon recess was then taken.
! On the resumption of the session Attorney
Nethaway began a fierce cross-examination
assault could not havef been witnessed by
| Guard .N(f,racken 0'Meara had Testified