The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-30
What Became of
His Letter?
Joe 011inger Tells a Few
Things = Another Guard
Who Quit in Disgust-Sam
Langum Says 1t Is Posi-
bic An Investigation Might
Startle the State.

oiAO -NCCh dSO lHlS HlOTuIHS the
G o began to print statements and
affidavits about the reported cruelty of
state prison officials Every day since
something has been added to it, and
yet corroborative testimony continues
to be as easy to find as it was a week
ago.
Warden Wolfer has been treated to
daily revelation of what is alleged
to have been going on right in his own
institution and under his own eyes
almost, and yet he was reported in
one or two papers as saying there was
no truth in the stories. He may think
the same now, but there are whole
lot of people it seems who think other
wise Frank w. Temple is another
man who rushed into print with
sweeping denial of the statements
| made. He Is a member of the board of
prison managers, and, of course,
thought he knew all about it, He may
have received a hunch by this time
that perhaps there were some things
going on at the state prison that even
the board of managers had not been
advised of. If not, let him read tomor-
row mornings G 10 b e, when some
| thing is promised that may be even
more convincing than anything that
has yet appeared in print.
Today the G b adds to what has
| already been printed little more evil
| dence. In Mr.. Langum's newspaper,
the Preston Times, appears an edi-
! toriaL printed elsewhere in this paper.
| Mr.. Langum was prison official him
| self, and he says: IF the right sort of
| commission is appointed, they may find
condition of things past and present
that will startle the state"
| Another newspaper, the Ellsworth
| (Wis) Cleaner, in this weeks issue con-
| tains the following:
The G o b e s expose was the
| subject of conversation between
the editor of the Cleaner and Mir.
J. e. Elliott, proprietor of the For
est House, but formerly of Still
water. MIR. Elliott stated that the
charges made by the G o. d are
unauestiOnabIy true, for he himself
had seen Deputy Warden Lemon
knock prisoners down with clubs
| and canes and otherwise brataEly
treat them.
There are a number of interviews
llldl Lie SIO"o oCu OIl Cillo lIlOi HlIlS, JUL
there are other days, and they will all
appear sooner or later.
GLENN ADDS HIS TESTIMONY.
Harry A Glenn writes from Brecken-
ridge to verify some of the reports He
also says that Wolfer wouldn allow a
letter written to the legislature to
reach that body, while on the other
hand the writer was thrown into Il
6IIn0QOT Hero 10 tha letter.
To the Editor of the St Paul Globe.
Dear Sir: In looking over the contents
of your paper. l see that there is to be an
investigation in regard to the cruelty that
is practiced toward the inmates of the Still
water prison. and wish to say that the state
ment of an ex-guard in regard to the treat
ment of Convict Hahn is true in every re-
spect only the ex-guard does not put the
affair nearly as strongly as At really was.
| was an eye witness of the assault and
four of the officials including Deputy War
den Lemon and Guards Coligan, Parker and
I Glennon, jump onto Hahn and beat him
nearly to death. Furthermore, Convict Hahn
was not the only one that brutally beat
en- and togther with Lemon, there is not a
more cruel man living than Colligan and it
will be found upon fair and impartial in
vestigation that more cruel set of peop.e
do not exist on Gods green earth than the
present officials of this prison.
If Warden WoIfer is not afraid
of an investigation, why did he nat
make public the letter that I wrote
! to- the present Iegislaturet Instead,
however, they put me in the dun
geon and kept me there until L was
half dead, and then tried to Justify
their actions by telling me that L
had broken the rules.
The guards plot among themselves to get
prisoners punished, Colligan in particular
using this means of persecution. If the
committee that is to conduct the investiga-
tion SO desires, can and viii put ind:s-
the good people of this state II everything
is brought to light and some Of those of
fcials do not wear the convict's stripes it will
be marvel You will be doing an act of
justice If you will publish these few lines,
as can prove every word | have written,
and more. Very respectfully yours Gu,
Breckenridge, Mimi, Oct. g. 1897
OLLINGER'S EYES OPEN.
John Ollinger, of Minneapolis, an ex-
prisoner, committed by the United
States to serve a term for counterfeit
ing. tells some very interesting stories
of the prison, and he does it in calm.
earnest way, which convinces his hear
ers of their truth Mr.. Ollinger kept
his ewes open while in. prison-and in
| consequence of this he was frequently
| reported for looking around so ne
saw a great deal of what was going on
| and perhaps more than the officials
wish.
I A very suspicious thing, to Mr.. OIL
lineer. is that some convicts employed
as bookkeepers in the office of the
| prison have been pardoned on condl-
| ton of their leaving the state. he
mentions several instances of this and
affirms that an investigation VIII de-
velop some reason for this disposition
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