The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-23
New Facts Brought to Light by Prison In
vestigators Yesterday.
First Minneapolis Session
Produces Plethora of Startling Revelations of Still
water Prison Doings.
But the Commission Will Meet
Again Tomorrow at the Court
House in minneapolis.

that no one should strike the prisoners, at
least during working hours, except himself
or the assistant deputy"
KICKED A CRAZY CoNsUMPTIvE.
Witness also related the experience of
crazy prisoner named Mcdonald, who dashed
out of the hospital building one morning and
ran down the prison yard and into the twlne
shop. When he was brought back, GiennC.l
threw him down on the floor, and, while VII,
ness held Mcdonald down on his hands and
knees, Lemon kicked the prisoner. sur
gical operation had to be performed on him
a short time afterward. Witness on cross-eX-
animation was somewhat confused as TO
dates but clung tenacously to the incidents
of the Hahn assault. Hahns wound, be said,
was dressed by Cole Younger and the wit
ness.
The Johnson affair was then gone into.
When Davis the other runner" called
Lemon in Guard Gallagher told witness to
go in with him. Lemon unlocked the soil
tary cell himself.
to Johnson
The noisy man kept on laughing, somewhat
"sassily," as the witness expressed 1t:
You shut up that noise, said Lemon,
as he struck the prisoner twice.
Lemon had hardly gotten up stairs to his
Office before johnson began making a noise
again.
In regard to the unidentified man from the
twfne shop, or engine ROOM the witness said
that Lemon asked him why he picked UP a
hammer every time he, Lemon, came through
the shop. The injury on his hand resulted
in confusion of the witness, who first teSt-
fed that it was gashed by Lemons second
blow and afterwards said that Lemon only
struck the fellow once, that he saw. He
thought the prisoner might have caused it
by striking it against the cell door
On the Mcdonald case it was brought out
that that man was known as Jesse James
Mcdonald Mr.. Nethaway brought out the
fact that Mcdonald died of consumption,
after he had been pardoned on account OF
his failing health From the time that ne ne
sick CALI frequently, every day or nearly
Glennon seized Mcdonald roughly by the
shoulder and the fellow fell down on his
hands and Knees. Lemon said, Get up,
and kicked him. Mcdonald had told witness
he was going to be operated on, and he
thought it was on account OF Lemon kicking
him.
THAT BROKEN CANE AGAIN.
On redirect examination Mr.. Penney elicit
ed the further fact that on one occasion
Lemon came up to the hospital with a bleed
ing prisoner and Lemons cane was broken.
He did not know the mans name.
In one case a man had refused to work,
and Deputy Warden Lemon, the witness IN
derstood ordered Guard Gallagher not to
give him any water. His bread and water
the witness saw on Jn6 WINDOW Sill TWO OF
three times that day, apparently untouched.
He said he had not had any water all day.
This man, it was revealed on cross-examina-
ton, was Terry the negro highwayman sent
up from Minneapolis.
The witness was also asked in regard to
the of rheumatic patient who
dragged down stairs by the feet, but his tes
timony to this incident was blind, or
rather all hearsay.
Attorney Nethaway endeavored to impeach
the witness veracity by the imputation that
he was sent up for desertion and theft Wit
ness said he had been charged with stealing
bicycle. but protested his innocence of the
second charge.
Judge Flandrau closed the examination
with a question as to the witness own be-
lravior in prison. Witness had testified in
explanation of his indefniteness and uncer-
tainty to dates, that his time had been
devoted in the prison chiefly TO figuring what
was the shortest possible time in which he
could get out The judge asked him how
he did this, and he said it was by getting
ten al the rules would allow. Deputy War
den Lemon had never abused him, nor had
any one else over there, and he hadn't been
degraded.
O'MEARA MADE THINGS HUM.
1t was evident from the time that Timothy
O'Meara took the stand that the fur was
going to fly in few minutes.
The witness, tall, 1.-the, but robust young
fellow, with a determination to be heard
regardless of sarcastic or menacing inter
polations which was manifest in a few mo-
ments, had wonderful fund of Renaissance
in regard to the prison. and he found it
difficult to separate in some cases the prin-
cpal and material from that which was
merely corroborative, auxiliary or just in
teresting.
At first he was inclined to be laboriously
precise. Il was appointed by Warden Albert
Garvin Sept. IA, 1891, and gave my resigna
ton to Warden Henry Wolfer April, 1S93.''
The witness then related his various serv-
ices at the pen. First he was supernumerary,
then he had charge of crew in excavatlng
for the new paint shop, and again he was
on the wall. Witness explained that when
he was on the wall he had asked to be re-
lieved because he, with all the others, had
been vaccinated, and he had caught cold. 1t
was getting dangerously close to lunch time,
however, and Judge Flandreau took occasion
to admonish the witness to keep as c.ose to
the basic facts as he could. He was in the
finishing room at the twine factory, he said,
and again he on machine one the
technical name for Machine Shop No. 1.
NELS HEEN's CASE.
Asked as to brutal treatment of prisoners
by Deputy Warden Lemon. 0'Meara cited the
case of Nels Heen, who, it alleged in his
charges in the | b e, died soon after be-
ing badly beaten by Lemon. OMeara's de-
scription of the assault was the sensation
of the day, perhaps, it being the first time
the has been brought out in the Off
cal inquiry, although the readers of the
| o b e have been informed as to it.
''It was about the last of August or the
first of September 1892" said OMeara. THIS
old man. he must have been pretty near
seventy I should say, and very feeble, as
well as an imbecile-I always thought he
was an imbecile-was going out. That morn
ing I was on duty at the water closet where
the men emptied their buckets as they fled
out of their cells in the morning. Heen
couldn't speak word OF English, and when
he came down stairs the deputy said some
thing to him, and guess Heen grunted. and
Lemon grabbed him and jerked him out Of
the line and shook him up, and then pushed
his head against the wall; at least, | could
hear the door making noise when he was
pushing his head against the door. Then
down comes the cane, and Heen. the old
man. gets 1t back here and O'Meara in
dicated a semi-sidewise sweep of the stick
across the feeble prisoners shoulders. He
hustled him right out there pretty violently
and I never saw old Heen after that alive
The deputy hit him with large bludgeon
with a crooked handle that he used to carry
hooked over his arm most of the time.
What was Deputy Warden Lemons man
ner?" asked Mr.. Penny.
He acted very hostile that morning. Ben
Cayou was standing right there and he
looked at me- and he put his hand to his
mouth, he told me"
But Cayou is dead, and his story was
ruled out in response to an objection by
Il never used to report the old man. con-
tinued O'Meara. Il always felt, and I did
that morning, he was more an object for
eommiseration than enmity. Guard Parker
told me the old man couldn't understand
English 1 don't know what the deputy said
to him that morning.
Finally the counsel informed O'Meara that
the Heen case had been exploited efficiently,
and he was asked if he ever saw any other
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