The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-05

for this purpose.
Besides the monument a suitable tablet
to mark the spot where Gov. Goebel was
shot will be provided for.
The names of the pallbearers were not
decided upon until late in the evening.
They are as follows: ~
Honorary Pallbearers-J. G. S. Black
burn, Gen. Joseph H. Lewis, Judge w. s.
Pryor, Hon. J. B. McCreary, Hon. Phil
B. Thompson, Hon. James III. Mulligan,
Louis Descognets, Samuel j. Shackelford,
Joseph L. Shinock, Joseph w. Pugh, zach
Phelps w. r. Haldeman, Charles B.
Poyntz, Morton Kountz.
The following active pallbearers will act
in Frankfort: Jack Chinn, Charles G.
McChord, Ed Fennell, James NJ. Richard
son, Henry George, Eph Lillard, Willard
H. ]. K. Hendrick, John Fulton, Urey
Woodson, Joseph Blackburn Jr., Allie w.
Young, S. B. Franklin, Percy Haley.
WALKER RELEASED.
Alonzo Walker, the stenographer, who
was placed under arrest on the charge
of melting the soldiers of the state guard
to mutiny while pinning a notice of a
proposed application for an injunction
upon the door of the Office of Gov. Tay-
lor was released this morning.
The release was not made in response
to the writ of habeas corpus which Sher-
If Sutter tried in vain yesterday to serve
upon Gov. Taylor. The latter concluded
that Walker had remained in custody
for a sufficient length of time, and told
him to go home. The charge of melting
to mutiny has not been quashed, but
Walker may not be brought before
court-martial, as was at one time contem-
plated by the officers of the state guard.
At 10 o'clock this morning Col. Roger
Williams entered the room in the execu-
tive building and remarked to Walker:
'Well, Mr.. Walker, we have agreed to
| an exchange of prisoners, and you are
to be given your freedom"
IT can go, can 70? asked Walker.
'I guess so," was the reply, and the
colonel then added, with a laugh: I'VE
have exchanged you for one Zulu and
| three Filipinos, and as we expect them
every minute 1 guess it will be all right
for you to have your freedom"
Walker was then allowed to go after
notice had been served upon him that
the charge against him was still pending
and could be pushed at any time if the
military authorities should SO decide He
told Col. Williams that he intended to
| remain in Frankfort.
VARIOUS RUMORS.
| Various rumors were circulated in re-
| gard to the reasons for the sudden re-
| lease of Mr.. Walker; among them being
| a report that his release by order of
| Gov. Taylor was in Difference to a tele-
gram from Washington advising his dis
| charge. Gov. Taylor was too busy to be
| seen in regard to the matter, but Adjt.
| Gen. Collier emphatically denied that
| any such reason existed for Walker s
| release.
1.-THE idea is absurd said Gen. Collier.
| mo such telegram has been received,
| either from the authorities at Washing
| ton or from any one else. Mr.. Walker 8
| arrest was simply matter OF military
| discipline. He was not discharged, but
simply given his liberty until arrange
| ments can be made for his trial by court
martial. When this will be held has not
been determined, and probably will not
| be at present Mr.. Walker was not even
| paroled, although he offered to sign a
| formal parole But we did not consider
| this necessary, as he promised to be on
| hand when his trial was called, and his
J word Is sufficient"
Asked If Mr.. Walkers release was In
fluenced at all by desire to forestall
any possible application In the federal
court for a writ of habeas corpus, Adjt.
Gen. Collier said: mot in the least.
AS 1 said his arrest was simply matter
Of military discipline. He was the first
to attempt to incite mutiny, and we con-
sidered that any attempts of that kind
should be nipped in the bud"
"a wrong impression apparently pre-
| walls in regard to the reasons for the ar
! rest" said Col. Williams. 'Mr. Walker
| was heard to make statements two days
before his arrest that were regarded as
mutinous, and persons overhearing his
remarks made affidavit to- that effect.
| Those affidavits are now on file with
| the governor The order for his arrest
| was accordingly made out by Gov Tay-
| lor, and we were only waiting for IA
vorable opportunity to arrest him. His
| arrest at the time that it did occur was
| as unlocked for by US as 1t was by him,
| and was more of an accident than de-
| sign Mr.. Walker himself will tell you
that the order for his arrest was read to
him two minutes after he was arrested.
! 1t is simply nonsense to say that he was
| confined because he pinned court no.
tice on the governors door,"
NO PLACE FOR PRISONERS.
cts q trivial matter" continued Col.
Williams. "Since Mr.. Walkers arrest we
have hardly given the matter thought,
and his liberty was granted him simply
! for the reason that to keep him in con-
! fnement was not only hardship to him
! but to us also, as we had made no pro-
vision for prisoners. 1t will take some
| time to get together the judge advocate
and members of the .court-martial, and
we have no desire to inf1ict any needless
hardship on Mr.. Walker.
In response to request Col. Williams
produced from the flies the order for the
arrest.
Mr. Walker will return the following
notice of the service of the injunction
! summons tomorrow:
1.-The affiant Alonzo Walker, says he
executed the written notice by entering
the executive building in Frankfort, KY,
and attempting to gain admission to w.
! S. Taylor. After being refused admission
he then posted a copy of the written no.
| tice on the door facing the inner pri-
vate office of said W. S. Taylor at L
o'clock noon on the I'd day of February,
| 1900, in which said offices were the said
/ w S. Taylor and Daniel Golfer"
1.-The aff1ant further states that he is not
| interested directly of indirectly in the
| matter of litigation and he is a citizen OF
Kentucky and over sixteen years of age.
"Affiant further states that the reason he
did not make an immediate or earlier re-
turn of the execution of said notice was
because he was Immediately by order OF
said w. S. Taylor arrested and had been
since the said second day of February,
1900. confined as a prisoner in the state
house at Frankfort and kept under guard
by armed men under command of w. s.
Taylor, Daniel Collier, @. G.. Mengel, D.
w. Grany, Horace Corcoran, Lieut.. Rog-
ers and Lieut. Rudy until twenty minutes
after Ii o'clock of February 4, 1900, when
affiant was discharged without trial."
LEGISLATORS SCARCE.
Members of the legislature are exceed
ingly scarce in Frankfort today. Nearly
every member has left the city, the Re-