The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-21
TO INVESTIGATED
FOLSOM PRISON
The Wcrk Outlined BY the Grand jury
at Sacramento-Some Suspi-
ciouS Facts.

Sacramento, Cal-The Sacrament
20 grand jury has issued a number of
silbpOenas for witnesses for the pro-
posed investigation into the recent
break at Folsom Penitentiary. Fore
man Fred Martin says:
Il cannot say what scope our in
vestfgation will take. 1t has seemed,
however, to our body that in view
Of the many statements that have
been circulated about the matter,
that it is worth looking into, and we
propose to go to the bottom of the
acts when we start"
Among the witnesses who will tes-
tifv before the jury are number Of
ex guards. Among these are Joe
Primmer and Dell Cam, who now
work in the railway shops in this
city; and Prigmore, who acquired
fame at the time c. the ATTEMPTED.
break of Sontag, the train robber. On
that occasion Prigncre was ordered
not to shoot, bur he took the matter
rte his own hands and fired away
stopping The revolt a. once, and .cor
afterwards lie cot his Dismissal Cam
s another man who proved himself
beyond criticism in his work, yet it
vas determined that his services
we're no longer demanded.
Another man who viii likely give
ais 5e.timCny IS a guard VINO wa re
by the warden one day. it is said, and
was asked to hand over his rife for
inspection. While the warden was
looking at his gun convict started
% run and was making good his es-
cape, while the warden acted like 6
man with buck fecer," forgetting
nat lie had q weapon in his hands
Give ne the gun cried the guard
with some fOrcible addenda, and. grab
Ding the weapon. he fred one shOt
ahead OF the fugitive, saying: Halt
or III shoot TO kill The convict halt
ed and surrendered at once. The guard
apClCgized for his fOrcible language.
On the ground OF excitement, but he
was told in a short time that he could
seek some other livelihood, and was
allowed to leave the service.
The fact that thirteen Of the worst
mon in the prison could secure knives
and TaZOrs for such break is also
one of the points that the jury will
want 20 know all about. as we'll as
the fact that the dynamite which was
H. r. tn1 MO % Cr1rn clE N a
armOTy into opening the door was
brought to the prison in a wheelbar-
row BY a trusty. The WheelbarrOW
was left purposely, according to pre-
yjOus arrangement, right by the office
Of Captain Murphy, and il was the
role o. convict Roberts to secure the
dynamite. which was concealed under
leaves. This Roberts did while the
melee was going on at the office.
What the jury will want to know is
where did that dynamite come from?
If it was prison dynamite. why was Il
not discovered by a system Of check
ing against all of that article that was
issued for use in the quarry?
AnOIHer statement Wnlcn mas Deen
made on the authority of very prom
inent safe official is that during the
past year four convicts have made
their escape from the prison without
any knowledge OF this fact getting to
the public, though the board Of direc-
tors must have known all about it,
The source from which this report
comes entiales it 70 credence, and.
il it should prove true, that incijen;
will receive the attention it merits
CAN 5E RAISED IN WASHINGTON.