The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-15
JORDAN TOLD BOARD
HIS STORY MARCH z.
Statements Then Made Agree
Closely With the Charges
Published In the Globe.

The board of control had q COM
plete transcript of the charges made
by w. B. Jordan against the official
conduct of Warden Henry W'oHer as
early as March 2, but the board, when
pressed by the public to know what It
was going to do about the charges
said that it had nothing to investigate;
that no charges had been made against
Wolfer, and that when charges were
made they would receive the fullest
attention of the board.
The first official statement as COM
ing from the board was last Saturday
March l2---when 1t gave out the de-
NAL of Warden Wolfer that he was the
owner of stock in either the old or the
new shoe company, and the state
ments, by R. H. Bronson and W. H.
Caldwell. Even then the board of con-
troll gave no sign that it believed VOL
fer's story or disbelieved It,
A transcript of the conversation at
the conference between W. B. Jordan
and the members of the board Of con-
troll on the occasion Of the interview
had with Mr.. Jordan with the board
when it became generally known that
Jordan was making charges against
Warden Wolfer in connection with the
been obtained.
The interview with the board was
held on the evening of March 2, and
Jordan later demanded transcript of
the evidence.
The board of control, it will be re-
membered, insisted that it had fur
nished Jordan with copy. The lat
ter denied having received it, and
while the letter accompanying the
transcript sent to Mr.. Jordan is dated
March 4 he did not, in fact, receive 1t
until March IL, when he had left the
state, and not until he, through T he
G o e, had made complete and de-
tailed statement of all circumstances
leading up to the award of the contract
for a term Of ten years to R. H. Bron-
son. The perfect and close connec-
ton between the evidence and the
statement given out by the board of
control as the official transcript of the
proceedings had before it on March 2
is such as to prove beyond a doubt
/ that Mr.. Jordan's statement is thor
oughly genuine, and that when. he
| made his statement to the board of
control he made what he considered
to be a true presentation of the facts
| involved in the case.
1t would be wholly impossible for
| any man to make extemporaneously a
| statement of facts and to conform SO
close to his evidence as given before
| the board of control ten days before
unless he had every reason to believe
| that his later statement and his earlier
evidence were wholly true.
Boards Apparent Reluctance.
The fact that the board of control
refuses to make a statement of its
position and its belief or doubt in VOL
consideration that it gave out no
statement at all until Jordan was
safely outside the state-he having
been ordered by his physician to go tG
California not calculated to slim
ulate confidence in the board nor to
strengthen belief that Wolfer Is being
| unjustly accused.
Following are few extracts from
| the testimony taken before the board
at the session Of March 2:
Mr.. Leavett-Well, 1 think that perhaps
we had better clear this matter up in
Mr. Jordan's mind as he goes along. Now,
notice in a letted danted Jan. IA His
proposed notice did day Thursday, Feb
| 4, the bids would be opened, but that
was not the notice of this board and
board for the purpose of being approved
| We didn't approve it, but we changed
the form to read Feb 10. in the first
| place, up to which time the bids would
that there should be a certified check
accompanying the proposition, also a
clause empowering US to reject any and
l.