The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-12
WOLFER AND THE
BOARD HOLD A
COUNCIL OF WAR
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reply to the assertions made by Mr..
Jordan.
In reply to this invitation Judge o.
B. Gould said II have no statement to
make at this time. 1t has not yet been
settled that the board will make a
statement
S. w. Leavett said: "I can say for
the entire board that we are not ready
at this time to give out any statement
on this matter. and we will take time
for full consideration before doing So"
]. F. jacobson. chairman Of the
board, said: "That is fair enough, and
if our board should decide to make
statement we will probably take advan-
tage of T h e G. 0 b es Offer"
The board of control had a three
hour conference with Warden Wolfer
and r. H. Bronson, who succeeds the
Jordan company as shoe contractor at
the prison, at it's quarters in the state
capitol yesterday afternoon, but S. w.
Leavett, of the board, said. when the
other two members had left the build
ing, just before O'Clock, that there
would be nothing for publication to-
night" The inference was that a state
ment was in course of preparation and
that it would be made public possibly
tomorrow. Chairman J. f. Jacobson
and o. B. Gould, the other two MEM
bers of the board, left last evening for
Red Wing, to make a regular monthly
visit to the state training school, and
it is not improbable that the statement
to be promulgated by the board was
agreed upon before they left the con-
ference with Wolfer and Bronson, and
their presence will not be deemed nee
essary to its publication.
Members Of the board of control and
Wolfer and Bronson persist in an at
titude Of clamlike silence when the
shoe contract and the scandal which
has grown out Of it is mentioned All
efforts to secure a verbal statement as
supplemental to the formal statement
expected from the board were futile.
Warden Wolfer seemed in good Spir-
its when seen at his office at the pris-
on yesterday, and did not appear wor-
ried over the outcome Of the case. He
is a man who has seen much Of the
world and its cares, however. His per-
sonal friends at Saltwater are loath to
believe that he has been guilty of any
thing Incompatible with official integ-
rity, and one of them said: Wolf
er will be able to explain ev-
erything to the satisfaction not only
of the board of control, but of the pub
lie. He will be at the prison in his
present capacity when the trouble is
all over"
Bronson Has Nothing to Say.
n. Bronson. who was summoned
from saltwater by the board of con-
troll Yesterday to attend the confer
ence, was interviewed when he came
from the boards executive chamber.
He told The Globe representative
that he had nothing to say. 1t was the
old story; he was telling his side OF
the case to the members of the board
of control. They were the proper re-
ceptacles for the information that he
had to give in support OF his general
denial that Wolfer was interested in
the w. B. & w. G. Jordan company, or
that he was the owner of stock in the
company organized by Bronson to sue
coed to the Jordan company's contract
with the state for the use of convict
labor in the manufacture of shoes at
the prison. Bronson said he was tell
ing the board everything he knew,
and doubtless eventually the newspa-
pers would be furnished copies of his
statement.
Mr.. Leavett, of the board. denied alb
solutely the statement printed in an
evening paper that he had said "the
Jordan charges are specific, and that
if capable of proof they would be in
Ayestigated by the board" He declined
to commit himself to any line of policy
to be pursued by the board, and left it
to the public to draw it's own conclu-
sions from the fact that the board
had the warden and the contractor
whom Jordans letter charged was in
collision with him before it for exam
inatiOn.
1t is barely possible that the board