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'ofer 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 1t 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 i2---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
mentss by r. II. Bronson and w. H.
Caldwell. Even then the board of con-
troll gave no sign that it believed VOL
fers story or dtsbelieved it.
A transcript Of the conversation at
the conference between We 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 a 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 1t, and
while the letter accompanying The
transcript sent to Mr.. Jordan is dated
March 4 he did not, in fact, receive It
until March IL, when he had left the
state, and not until he, through The
G ] o b e, had made a complete and de-
tailed statement of all circumstances
leading up to the award of the contract
for term Of ten years to r. II. Bron4
son. The perfect and close sconnee-
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 De q true presentation or 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 statement of it's
position and its belief or doubt in VOL
fers official integrity, and the further
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 to
California-are not calculated to stim-
ulate confidence in the board nor to
strengthen belief that Wolfer Is being
unjustly accused.
Following are a few extracts from
the testimony taken before the board
at the session of March 2:
Mr.. Leavett-WeH, think that perhaps
we had better clear this matter up in
Mr.. Jordan's mind as he goes along. Now,
we received from Mr.. Wolfer proposed
notice in 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
never had been, but it was sent to this
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 certified check
accompanying the proposition, also a
clause empowering us to reject any and
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