Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-08
Scheme to Recognize TreIford as Sup
erintendent Fell Flat
NO BLOODY, BLEEDING BLOOD" LETTING OF ACTING
GOVERNOR JAMES v. RAYN0LDS
Committee Named to Investigate Deposed Superinten.
dents Final Report and Inventory mild and
Meek Session Adjourns Today

The New Mexican is informed tina
the special meeting of the Board o
Penitentiary Commissioners which
commenced here Saturday had for on,
of its objects the taking up of Thu
| matter OF the removal of Arthur Trel
ford as superintendent Of the prison
with the view of finally concluding
that Trelford was improperly and lin
lawfully removed and that he was
still superintendent of the peniten
tiary and recognized as such. This sc
| it is stated on fair authority was
| the plan last week. However, "tht
best laid plans of mice and men af
gang aslee" and the scheme went !
glimmering when the members OF tht
board on Saturday last were con
fronted by the official communication
of Acting Governor James w. Ray
nolds showing that the penitentiary
management under Trelford had beer
extravagant and inefficient, that large
sums OF money, not properly pertain
ing to the fund for the maintenance
of the prison, had been used by thai
| imported appointee of a fake reform
administration, that three-fourths ol
the appropriation for the present rs
cal year had already been expended
that a serious deficiency stared the
inew superintendent in the face, thai
the cost Of maintenance OF the pris
on for the present fiscal year would
be about $4,000, and about $4,000
mere than ever before, although nc
permanent improvements OF any value
had been made. and although the NUM-
Der OF convicts was but slightly in
excess and that in general the ad-
mnistration of prison affairs had been
incompetent and disgraceful. There
upon the little job was evidently re.
considered and from present lndica-
tions it does net look as If the com
missioners will care to take up the
Trelford removal case and dare to
dispute the lawful authority of Act
ing Governor James w. Reynolds
exercised as executive of the Terri
tory in legal and proper way and in
strict accordance with the statutes.
Trelford Removal Closed Incident.
The chances are that the Trelford
removal case and the investigation
hereunder evidently desired and
planned by some of the members Will
be consigned to oblivion, and that
the secrets connected therewith will
be kept away down in the deep re-
cesses of their bosoms. Had the
scheme been attempted and the de-
mand of Trelford and his crowd and
the advice Of Trelford's fool counsel
been needed by President Sulzer and
his colleagues of the board of prison
commissioners they would have got
ten themselves into a mess from
which they would have had consider.
able trouble to extricate themselves.
1t is better late than never and
they evidently realized that this fore
noon, when, instead of rearing up like
wild horses, neighing, cavorting and
kicking at the lawful outrage against
the citizens of New Mexico" and
"dastardly tyranny and Russian des-
potism" exercised by Acting Cover
nor Reynolds in the removal of an in
competent and inefficient official up
on most serious charges Of gross in
humanity and barbarous severity duly
proven they quietly went to work, ex-
amined and audited accounts and at
tended to routine business.
Thereafter finding that the removed
official had absolutely neglected to
do his duty and failed to furnish a
statement Of the accounts OF the
prison and an inventory of the proper
ty, a committee was appointed to ex-.
anime into the accounts and condi-
tion OF the property Of the institu-
ton This committee consists Of
Charles F. Easley, secretary; Thomas
w. Hayward, and John r. De Mier.
This committee will commence this
task as soon as the removed superin-
tendent has filed his final report as
superintendent and as soon as the in
ventory Of the property now being
taken by Assistant Superintendent r.
g. Garrett and former Assistant Su-
perntendent Samuel D. Sample Is
finished.
Communications From Executive.
The communication Of Acting Gov
ernor Reynolds Of July LIST last calling
the attention Of the board to the de-
plorable and unsatisfactory condition