The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-02-28

session the letters and then that they
 oe read to the committee This swas done, after a session of less than an hours duration the committee return ed and Wood announced that the un-
 aninlous decision was the letters
 should be kept out.
 Contrary to general expectation, an
 expectation based on the actions of
 the committee in the Monday sessions,
 the evidence yesterday did not stick
 closely to the matters in the petition
 As a result of questions from Sen ators Hughes and Cuniff, the bars
 were let down and the investigation
 taken inside the prison walls where
 matters that had occurred only on
 the outside of the walls of the peni-
 tentiary. This lead to an extensive defense of the honor system as prac-
 ticed in the pen in the testimony of
 Warden Sims and Secretary Wamsley and Captain of the Guards Bryan
 In view of the statements that were made by the superintendent in his report to the governor, it was eX- pected by the galleries which were crowded again yesterday, the war den's testimony would be a series ot denials of every allegation made by the petitioners. On the contrary with the exception of the single proposi- ton of the convicts being drunk on the streets, he admitted nearly every charge. He said he was cognizant of the fact that prisoners went to town in citizens clothes, that the driver of the automobile was pri- orchestra which played at the town dances was made up of prisoners un- der guard; that Anderson had bought beer for him; that Eytinge had ridden in the buggy with Miss Bernard one Sunday; that a painter, a convict was that supplies were sold from the pri- son commissary to the guards and in- mates, but asserted that on nearly every occasion for a journey to town on the part of prisoners they had gone on prison business as truStieS, a Sys- tenn that was largely used all over the United States, and one that had not been provocative of any ill re- suits in the management of the peni- tentiary or to the prisoners them selves. He said trusties were allowed | to wear citizens clothes as dis junction to them and because of their | work around the office they presented | a better appearance. He said the murderer Anderson, had been a trusty under the old administration and he had not heard Of any serious about that.
 He insisted that he knew very lit -le about the details of the records of the men, leaving that entirely to the subordinate officers of the pri- son because his time was taken large y with more important features of he mana cement tof the institution ill which were more than 300 inmates.
 There were places in the testimony )f Warden Sims in which he used the sentence, T don't know" T cannot 'ay," quite a number of times. Un- Ter cross examination by Jacobs, he lsed the terms, especially with re- gard to the source among the state avs from which he derived his pow 1T to work the honor system. In an- , wer to a direct question whether or lot he knew what power he had to end Anderson to a saloon. He did { lot know what there was in the rec ; 'rd of Jose Martinez, a murderer to , putting him on his honor to | york on the sewer. Martinez after ( wards escaped. He was asked con- I