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

l IAt O1O OOAlAlOn SOlun1CICldl COlh- pany of Globe, of S14O0 worth of
 goods He said he did not know why
 the goods had not been bought by
 contract.
 He said he always notifies the of
 ficers of the county at the escape of a convict and sends out postcards
 with the picture and description of
 the escape of them. Referring to the
 O. D. claim he said he believed he
 got authority from the board of con-
 tro1. It was ok'd by both Sims and
 Secretary Osburn and he said that he,
 Sims, had ordered the goods. He had
 not read the law on that matter, at
 least he did not recollect he was fla
 miliar with it, but he had acted al together in the conduct of the prison
 under the authority of the governor,
 that he was carrying out the govern or's policy absolutely. He said he
 was fully in accord with Governor
 Hunts policy at the prison and would
 not have accepted the position had
 he not been.
 | In answer to questions by Senator
 Hughes, he explained that under the
 new administration. there have been
 two meetings of the parole board held,
 He said the parole board was com 1 posed Of the governor, himself, the
 prison doctor, the state auditor and
 attorney - general had not attended either of the meetings He believed
 that the law should be strictly con
 strued with regard to attendance to
 these meetings and that all mem
 bers should be forced to attend. None
 of the prisoners had been released
 on the say so of any one man, but i twenty-six had been paroled under this system now in use, and that but | one violation had occurred.
 | The record of the penitentiary pa roles was considerably less in number of violations, which also applied to honor men than was usual for insti- l tutions of that sort. In answer to a question of Jacobs, he said during his administration there has been some 25O honor men out at different times ! and only 15 had escaped. He said the discipline was now thirty per cent better than when he first went i there.
 l. J. J. Saunders, the parole clerN gave little testimony, said he corroborated F Mr. Sims testimony and was excused. w. H. McNichol was called and merely stated that Miss Barnard was a good woman, then he was excused.
 Wansley then appeared and gave his testimony He told about the in cident of the orchestra and said the warden had granted the application Of the citizens of Florence at his rec ommendation but that the warden had said at the time, Are they fixing trap for me-" The witness claimed to be a lawyer and made several at tempts to exercise his oratorial abili- ty, but was cut off by the committee on the ground that they wanted state ments of facts Two drivers of the prison wagon had gotten whiskey on Christmas night but it was given them by the citizens of Florence. He would suggest that it be made felony to give a convict liquor.
 His figures on the number of es- capes did not coincide with those of Jacobs, who questioned him closely on this. Wamsley said there were but r escaped, but in answer to Jacobs statement that he didn't know there were 27 in the three months from the first of October to January 1st.' lie said he didn't know. The incident of his subtracting BPS and some cents from the Palmer claim was brought out. He said that MT Burns had a claim against Palmer which he had been asked to collect, as a lawyer running collection agency, that he had submitted the claim to MT. Palm CT, it was for groceries for about $2S0, and that Palmer had paid it when his warrant from the state for which he had been contracting arrived. First he paid Palmer the money then Palm CT paid him the $2S0.
 In this transaction with MT. Burns he had charged ten per cent of the entire amount, upon the advice of other attorneys in Florence The statute 35S0 of the civil code was read to him, in which it is prohibited 2 under pain of never being allowed to hold office in Arizona during the life time of the offender if any additional charge was made to any person work - ng for the state. for doing anything T, for that person in connection with my business of the state His ans wer was that he was not aware of V hat statute. He was excused
 To hon Il1 I-yI@ ence was called and made a statement il