New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-13
DIEDLING flakes
SING SING SCENE
Commissioner Complains
That Osborne Refused
League Records.
ALSO WISHED TO SEE
PRISONERS IN SECRET
Records, Osborne Says, Are
Gone-Did Not Ask To
See COnvictS.

DR.. Rudolph Diedling, Of the state
prison commission. caused scene IN
the warden Office at Sing Sing yes
terdav and after announcing that ne
had got" Osborne where he wanted
him. complained to District Attorney
Weeks Of Westchester County, that
Mr.. Osborne had refused him permls
sion 20 inspect prison records ana 20
see prisoners.
Mr.. Osborne was AT luncheon with
DR.. f.. Stagg Within, Deputy Warden
Elihu G. Church and some friends
when he was called into his Office adj
Joining to see Or. Diedling and man
supposed to be stenographer. Ihe.
commissioner asked for the records o.
the Mutual Welfare League.
"Nay have those recordsT ne
asked.
NO" said the warden, 9TH"
MAY ! see prisoners alone"
MAKE out your list" replied the
warden.
"May see prisoners alone
MAKE out your list
Answer me Yes or NO May see
prisoners alone ~
Make out your list -.
"Take that down." said DR.. Diedllng
10 his companion, and left the place.
He had reached the road when Os-
borne, from the Office door, called TO
him:
mind. have not refused you per
mission 10 see prisoners"
"And reply, sir" cried the doctor
chat | have not heard you"
Later. on his way 70 the village, DR.
Dicdling told reporters that he had
gone to Sing Sing TO complete his
records.
Il came up here to get Osborne, and
| have got him just where ! want him,
he declared. IL am not coming back
here again, either. | have got what
wanted"
Osborne Sees No Refusal.
In Ossinng Dr. Diedling conferred
with District Attorney Weeks, 70 whom
he reported that access to prison rec
ords and permission to see prisoners
had been refused him. After the con-
ference Mr. Weeks said that If the
commissioners statement was correct
there was violation of law.
Seen after the incident, Warden o.
borne said permission to see prisoners
had not been refused Diedling. and that
he could not give Mutual Welfare
League records to anybody, because he
does not know where they are.
"What he wanted" said the warden
"were the court records Of the league
These have disappeared. ] do not thins
there was anything in them Of value &c
anybody. | have no doubt that one ol
the prisoners, learning that an al
verse investigation might be made
promptly put the records out Of the
way. That is the natural thing to sup
pose.
"Diedling did not ask to see airy
prisoners. Consequently, l refused him
nothing / could give him.
1t was pointed out in the pr'son thai
the records of the Welfare League ere
not prison records. and that eTcn were
their location known Diedling could
not insist upon their production.
From his home in Saugertles last
night DR.. Diedling said that he pro
posed complaining to Superintendent
of Prisons Riley and Attorney General
Woodbury..
when / asked Mr.. Osborne TO let re
have the prison records his language
70 me was: Here is the institutions; @
and get them | consider thar remark
an insult to the people Of the State o.
New York" said the doctor.
To-day DR.. Diedling will go 70 Com
stock 20 interview former Judge" vii
lett. former mayor william J. Cum
Minis and John A. Qualey, three men
who stood high in the Mutual Welfare
League activities before they were
transferred from Sing Sing.
District Attorney Weeks refused 10
discuss DR.. Diedling's complaint at
length. "As ! look at the law as Dr.
Diedlng lays it before me, should Say
offhand that he is right" he said.