Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-26
81 Ias0 or WA RDEN
1.AyKFORD rs CT 0sEnt
tc0aslnnea IRON paEs onal

tcOasinusd From rare onsl.
consulted him as 10 improvements or
changes desired
s1laa only sims heard Og hAa de-
sIras wns III board meetsngs Kze
never came to me and said do shis Or
do tlaaf
Turnlng at an interruptions 0g NJ
Agefzer0fE, be aAIa.
Ven 80 TO Dr. Mnguire'a Office snd
Sit there and rarely come ont except
arm ii arm with him 10 90 through
tie other aueis0nx Of int tnsfIEatieil. Z
he ~arda denied statements
made by members og The Baltimore
city grand jury to the effect that be
had said what IN h- Ii the Balti-
more city grand Jury doing down
here and also denied writing 4 let
ter TO Judge Stanton relative % the
Investigation at the House Of Correc-
ion.
TELLS conalslsR Al ~Ca1
tIc soM of sea I'D, Ut ~ insli.
tntlen last summer end fall "a: ad
mItted EAsf IL aas often i'm III r.
Just Is / was beginning 70 com
pIIment myself that we were getting
things into shape again and was prid-
ing myself kfat was becoming q real
prison man. this thing exploded, he
wagon scale was necessary, but denied
said.
Re agreed with Matzesott that .
that ali things entering the institu-
ton we're not weighed He said there
were small scales. where all things
necessary to be weighed were weigh
ed.
Dr.. = Hubert Wade, the third meme
Der 81 the board, who had remained
more or less silent during the hear
sng asked st this point
ssHaye y0u ever made i recomne1-
dalton 10 the board which Ne have
not granted, IL possible n
The answer to this Was that there
was sometimes little growing be-
cause Of Q lack Of funds. but never a
point blank refusal The warden ex-
plalned the necessity OF doing away
with the operating room at the hos
pital BY saying Il was 10 house the
new guards who took care % the men
engaged Id road work, a. there was
no other place 10 put them
Attorney Williams tried to draw the
witness out for an expression SO 10
hie opinion Of penolOgists IN general,
but he lodged the Issue by saying that
there we're degrees IN the ability Of
penologists Just az there wexa In the
ability Of lawyers. and that he did not
feel qualified ia pass judgment Asked
ills conception os his duties As warden
the witnesa said:
10 teach the inmates es best We
can that they can become better citi-
gems and batter men and women
Taking mp the matter or the com.
nIasary store. Warden Laxkford said
Ii was not operated % make money
and that things we're sold there A. as
near coat as possible. The store, he
said. was costing the state thousands
1Cf dollars 4 rear. and he told OF the
employment there Of four clerks.
whose salaries amounted 20 about
$3.50 4 year, most or which was for
the conduct Of the establishment In
the keeping Of accounts the way the
state auditor wanted them kept He
said that whatever whisky was brought
I'd the institution had been taken there
III his own expense, even for the sick.
and charged that the tnAtitution'a doc
tor had never ordered any. Pressed
for his opinion of DR.. Mcguire, be
said he had nothing more to say.
.sThe only time hear from the doc
tor, ha said. is WHEN Mi. Meszerott
brings the matter before the board :
Early TesslmOny Damaging
All the morning aession Mrs Cath
crime Beary was again on the witness
stand and MIRA. Bayard g. Turnbuil. .
member Of the Prisoners Aid board,
told Of bad conditions she found ct the
CUT Ia yiait there about year
1gO. BENJAMIN Herman, former In
mate Of the House Of Correction and
now confined to the penitentiary, was
also witness. he told or brutai
treatment BY tbs guards At the Cut
and 81 dirty and unheaithfai surround.
ings