The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-03-12
PROBE committee
HITS PYTHIAN HARD
Warden Of Prison Charged
With Misconduct In
Report
louisville Times)
BY l.. v. Armentrout.

Frankfort. KY, March 1O-The
probe committee which inspected the
State institutions made its report in
= the House this afternoon and made
charges that Warden r. NJ. Phythian,
on the statement of w. l.. Hawkins,
formerly connected with the reform
atory. sold $4,000 lbs. OF scrap iron
to S. T. Marcus OF Frankfort for IS
and &C cents hundred, for which the
State received $3.50. Hawkins testi-
fled that he saw the railroad scale
weights, and Marcus said there was
other iron on the car.
The committee also charges that A.
+. Mitchell delivered three truckloads
of hogs in 1919 to Henry Knight in
Louisville and one load to a Mr.. JEFF
ferries. Three of these loads belonged
to the State and one belonged partly
to the State and partly to the war
den, the report says.
1t also says Bowen Henry hauled
two truckloads of hogs to Louisville
during 1919. one load belonging to
the State and the other containing
hogs belonging to the State and the
warden. The committee places. the
value at $500 or 5000 on each truck
load.
A minority report in course of
preparation. it is said, will undertake
to show that all of the State hogs
were accounted for.
The committee says the warden
kept his cows and horses in the State
barn and supplied milk to be sold to
rconvicts. The price for the milk was
Unreasonable and the warden exhibited
bills for S1,1OO for feed purchased
for the stock.
With regard to the missing whisky
the report says eight cases of whisky
-,were bought at the Stagg Distillery
tfor S1SS and that five cases of Stage
whisky were shipped to Mrs. Kate
Mailer, mother of the secretary of
Governor Stanley.
Say Whisky Is Found.
The committee visited Mrs. Nah
ler's house at Henderson and found
some Stage whisky there.
Warden Phythian, the report says
testified that the whisky had been
sent to the reformatory at the in
Stance of Governor Stanley and was
not bought with State money. and
was not kept with the commissary
whisky.
The committee reports that in Au-
gust 1918, $50 worth of lumber was
purchased from the Lyons Lumber
Company, delivered at the reforma-
tory and reloaded on the warden's
wagon and sent to his farm in charge
of Tom Woods, convict. The war
den denies this.
The committee charges that the
warden was getting foodstuff from
the commissary to supply his table,
) including fresh vegetables" 1t also
says sugar was left at the gate, ac-
cording to s. f. Mobley, former gate
httUtI, WIFI NuS
warden to deliver it to persons who
would call for it.
. The report then refers to keeping
Stanley's doss at the reformatory
and the purchase of supplies for the
mansion through the prison. The
committee stated that receipts and
checks for various amounts OF gro
ceries purchased this way were ex-
hibited and it is possible all were
paid for. but condemns the practice
'Favoritism" Criticised.
The committee criticised what it
termed Ffovoritism" at the prison and
Discrimination" against the Frank
fort Chair Company and Hogue-Mont- I,
gomery Company, contractors, in ia
yor OF the Reliance Manufacturing
Company. 1t states that the latter
gets convict labor for so cents day |
while the others pay S5 and SO cents,
that there is discrimination in the |
assignment of the convicts and ad-
vises that the contract with the Re
lance Manufacturing Company be
cancelled as soon as 1t can be done. !
With regard to pardons by Gov
ernor Stanley the COMMITTEES mention
ed one case, that of William Gus
reynolds, serving term for seduc-
tion. The committee stated that at
ter Governor Stanley had refused
pardon on application of L. p. Tan
ner. of greensboro "the father OF the 1
young man. then applied to Gates
NYoung, who contracted with the p.