The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1902. SDECIITEIY Q= TE KXKIND or SLACHHINERS THIIAT FTAS BEE/Y ILLEGAL LS TTAN OFAC T URED \ A7 QUEA TN Warden Has| Surrey Built | for Friend. Constructed by Prison Labor. S an additional example of the reprehensible manage- ent of the State prison at | E Quentin under the re- gime of Warden Martin G. o | Aguirre, the chum and | political lieutenant of Gov- | or Gage, publicity 1is given the fact that an ele- made at the | for an intimate | 1 wholly by convict was subsequently | to whom, presumably, | ft, @ s now owned in San s 2 handsome specimen of | waker’s trade, but not an h Warden Aguirre, Gov- e people of the State be proud, dearing does of the era of that has pre- | Gage crowd took son affairs h of the surrey is given vehicle was made orig- an intimate | e early in 1901 in | shop of the jute mill | nted by a convict with paint the commissary department, | tered by another convict, Lyman, with materials also the commissary depart- rged t - completed surrey is such a ve- | be a credit to the prison | was | such employ- ‘ ly forbidden. The of- | d absolutely inexcusa- | ows the mgnufacture. | onged and capital in- iage factories is wronged | broken beyond the point | ng circumstances may enuation. This surrey, | , is now owned in San The prison-made surrey was made an object of sale. The Call has proof of other transac- tions of a like nature within the walls of San Quent: One prisoner, who was incarcerated there but twenty months, painted during that period surreys. carts and wagons for hotel-keepers, merchants, prison officials and friends of Warden Aguirre in large number. e Arrest Besults in Two Deaths. JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 10.—At Webb City, a mining town, two miles from here, early this morning City Marshal Rich was shot d by Joe Gideon, who was then | a policeman. The officers weie t Gideon and his brother, shooting Jim was hurried station, as 2 mob was gath- trying to ar Jim. After 1o the police —_—. Fire in a Bank Building. YORK, Aug. 11.—Fire was discov- 2:30 o'clock this morning in the Ny York building, 48 Wall a seven-story structure. The fire started on the third fioor, in the office of 4. M. Chandler, and rapidly ascended by the elevator shaft. At 3:25 o'clock it was o MACHINERY AND VEHICLES BY PRISONERS AT SAN MADE reADE I7¥ oW mREL SURREY SAN QUErY Tiry PRISOIN ArID N O LIy sArn RarAass | SURREY OWNED IN SAN RAFAEL AND MACHINERY IN USE IN FACTORY ALL CONVICT-MA — DE. | 3 Evidence Shows Uovernor (Gage to Be a Beneficiary of Infractions ~of Law Committed by Warden Aguirre of San Quentin. Continued From Page One. instead of living at Sacramento, as the law provides, went to San Quentin with his family and dlso quartered his servants there at the expense of the taxpayers. The Call is prepared to prove that when Governor Gage took his family and servants away from the prison that he added to the number by paroling Mah Noon, a bloodthirsty Chinese high- binder, and took him to Downey, to act as his chef. The Call has the evidence in its pos- session to prove who received the fur- niture shipped to the Gage ranch at Downey. The Call has presented proof of the manufacture and shipment of this fur- niture to the Gage ranch. The Call has not the time or space to present docu- mentary proofs of the delivery at the Gage ranch. The Call will present this further proof in court at the proper time. The Call is prepared to prove that when the late Warden Hale left San Quentin prison he made an inventory of all the costly lumber on hand in the furniture factory. This lumber was part of the supplies formerly purchased for the prison when the manufacture of furniture was al- lowed by law. The Call is prepared to prove that Warden Hale sought to sell the stock of lumber on hand and asked for bids, but that owing to the low offers made he did not sell the lumber but turned it over to his successor, Warden Aguirre. The Call is prepared to prove that'the lumber turned over by Hale to Aguirre was made up by Aguirre% orders into furniture, independent of the material subsequently purchased for similar uses. under control. The loss will not be heavy. L The Call has published a number of San Quentin prison shipping receipts to prove that Governor Gage and many of his assoclates and friends have re- ceived prison-made furniture .from ‘Warden Aguirre and other penitentlary officials. Case upon case and crate upon crate of furniture have been shipped from San Quentin prison to the ranch home of Governor Gage at Downey, Los Angeles County. The shipments have been made in the name of Warden Aguirre, in the name of the prison, in the name of George Mac- Dougal, shipping clerk and relative of Governor Gage, in the name of Captain Russell and other officlals. The bulk of the prison-made furni- ture and other articles was sent to the Gage ranch consigned to Domingo Mindias, the foreman of the place. Oth- er parties to whom the prison con- singments were made, in care of Gov- ernor Gage's ranch, were the wife of the Governor, the Governor himself and some of his relatives. LARGE SHIPMENTS MADE. The Call has presented documentary proof that large quantities of prison- made furniture were sent by Warden Aguirre to his friends and to certain politicians in various parts of the State. The Call has presented proof that vast quantities of valuable lumber were purchased by the Warden of San Quentin prison, charged to the jute mill account and used in the manufac- ture of furniture. Only a few ples of these transactions have been made public by The Call, and the rec- ords of the prison would disclose many similar cases of fraud. The Call has presented proof that | quantities of costly household and per- sonal apparel have been purchased from San Francisco business houses by relatives of Governor Gage and Warden Aguirre and charged to the sam-, prison account. These supplies were paid for with public funds, secured by. the presentation of forged bills to the Board of Prison Directors and the Board of Examiners. These forged | bills were prepared by prisoners at San Quentin and were certified to as being correct by Warden Aguirre and Com- missary Francis Foley. The Call has presented proof that vast quantities of costly table linen have been purchased by Warden Aguirre, presumably for use in his official residence at the prison, the ar- ticles being of sufficient number to equip a mogerate-sized hotel. The Call has presented proof that the grossest extravagance has been carried on by Warden Aguirre at San Quentin prison. It has published sam- ple lists of the supplies charged in the prison commissary department to the ‘Warden's house for a single month, and the people of California can themselves judge if such enormous amounts of ta- ble supplies could have been legiti- mately required or used there. The Call has presented proof that, though Warden Aguirre is allowed $100 per month for subsistence for his house, he has drawn three and four times this amount, and the excess has been fraudulently charged to varlous accounts in the prison. This The Call has proven by extracts from the rec- ords of the prison itself. The Call has presented proof that #Varden Aguirre has violated the law and has set prisoners to work in mak- ing furniture, harness, chinaware, sad- dlery, hunting knives, machinery, bug- gies, crib-boards and many other ar- ticles, including bird-cages, and that these products of prison labor have competed with those of free labor and caytal. FURNITURE FOR J. A, AGUIRRE. a vast quantity of furniture has been made in San Quentin prison for Gen- eral Overseer J. A. Aguirre for use in the Berkeley home that he proposes to live in when he is appointed Bank Commissioner by Governor Gage. The Call has presented proof that General Overseer J. A. Aguirre denied in May last that any furniture was be- ing made in the prison or was stored there, and that on July 28 last the steamer Caroline brought from San Quentin dozens of pieces of wrapped furniture, marked with the name of J. A. Aguirre. The Call has presented proof that the prison-made furniture, intended for the use of J. A. Aguirre was ship- ped from San Quentin prison under the direction of Warden Aguirre and his brother, J. A. Aguirre; that the furni- ture was transferred from the steamer Caroline to the steamer Resolute at Jackson-street whart on the city front; that it was then conveyed by the Reso- lute to Berkeley, taken ashore and conveyed by wagons to the home se- lected by J. A. Aguirre. The transfer of the prison-made fur- ture from the express wagons to the house was made In the presence of the two Aguirres. INVESTIGATION IS A FARCE. The Call has presented evidence to prove that the investigation of the San Quentin prison affairs and the ad- ministration of Warden' Aguirre made by Governor Gage was a pronounced farce, and that the Governor simply made an exhibit to blind the taxpay- ers of California and whitewash his friend and appointee, Warden M. G. Aguirre. The Call has proven that at the very time that Governor Gage claimed to have compared the prison bills and records with the duplicates of the Con- The Call has furnished proof that }rofler‘u office at Sacramento forged . Quentin "prison —f | 5 bllls were on the files of the Control- ler’s office yecords, having found a way there solely on account of having been certified to by Warden Aguirre and Commissary Foley. The Call has proven that if Governor | Gage really investigated the affairs of | the prison and compared the bills of the institution with the duplicates sent | to Sacramento and which Governor Gage had at hand, he would have un- | covered a collossal nest of fraud, for- gery, larceny and falsification of rec- ords and accounts. Yet Governor Gage emerged from San and informed the people of California that he had held an investigation and that not one cent of public money had been misapplied, | and that Warden Aguirre was gulltless | of wrongdoing. Governor Gage has frantically fought to prevent the introduction of The Call’s evidence in a court of compe- tent jurisdiction, and has, with his rail- road attorneys, degraded the virtue of the law and justice. The Call has been forced to present a portion of its evidence to the people of California by puDlishing it in the columns of this paper. It now rests for the present, and leaves the case in the hands of the péo- ple of the State, confident that the scales of justice will be balanced fairly and a verdict returned according to the traditions of the law that shall free California from the throttle of the men who have betrayed their trust and befouled the fair fame of the Golden State that borders the broad Pacific. — LONDON, Aug. 10.—Upon the advice of her doctors, Mrs. Mackay has gone to Germany to undergo treatment, QUENTIN MANILA, Aug. 10.—General Jesse M. Leo will leave here to-morrow for Tacloban, Island | of Leyte, to relteve General F. D. Grant. e / _spzcjflzfl OF THIE XNINND orF TIACITIIERS JLIEGALLY TIAN UFACT ORED AT SAN QUEIFTLY T————-l- Machines Are Sent Out for Use. Models Still Remain at Prison. N proving that the regime of Warden Agulrre at San Quen- tin prison is one of corruption and fraud, The Call to-day pub- lishes photographs of specimens of the kinds of machinery made at the prison for outside parties, contrary to law. The Call has evidence In its posses- sion and is prepuared to prove that at | least four costly pieces of machinery were made at San Quentin prison by prison labor and are now in operation in factories not far distant from San Francisco. The Call is prepared to prove that the iron work on these machines was done by prison labor in the San Quen- tin blacksmith shop. The Call is prepared to prove that the wooden model from which the ma- chines in question were built is now in the prison at San Quentin. The Call is prepared to prove that the machines in question were com- pletely equipped at San Quentin pris- on and were subsequently sent to the factories, where they are now in opera- tion. The Call is prepared to prove that when Warden Aguirre had these ma- chines built at San Quentin prison he well knew that he was violating the | law, which forbids the manufacture of any articles in the prison other than grain sacks. Governor Gage declares that Warden Aguirre is guiltless of any wrong do- ing, and that he investigated the af- fairs of the prison and found nothing wrong there. The Call is prepared to prove that the books and records of the prison were falsified in order that prison la- bor -might -make these machines for friends of Warden Aguirre. The law requires that the daily amount of work of the prisoners at San Quentin shall be duly entered up in the records, and that the books shail show just what work each prisoner has done. The Call is prepared to prove that in the making of the machines in qties- tion that the prison records failed to show that the men had worked on the manufacture of machinery intended for persons outside of San Quentin prison. —_——— Grief Spurs Him to Suicide. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10.—George D. ‘Wilder committed suicide this morning by hanging himself with a rope from a rafter in his mother’'s barn near Bruceville. Two or three days ago his home, four miles from Galt, was «destroyed by fire during the night, and his wife and three chil- dren were burned to death. Since then he has been very melancholy, and his rela- tives had watched him closely. This morn- ing He eluded their vigilance and ended his Mfe. R Killed by a Jealous Husband. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T.. Aug. 10.—Ed- ward White, proprietor of a saloon, was shot and killed on the street here early to-day by Arthur Moore. White .was walking along the street with Mrs. Moore, ‘wheri ituoru appeared and began shoot- ing. Moore is under arrest.