Show PRISON BEATING I AND KlAN LEADIN LEAD lEAU IN TYNAN CASE CASE- CASEI I two Twenty-two Witnesses i Testify in Investigation of H Housing using Conditions at Canon City Colorado I CANON CITY Colo Cob Feb 21 By I A. A P. P Cell P.-Cell Cell house p conditions treat- treat mont merit of ot prisoners and the Fremont i iI county Ku Klux Klan all came inI in I for a a partial airing during the I first week here of the trial of Thomas J. J Tynan Colorado penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- I warden on charges of prison mismanagement brought by former Governor Sweet which was I adjourned here today over the week witnesses witnesses wit wit- I Testimony from two twenty-two nesses flosses was taken in the probe into actual conditions at the penal in in- in I The evidence wa was as varied in content as the character of the witnesses who ranged from I ex convicts to ministers of the gospel gospel gospel gos gos- pel and the warden himself The weeks week's testimony taking closed to today today today to- to day with the examination cross-examination of the Rev Don Frank Fenn Episcopalian Episcopalian Episco Episco- rector of Minneapolis Minn Fenn called out of turn as a defense defense defense de de- de- de witness testified that in his opinion the the- the conduct conduct of ot Warden Tynan Tynan Tynan Ty Ty- Ty- Ty nan at the prison had been exemplary exemplary exemplary exem exem- plary during his service of more mere than a year as prison chaplain I Challenging what he termed Dr Fenns Fenn's expert testimony Ernest Morris of Sweets Sweet's counsel in the midst of examination cross moved to strike e from the record the ministers minister's ministers minister's min mm- I ister's evidence The commission took the motion under advisement Sweets Sweet's attorneys also aiso indicated I that Professor Austin H. H MacCormick MacCon- MacCon mick of or Brunswick Me professor at Bowdoin colleg college probably would I be the first witness called caned to the stand when the trial is resumed next Tuesday morning He probably I ally ably will be followed by P. P W. W I Garrett executive secretary of the American So Society iet for Penal mation Both men helped compile the prison report under the direction direction direction tion of Thomas Thonas Mott O Osborne borne which formed the basis of Sweets Sweet's charges against Tynan r A. t otal of seven prosecution p witnesses wit wit- nesses during darIng the we week I Admitted I membership In the InvIsible empire empire em em- pire pine but further att attempts b by de defense defense de- de tense counsel to introduce evidence in support of charges that the pro pro- ceE against Tynan resulted from a klan Idan conspiracy were blocked by the state civil service commission before which which- the charges are being heard |