| Show CAPTAIN AMOS retirement BETI BEMENT may 15 marshal parsons attention was waa called to the statement alleged to have been made by captain amos regarding the batters lat retirement from the office of acting warden of the penitentiary and he was requested to give his version of the affair 1 I do no not teare care said the marshal to say aay anything on the subject captain amos went east yesterday and the statements be has made if the story of the tribune is correct tell their awn tale any person who reads them can see tile the absurdity of tile the position theca the captain eatn WEI has taken and add 1 I 1 think he will be sorry for it when he has had time to reflect what was there about the employ ment men t of F J stark as a guard that captain amos objected to that was just this stark wasa was a guard before captain amos came here some time ago he received a letter that his lather father wa was svery very ill then begot he got a telegram aski asking mg him to come at once he showed the letter and fadd telegram to captain amos and asked if he could cou ld have bave his old place as guard when he returned the captain said he thought bethought so but that stark would have to see me captain amos told me and said that stark was the best guard at the pen so he was promised his position when he came back and now is where the whole trouble began it was when amos boy let that prisoner leland get away I 1 told his father that he could not dot hold the important position of taking prisoners to and from the penitentiary but as he could not dot get anything else to do I 1 said mid be could go as guard on the back wall where he would be on service in the day time the boy would not go and I 1 positively declined to let him act where he would let other prisoners escape then his father got mad stark came back at this juncture captain amos wanted his son to have the place which stark had held and I 1 refused then the captains anger became greater aud it finally resulted in lits hief resignation but one of the allegations made against you ie ib that you allowed the guards to talk to you of course I 1 did any man who has busina business so can talk with me and all treat him civilly pm not above being talked to because I 1 hire a guard at the penitentiary captain amos also complains that you never made him warden but that his title was guard and act ing warden that is true but I 1 could not change the statute the law makes the marshal the warden of the penitentiary and he be assigns a guard to do duty as acting warden the law governs that he says the bargains for the penitentiary supplies are all made by the marshal and that he be never knew their cost whenever he bought anything I 1 told him to do so at the best befit advantage As to my accounts I 1 did not submit them to him for I 1 was not employed by him there is a man appointed to check off goods look over the accounts etc and he does it what about stark being a rebel find nd about the guards tit at the pen being unrepentant rebels as mr amos says saya why stack is a young mahand born till after the rebellion As to the others there csuk a rebel among them and a number are grand army men how is it about captain amos assertion that you are not a christian and a gentleman well as to that you have heard beard the story about a man having to move out of a neighborhood tu to get good neighbors and then kishil wishing of to get back because he was worse off well the captain has gone but it was not so much him as his boy did you take any steps about his bis unlawful acts regarding prisoners well I 1 dont want to say anything about that but you know of the complaints that have been made yes but it was the boy and as I 1 said I 1 Irell relieved eved him from the position and the father did not like ike it that was the most of the trouble you are aware though that there was dissatisfaction mong the guards and know of the causes yes yea I 1 knew that the best guards were about to leave because he was so abrupt and unkind to them they all offered their resignations once but I 1 requested them to go on a while longer but as to that martof the affair I 1 have nothing to say I 1 think captain amos madea made a mistake in the affair and also by rushing into print but do not desire to say anything further about him I 1 wish him well and have not the slightest unfriendliness IJ ness for him IJ |
