The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-26
What Jack Told His Cell Nate IN
the Pen.
About Robbing the Safe in Gal
latin.

About Robbing the Safe in Gal
1t is not . pleasant thing to be behind
the barn, albeit, it is grim consolation
often INDUCED in by those who are thus
confined, that "there's worse men out than
in JAIL" and We are not 30 certain but the
remark is true. Still, that fact does not
allay the misery of those who are in there
who sit and watch
THE FAINT LIGHT
of morn crawl up through The CRATES until
the noon of day, and then mark the
shadows lengthen until they weave together
in the impenetrable mantle of gloomy night.
The proud spirit Of man i'll brooks confine-
ment, and the 6ery natures of some beat
ceaselessly against their bonds, until des.
perate despair chills the heart and freezes
the blood. Any little event, the slightes'
circumstance out of the usual routine Of
their simple, dreary life. is joyfully hailed
by them rs ray of sunshine, that brings
BRIEF FoRGETrULNEs
to the sad recollections of their dark past OF
more dismal future.
So visit from an outsider, if he or she
is . sensible person, is hailed with pleasure
but if, on the other hand, the visitor is on'
of the dolorous kind, the tenor OF who's
mission is full of sanctimonious cant ant
the cheering information that the prisoner
is an awful sinner, bis room is generally re
garded better than his company. Newspa'
per men and those who necessarily have
had much to do with criminals, generally
receives genial welcome, not unmixed, per-
haps, by little "chafdng."
A BAzoo reporter visited the Jail, yester
day, to have little chat with "the boys,
and in his rounds had IN interesting
CONVERSATION WITH WILSON,
who was arrested . short time since on q
charge of throwing three-card monte. vii.
son claims that it was not three-card monte
and that he 10 innocent Of the charge against
him.
Wilson is . sharp. shrewd and intelligent
man, of good I'd ress and we'll posted. When
arrested here he was just ont of the peniten-
tiary, to which he had been sentenced for
manipulating the magic three cards. He
was raised in Charlton county, and while
in the penitentiary was the cell-mate of
THE CELEBRATED JOHN RENO.
Wilson said to the reporter:
did you see IN account of Reno giving
. little stone Bible to st. Louis re-
porter?"
Reporter.-Yes, I read it.
Wilson.-Well, then I made them for
him: We made some stone gaffs to
fight chickens with. Did you ever hear Of
that?
Rep.-No, We never heard Of that. Sup
pose you spun us the yarn.
Wilson-PIl tell yon all about it, then.
You see Jack Reno and were
CELL MATES,
and used to be pretty thick. Jack had been
there 20 long he knew all the ropes and
had . pretty soft thing. He'd soldier
like the devil, and they got mighty little
work out of him. We had our cell all
fixed up with pictures, and had some pet
canaries, etc. Jack was mighty fond Of
chickens, and 20 was 1. The first chicken
Jack had there he Matched himself. He
got hold of an egg one day, and putting it
in the hollow of his arm, he kept it there
until it Matched out. Well, Jack had .
rooster and had rooeter, and We fixed
it up that on the Fourth Of July We would
have
COCK FIGHT.
You zee on the Fourth of July the con-
victs at the pen are allowed the use of the
yard, and can amuse themselves pretty
much - they please.
When the day came, We put on our
stone spurs on the chickens and got them
together. But there was one thing We had
not counted on-the chickens were both of
the same brood and would not fight! Here
was 90. We felt awful bad, and after study
ing over the matter . little, Reno grabbed
his chicken and ran over to the paint shop,
and hanged if he didn't paint that
chicken 90 that its own mother wouldn't
know it. He brought it back, and We tried
them again. No use. The turpentiue
made one of them sick, and the other saw
right through the dodge. So that fight
was Oh.
"Reno didn't look like desperate man."
said Wilson.
Rep.-"Did he ever tell you about that
Davis county safe business"
Wilson.-Oh, yes; and being that the
thing IL no secret now, I'll tell you what
he told me,
ABOUT ROBBING THE SAFE,
for which he Vas sentenced to Is yeaEs in
the pen. Reno was out on bonds for the
express robbery in Indiana in 1866, when
he got letter from friend who had been
living 1t Gallatin, No. This letter inform