Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-04
A MONSTER Gagged.
THE WOLF or THE SHEPHERDS FOLD.
Wearing the Stripes and Eating Mush and
Molasses in the Psnitentiay-NOw
He Knows How II
Is Himself.

NEw YoRK, March 3.-The Rev. Ed
ward Cowley, of the Shepherds Fold,
who was convicted OF having starved
and neglected the children under his
care, was yesterday sent to the Black
wells, Island penitentiary, to serve his
sentence Of one years imprisonment.
After he reached the island the Rev.
Mr. Cowley represented that he expect
ed a writ of habeas corpus momentarily,
and so the ceremony OF shaving him
was put off for an hour and hall.
At the end OF that time, as no
writ came, the ceremony was
begun. Warden Fox remind
ed the prisoner that all conyicts
are required to do some kind of work,
and offered him his choice OF occupa-
tions in the penitentiary. Cowley
chose the shoe-shOp for the scene OF his
labOrs.
There are two barber's chairs in the
receiving room. Into one OF these MIR.
Cowley climbed, and a convict barber
cut his long, grizzly hair close to his
head and shaved his long and we'll
combed, clcriCally-trimmed beard and
whiskers. There are three bath-tubs in
the room. Mr.. Cowley stripped and sat
i'm the one that was filled with iukewarm
water. The clothing he took of was
bundled up, marked and put in one OF
the thousand boxes that are kept
for that purpose. When he
emerged from the bath the clergyman
put on the pair OF black and white
striped trousers that were laid out for
him. Then he put on striped shirt,
and was told to stand on the scales in
front Oi the desk. His weight was re-
corded, and he was led to pole in the
corner, against which he stood To he
measured.
From the barber shop he went with
the warden to the shoe shop, and then,
an hour aiterward, he was experiment
ing ON piece of leather with punch,
such as railroad conductors use. A
young convict bent over him and ex-
planned how to use the punch. Out OF
the corners of their eyes the
other convict wOrkmen stole fire.
Quent glanCeS at their new COM
paniOn. His friends would not
have recognized him. At . O'Clock Ire
was, with seven hundred other con-
victs, eating mush and molasses. When
the meal Was over the squad Of men to
which he belonged backed out from be-
tween the tables and stood IN line
against the wall. The cenvicts walked
with lOCk-step, as Il preventive against
disorder. The line in which COwley
stood moved like two centipedcs. Ii
should haye moved like one, but the
clergyman could not master the step.
lie studied the feet and legs of the otu-
ers, and tried TO do as they dill, but the
gap remained either ahead OF or behind
him all the time.
On the door of his cell b a tag on
which is written his name. age, crime,
and the iactthat this is his first time in
that prison. This cell OF Mr.. Cowley's
il not more than five feet wide, and
contains nothing but bed, lie will
not have as good food in the peniten-
liary as he had in the toombs. For
break fast lac will have rye coffee sweet
cucd With mOlasscs aud eight ounces of
bread. For dinner he will have pint
and Il hall Ol soup, some meat and
bread. For supper his diet alternates
between coffee and bread and mush and
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