The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-08-01
LONG At LIBERTY
He Promises 10 Reform, and dives Some
of-Hls Experiences In Prison.

lie Promises 10 Reform, and dives Some
of-Hls Experiences In Prison.
punch Long. whose pardon by Governor
Jackson was announced In this paper yestcr.
day, arrived In the city in the course OF the
day, accompanied by another OF Ohio coun.
TVS contributions 10 the Moundsville ins,i.
tuition In the person OF Charles Rohm, whose
term expired Sunday, after two years, less
l03 days good time" spent In the Paiiten.
tiury for bunglarixing the house OF Mr. Sam.
pies, at Valley Grove, while the family were
all nj picnic. A man named Myers, sent
up with Rohm for completely In the same
crime, will be released tomorrow, not hay.
Ing quite US much good time" to his credit
ms Robin. E.l n-'r
A reporter met Long and llOhn yesterday,
and had quite chat with them OH tho sub
ject Of their impressions OF life In the public
service at Moulidsville, the treatment Of pris.
Oners there, and their intentions for ,hc
future. They agreed that the prison under
Superintendent Vests regime Is much better
managed than under that OF Col. bridges,
but have some complaints 10 make even In
regard 10 the present conduct Of affairs. Long
says that all visitors are told that all the old
barbarous methOus OF punishment are done
away with; but he declares that suspending
prisoners by the thumbs and fastening them
IN the stocks and drenching them with Il
hose are still common treatments for ortli.
nary infractions OF the rules. lie says u
young fellow named Mullen, recently sent
from Wheeling for grand larceny, Is not able
TO perform the tasks assigned 10 him, and
that he Is often suspended hs described, for
several minutes. lie also says that recently
10 himself was compelled TO turn the hose
OH Mullen while the latter was fast In the
stocks, aud that he only did II because he
knew II he refused somebody else would do
II, md he would afterward receive tho same
treatment. "a tell You II takes the human.
ity right out of mani" said Long, with
much feeling Long was once suspended by
the -tortures Of hell would be
relief after that mode OF punish.
ment. lie Is particularly indignant
at the habit which he alleges IS In vogue Of
throwing a man into the dark dungeon In
the wet clothes with which he comes from
the stocks after a cold shower bath.
or course these statements, though cor.
rOboraied by R0hm ut another time without
knowing Long Ind made them, must be re-
ceived with caution. Indeed, tho best infor.
nation ut hand Is that tho man Mullen
positively refuses to work, and has repeated.
ly dcied the guards to compel him to.
Long says Superintendent West is n gen.
tleman, and 50 far us his own course Is con-
cerned has won the respect OF the prisoners,
md most OF the guards are humane and fair,
but OF several OF them he Is ut loss for
words sufficiently denuncatory to express
his opinion. lie says Mr.. West often sends
u sick prisoner delicacies from his own table,
but that the prisoner is Sin big luck" IL he
gets any OF them, as the hospital steward first
RI lac n hty n IL ~ ntt gfnpf,nn
Punch" has reformed. We know he has,
because he says so. lie declares that II his
Mnlth improves he will lead different life.
While talking, however, he could not help
dextronsly relieving young man standing
near OF his watch, without being detected In
the operation by either the reporter or the
owner OF the watch until "punchn yoIun-
tarily restored 1t.
Long will go from here to Pittsburgh, and
from there TO his home in Cincinnati, where
his father is carpenter.
The robbery for which George alias
Punch" Long was sent up WAS committed
at the residence OF Alexander Rodgers, ESQ.,,
OF this city, a large lot Of jewclry being the
principal plumber secured. Punch was ar
rested at Allegheny city. After sentence he
managed to escape from the Jail, and went to
Chicago, where he was followed by Sheriff
Tingle, who accidentally ran across his mau
IN beer garden the evening after his arrival
lie was brought back, and In shor, time
sent to MOundsviile, managing to get his
hand.cui!s unlocked while going down, but
not attempting to escape.
The pardon was secured through the ef.
forts OF L: G.. Cracraft, Esq, assisted by
petition signed by n large number OF proini.
nent and influential citizeus, both OF this
city, Allegheny and Pittsburgh. Punch"
has been in very poor, and declining health
for more than u year past. evidently the
victim of consumption. X. 9. Long, u
brother of Pnnch's, also served portion Of
sentence here, receiving pardon before
the expiration OF his time He was u Federal
prisoner, and was pardoued by the presi-
dent, March 25th 1879, about one month
before Punch reached the prison.