The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-08

architecture 1t could be improved by the
addition of a gallery outsidethe latticework
around each tier As it j, one can walk
around the cells only on tie first floor, but
in the upper tiers the prisoners can come to
the ends of the galleries, where they meet
the prison stairs at the Aead of the build
ing, and there can tall with friends or
counsel througl the lattice shell. 1t was
Sunday when the reporter visited them
There were seventy-line captives i'll sew
enty-two calls, the tw,nty-four on the first
tier being there for murder. Three hundred
and fifty others awaiting trial were out on
bail AS the cells are not locked in the
daytime except whei court is sitting, all
were out on the iroa lodges of galleries
in front of their cdls. On each tier
group was playing ards, using blanket
spread upon the perforated gallery for their
card-ta The resi- were walking to and
fro or standing with their faces pressed
against the lattice work, as is the habit
of Gagged animals
They would l0ok strangely to an eastern
man. Their dress was that of the cowboy
of the plains. They wore broad brimmed
hats, flannel shirts, trousers and boots.
Only few were pure whites, half were col
ored, and the rest wee Indians. To know
them as Indians they, must be pointed out
even to men who are familiar with the red
men of the plains These territory Indians
are so straightforward and so light colored
as to confuse most JUDGES of physiog ,olny.
They never were very dark, and they
always had clean cut features. They are
made paler by crossing with the whites,
but the mixture has not improved their
looks. Even as it is, the Indian prisoners
are the best looking ones, just as
the Indians in the territory are the
best looking persons there, judged from
the standpoint of beauty. A queer feature
of the reporters visit was the dunning for
postage stamps that he underwent. Con
victs and criminals in other jails invariably
beg money and tobacco, but these outlaws
all wanted 20 tage stamps. They said they
had letters for friends at home and nothing
to post them with. In cultured New Eug-
land the theory is that education is force
that opposes the work of jails. La that
enlightened region, by the way, prisoners
do not beg postage stamps. Here, on the
border, the jail birds are better writers.
The situation recalls the protest of the Irish
man who would not learn to write because
writing might lead to forgery, and he pre-
ferred to arm himself against temptation.
Michael OConnor, an under jailer, picked
out the two men under sentence of death.
They were negroes One killed a white
man and the other an Indian. The first
one, Emanuel Patterson, is hard looking,
stalwart ruffian, with face expressive of
pure and unenlightened brutality. He
killed a deputy marshal named Willard
Ayers six years ago, and had been hunted
all that time until he was caught some
months ago. 1t was in the Choctaw nation
and happened at night so that Patterson
was able to set up the defense that he
thought the deputy marshal, who had come
to arrest him for stealing, was an enemy
breaking into his cabin to kill him. I'm
fortunately for him the jury contrasted his
story with his disorderly life, and found
him guilty. Patterson was not one of
the card players. He was walking up and
down the ledge in front of his cell until he
saw he was an object of curiosity. Then
he retired to his cell, and this gave the visi
tor a chance to see that even in the appoint
ment of the cells this Jail is superior to those
in the most enlightened communities. 1t
was light and clean, with a stone floor and
walls. The cot and stool beside it were the
only appointments it had, but the cot was
worth a note of description. 1t was a
simple fiat frame of iron lattice work,
hinged against the wall ON only one side,
and thus free to be lifted up and cleaned
in every part without difficulty or loss of
time.
The other murderer is boy named Gus
Vogel, colored person also. His crime
was committed in the Creek Nation. He
was stealing ride on freight train with
three companions. They came across a
Choctaw named McAllister, a man of
means, who appears to have been return
ing homo tipsy and with money. These
colored men got McAllister in car and
put a strap around his neck and choked
him to death. They took his money, gold
watch and the clothes that he wore and
made off with them. Vogel was captured
with the victims clothes on. The others
escaped. The awful brutality of the crime,
best understood by those who care to pic
ture the scene of one man Tightening the
strap while the others held the victim down,
causes this lad to be looked upon as perhaps
the most despicable criminal the court ever
tried. Vogel seemed either proud or at
least unconcerned when he was pointed out
to the reporter. He posed behind the lattice
work as if he liked his notoriety. Yet he
will have to be ingenious to exhibit a
bravado excelling that of a murderer re-
Gently hanged at the fort This man begged
for a chew of tobacco on the way from the
Jail to the gallows, distance of a city
blocks length. He took two chews and put
one In his pocket. ga man mad better go
prepared on such a long Journey" he said.