The sun., 1893-06-13
BENEVOLENT EX-CONYICTS.
THEY TRT TO SUPPLY FoRMER cor.
pASIOys WITH CREATURE COMFORTS.

THEY TRY TO SUPPLY FORMER COH-
PANIONs WITH CREATURE COMFORTS.
whi.key, Fruit. and Tobacco Distributed
Among tho Road Gsug- by Released
Prisoner, Only TO he Connscnted by the
Dutcby Iisrs rhiioropbio View.
There was an interesting episode along the
public road leading from the prison to Sing
Sing station yesterday afternoon. As had AL
ready been told In THE SuN. Warden Durston
has nut number OF convicts to work improv-
ing this public road. The convicts are divided
into four gangs. each gang In charge OF three
guards. The convicts arc nll short-term men
with very lttlo time TO serve. who would lose
moro by escaping than Jy serving the few re-
naming weeks OF their sentence.
This morning seven convicts were released
from the prison. their term having expired.
Among them were tho notorious Jimmy Joyce,
limpy Sullivan. Tom Delaney. and Billy List.
Iist was the leader of the gang. He has al
already served q three years sentence at Au-
burn under Warden Durston. His sentence.
which expired yesterday. was flve years.
term for plunderlng q store In Canal street
near Broadway. Most OF these mon who were
released had worked q good deal Of overtime
IN the prison. and their extra money. combined
with the few dollars given them by tho State.
made their cketbooks comparatively fat.
The minute tncy lelC inc prison tiey mhu0
bee line for tho saloons In Main street. There
thcy drank as much as they could conveniently
cnrry. Then they bought number Of pint
and halt.pint bottles Of whiskey. They put
these in their pockets and sauntered around
the streets until they came to q RreenRrocer
and fruiterers. There they bought q number
of oranges. bananas. and apples. Next they
hunted up two hacks
They got into tho hacks and told the drivers
20 take them out along the hillside road to the
prison. but not to 60 too close to the prison
because. yer soe." said Billy List, who is
known as "Dutchy," that we've Just como
out OF the stone pile. and we don't want to 60
right back to cracking ballast again"
The drivers un ierstood what the ex- x-convicts
wanted. and drove slowly out toward tho
prison. As they approached tho first gang OF
convict laborers along tho road tho ex-con-
victs in the hacks got out and taking somo OF
their bottles OF whiskey and some oranges and
bananas and apples walked innocently down
tho road. A close observer might have noticed
that they always managed to pass directly
over the coats Of the convict laborers which
were lying along the road. They paused and
bent down as il to fasten shoestrinG every
time they stepped across Q GOAT. After they
oonyicts IN the first gang OF laborers they got
back In their hacks and rode to within short
Ss tSs nioe.sns. s aRh ' 9ocH paes ss rs as
snSs ssae pso shss wss. 70 tSs third and then Ss
and % bananas, to say nothing q tho whiskey.
The eI.e9nyiets did not have them. and they
About q hall hour later Dutchy List and
@ .saT &c. ssns iSad EEE.s and Sod
sssH9s = .as and ssood
~ near 70 threo M % Of the conviots Who ysrs digging
do tsS oe'5 so sss short
put raising his head. but seemingly digging
Have you seen your coat yets" asked
Tommy shook his head violently.
"sqppose you take peep at 1t. Tommy ?"
%oys dSyp sscS The sSaS while
hi, coat; He raised It Up, taking special pains
e .s snS %ssia1 :rs rnas BIZ
SFsnes and a,b ane b.nape: nH 1T Tommy asoppsd
Y
S the 4sg ed e sa s
the suspicion OF the guards, was not excited.
AZ aSss ss% :aSi Gna hs ss ss A
lposSd At 5%tShy az he SsSx nfsr "A:
ssoDped 70 tIs his shoes. he stopped within
bidn's you forget something. Dutohya"
':ssa &hss TeWnyii Wss I. y ssfsd Taaifsa Saton,
sSrs snousa saae 9sAd1 ssid Dasoh,. but we'll be
back 5" , and hs walked on up the road and
''1ess %inSsss Dutohy
q the copviets he would Eaye hls hand as i
@ @shs BLACK HSaa ss S'SsS ss
sss i.ssssd 81 ~ a.s ss q ID
SiseE sEi bsnsies @ dsopplns 70 the ssoand ''. 'A'
found q plug OF tobacco, 2 bog Of cigarettes.
proach the coat, he promptly sat down in tho
bottom Q; the coal cart while the taa driver
work and watched sharkey., The guard pock.
eted the tobacco, and was about to walk away
% whiskes es s and the o fruit i N He noted the Other
guards. who promptly went around and
Datesy LIZ eS their search and their
They was dead slow or they would have
ths gong on the road was friends H1 Of 5 ours and
Of course. bein' liberal because we was free,
with chance to max . more for ourselves. said
We would take care of them. We went up to
tho stores and bought enough for ten chain
eanga We got away with the shares Of six
rest went down and distributed them fair
square among them oil Ef It hadn't been for
the fuke about the cigars there would have
been the bggest drunk In Sing Sing prison to-
Plight that was known since. Bnl Brown
!eft Sharkey and the rest Of the guards
tnab!sa 70 the game at the last Minute
and called u.s. They won the Dot. think
there was In that pot about three dozen pints
81 SThisEey, m halt bushel q oranges. M q bunch
Icy shon The guards went around with
baskets and gathered IT all In. Wo. was all
eorry that the fellers themselves didn't get II,
but the guards was always pretty square to us,
ana since tho convi let's were left we'd rs lieve
that the people who was next to them. the
guards should get the stake. think dat we
only gave TIE guards about as much rum aud
toback ns they gave us. only It took us five
SsS SsSrs t9 Fst O,6 oI1s while they get theirs ip
make bronx for 1t Tonight, because there'll
b,aI iot OF the guards that will DO very salu-
Dutchy and his con, psnions arrived IN town