The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-26
AFTER TWENTY YEARs.
How Things Looked 10 Two Men who
Had Hcen Ina Prison That Long.

From the Wichita OSas) Eagle.
"Are those geese or ducks?" That was
question asked by man 40 years old
IN Lansing. Kas.. last Sunday. 1t was
Arthur Winner Winner and McNutt were
the two most famous prisoners In the
Kansas penitenuary These men were
liberated Sunday after an imprisonment
Of over twenty years.
AZ o'clock Sunday morning Warden
Chase unlocked the cells. He took Winner
and McNutt to the prison barber shop, and
after they were shaved. gave them two
government SUITS which did not M at all.
Winner, who worked la the prison shoe
shop. had brought two pairs OF patent
leather shoes. The men put these on.
with the highly japanned and stylishly
pointed footgear and the ridiculously
cheap and awkward clothes. they, In COM
pany with ex-senator o. II. Bentley OF
Wichita. stepped outside the great stone
walls.
For twenty years they had seen neither
tree, shrub, flower. grass nor domestic AMI
NAL. Two of Warden Chases daughters
met them just outside the door and pre-
scented them with two beautiful flowers.
Several trustees approached them, beam
they went down the path. Tears were IN
both mems eyes.
See cried Winner the more demons
strative OF the two There Is a townf
There was no town here when / went in
THAT Is Lansing, said Mr.. Bentley.
Lets not go there" said Winner. II
want TO go over 10 those woods" McNutt
agreed. and they went over to a thicket by
the roadside. The two came across a
COW. rs that "a cow" said Winner. hest
tatingly. Don't 20 on. Let me look at
It, And he oircled around the animal,
much as a man examines a lion in Bar
mum 3. Then he approached her timor-
ously, and laid his hand upon her back.
This, he said, lis the only COW l have
seen In twenty years"
A little later they met flock OF geese.
Look! said Winner again. "reil me,
really do not know, are those geese or
duckH2" He was told they were geese,
and he tried to pet them Winner" said
McNutt moment later, what is that
sccnt2 DO you smell itg'' Yes IL must
come from those flowers" Both men de-
scended upon an clderbcrry bush and
stripped Il of IFS blossoms. They were
like two children They picked every
flower they saw and carried It with them.
's3ee here" said Winner, here Is a good
OLD mikweed How green and beautiful
II ISL And he plucked 1t and added It to
his armful Of variegated vegetation. Ar
thur said McNutt very slowly and delib-
eratcly, do you notice how queer It Is 10
talk loudly2 How queer the words
Gomez" Il wonder II ] could sing. [
guess not, said Winner He did not try.
Both men curiously felt the bark OF
every tree they came upon. Finally, with
their arms filled high with green twigs
and flowers, they went to the hotel in
Lansing. Mr. Bentley had breakfast
waiting for them. Winner drank three
cups Of coffee. How nice it is" he said.
" 10 have sugar In your coffel And cream
too Think of thatw How does the but
ter strike your" asked Mr.. Bentley "Oh
well, said Winner, I'm used to that. We
had butter every Fourth of July
After the two men had eaten everything
in sight they were shown to their room,
and there put on tailor made suits which
had been ordered for them and white linen
shirts, collars and ties They had eaten
at the prison early in the morning, again
at The hotel at . o'clock and at II o'clock
the same morning they sat down to an
other feast prepared by Mrs. W. r. Win
ner the wife of the Kansas city capitalist
and Winners brother This was a great
banquet, and both men ate voraciously.
Later IN the day the whole party went
to Kansas City. The long imprisonment
had dulled the mems minds. They asked
about everything they saw. McNutt
wanted to know what grape vines were.
When they reached Kansas City they both
began TO place things that they had read
about in the newspapers. McNutt could
not distinguish between a cable car and
an electric car. He insisted on trying
both, and finally got it into his head which
was which.
In the evening they went to park and
saw a toboggan slide in action. Neither
had read about this in the papers, and
both were greatly excited over it. They
| also insisted on stopping and examining
every high building. I'm these twenty
years" said McNutt. refectively, the
world has moved along a century,
McNutt's case is the sadder. Winners
folks are wealthy, among the most
wealthy in Kansas City, and he went at
once to their palatial home, where he was
received with open arms. McNutt has no
| one to whom to go. His old mother still
lives IN Noyia Scotia and is very poor.
His wife is married to another man and
lives some where in Missouri. Winner
was 10 when he went to the penitentiary,
and McNutt 20 years of age McNutt has
secured a job of decorating in Leaven-
worth and will open shop there Winner
will go back to the penitentiary as gem
eral manager of the Burr Company's shoe
business there, that company having the
convict contract of the Lansing prison.
II guess" said the sharp nosed girl.
that I will take fhp xviud o11f ~ /,