The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-21
SOME SCENES IN
THE PENITENTIARY
Tribune Reporter Interviews Frank
Beck and Joseph Boschin0.
BOTH HOPE TO GET OUT SOME DAY
BOschinO RejOiced When He Heard
Rocco Salvatore Was Dead and
Said lie Was the Man Who Killed
COnfOrti.. Both COnVicts Are in
Good Health. Warden Cassidy Was
There With His Bell.CrOwncd Hat.

GOOD Heulth..W arden CASSIDY was
There With His BeIl.Crowncd Hat.
The six prisoners, Fred Roland.
Michael Shumslly. MurZat Willard, John
Hicks, William Palmer, and Clement
Arnold, taken Friday morning to the
Eastern pentitentiary 10y Sheriff Glenn
ons, reached that institution ut IL
O'Clock that morning. Every one of
them was gloomy and detected and
many We're the bitter sighs of remorsc
they heaved as they resolved that
never again would they run counter
to the law.
Roland had been there before. As
soon as he stepped inside of the walls
of the pen the keeper at the portal
eyed him sharply and said, "fia. ha,
you're here again?" Roland did not
reply but hung his head. Arnold, who
shot Joseph Hooking at Carbondale
last summer. divided his time between
rcgretting that he didn't finish Hook
ing, and bemoaning the fact that he
will have to serve Ii months for what
he did do to him. Hicks, Palmer and
Shumsky spent most of their time
Watching the scenery.
When the train arrived in Philadel
phia, Arnold wanted to know if they
would have II chance to see the ocean
and some of the sky-scraping buildings
of the Quaker City.
Didn't you ever see the salt water?"
some one asked. NO" he answered,
ID 'goosh, the only things | ever seed
was blows, harruws, and corntields."
Arnold is a big lanky fellows, born
over in WGYne county, and was never
before so 4 away from home. He
said when is set at liberty he will
let a warwh,> out of him for joy, will
then go around nd see the sights, come
home to Carbondale, and never go TO
the pen" any more.
PREPARED FOR PRISON.
When prisoners are brought in they
are first ushered to small building
fitted w with bathtubs, scales and all
appliances for giving them a hair cut,
ana shave, after which they are
weighed and Il general description Of
them Is taken after which they are
scrubbed, and then sent to their cells.
they get certain amount of eNer-
else every day, and whenever they are
brought out into the yard for CON |
stitutional" IA cloth mask with small
eyehoids covers their faces. They have
to work in the day time and to and
from the workshop to their cells their |
faces are always covered.
The Eastern penitentiary Is q model |
institution of its kind. Michael Cas- |
Sidy, the warden, Is now rounding out |
10 wears there. He went there first as
deputy warden. He is a unique person. !
age. dressed in his Prince Albert broad |
cloth coat. With trousers of the same |
fabric, and usually an antebelum silk |
hat with Il bell crown. Whenever he
leaves the hat aside he wears one of |
fol t1 & n lyn nd
brim on it like that of a tennis straw |
hat.
He is enjoying very good health, al |
though he has passed the allotted three |
score and ten of mans existence. He |
Is as quick IF Wit and sharp Of mind
as he ever was. He has the faculty of .
sizing up Il prisoner with one look, and
is able to carry the impression for
years.
VERY HARD TO ESCAPE.
1t would be nothing less than the
skill of a wizard that could unable IL
prisoner to escape. The corridors are
thoroughly sentincled by keepers and
oVerseers, and the main halls from
which the corridors converge are pa
trOled constantly by vigiiant men. The
entrances are carefully guarded. Even
II n prisoner managed to get ont to the
yard he would have to be supplied with
d ladder to get over the high wall, up
which II il impossible to climb.
At night a CORPS of watchers sit in n
rotunda or tower, high above the
buildings, and scarchlights pierce the
darkness so that every avenue through
the ward is as bright almost as day.
The avenues converge from the ro-
tunda like spokes from the hub of a
wheel and one man by twisting around
in his revolving chair can look down
all of them in a few seconds. After "A
certain hour a pack of bloodhounds are
unleasned.
There are now about AS prisoners
within the walls and that j., . fair
average of the usual number.
Through the courtesy Of Warden
Cassidy, a Tribune reporter and
Charles Virgins. both IDENTITIES accom-
nanvin,r sheriff CIamons were nar-
mitted to see Frank ReZek and JnsenI
Boschino. the two life sentenced mis-
oneEs from this countv tbe former
for the murder of Mary IEerz;c his
sweetheart at Olyuhant. on Tuesday
oct. ., 1891. and the latter for the m,,r.
der of Frank Confortj at Ruuk.r hin
Dunmore. ON Sunday. Nov. ii 1894
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