The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14
HE'S BROKEN HIS PAROLE.
.HEIGHBoRs RIISE AN ESCAPE
FUND FOR JoE MANNING.

Vnsy pepa mira out or the state so That
tire Eirnira laboratory shhn't Set Him
he Chaarea His Sob vEitheut Notifying
the Rersrnator1-Appoal FOR Hnis Pardon.
Col. II. I. Swords, private secretary to Dis
trict Attorney Olcott, was sitting in his ofice
Yesterday when an elderly woman came In
and said:
II believe You arc the pardon clerk. My
nano In Manning. I live in West si1ty.sev-
enth street, near Amsterdam avenue, I came
TO SEQ you about my son Joseph Manning, to
see II you can q him pardoDed. They came
TO take him away from me to the Elmira Re
formatory. II they do that / will starve, for
my boy had q Job and was earning 81 a day,
supporting me and his sister. She is dying.
The doctor called again to-day and said the
end would como In o few days. Joe was re-
leased from the Roformatory In April and has
been supporting us since, but when no got .
new lob and failed TO notify the authorities at
Elmira, they said ho had broken his parole
and must 60 back. Tho neighbors would not
allow It. 30 on Wednesday they took up o sub
e~cription and sent Joe out Of town 30 that Mr..
Drockwny could not hnd him. But while Joe
il away from his work We have nothing to
live on"
.Just n minute" said Col. Swords; '1et me
understand this case. Your son was sent to
the Elmirn Reformatory. and getting out on
parole failed to inform the Reformatory gu
pcrintendent that he had changed his place Of
employment: 10 that the easel
son vas q good boy, who never should have
Been sent to tho Reformatory.
pesrcd by tho records that Joseph Manning
was 20 years old and had been arrested on
ne into ~ THOMAS p. co%neannons 3 saloon at 100
West Seventy:seventh street and stealing three
bottles. Of whiskey, two bottles of cherry wine,
ga . h,tt1n ~ min Tvvn nfhnr pnntha yvnra r
TSe story told at tho trial was that the
drinking in the saloon until they became noisy
and we're put out by the ne saloon Keeper e,r %ho
SlSs0d p,s up t Was plis Usf;od r np at Ea 3 on o'ol 9 9 san IVY
hours later they returned to tho saloon, and.
finding the place closed, decided to have fun
thru ugh the transom and handed out the bottles
to Manning. who set. them in a line along tho
policemen came along and arrested them; An
we're sent to Elmira. on April ., aSSo. living
10 iessssa aO on 6sRole after yog a yoa Msn tims. VIC Ms got rot
work for q west side plumber named Held;
laid on o few OF his helpers, among them Man.
ming. The next day Manning got a job as tire.
ment, ct Fifty-ninth street and Eleventh ave.
nue.. He neglected to notify superintendent
BroekWay that he was no longer employed by
lied ' sSo o 'piam SsS ' and INQUIRED S'Ss%sd'' sft ss'? young u1ss
Manning.
He Is gone from here five weeks" said tho
Manning back to 'Elmira.
People: living in the neighborhood of Man
ning's residence heard that an officer from the
reformatory was In New York, ready to take
tho young man back to Elmira, and they i'm
,mIediatelE began to raise an escape fund.
They collected enough money to send young
Manning away, and on Wednesday they sent
him to another State.
These were tho facts collected yesterday by
Col. Swords and which will be laid before Gov.
Black to-day.