The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-06-18
1t Is Claimed Marquette Prison Is
the States Dumping Ground
For Tough COnvicts.
HOW THEY ARE KEPT.
Warden Freeman is Making a
Record in Management of
Desperate COnvicts.

The Sault Ste. Marie News of last
Saturday pays Warden Freeman Of
the Marquette Branch Prison the
following high compliment:
"Warden George w. Freeman, of
the branch state prison at Mar
quette, is making record as dis
ciplinarian and manager of incor-
rigibles. Indeed, his cool courage
and incisive system, in the carrying
out of which he is ably abetted by
Deputy Warden Mosher, have
brought unexpectedly good results
when applied to hardened criminals
and desperate convicts. The Mar
quette prison is now filled with in
corrigibles and is made the state
dumping ground of hardened and ir-
reclaimable lifers and long termers.
The notorious Carley, who has
MANNED four guards in such cheer
ful manner as gouging one officer S
eyes with a broom needle, is IA sam
pie of the lot, while Huntley, the
desperate convict who tried to kill
a guard by making an attack shield
ed by Il heavy plank, is another and
there are more like them. Con-
victs who evince some tendency to
reform are sent to Ionia; those be-
tween the best and the worst are
sent to Jackson, while the worst are
sent to Marquette and the pickings
of this character make q rare crew.
Just as soon as convict cannot be
handled in Ionia he is sent to Jack
son aud when he gets too tough for
Jackson he is fired to Marquette.
These are the. problems Warden
Freeman has to solve and if he
wasted any mawkish sentiment on
them it would take a<cotfin factory
to supply the guards. a man ism {
allowed an sinch of unnecessary
privilege. He is made to feel that
he is in prison all the time and not
in health or pleasure resort,
Malicious cruelty and brutality are
never resorted to, but an effective
method of punishment is uniformly
practiced. One punishment is the
common one of shutting the offender
in a dungeon with his arms hand
cuffed so high that he cannot sit
down. Frequently convict will
say he will not work, and many of
them at Marquette hadn't done a
stroke for months until they got
there. At Marquette it is mo
work, no eat, with a daily pastime
of spanking. The rebellious convict
is laid over barrel and famed full
strength with fine wooden paddle,
which in the hands of muscular
guard is likely to keep the spankee
awake. In time starvation and the
paddle make them fairly Industrious
and decent. But they are always
plotting to do up the guards and
kill the warden, or something as bad,
and the price of life and successful
administration is eternal vigilance.
To help in the vigilance line and
incidental to it Warden Freeman has
gathered together formidable pack
of bloodhounds, probably one of the.
greatest bloodhound kennels in the
country, and one of the very few, if
not the only one, north of kentucky.
After experimenting with the
Siberian and Cuban bloodhounds
Warden Freeman decided that the
Redbonc and the Clark strains as
bred in the southern states are by
far the best. They are little fellows,
in size between a beagle and fox
hound, but they are fierce, eager
aud man-hungry all the time. A
trail can hardly be too cold for them
and with them behind it does man
no good to take to stream or lake,
as they understand the ruse and
course the shore rapidly until their
quarry's trail is again found or he
is treed in the water. The News
saw the dogs run a man one day re-
Gently. The man was given big
start and told to climb u tree when
he had run as far as he could. The
dogs were unleashed and they ran
like the swift wind, giving tongue
long and low until their short sharp
yelp told that they had treed their
game. When Warden Freeman,
Deputy Mosher, Detective Dolf and
The News came up the dogs were in
frenzy and were not only endeavor-
ing TO climb the tree, but were try
ing to chew it down. They wanted
that man and would never leave him
of their own accord. Warden Free
man secured the south for his fine
kennel and got some of them as far
away as Texas. A trained blood
hound is worth from s125 to $500.
But they don t look their part and
would never win crowdIor man
ager in an Uncle Tom show. 1t
takes that great big COW OF a dog,
the Great Dane, for that and the
average citizen would sneer at the
real bloodhound, while o cold chill