The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-07
be considerably greater.

be considerably greater.
are not to be had.
The work which falls to the share of
almost all new arrivals is with the pick
and blasting drill in the quarrieS two
miles from the prison The stone is for
use IN the construction of the new penn
tertiary. Carter will come in for this
back breaking, hand blistering expert
ence unless influence or luck shall come
to his assistance.
In that event the criminal may get
something easy-a c1erkship in the
prison hospital, for example, where his
soft hands will be safe from the harder
forms of labor.
Fort Leavenworth Prison has a set
OF very severe rules, all rig1dly en-
forced. Should Carter grow disObe-
dent, his prison allowance of tobacco
will be shut off, he will be denied the
privilege of writing or receiving let
tiers, his diet may be restricted to bread
sistent misconduct he would be hand
cuffed day and night to the bars of his
cell
Every Saturday afternoon Carter will
be compelled not only to give himself
a cold-Water bath with common brown
soap accompaniment, but he will be
forced to wash and scrub his cell.
Every Sunday morning the effects of
the prisoners are carefully inspected,
and woe betide the offender whose kit
shows uncleanlineSS or careleSSneSS.
Sunday afternoon is the one breathing
time of the week when Carter and his
fellow criminals will be allowed the
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hours. Then the prisoners may talk to
each other, but throughout the long
dreary week, at work and at meals,
strict silence is the unalterable rule
Armed guards are everywhere, and
an attempt to escape means quick
death to the offender. "ShOOt at the
| first move is the standing order to
| the prison guards who will for the next
four years watch over Garter.
Carter may escape the stone quarrfes
and vet miss one of the easy convict
| clerkships. In that event he will work
| ten long, hard hours every day as a
| brickmaker or a stone mason or gar
| dent truck farmer. The men who VIII
! work beside him under the eye OF
/ armed guards are the Off-scOurings Of
4 the natiOns-criminals of every degree,
| representing almost every Offense in the
| calendar of villainy- A sinister com
| pany, in vivid contrast to the gllded
| circle with which Carter has been so
| long surrounded. There will be nor
| rOr for the degraded officer IN every
| instant of contact with his prison mates
| mere numbers, not men, in the eyes
/ of offended justice.
! AWFUL ROUTINE.
| He will sleep in a regulation prison
! cell behind a steel barred door, watched
! by a guard armed with a shotgun II
| is needless to say that the rare carpets
| and priceless tapestries which have
| contributed to his comfort up to this
| time will not figure in his Fort LeaVen-
worth cell.
His daily routine will be as follows:
] o'clock A Meet up.
$50 A. M.-Breakfast (beef stew and
bread).
A. MO work in rock quarry.
70 M.-Dinner (pOrk and beans, bread
1880 P. MO work in rock quarry.
P. M.-Supper (stewed prunes
bread and teal.
P. Mn bed: lights out.
/ This bill of fare is subject to Sigh
| changes, SauSageS occasionally taking
the place of beef stew and pork anC
beans sometimes giving away to cod
fish.
Nov. 20, 1897.
on May u, 1898, the trial was ended
the captain found guilty of foul
| passed:
Dismissal from army.
Imprisonment for five years.
$4,000 fine.
Publication of his crime and disgrace
in the newspapers of his home toWT
for a period of one year.
| The injunction not to hit a man wheI
he is down may be employed here. AnC
| there are those who think Captain Car
| ter innocent. Foolish he may have
| been imprOvident of his own resources
( careless of government money, but no
| guilty of Intentionally spending thu
ment placed in his hands for coast i'm
| prOvements.
The cry can American Dreyfus,'' il
heard. But the majority of persons
who have followed the case, shake
their heads obviously and say Nor