The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-02

leave the saloon, but Allen and Cody headed
the throat trS and f backed eu '
ner between wall and an icebox where HI
was powerless to move. One OF Cody's friends
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he put il against livingstone head and pulled
! the trigger, sending ball through Livingston
be h o
| in this city. for not only was the victim wedged
IN where he couldn't, move, but Allen had him
:, 1t is. hard to look at Cody now and believe
that this mild mannesred old man is the same
| man who committed such a brutal murder
He has no friends anxious to try to get a par
out, in the Sing Sing bucket house, going
| find lte prisoner who is oven older than
Cody. although he didn't get into prison until
Kelly was sent to Sing Sing on. MAY 10. 1871,
for, q crime insured bya desire for revenge. as
ON pardon to-day as he ever was. and often
t talk with his keepers about the day when he
island farmer. Garrett Wort Nostrand who
was killed ono night in Anril. 1871, A man
trand lived at syosset. I; l.. and Kelly, who
road. had home near the Nostrand farm.
bot G b h by S6 b
matter. he had scheme OF revenge
No, S5strand was in SyosTGt saloon on the
came In Kelly and the farmer shook hands
and and Kelly a2d his friend sat down at the Same
The party had several drinks. and in paving
for some OF them Nos:rand took out we'll
bGh T G n6t the q
Nostrand started for home. taking lonely
Path through r,, some woods Three minutes afi
a W"y At f iT Mrs ' str HaS%%
VAS told that he had lett three h"nrs S
IN, The t next morning; a Sunday Nos;rand's body
from behind with an axe and his head had been
split in two, The man who struck that blow is
the same, old man who works in the Sing, Sing
he wouldn tkill a fly. and whose reputation in
the jail is that Of q model prisoner.
Kelly. Ike Cody. sometimes talks OF his
"details OF it, but he recalls . bitter hatred. Of
wheh he his heart for
when he struck the fatal blow. Twentv;scyen
years ip prison have eliminated all the bitter
scarcely knows now how he came to commit
crimes to the influence of liquor. Both men
are repentant and take 2 great deal Of com
lain In their old age the only eXpianatian
they can of OF their crimes is that they don't
unMSerstand why they committed them
twenty nye years Of life, sentence for one Of
in New York. This is Martin GIN who d"ii6er-
ately killed i his friend M2ytimer sullivan, in
H LAUGHED at hm ' G is moae Sa
one OF the most popular men in the prison.
From ddis;spated Young tough he has been
NIX pr.Gn 6%sDa Rs Y1%i " and ,ni
excellent citizen. but his chances of freedom
ere res small: fGr he is one Of the iorgotten ones
ing forward to the day Of his pardon
II was on tho night OF June IL. 1894. that Gill
ans S~oa got drunk in Sao0n t 2H
other in drunken frolic. and GIN was thrown
to the floor with more violence than he thought
free lunch counter. he made several slashcs at
Sullivan. which the latter easily warded of
apparently the best Of friends again. '''e'''
sullivan %fassd at R Rm Eli Struck sSnd d
and sullivan called him. baby and said he
couldn't hurt ANYBODY. In E, spirit Of drunken
again. folded his arms and said: '''
a Sour Sssse w yS%d md n9os anybody
Wthh@nt seconds hesitation Gill put bull
santy fho resu Of G hH f Was n one '9 Of
the most remarkable on record. With clean
case Of murder made out the Jury disagreed,
self, and sent him to Slug Sing for life on a
Pig aar s%r S sns who f havs
already spent over twenty years inside those
s9mY be Tss are John sHsdwn who w2s
downing, who donned his stripes on Jan II.
1880. Downing was shoemaker at 45+ West
civil war, with rare record for bravery in
action. He was an excellent citizen until poor
business set him drinking, Then he Legan
1870 he kicked her to death Baldwin Killed
a. man AMIN in Orange county and was sentenced to
commuted to life imprisonment Baldwin is
now ~ years old and works in the prison wash
shop. The men are model prisoners and
neither one has black mark against him
really bad health the result f the T So nfE
ment are Patrick Casey. who entered the
RRho g" a1 "n bee ~ s5 3 LoGd
policeman who shot Sergt, Cornskey in a
Long Long Island City station house on March II.
sent away Tor NE He is general Utility It'll n man
able to do much work. He cannot live long UNI
wSsa fs s %P & Ss anS ss
relied. at Broadway and Wall street, Goode is
ments That he has to use crutches '' 49,
One OF Sing Sings star cooks is an extremely
his wife into small pieces. placing the parts in
a bag and then starting for the river to throw
them In the water. A policeman held him up
while he wns on the way to the river This
man is Louis Francien. and he has been in the
Jat since October. 1885. He is good cook and
a well behaved prisoner.
OF the other life prisoners at Sing Sing all
but two or three. who are in for arson are
homicides. All ofthese men are good prisoners
and enjoy more privileges than the ordinary
convicts Despite the fact that they all hupe
for ultimate pardon there is only ono man OF
them all who stands much chance Of getting
II. That ono Is the man Downing. who killed
his wife. He was convicted of manslauRhtcr
In the first degree That was life offence in
the 7O's. but at present tn" limit OF punish
ment Is twenty years. As Downing has al
ready done" over twenty years, he feels az
though no IL entitled to a pardon.
There are no long-t"rm prisoners in New
York local prisons. although there are many
who have spent the greater part OF the past
twenty years inside III" walls OF tho Tomhs
Prisoners are frequently kept waiting in the
Tombs for trial as long as year, This is he
cause tho courts hecOm" clOgged. in lighting
conviction and sentence of twelve years for
highway robbery William Stack secured n
stay. which KEPT his case pending for fifteen
months On Tuesday last the stay was vacated
aud on "Wednesday Stack was taken to Sing
Sing to begin his sentence Not one day Of tho
taken or his sentence which would make il
LOOK as though IL wasn't always wise to fight
conviction.
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