The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

c. f. johnson, ex.president of the
Logansport, Ind, National Bank, ten
years, is financial accountantto the bonded
secretary Of the prison.
w. W. Gerault, ex-cashier of the Gardes
Bank eight years; clerk to the warden
c. II. Van Husen ex cashier Of the
Toledo Ohio, National Bank, 8 years
was clerk to the steward of the prison
during his Incarceration.
r. A. Halliday, ex president of the Mt
Gillien, Ohio, National Bank, served
seven years and was chief librarian o
the prison.
Louis Redwine of the Gate City Bank
Atlanta, Ga, known as the leader Of The
"lour hundred of that city, served fv,
years for the embezlement of $780, 900 O
the banks funds
r. T. Agnew, ex president Ocalla, Fla.
National Bank, five years, was book
keeper of the kitchen during his i'm
prisonment.
Major Braggns, eX.tellcr Toledo Ohio,
Bank, now clerk in the War Department
Cunningham, of Cincinnati paying tel
ler five Yeas
In the pententiary, where the foregoing
select list Of bankers eXpated their viola
tions of the Federal Banking Laws, there
is block Of cells called "Bankers Row.
There are thirty-fve cells in the block,
and at one period every cell but three
had banker occupants. An editor, O
physician, and a well known Washing
tonian (the prison druggist occupied the
"Bankerless' cells. Ex members of the
legislature, ex-sheriiis, ex county treas
urers and ex.city clerks and eX-State and
municipal officials to the number OF many
hundreds, and many Of them United
States prisoners from the Western States,
occupy cells in this five tier double block,
the capacity of which, when all the cells
are filled, is GOO, and there are no empty
cells
The prison editor, George Francis
Burgoyne, William Lord Howard, is an
Englishman Of superior attainments. 1t
should be stated that a weekly prison
newspaper is published for the benefit OF
the prisoners; it has an outside circula.
tion Of several thousand copies. To this
sheet the prisoners have the privilege OF
contributing. Their prose and poetry
compare very fayorably, indeed, with the
country weeklies, received at the prison,
while the editorial columns of the prison
News sparkled at one time with the
wit and genius Of Lord Howard This
bogus English Lord has an interesting
personality. He is the son of a London
policeman. He has been a sailor, is a
regularly ordained Baptist clergyman, a
lawyer and Doctor of Divinity con.
ierred on him by Southern College. lie
has been professor of Baptist College,
the editor of the Baptist paper published
in Memphis, the brother.in-law of a well
known Southern nex-Congressman, and at
the same time one of the most accom-
plished swndlers ever brought TO time
by Uncle Sam. He is still in prison, but
not editing the prison News, as the con-
Wet paper is called. william, Lord
Howard, walked of one Sunday evening
and year afterwaid was recaptured by
deputy marshal in pulpit in Michigan,
where he had an influential congregation
He is now bookkeeper to a prison con-
tractor where he can be better watched.
Mr. Howard attracted the attention by
his writings, while editor of the "Prson
News" Of the entire press of the State OF
Ohio, and when the writer succeeded him
on the editorial tripod there was howl
of disappointment and disapproval from
numbers Of his admirers in the country
weekly press. The board of Managers
Of the prison decided to substitute the
prisoner editor with citizen
While editor Of the prison paper the
writer gave the fullest latitude to the
prison poets, and curbed only the able
contributors whose prose writings called
for the adjustment of Imprisonment, as
failure or a deterrent of crime. The
theory was lucidly advanced by these
contributors, that Imprisonment neither
protected society nor prevented the CON-
mission Of crime, and inasmuch as there
were nine criminals at liberty for the one
in confinement, the opening of the prison
doors would not effect society, Society
needed no protection, it could take care
Of fitself"
A specimen verse Of a poem containing
| only twenty five more verses, in which
the prison poet ostentatiously shows his
erudition and desire to see 'the thing
through" can only be inserted in this
article.
"Noblest Of earth's immortal names
Who felons lived In gives and chaines,
With torture and by grief assailed;
When malice OF their foes prevailed
Unbroken still lived ont
An we have heard sweet TasyOs nan
Who loved FarFaras noble dame
And Downward Of Chlllonl"
The routine and interior lives of con.
victs in our modern penal institutions,
their privileges, some of their striking
characteristics, and the tragic as well as
the romantic episodes in the careers oI
/ the more noted and prominent among
. them, furnishes interesting material fol
, the study and edifcaton Of the criminolo
gist, and may well entertain the general
newspaper reader in phase Of human
existence as isolated as il is undreamed
Of under the government of modern
penology.
The eight hour law is more honored
, in the breach than in the observance