The Topeka state journal., 1901-07-01
JEWETT HAS PLACE.
Warden Would Give Jessie Morri-
son Work in Tailor Shop.

If Jessie Morrison fails to get a new
trial and is sent to the penitentiary.
she will be a good tailor when she gets
out, for she will be put in the tailoring
department
About the only place we can work
the women at the penitentiary is either
in the laundry or the tailor shop, Sal1
Warden Ed Jewett while in Topeka !
think we will give Jessie a place IN the
tailor shop. 1t is the most congenlal.
If she were a typewriter we might put
her in the Office. We work several OF
the male convicts in the office and
could use a female convict if she were
a stenu pher. But 1 understand that
Jessie Is not one.
Women prisoners are handled diff
ferently from the male prisoners, con-
tinued the warden. I'VE don't keep
them in single cells. We put all of the
women in a couple of big rooms with
doors and windows barred They sleep
in these rooms. Some of the beds hold
two women and some. only one The
women are brought in contact with the
men at the chapel and in that way ac-
Quaintances are struck up, despite our
efforts to prevent it. hope the legis-
lature some time will provide for the
erection of g. separate penitentiary for
women. 1t is badly needed. Men and
women prisoners should not be at the
same institution by any means
I'VE now have 20 female prisoners,
and there are five more headed our
way, including Miss Morrison We
haven't anything for them to do now
but to work in the laundry and tailor
shop. I hope we will be able to find
some other work for them to do before
long
What sort of suits do the female
prisoners wear2"
They have no regular costume now,
but we are going to adopt one this
summer. 1t will likely be a gray suit
with short skirt"
Getting back to Miss Morrison, the
warden said:
From what can understand, Jessie
has always borne a good reputation
and this killing is the only thing
against her. This being true I shall
take special care to locate her. The fact
is that the women who come to the
penitentiary are as a rule pretty hard
citizens. We have several of them with
us now. However, a few are all right.
But there is no possible way now to
separate them permanently. Oftentimes
they are all thrown together and that
makes it hard on the better class of wo-
men. Occasionally white and black
trying to arrange it so that this Will
not happen again. Jessie will not find
it a bed of roses by any means. Prison
life is not what it is cracked up to be,
always borne a good reputation and
gone in good society,"
Ell Dorado, Kan, July 1.-The motion
for a new trial for Jessie Morrison will
be argued before Judge Aikman next
Saturday. Tt will be overru1ed and the
prisoner sentenced. Miss Morrison has
almost entirely recovered from the
shoclk received when the verdict was
rendered and greets her few friends
and relatives who are admitted by the
guard to her cell, cheerfully and talks
over the case, but does not speak of
her future to any except her own peo-
pie.
The attorneys for Miss Morrison re-
fuse to discuss their future plans.
County Attorney Rees would not say
whether or not he will confess the mo-
ton the motion for a. new trial. but it
is hardly expected that he Will Dur
ing the trial it developed that an at
torney for the defense had a conversa-
ton with Martin Willis, the colored man
on the jury, about something foreign to
the case, and it created quite a sensa~
ton in open court. Judge Aikman viii
appoint committee at this term of
court to investigate the matter