The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1902-10-10
HAPPY ONLY IN JAIL
An Austrian Nobleman Volun-
tarily Seeks Incarceration.
STUDYING PRISONS OF THE WORLD
To Acquire Practical Knowledge He
Path of the Law-UnsuccessfuI At
tempt to Break Into Philadelphia
Penal Institutfon.


tempt TO Break Into Philadelphia
Penal Institutfon.
Il Count Rocco DianOvitch, scion Of the
~ noble house or Lessa, Austria, is a
broken hearted man, says the Phila-
= deiphia Press.
~ Fer several days the count has been
- lettering about the city in the vain
- hope that he might be arrested on a
- minor charge and sent 10 prison. Just
as he was about to have his ambition
REALIZED the other day a Nemesis, in
~ the shape OF Magistrate KOchersperger,
eAdashed his hopes TO the ground and
- Count Rocco as a result is a wanderer
~ Il hbout the city's streets again, with his
IN Aesire still unqualified.
.. Count Rocco, for the edificatiOn. OF
- N-tese who are not up on the history of
So, aftf house OF Lessa. is n student OF
w :. inns frfSogy. who years ago fell into dis
pr at court because OF the eXtraOr
u., FRY measures he took to study life
!" Efhe various prisons of the world.
49, lShen but q mere boy, lie became a
profound student in the science OF
h x .kociolOgy, and so absorbed did he con-
~ Rfnue that on coming to mans estate
~ n decided OH a tour of the world. dur
" II which he could study life from its
~-,itminal aspect and especially that pOr-
ton of it spent behind the bars.
Accordingly he entered upon a de-
liberate career OF minor criminal Of
lenses. This was i'm order that he
might become prisoner in every sense
OF the word and study the various
jails to which he might be sent as a
law breaker. For years he has been
following such life, and a result
he has seen the inside of Englands
famous prison at Portland; he has
slept I'm dungeons in Spain: kept meas
ure to the lOckstep In southern chain
gangs and borne the misery of life in
the mine prisons of Siberia and the
Jails OF Melbourne and Sydney. on the
other side OF the globe.
Wherever he goes he secures the
signature OF the head jailer TO show
thai Nhe has done time" and likewise
Id Iity seal from the mayor in the
~! 81 where the prison is located. In
* Ss6t1yay he has filled bullying volume
H''sS ovS bears the signature OF jaiers from
, ~ As2Ind of the world TO the other.
e3.uxAaN OF the jails in America he has
acceeded III studying To his sat
2. >his old Mbyamensing. in South
Mfg Three years ago he sue
s hasSIste tn the police learned
IT, grapi'eN Seas they turned him
ouN fishing knyaSt Imprisonment.
Az wharf anu nS tHount turned up
confde receipt of one 90 o. that his noble
lineage HAS done by 'l5tten by the po-
lice and. q worksrta as tramp. he
. sauntered arca1d the city. lettering
about corners and at times even stand
ing in the very path of policemen, but
for some strange reason every wielder
of the baton gave him an icy stare and
passed 10y without even SO much rs the
customary warning to move on"
Count Rocco was about losing heart
when he reached the corner of Eighth
and Chestnut and saw Policemen Starr
and Shriver ordering some lOungers
away from the front of Green's hotel.
The counts face frightened ut once.
His eyes fairly beamed as he APP
preached the policemen and scented
trouble
The appearance of the count in his
disguise at once aroused the already
heated Ire OF the policemen and they
made Il combined spring for him.
What you arrest me for: he de-
manded. with all the appearance OF
man who is really angry.
Drunk and disordcrly." said the po-
lice in unison.
The count grOancd. That would have
meant ut the most discharge i'll the
morning or Ut least few days In the
house of correction. Then a bright
idea struck him. He resisted arrest.
The pOlice-poor deluded mortalS-fell
into this trap at once. They declared,
in righteous wrath, they would charge
! itARim with every crime short of felony,
kd at hast. with a bcatihc smile, the
~ Ieman was Aaa along with the docil-
{Etf lamb. Sat.
3 80 1.-THE mornfS Magistrate Kochcr-
A. = Ser learned 1xat the prisoner was
"a hn of noble tolood. Mistaken. as
a. Nfgrest majority Of philanthropists
hetines are. he determined Ito do
hething nice for the count. He
"A 3na4 $p his mind that the distin-
N ND prisoner had already suffered
IA sindisnity and predetermined
NM 49, discharge,
pers4 tinguished prisoner was not
= ma M the climax, When he found
~ n all his trout "a tussle with