The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-23
LIE7lI T5@ Prison Demon. =
I+L BY Josiah nyna and na&w -

have made some men commit suicide that he was in
of the crime for which he had been convicted:
but he knew also that it TO let this fact
ask the prison world how why his conviction
had come about it was for him 10 be an exemplary
convict And so wondering al the whole how things
were going ON the outside and continually strug-
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there remained but a few months more of confine-
ment and they were be the least irksOme all.
because Harvey had climbed the heights which lead
to the eminence Of a rusty ne had become the
errand boy of the prison doctor and was sent on
commissions all the different departments. One
day, while errand to the glove department.
he met an old acquaintance who had recently been
committed to the institution, and he asked him for
of the outside"
How the push comm up?" he Queried, refer
ring his old pals. Some settled Gin prisons
like HIMSELF ne learned; others dead and still
others were operating in new fields
What's the matter with Net? amt heard any
thin from her for two years
ter-auestio ono one SiR put you next the
Next to what? She amt dead is shs?"
mo. she's live an kckin' yet. but that fly cop
AckeTay has tied up with her They're married
shes Twin with Ackeray too. Calls him papa
A guard appeared just then and the conversation
Harvey had wanted news" and he had got it. There
were other trips to the glove department to secure
the details of the story by word of mouth but his own
imagination had patched them together for him after
e ~ 6o1e hin, dirt The 1nnerjted conl-ic
ton ana imprisonment became for him now part of
punishment had troubled him and made it hard to
obey the rules, but he had conquered the temptation
write but he had not connected Ackeray with
her neglect of him.
In an indefinite way had planned some day
settle accounts with Ackeray for the part he had
Of ways and means had captured his mind; that
be attended after he had secured his reduc-
news of Ackerays theft of his wife and child might
possibly have been reasonably considered as had
been the conviction that ne was unlus1y prisoner
Men Harveys stamp much calncer IN the open
no such final proportions. It had taken all of Har-
ve.-'s good sense, however TO be a model penitent
ion Of AC "
nIeu MN Us ~ meet Sckersv He still remained
a s.tr1lsty:" good behavior had become automatic
with him but his ambition no longer simply TO
he released He spoke to the warden and the guards
Of his wish TO have a talk with Ackeray He said
that there was suspended sentence hanging over
raw would be willing Ito fix things for him"
Hes the only fellow that can straighten the mat
ter out ne explained to the warden and want 10
have talk with him.
loose from IN here is that to- asked the warden.
That's exactly it., said Harvey, ana t iz I.
IAN right. Ackerays goin' TO bring some prisoners
here in day or So an III let him know. ~ tho
great -- pententiary with batch Of penitents'
or "4 nos informed Of Harveys desire for talk
with him and Immediately Impressed win the
importance to himself of such talk Possibly he
might find it to his to arrange matters so
that the alleged suspended sentence should De car
riea Gpt III see him. he said to the warden where
you'll probably find him over in the doctors Office
Take him into the garden if you want to be private
nd te
The meeting took place in the doctors office The
doctor was another part of the prison and Harvey
had been charge. No one heard the converse
ton between the two men, and only two Guards kne"
anything their being together Whether Har-
yev made use of his suspended sentence story or
cha rged Ackeray Immediately with foul treatment OF
him has never been decided The two men were in
conference according to the testimony of the guards
about half an hour and it seems reasonable 10 sup
nose that Harvey could only have interested Aceray
mis- length of time by reference 20 the suspended
tence but in view of what happened one IS justified
in wondering why he should have wanted 70 interest,"
him at all Harvey himself has persstently refused
20 y,oka any statement one way the other. When
the doctor returned TO his Office Harvey was 1ound
sitting in a pool blood on the floor, cutting INTO
small bits with surgeons knife the neart OF Detec-
five Ackeray who lay dead and mutilated IN a cor
ner of the room.
At the trial il reported that Harvey had mum
bled to himself he cut so much for 50 much for
that and for that" but Ineligible interpretation
of these expressions could be discovered, and they
were eventually accepted as eontrbutory evidence OF
his insanity.
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