The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
MILLIONAIRE DOES HIS
BUSINESS IN PRISON
Slew HIS Daughters Husband and Waits Calmly for the End

Portable in his cell as the circumstances
permit, and from the gloomy room he
directs his business as capably as
though he sat amidst the comforts of
! MS own luxurious business office
! This is the way Terrell divides his
| day:
MORNING.
a. m.-Breakfast.
$50 a. m.-Exercise-a walk through
the corridors of the Jail.
a. m.-Receiving and opening
mornings mail.
| g a. m.-ArrivaI of stenographer for
! days dictation.
a. m.-Arrival of business callers
| OIL men, bankers, real estate dealers,
promoters. contractors and others.
II a. m.-Business callers dismissed to
permit visits from members of his
family and friends.
II m.-Dinner.
AFTERNOON.
p. m.-Conference with architect
and contractor engaged in the con-
! Struet1on of new opera house.
z p. m--Appears at his cell window
to survey the progress made on the new
opera house building and to superin-
tend some of the details of the work of
8 p. m.-Interview and conference
| with attorneys.
4:30 p. m.-Diversion and exercise.
p. m.-Supper.
9p m-Bed
Little Care for Own Case.
"a time for everything and every
| thing in its time" is John Terrell's
motto. But it is significant of the char
acter OF this millionaire that, in his
working day of twelve hours, he gives
only one brief half hour to the consid-
Grafton of his own desperate case.
Contrary to all precedent, the Bluff
ton Jaller has permitted Terrell to con-
vert his cell into an office room. Here,
surrounded by his papers, his certifi-
Gates Of stocks and shares, his ledgers
his account books, his journals. and his
day books, Terrell labors INCREASINGLY.
He must labor, for he has a fortune of
$l,eO0,O0O to care fora task that is
not easy for man who enjoys his lib
erty.
In Terrelrs employ is an army of
clerks and workmen, and every one of
them walking the streets of Bluffton is
happier than this imprisoned million
are, upon whose money they are de-
pendent for a livelihood.
PROBABLY the strangeSt fact in con-
nection with Terrelrs imprisonment is
MS personal supervision of the con-
struction of the new opera house he &c
building for Button. The structure is
going up on ground that is opposite his
cell window. Every afternoon at Q
O'Clock, as his schedule shows Terrell
drags heavy stool to his window, and.
mounting the chair, looks out through
the bars, directing the foreman who
comes to the Jail yard to receive his
employers orders. Terrell, instead Of
nYlfiY
determined to direct many of the fin
ishing touches himself, ordering them
as the structure advanced. Therefore
+ When ne became a prisoner in the
BluHton county Jail, his workmen
reared that the labor would cease.
Kept On at Work.
But that was not Millionaire John Ter
relfs idea. He made the best of circum-
stances; arranged his plans. and, in keep
ing Win his determination set aside a
certain hour every day for the personal
direction of the work of constructing the
1 pe bh oeid He could not visit the build
scene itself. But, next best thing he
could view the pile from his cell window
and order his foreman to be within sneak
ing distance each afternoon
| Lucy. when only girl of nineteen. was
| mafrled to Melvin Wolf. The father OBJ
| posed the marriage. but he yielded to his
bbia algnd RS, desire, For this, later he
happy one. and Wolf abused his child
| wife shamefu1ly Word of this reached
| Terrelfs ears and a silent rage was aWak-
ened In his heart. 1t burst forth into unre-
stialnaple fury when Lucy was obliged to
hee from her husband and seek protection
| IN her fathers house. Terrell seized a
| shotgun and, lying in wait for Wolf,
/ opened fire on the young man. The shots
only wounded Wolf.
| He was carried to surgeons office and.
mere, while he was. lying lifeless under the
! influence of narcotis, Terrell drove I'D to
| the place. In the meantime he had re-
| Loaded his weapon. Maddened with anger.
he thrust the crowd of curious spectators
! been hastily bolted to bar his progress.
DurSt In on the young man and leVeling
| his gun. emptied both barrels into the
| PROSTATE form. Wolf was killed instantly
Making his way to his buggy. Terrell
| cautioned the crowd not to follow him
and, driving at once to the sheriff resi-
! dence, gave himself up
lie Will ruin no more homes and break
no more hearts, is the only explanation
that Terrell VouchSafed
Cares Only for Daughters Future.
Still stung with remorse and shoulder
ing the entire blame for his daughters I'M
happy marriage, Terrell in his prison cell
| his affairs into such shape that should
the jury that will try him find him guilty
| of murder in the first degree he can pay
| the penalty confident that his daughter
will want for nothing after he is gone.
Thus. in the shadow of the gallows,
this millionaire. with money to buy all the
| luxuries of life cannot buy that which he
desires most of all, his liberty. He tolls
indefatigably, and while gray hairs are
| fast Sprinkling his black locks it is said
shrewd planning. finds his daughter richer
by hundreds of dollars than she was when