The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-28
SAM PARKS PUT In SING sing.
GOES CURSING AND THREATEN
ING TO AL hDAMSS CELL.
But in Prison All HIS BrayadO Fades--Wire,
sobbins, Ciings to Him In the TON BIS
He Had Not Expect ed to 60 Yet.
but a Stay Was Not Forthcoming.

Into Sing Sing Prison at 2;35 o'clock
yesterday afternoon there slouched big,
ungainy man with pale cheeks and a far
away, lost look in his eyes. Into the clerks
office they led him.
whats your manner" asked Clerk Vest
lake in sharp tone that hardly woke the
man from his walking stupor. The lawyer
at the big mans side touched his elbow.
Samuel j. Parks, said the man.
That is how Sam Parks business agent"
OF the Housesmit his and Bridgemens
Union the man who ordered others right
and left TO stop earning living month or
two ago and who set out to tie up the whole
building industry Of the greatest city on
the continent to make his boasts good, ,
went to place where there are no strikes
and men have plenty of time to think IL
over behind steel bars.
Unless the jury's verdict convicting
him Of extorting $500 from skylght maker
to permit him to hire non-union men is
upset by the courts. Sam Parks will be
just Number So-and-So for Rt least two
years and half. The number has not
been assigned to him yet. Last night no
slept temporarily in the cell lately occupied
by al" Adams, who also was, in his day,
called king and a car.
just after noon yesterday Deputy Sheriffs
Bell and 0'Keefe went TO Parks in the Tombs
and told him TO get ready. His wife and
Mrs Hannah were there with him. His
wife became hysterical.
The preparation didn't takelong. Parks
didn't say word. For a moment there
was glitter in his eyes then, as his wife
fell, sobbinS into his arms. the taraway
look that had been noticed in Ills eyes when
his trial was going on and the evidence be-
gan to pile up, came to them again.
Two other men We're then brought down
near Parks's cell. They were "A burglar
named Yeager and another crook nomed
Heaton. Yeager had no coat or hat. Parks
was handcuffed BET ween them. He straight
ened up a little, but his shoulders COON
slouched down again.
The deputies hurried the trio out and
put them on a northbound Madison avenue
car Then as Parks hrcathed the out
side air, he began TO mutter. Then he
began to curse. The newspapers lac RE-
viled especially. Several women lett the
car
The car swung around into Forty-second
street. The Belmont Hotel is going up
there, but there ere 10 ~orkmen there
now.
Il stopped the WORK there" crowled
Parke. land I'll tie 'em all up before Pm
through"
Get out here" said ore of tho &c, lties
when the car turned uptown agai 1T the
Grand Central Station, The three iC..racrs
were hustlsd through the expire. s n NJ ell
trance to the station and we're ! VI "n tie
train.
When they arrived at Cssinitr 'Nev ire.
nobody. The three were led along the
railroad tracks TO Sing Sing Prison The
first thing that the prison people do IL to
find out who their guests are 1t 0idnt
take Clerk West lake very long il fnrI's
case after his name had been told.
Then Parks WIS taken down to tho go 80
shop. v here he went hrouRh the Is lel
routine. There is nothing very exciting
about this routine, but 1t usually strs the
consciousness of the new prisoner II
didn't break the stupor into which
Parks seemnd to have fallen. His
bravado vas all gone, He didn't even
rnGtter. His eyes focused away OF. his
lower lip hung away from his upper ard his
big shoulders sloucled.
After bath, they cav, him set ofprison
urderclothcs and n striped suit with re
pockets. Then he fell j.. at the end Of lir @
ofmen all clad like himself-the idle gang"
as they call il, in Sing Sing, comprising u G
newcomers. the sickly and the lame.
With this gang he got his pail Of coffee
and his three slices Of bread. which he took
without surprise and without show Of emo
ton. Then he marched to his cell
In here" said guard with Il bunch Of
keys.
And Sam Parks went behind the bars
The cell where he spent the night is No. II,
and It's last famous tenant was AL Adams,
the convicted policy king"
Before most people in New York are
awake to-day Sam Parks will have been
examined by DR.. Irvine, the prison physi
clan. Then he will he measured By the
Bertillon system and photographed.
After that Principal Keeper Connaughon
will assign him to work. either at the mat
or brush fibre industry.
Parks didn't expect to 20 to Sing Sing
so early, If at all. His removal there yes
terday WAS made possible by the fact that
his lawyers didn't get a stay of execution
They did get formal order from Supreme
Court Justice SeweIl in Brooklyn for Dig
trct Attorney Jerome to show cause why
a certificate of reasonable DOUBT should
not issue.
That order is returnnble today, but
probably will not be argued to-day because
Assistant District Attorney Rand viii not
have had time 10 prepare his argument
on the order
Now that Parks is in Sing Sing his counsel
can get him out only if Justice Sewell de-
cdes after tho order to issue a certificate
Of reasonable doubt
The hearing OF the plea of Parks and
Of Tim Mccarthy, the walking delegate
who was indicted with Parks for extor-
ton, for charge Of venur in the trials
not yet begun, came up in the Supreme
Court yesterday. Justice Amend adjourned
it to next Monday. Az Parks has gone
to Sing Sing Mccarthy is the only one
who ia likely to be affected
Assistant District Attorney Rand got
letter Yesterday from woman who signed
herself Mrs. Anderson, Fifty-ninth street,
Brooklyn. In part 1t said;
Permit me to thank you for your able
and conscientious conducting Of the trial
OF that man sam Parks. so-called delegate
of several unions. ] wonder II for the min
ute some OF those men, they ought to be
sG Wan hsy him
dictate when and where they aha II work.
Did Il occur TO you that he has actually
been, placed In power TO starve workmen,'s
families at his will. MS well as cause untold
misery and suffering TO women and children.
through his base grasping for money TO
gg re- without working for ~ he hns at
families OF skilled mechanics literally stary-
Ing and suffering IA much here ~ though
they lived in the coal regions last winter.
men have been idle. some have big. families
and all must live How. in Gods name,
are we to get food when tho men are forced
into idlenesS2
MY life IA well IA my poor little dependent
grandchildren, are but few OF the many
who have suffered through him If all the
workmen's families would come and tell
their tales Of want and suffering. your heart
would bleed with pity. and you would make
greater effort to send Sam Parks and moro
OF his stamp TO States prison
The HousesmIt his and Bridgemen's Union
will meet tonight in Mannerchor Hall,
Fifty-sixth street, near Third avenue, and
there is much curiosity on the part Of
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