Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-15
ANARCHIST TURNER.
His Life as Prisoner on Ellis
 Island.
NOT ALLOWED TO TALK TO VISITORS

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 Immigration Depot I'm New York
 Harbor Who Addressed Him-La-
 bors Far Into the Night Writing
 ArticIes-His Pet sparrows.
 While waiting on Ellis island, in New York harbor, for the United States supreme court to decide whether he is entitled to land here or must be de- ported to England John Turner of Eng land, self confessed 'philosophic an archist,'' is a prisoner in the strictest sense of the word. Two uniformed guards watch over him day and night. Turner is the first anarchist arrested in the United States under the new i'm migration law, and Commissioners Wil- Hams does not mean to let him get away if he can help it until 1t is de cided whether or not he shall be sent away for good.
 Not that Turner has shown any de- sire to break jail. To reporter for the New York Times, who saw him while he was taking his afternoon con SIlJuLlOual Ou tue iuuulSIduC plcI tuC other day, he said:
 q am very conf fortable under the cir cumstances; no complaint to make of my treatment as a prisoner except the fact that am prisoner at all" There are three steel bar cells in the big basement of the Immigration build ing on the island. Turner has the place all to himself, with the exception of his guards, although he occupies only the middle cell. It is very com fortably fitted out for prison cell, including among other things large writing desk with shaded electric light over it.
 The table is heaped with clippings. notes and copy ready for the printer. Newspapers, mostly foreign, are heap- ed on the floor as they are around an exchange editors desk in newspaper office Turner works far into the night, writing articles for newspapers in Eng land and Germany that promulgate his doctrines. His personal mail every day is as large as in any one of the division departments of the govern ment service on the island. There is no restriction. Turner is allowed to send out and to receive whatever he chooses in the way of letters and news papers.
 The philosophic. anarchist is such lover of exercise that he would walk the legs off his guards if they would let him. As it is he tramps up and down the pier with them for four hours each day, just after breakfast and just before dinner
 Nobody is permitted to talk with Fur ner save his lawyers and his guards. A few anarchist and socialist sympa- thizers who succeeded i'll passing the guards at the Battery and landing on Ellis island were never able to get near the man they went to see. Turner has been told not to attempt to talk to per- sons he meets i'll his walks. One day recently he went on q little ahead Of his keeper, who had stopped to talk with one of the interpreters. A vis- itor to the island, mistaking Turner for one of the government employees asked for direction to some part or the building. The guard, who, was right under Commissioner Williams win dow, ran up and ''shooed'' the stranger away.
 You must not talk to that manr' he shouted He's prisoner-an an- archist!'
 ''Yes, look out for me-" said Turner They call me bad, bad man."
 The stranger promptly turned his back and went away on 8 trot.
 Turner is allowed 30 cents a day for his food. If he was limited to that he would have to subsist on bread and but ter and coffee. But the island prisoner gets up early and has the Britisher's usual appetite for hearty breakfast after his cold. tub. The regulation 20 cents Is gone before he has finished his breakfast. His presence on the island is generally known by this time, and visitors or others who have business there go to the restaurant to get a glimpse of him. He does not like that and varies his mealtimes so as to avoid it.
 When Turner wants anything the guards will not give him he writes a note and sends it to the commissioners OAACNs HIS request IS SIdul- ed and sometimes 1t is not. He is not permitted to forget that he is a. prison CT, and not guest of the nation. On Thanksgiving day, as a special privi- lege, he was shown through the build- ing and the working of the immigra- ton system was explained to him. He was particularly interested in the wom- en weeping because they had to be sent back home.
 Rather an elaborate system" com mented Turner, lon purpose to keep honest men and women who simply want to work and live out of your boasted land of the free'
 There is strong bond of sympathy between Turner and flock of English sparrows that come to be fed every aft ernoon around the hagpole at the east end of the island. The clerks in the executive offices usually look after them, but the other day, during snow