Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-26
VICTIM ONCE MORE
Of WHISKY HABIT.
ry.COnvict Shuckers PardOned for
Good Work Again Goes to
The Bad.
SEEMS TO Be NATURALLY SO.
a. Gaining His Liberty he Deceived
And Married and Then Got Drunk
And Committed Forgery

T. c. shuckers, the ex-conyict, who
vos hardened from the state prison for
.,rdering valuable and timely assist
arca 10 the prison authorities in stop
,,rg the attempted break last fall, and
Who left prison under as promising
on.pees as any one could wish who
desired to reform, has again fallen
,hrough his unconquered propensity fol
wbIsky, He is wanted now for his old
lima tricks OF forging checks, tNo OF
" ,'iI for SIS and SIS respectively, he
rossed of at the Old Resort saloon on
rEast Temple street II has also been
ascertained that Shuckers passed of
several other bogus checks at other
Zines ON various business men In TINS
civ. He Is an expert penman, ana
o"ite talented man, being graduate,
w. ssys of the University of Pennsyl-
nonia class of 1890 lie was also pri-
yste secretary for a prominent mlnins
nan In this state. But whisky ruined
Elm as It has many another promising
voung man, and forgerles were the out
came Former fellow prisoners say
sbmckers has acknowledged that he has
Mean in many OF the more prominent
sta,a prisons In the country, mentions
ing Texas Illinois, Colorado and wy
on,ing beside the Utah state prison
all for forgery. the outgrowth Of whis-
ON being released from the Utah
s,ate prison, ShuCkers was taken In
active hand by prominent local Chris
tan people, who wanted to help him
make a new start In life, and certainly
no man was ever released from prison
who Rad a brighter future. He was
given a good Job In The city waterworks
department, secured a good home, ana
then got married. He said emphatically
that this last would surely keep him
Straight Shuckers declared himself
thoroughly reformed man, but the smell
OF llauor was not out Of his nOstrlls.
he yentured 20 take drop "f0r aud
acquaintance sake" and then he took
another, The good people who sought
10 help the fellow scented the smell
OF whisky on him and became sus-
plcIous, and presently he dropped out Of
view He deceived the woman he mar
rled. In that he did not tell her he was
an ex-cOnvict, and when one Of her
kindly disposed neighbors walked In on
her one day after the marriage, am.
blurted the whole thing out Mrs,
Shuckers nearly tainted away, How
ever, like brave woman, she deter
mined to stand by the man II he would
only show himself decent. nOtwith-
standing his past record. But the blight
Of whisky-"thats alr'-was on him,
Had shuckers lived up TO his profess
sons and cast HIS lot in with the people
who wanted to help him live a respect.
able life, he might have pulled through.
and got away from drink. But the
more he drank, the more he shrank
from association with decent people,
and now he IL down and out" He left
for Ogden early in the week ION bust
ness and now he Is not.
Shuckers Is very respectfully connect
ed at Worcester O., and his grand
father sent him $500 after his release
from the Utah state prison He was
urged to go home, but failed to do 20,
and II Is said that desire to celebrate
The receipt Of the money led TO a fatal
Indulgence In drink. Shuckers Is
young man of pleasing polished ad.
dress, and was evidently well brought
w as far as manners are concerned
The prison Christian Endeayorers while
chagrined that so promising a mcmber
should again fall, are not surprised, and
they are not discouraged in their work,
as they say, and they simply have an
other example that whisky will ruin
any man that no one can stand up be-
iofe IT, II discharged convict win let
drink alone there is show FOR him to
make himself respected citizen, but Il
he takes to the saloon again, It Is I'M
possible.