Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-07-25
TO PRISON IN
SEVEN MINUTES
DidNot SoundCood
to L. A. Gour-
dain.
RATHER CONF|NE HIMSELF
In His Own Penitentiary.-.
Has Hired Warden and
Guards.

Chicago, July 25.-Louis A. Gour
dain came back to Chicago Sunday af
ternoon, with several new ideas. He
told crowd Of newspaper reporters
at his Imperial bank" 179 Jackson
Boulevard, that he wouldn't accept
District Attorney Morrison's kind of
fer to "send him to the penitentiary
in seven minutes"
Mr.. Morrison had said that all Gour
dain needed to do was to appear be
fore him with a motion to set aside
his appeal and he would see that some
Judge Immediately arranged fol
Gourdain's entering the Joliet prison
and beginning his four and one-hal
years sentence for operating a lot
terry.
Gourdain looked fatigued. He sait
he hadn't slept since he left Chicago
a week ago to see the supreme cour
judges in the east. He had eaten
yes--but only after a four days fast
when he saw it was hopeless trying
TO get a supreme court justice to hea1
his petition.
"If ] should go before Judge Lands
or Judge Grosscup," said Gourdain
and ask them to set aside the super
sedeas under which | was released i
would put me in the position of hav
ing sanctioned the unwarranted peti
tion filed by my attorneys. I'm no
going to withdraw something I didn'
file"
In Haste to Builu rrIson.
Then he said he would start at once
building the "penitentiary annex" HI
has exploited, at Joliet and have it al
ready in case the United States Su
preme Court fails to grant his petition
in October. He left last night 70
Joliet His program for today is {
visit to some church, in company will
his wife and son, who are at the Dun
can Hotel in Joliet. He'll stay in tn,
cottage he has rented from a prisol
employe, near the penitentiary. h,
says.
These are Gourdain's new ideas
Monday will start to give ava.
! $4,000,000 to persons who have los
money investing in my enterprises
which the government has held lille
gal. figure I have taken in from
100000 to $1,500,000 a month in tn,
last four years.
~ shall post notices to that effec
in every postoffice in the Unite,
States. That's the only way can ge
list of the names.
"While in New York engaged
warden and an assistant warden TO
my penitentiary annex. They vii
leave jobs in another prison. III pa,
them just double the salaries OF thos
officials in the Joliet penitentiary.
"I have hired six Chicago men a
guards. They will receive double tn
salary of guards at Joliet.
II will be furnished with plans an
specifications for my prison annex o
Monday. Architect Campbell of Jolie
is preparing them. The prison will b
40 by 40-a replica of the one owne
by the state.
II will make shoes, shirts, coats, an
shovel coal in my little penitentiary.
Fires Attorney for Freeing Him.
II have fired my attorney, W. Kno
Haynes. He was getting $500 a mont
from me, but his In advised atteml
to keep me from serving my sentenc
in Joliet has killed the goose that lai
his golden eggs.
when | have finished my sentenc
III give the building to the govern
ment, with all the rest of my propert
except the yacht Imperial.
when have finished my sentenc
I'll sail away with my family in m
yacht and found a republic on one {
the South Sea Islands that pu
chased some time ago to be used
such a contingency.
I'D rather live in tlle Joliet pen
tentiary than In the Auditorium Al
nex, where the air is contaminated b
smoke from Illinois Central trains.
7 don't care for money or any m;
terial things in life. don't read.
spoils a mans brain. All | do for e1
joyment is sleep"
( Gourdain told what he had cate
in New York, when he broke his fou
days alleged fast last Wednesday.
was two soft boiled eggs, thre
poached eggs on toast, baked bean
crab meat salad, fried conmeal mns1
two plates of wheat cakes and a pt