The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-10-11

permit hef 10 visit me more than once
every eight weeks. News paper report
ers being a favored class. might get
ID II the guards should think Il best
% admit them"
Inspired by the suggestions con-
tanned In several questions. GcurdAin
nov became fred with the vision Of
bis prison life.
~ltll be just ike the big penlten-
iiary.v be said. The gong Will sound
at $3.50 in the morning. That viii
Be the signal for me 70 get up and
dress. AT $50 the gong will sound
again and shall step fortk from my
cell With my bucket in hand II I
am fraction OF a minute late il VIII
be the duty OF the guard TO put me
in the hole The hole IS what the
convicts call the dungeon where re-
fractory prisoners are confined in the
dark on bread and water"
Are you going 10 have q dungeon4
yes. sir. just like the hole in the
penitentiary across the street Well,
at 6:s0 ! viii march into the dining
room for breakfast and
VIII Not Have Lockstep.
''Lockstep27 interrupted the inter-
viewer.
NO rsplsed Gourdain. no lock-
step They've abolished lockstep in
Joliet, but I viii march in in mill
tary step and stand at my place un-
til the guards stick sounds on the
floor and then I may sit down and
eat At seven o'clock shall march
to my work I'm going 10 get a set
OF books and work on them all day
long. just as / worked on the books
the "a days I was in the penitentiary.
Al ~ o'clock the guard will march
me to dinner and back TO my cell at
1890 for half an hours rest. then
work again till supper al p. m. At
30 the guard will lock me in my
cell for the night | shall be permit
ted to read until nine o'clock. when
the gong will sound lights out Al
sos / must be in bed and all quiet
or down to the hole | shall have
to 60
What about your diet?"
Well. said Gourdain, II will ar
range 10 get the same fare as pre-
walls il the big prison even if / have
to hire a cook. Ny guards will get
little better food than / shall Their
food will cost 20 cents a meal mine
only Il cents For breakfast shall
have hash or sausage and bread and
coffee; for dinner roast or corned beef.
stewed beans, lettuce, bread and cof-
fee: for supper hash or boiled beef.
spinach. potatoes. bread and tea It
will be good. wholesome food If it's
as good as they have in the big prison,
and that's as much better than the
county Jail food as the Joliet prison
is better place to live than the coun-
ty institution.
Wont you miss the luxuries Of the
Auditorium Annex fare?" the lottery
man was asked.
why, yes, of course; but I'll be IN
prison, you know. and it will be
against the rules to have Injuries
viii have bathtub. for example, but
it viii be the rule that | shall have a
bath only once week in summer
and once in two weeks in winter
That will be hardship"
"WiH You wear the prison gray?'
YES. sir. and if get disobedient it
will be the duty Of my guards to put
me in stripes for a period. II wont t
be difficult to obey the rule not to
talk to other prisoners, for there won't
be any and the guards viii have TO
see that / don't talk to them either
unless necessitated by the work in
hand"
Gourdain put in the last hour before
his departure from Chicago in ar
ranging to pay the investors in the
schemes he had operated through the
United States mails. He said there
was something like $4,000 due them.
Notices are to be sent to all that pay
ment will be made by post Office money
orders
Before leaving the Auditorium An
mex the eccentric convict presented an
automobile rug valued at S2o0 to ems
ployes Of the hostelry. which he said
they might sell and share in the pro
ceeds
Plans Family Yacht Trip.
AS a parting declaration Of his fu-
ture intentions Gourdain said that
when he had served his term in the
penitentiary he intended to give all
the Gourdains he could lind a trip on
his steam yacht. the Imperial, one Of
the finest craft of the kind in the
United States. he said. lie said he
would sail the boat out OF New Or
leans and that every Gourdain that
could be discovered on the face Of the
globe would be on board. It was the
intention Of the man who is feverish-
" DESTROYS to get behind prison bars
to rake the universe from one end to
the other to find Gourdains to ride
with him on his yacht when he sails
away. He has not selected the route
or the destination OF the trip as yet.