Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-14
VA[J[AN IS QU|DOv''E
Indiana Convict Returns From
Pacific Coast to Surrender
to Officers
HAS "a YEARS TO SERVE

| With Clear Conscience--Has Quit
Use Of Drink, Which Caused His
Downfal-SaIvation Army Converts
Him.
! Is going back to the Indiana state pen
itentiary at Michigan City. Unless his
sentence is committed by legislative
action or pardon fourteen years VIII
pass before he is again q free man.
Yet no officer of the law accompanied
him on his trip across the state line
| Yesterday, and the railroad ticket on
which he came from North Yakima,
Wash. to serve out his sentence was
bought out of his own earnings.
Late in the afternoon. just before he
stepped on the train which was to
te.;e him to Michigan City, McCarty
a.ghed uuietly-a laugh of pure sat
isfaction-and shook hands with Col.
George French of the Salvation Army,
tie only man on whom he called dur
ing his few hours stay In Chicago.
u never was so happy as am just
now he said. Il mean 1t. broke my
parole and it's up to me to go back.
The punishment will be such as | de-
serve. Aut when / leave my cell can
& 8 .f!l head erect and with the
,5,,o5vir,i.,e that 1 am at least honest
Isa s.7as worth while?"
s:s.''arty has never heard OF Jean
v@,jeag. fle does not even know OF
Ni',,i.if,. ,.;saaNy. the Kansas CITY man
,e;,3 ,sre 81 from the federal prison at
l.ea,-o;:.4:.,, md was sent back while
a pe,i,i,.a with $3.50 signatures went
to Washington asking for his pardon.
i, His Return Is Voluntary.
He knows simply that he was con
verified" recently at Salvation Army
meeting in North Yakima. became con-
WINGED that it was his duty to return
to the prison from which he had es-
capped when on parole, and set to WORK
earning money for his passage.
And thereby he goes Jean Vai)ean
and William January one better, LOT
his action, according to his friends, Is
entirely voluntary.
In the records of the Salvation Army
Headquarters at 399 State street the
case of McCarty was entered as one
of the most remarkable in all the his
tory of the organization Several years
ago the young mamie is 40 years OLD
now-gambled away his money one
evening in Montpelier, Ind. Then he
got drunk broke into store with MS
pal" and stole $500 worth of surgi-
cal instrum ents, which he sold later
for $780, He was caught and SEN
fenced to from one to fifteen years
hard labor in the Indiana state penl-
Tertiary.
After. serving two years he was par
oled and given a job on an ice wagon.
For weeks ne did his work well. Then
he got drunk again and hit man
over the head in a street fight. rms,
he was told, would end his parole, and
he fed the state.
Changed by Salvation Army.
Months afterward. after serving half
dozen Jail sentences and living like
tramp, he drifted into North Yakima
and began attending Salvation Army
meetings The strange, emotional songs
and impassioned preaching took hold
and after a time he joined the army.
Charles Churchill, convicted of man
slaughter, and Joe Flanney, a murder
err, went to the meetings with him, but
after he joined they drifted away, and
he lost track Of them.
Soon after his Conversion" Nc
Carty's conscience began to trouble
him. Early in June he wrote to Gov
ernor Hanly of Indiana telling him OF
the circumstances of his escape from
the state and of his intention to return
and serve out his sentence.
"Come ahead" wrote Gov. Hanly In
reply. your broken parole will mean a
sentence of fourteen years, but you
have made me promise. Now fulfill
it." There was no word of possible
pardon or mitigated sentence.
Within few weeks McCarty had
earned enough to pay for the long trip
to Michigan City and last Wednesday
he started. He reached Chicago yes
terday morning, had long talk with
Col. French territorial secretary of the
Salvation Army in Chicago. and then
went on to Michigan City.
Downfall Caused by Liquor.
"Booze did the work for me-" he told
Col. French. "I was drunk when I COM
mitted larceny and I was drunk when
I broke my parole. Now, I have not
taken a drink for eight months. 1t is
worth something to know that there
may be something else in life for me
but drunkard's position and an ever
lasting sneaking from the fulfillment
of the law. If they wish to press my
sentence l will go to the workshop
gladly and do whatever they want me
to.
"No, T. m not married. There is no
one dependent on me and nothing to
prevent my clearing my conscience In
this way"
you never saw a fellow go to pris-
on in such a SPIRIT" said Capt. Fletch-
er Agnew as he told of McCarty's visit
at the Salvation Army headquarters.
you would think he was going to get
married.
The GrinneII News.
Special to Ttmes-Republican
Grinnell, July 14.-Leonard Walker
went to Estherville yesterday, for two
or three days on business.
Principal C. Fl. Horn and family
started this morning for Steamboat
Rock, where they plan for an outing
of a couple Of weeks in summer camp