Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-06
PRISONERS IN FIGHT
Warden Deducts Good Time on
Account Of ARRAY.
REM0RSE SEXES CRIMINAL
Confesses 20 Numerous Crimes After
Discovery ne Hsd b His
Aged Mother In Rush
at Depot.
SEXES CRIMINAL
rrom a So correspondentl

From a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. Feb. 6-CSpeciaL)-women
make poor ~convicts. that is evident from
the report OF Warden Beemer filed with
Governor Shallenberger. Though there
are only six women IN the prison and their
quarters are the best the state can furnish
they refuse 70 dwen in peace and har-
mony, and SO they have had to be pun
ished.
Grace Allen 50 far forgot her raising
as to fight. May Thomas. she Of diamond
fame. stopped to the same degrading ex-
ercise, and so did Nettie Miles. Mildred
Bowies is sick. but why the other two
women prisoners were not included In the
scrap the report does not say. and neither
does it say they acted as referees Any
how the warden was panied at what hap
pened. 50 in order to teach them better
he deducted from Grace Aliens good time
just forty days. ten more than a month;
from May Thomas good time he took off
sixty lays. showing hat she got the bet
ter OF the scrap at least: and from Nettie
Niles good time there were deducted forty
days
Whether the women were put out at the
contemplated change in or
were Just feeling their oats and wanted
to fight. the report does not say.
Mildred Bowles Of Lincoln. now confined
in the state penitentiary on a charge Of
having stolen some hoods from Rudge q
Guenzei. has made application for a pardon
and her hearing has been set for March
L The husband OF the woman filed the Pc
tition with the governor and In addition
to a general breakdown Of her health. he
said. she is suffering with the following
troubles: Neurasthenia. insomnia. neuro-
CASTRO e~nteritis. Unless she is released. the
petition says, the woman will lose her
mind.
RemOrse At RObbInx Mother.
Asserting that remorse overwhelmed him
when he discovered that he had just robbed
his mother. Dick Andrews Friday surren-
dered to the Lincoln police.
To Detective Malone he confessed a num-
Der of crimes. According to his story he
is a pickpOcket. a bank wrecker and a
confidence man. The tale. if true. rivals
the elaborate imagery Of modern novelists.
Andrews. according to his story. is over
whelmed with remorse. Thursday night,
after taking from a woman's purse a roll
Of bills, he recognized in the face of his
victim his aged mother. Mrs. Andrews was
on her way to her home in Chicago and
was compelled to change cars at Lincoln.
As the Rock Island train pulled in the
passengers made a rush for the cars. An
drews saw an aged. well dressed woman
carrying two suit cases. Dangling from
her wrist was a purse. Andrews rushed up
to where the crowd was the thickest ana
gently opened the purse that was hanging
from the woman's wrist. From it he took
a roll Of bills. In order to make his get
away he boarded the car intending to
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entrance. AS he entered he was crowded
past his victim and in looking back recog-
nIzed the face OF his mother.
This was more than the man who had
slugged his victims on previous occasions
could stand. The remaining spark OF love
and manhood had been touched.
Waiting until the woman was seated
Andrews bided his time and sneaked by
her, dropping the money by her side as he
passed. The train pulled out and Andrews
jumped off the car and went to his room.
Early Friday morning he walked into police
headquarters and gave himself up to Chief
Cooper.
The story he told the police was one con-
tinuous tale of crime. Beginning in Chi
cagO when a mere boy. Andrews said he
had robbed banks, looted jewelry stores,
picked pockets. engaged in highway rob-
berry in nearly every large city Of the coun-
try. He has been arrested numerous times
and twice sentenced to the penitentiary at
Joliet. Ill, and Columbus. o. He admitted
that he had been acquitted OF several
charges Of robbery. but that he was really
guilty.
According to his story. he is wanted in
half a dozen places. He confessed to rob-
bling a bank near Hartford. Conn. where
$4,000 was secured. OF this amount An
drews said he and the woman who was with
him got H.100 each. The woman is now
serving a twenty-year sentence in Joliet
prison for murder.
Andrews said that hts mother lives At
III Lowe avenue in Chicago. His father
was chief grain Inspector Of Chicago for
eight years. Detective Malone has wired
to Chicago to verify Andrews statements
about his family and whether his mother
vas passing through Lincoln Thursday
night. The Chicago police answered saying
they were true and that the man was an
ex-eonviet and now wanted.
Andrews confessed that he robbed a
tewelry store Monday night at Gilead. Neb.,
and secured a large amount OF jeweIry.
This he had brought to Lincoln and disposed
OF. As no word OF the robbery had been
received at police headquarters a message
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