The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-01-14
How They Are Used At Pen
Some Interesting Facts CONCERNING the Prisoner; At lhe
''''~ state Penal Institution Noah Makes Fiddle
Irvine Plant Pays Big-New Addition

The next station is Grove post
ONCE. the conductor on the 500
danky shouted, and the six prisoners
In charge Of Deputies e. d. Kelley
and A. N. Olson, of Portal, +. ..
Hall ana the writer, scrambled 10
t1,air feet and prepared themselves
6Or welcome home. "Wel, we
are home at last said Howard, the
Glenburn hold up artist, as we walk
I'd down the long road leading 10
the pemtentiary of the state OF
North Dakota. There are the dog
kenneth and I'll tell you rnat
Warden He1lstrom keeps some
mighty fine hounds there. There's
.there he keeps the thorobred aoss'
sd right over yonder is the barn
Il know all about this place. I'VE :
s.,,.nt seventeen months there once:
ha,t don't tell the wardn. He4l nno
out quick enough anyway "ner w.
81. ,nares the measurements. WnlA'
Aid do time for? Well. about une
- same thing as I'm being sen' W
,or now. When I get TO ar1n A.ue =,
I'm not at all particular what l 49,
and the prisoner gave a eou'se
laugh. "say, you couldn't give .
:sa,,ow a little tobacco money couiu
ID you?" and he held out his hand m
q manner that showed ahat ne u
4haer there before sure enough. Inree
wears for Howard, but he DION :
seem to mind. He's no good 10
ANYBODY when he's free ana he
n,srht lust as we'll be in the prison.
Howard has "a noble wife, from one
y, the best families of the stale'
and at present she is postnllsoress
in a North Dakota town. he never
thinks of her, the degenerate we
wonder if hell ever reform.
The "trip to Bismarck over the
500 had occupied all day. Deputy
Kelley was full of his couaical yarns
and kept even the prisoners in
state of merriment all except Con-
roy, who was going to spend from
twenty to thirty years for holding
up the Riverside Cash Grocery
store, and the evidence against him
was entirely circumstantal at that.
Poor old Conroy. He'll be sixty or
seventy years old when he breathes
free air again-if he ever loes-and
he looked the picture of despair all
day long. He made no complaint
only he told the deputy he was in
uocent. ''Why, l never shot on
gun in my life I didn't hold up
nobody"
Collins, the burly negro, sent up
for ten years for striking Ole Wik
over the head with an iron and TAX
ng his money away. was about the
.happiest man in seventeen states.
He laughed and told darky stories
all day long. 'Ten years amt near
as much as eleven Collins said,
land when I get out I'll be right In
the prime of life. I hate to leave
those chocolate colored gals back in
Milot, bless their hearts, and one
Of 'em gave NE dollar just before
I left this morning." meaning one
OF the bevy of coloref women in
the county Jail. "Oh, had some
terrible experiences down in Texas.
Once I was runnin' away from
sheriff and run smack into
pecan tree. Knocked off fifteen
bushels of pecans, but kept right on
running" He wasn't sure, but he
thot he struck the tree with his
head.
Harry Lewis ana Rogers, who
SlOlG JlHlS1 d. d. Va w llSOAS oCOAO
and received four and five years
respectively. were inclined to feel
"sore" over tieir long sentences.
They believed that thirty days in
the county jail would have been
sufficient punishment. Lewis old
home Is in Pennsylvania and the
1act that he drifted out west with
out any apparent aim, is responsible
for his downfall "When I get out
of prison, I'm going back home and
be a man." he declared. Rogers
comes from near Bloomington, Ill.
where his brothers ami sisters still
reside on a farm. Rogers IS exceed
ingly well educated and not the low
down criminal. Five years On the
penitentiary will give him plenty
- tSrna N reflect on his wrong