The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-24
WORLDS GROWTH
IS ASTOUNDING
SAYS OLDEST PRISONER IN U. s.,
WHEN RELEASED FROM
THE PEN.
MOTION PICTURE SHOWS
And Flying Machines Seem Most Won.
deful to Him--Spent Thirty-one
Years in Iowa Pen
itentiary.

Des Moines, Iowa, May 23,-"lt IS
AS though some one had bidden me
forth from my grave. 1t looks like 4
different world Only the trees, the
grass a-l the blue sky look the same.
So long have | trodden the narrow
prison paths for 81 years, my feet
hesitate in the broad streets of the
city and fear | shall he lost"
Such Is the first impression CT WI
liam +. Glyndon. the oldest prisoner
in the United States, who was granted
his pardon after Il years imprisCn-
ment, and is now a free man in Iowa.
Everything has grown up, remark
cd Glyndon, as he approached the rail
road station TO leave Fort Madison
Ter Cedar Rapids II used to ride in
little railway coaches with dinky O..
Enes How big they are now! | re-
member the world with hts small
buildings, now it seems some of them
reach almost 10 tho sky. All look over,
grown. To be free Is the greaest thing
in the world. But hardly know how to
act, OF what to do. In world that
has changed so in outward appear
ance II must be that the moral codes
afraid | will make some mistake
am like a child that does not know
right or wrong In the little ways of
life. | suppose ! will have to learn
the ways of the world all over again,
for it is a different world than |
knew.
Il am going to remain IN Cedar Rap
ids for a few weeks to get acquainted
with the world Then | arr going
back to Columbiana county, Ohio. to
see if can find the home where | was
horn and spent my boyhood days
While in prison | read in the library
the story about Rip Van Wrinkle. |
suppose my experience will be the
same. fear there will be no face
that will be familiar to me, and prob
ably the old home Is torn down, But
! shal be happy if can find some one
VINO knew my family and | will get
work on farm. | tell you it is tinr
to walk out among the trees and the
flowers. No one krows how to apprc-
ciate them till he has been shut away
from them for 81 years.
Il didn't know what telephone was
until given my release. Yes, | talked
over one and some one talked 10 r'1
I couldn't hear very well at first. My
ear wasn't accustomed to it | guess
for after a while | could distinguish
the words ard understand
Men seem to be flying, so rapidly
do they move about. When | left the
world good horses were luxury
Much labor was being done by slow
OK teams rode in an automobile.
thought my freedom was to be brief
for expected to be dashed to pieces
every minute. | l'rc 70 sec the ma
chimes running about, but hereafter
when | ride | want them to run a lit
tie slower. And the streets now are
all brick, stone and wood. Everything
looks prosperous The world has been
moving. SO changed is it that it all
seems like fairy story, and ! he
live almost anything is within the
possibility of mar
"They tell me they have flying ma
chimes. am anxious to see one OF
them These motion picturei are
strange | went into one of the mo
tion picture shows. 1t is the greatest
thing l have seen since | was {
yourg man.
| am going to be happy in the worlt
| know, when | get used to the ways
of the people. But | wasn't so unhap
py in prison II is all in getting uset
TO things. In prison the first yea
as lorg as the next four years an'
the first five years were as long a.
the other 26 After five years | be
came reconciled TO my fate. In tn
beginning determined TO take every
thing that came to me as cheerful,
as | could and to keep up my health
fl possible and my courage at al
hazards: and | did it. OF course
would grow despondent at times, bu
would rot allow myself to remain s.
long grew TO accept the prisol
life as the whole of life I did no
dream of the world beyond. Tha
would have made me discontentet
Perhaps that is why it seems SO mucI
more wonderful TO me now. was ir
nocent That helped a great deal
MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE.
Erie Pa Nav 23.-Gui1tv OF mul