The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
EXPECTS APAROLE
Stephen Richardson Who Fooled
TOpekans Seeks Release.
Believes He'll Secure Freedom
in October.
NOW HE HAS MONEY.
Wants Opportunity to Spend
That SIS, 900 Cash.
Has Learned That kansans Are
Not Easy. a-

Hutchinson, Sept. 20.-Stephen Rich
ardsons the Topeka youth, who is an
inmate at the state reformatory, and
who has fallen heir to an estate for
over $4,000, expects to obtain his re-
lease from the institution next month,
Fon parole.
The offense for which Richardson
was sent to the reformatory was not u
great one. He was unable to pay his
board bill at a Topeka hotel.
Richardson went to Topeka from
New York early in August. He regis
tered at the National hotel about the
first of August and after remaining
there some weeks was unable to pay
his bill. The proprietor of the hotel
had the man. arrested.
AS he, was not above the age limit
for the Hutchinson institution it was
decided to have him sent here for his
failure to pay hisVhotel bill. He Sc
cured the accommodations at the hotel
under false pretenses, claiming that he
was working for a local firm and we'll
able to pay for. the debts which he
might incur.
The stories told by Richardson at the
time of his trial were numerous and
novel. The listeners to his tales labeled
him 1.-THE Long Distance LIAR as for
Richardson made a confident of his
troubles in Under Sheriff Bayless at
the Topeka Jail and told him that he
blamed his parents for the condition in
which he was at that time.
.''Tf they had made me work., said the
youth to Mr.. Bay1ess, ST would not be
in the trouble that I am today. have
always had plenty of money and ave
never known to want for anything
which desired. l was educated at an
eastern university and have always as
ISOLATED with the best fellows OF my
home city and at college.
"I left school and started out for my
self Ny parents Abecan1e displeased
with me and the allowance which had
always been given was withdrawn. l
have wandered over pretty nearly the
entire United States. I never cared
much about work and so have gotten
along with as little of it as possible
Money had always been waiting for me
when wished it and so never learned
the xva1ue of dollar. That Is the
foundation of my troubles and the rea-
son that now have to go to reform
school.
INV parents spent thousands of dol
lars in educating me but the education
has so far counted for little. l heard
that the west was the place for young
men without money to go. People in
the east told me thats money was
plentiful in Kansas, that the people
were easy and one did not have to do
| much to secure a living in this state
I would like to meet once more the
man who told me that. He certainly
missed the mark. I have learned that
| Kansans are anything but easy and
| this is a bad state for anyone to come
| to who expects to get living without
work.
when serve my term at Hutchin-
son I am going back east and go te
work. 1 have relatives, all Of whom are
| weIl-to-do people, and whom I believe
| when thew find out I want to work and
mean to settle down, that they VIII
give me their assistance to do So"
It was from one of these relatives
| that Richardson inherited the $l5,0O0.