The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-09-23
TEN PERSONS FROM THIS BALL
WICK IN PRISON.

From Saturdays Daily.
There are 7O6 prisoners III the Min
nesota states prison. Ten OF these
are from Blue Earth county.
Detectives, drummers, astrologers
and bellboys do not go to states pris-
Oh in Minnesota, according to the bien.
NAL report of Warden Wolfer, which
will soon be issued, says The st. Paul
Dispatch But actors and authors,
editors and reporters, lawyers and
bankers do, although they are few in
number. Advance proof sheets of the
warden's report sent to the state
board OF control show that 800 prison.
ers were received at the institution
during the fiscal year ending July 81,
1910, the largest number in the history
of the institution.
Cowboys and Journalists" seem inn
mune from wrongdoing, as do police
men and bootblacks. No ragpickers
or sextons became entangled with the
minions of the law last year and
found it necessary to seek seclusion
| behind the stone walls of that Still
water retirement station. Office boys
and hucksters, too, seem inclined to
walk the ght-and narrow" as do
jockeys and fish dealers. The chirop-
odists appear TO toe the mark, the bill
posters TO hang around on the outside,
the drillers to keep on drilling and the
dairymen to keep Swimming along
without infracting the statutes as they
are written. None of these find shelter
there during the year.
What Their Business Was.
But the lawyers who interpret the
statutes Jared not so well. Two OF
stated period Two bankers were sent
to keep them company. An actor and
an author, an editor and a reporter
Joined under contract, then a preacher
was admitted under protest. Two hun.
dred and twenty-one laborers signed
up, their party being much in the ma
jority. Then came 80 farmers with a
minority report, and finally % rail-
road men. When all were in and the
roll called, 7O6 answered. 1t was a
cosmopolitan gathering. OF the new
faces, As bore Indications of being from
that country which belongs to Johnnie
Bull and lies to the north. The Ger
mans were second with an enrolment
of AZ, the Swedcs third with 20, and
the Austrians fourth with %. There
were II lrishmcn, one Bohemian and
one Icelandcr. Besides these. there
were ) Australians. 6 Danes, 10 Eng
lishmen, 3 Frenchmcn, 10 Films, 2
Greeks, hungarian, IL Italians, "a
Norwegians, 4 Poles, Russians,
Roumanian, Swiss, | Spaniard, 2 Ser
VANS and the remainder Americans.
One hundred and eight were natives
of Minnesota and forty-onc of Wiscon-
sim. ~. =.
Many Prisoners Are Single.
There are more Catholics IN prison
than persons with other religious. be-
liefs. The. report shows 27S Catholics,
IL Episcopafians, 3 Adyentists,. % Bap-
lists, 3 Christians, Congregational
ist, 3 Evangelical, - l. Friends, 8 He
brew. ll6@ Lutherails, 47 Nethodists,
la Protestants and 3 Presbyterians,
Five hundred and forty-scvcn of the
inmates are single, 1873 are married, sc
are widowed, 8 divorced and II sep
arated. Seventy nine of the new pris-
oncrs cannot read or write, IL can
only read, l9I can read and write,
$50 have a common school education,
30 have a high school edneatioif, and 8
a college education Forty three were
abstincnt in their habits before going
to prison, 355 drank moderately and
1928 triilcd with the most immediately.
However, all have reformed since going
to- Saltwater, temporarily, at least.
Bad Age Between Thirty and Forty.
The records show that more men get
in trouble between the ages of thirty
and forty, than at any other period Of
their lives. There are 20 young pris-
oners under the age of q years. There
are l52 between the ages OF 20, and
20; l55 between the. ages Of 25 and
30, and 227 between the ages Of 80 and
40. There are l06 between the ages Of
40 and 90, and AZ between the ages Of
80 aud GO. There are three men in
prison who are more than 60 years
old. Stealing has sent more OF them
there than any other cause, 1874 being
convicted on the charge of larceny in
the second degree. There are 81 men
serving life sentences, ten serving 30
year sentences and one serving out