New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
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s Every loaf Of bread that comes in is cut
/ I'm two," said Warden Fallon. so are
cakes and pies. You can't tell what might
be In a pie. II we have any suspicious at
| all We cut the pies up into small pieces, as
we do other things. Here, too strict ex-
| animation must be made, for 1t Is possible
/ that drugs could be smuggled in in that
way"
Oranges lend themselves well as me-
dium for smuggling in booze" II is not a
| hard matter to cut off the top OF an orange
and bore II out and inside OF 1t place quite
a lot OF FIRE water" and then seal II up
/ again. That is, it would not be hard TO
| get II by the searcher If he were not
man who understood the tricks Of the busi-
ness OF smuggling things TO prisoners.
The warden laughed when 1t was sug-
gested that a rope ladder might be snug
gled in in a pie.
And speaking OF the six hundred or more
inmates in the Tombs at this time the
warden said they were, on the whole, rep
resentative OF lower strata Of society.
Years ago. ne declared, the majority Of the
prisoners were smart men, braver and more
desperate than the present day crook.
There is one idea uppermost in the minds
OF all. however no matter who they may
be, according to the prison official.
From the time they enter the prison
door until they leave It," he said, they
think How am I going to get out of
hereY"
1T isn't steel bars and masonry that keep
prisoners from escaping" declared the war
den. History has proved that man can
escape when left alone. no matter what the
thickness OF his cell or the staunchness OF
its bars might be. Vigilance is the only
thing that keeps men In prison"
Some prison wardens say that women are
the most unmanageable prisoners. Not so
I Warden Fallon
They are the easiest to manage" he
said quickly in answer to the opposite sug-
! gestion. THE incorrigible inmates are the
| youths and men ranging in years from sew
, enteen to twenty-five. 1t is almost impos-
| sible to get them to obey. The older men
do not show such resistance to prison regu-
! lations."
! One way of making a nuisance of him
self is for q prisoner to disturb the other
inmates by yelling The remedy for this
| unruliness in cooler or noise suppressor
in the backyard of the prison, 1t is a soli-
tary cell. and the tenant OF the prison who
has maid to make himself obstreperous
is soon landed In this cell when he goes
too far.
| only recently" said Warden Fallon. I'VE
had an italian murderer here who yelled so
loudly one night that the people passing in
the street stopped to listen, thinking some
one was being killed inside. The cars came
to a halt, and the prison was filled with
his shrieks and cursings. We put him in
the yard. In the suppression CELL and he
calmed down after a WHILE"
| There is not much book reading among
the prisoners in the Tombs at the present
time. Nearly all are newspaper readers.
Some of them purchase from the man who
vends the papers In the prison every paper
| published which they believe Will have the
news they seek.
Are they Interested In baseball and the
political situation?" the warden was asked.
"Well, should say so. Some Of them are
fans. They talk baseball day in and day
out and read everything about every star
| they can get hold of. The political situa-
ton also 10 the cause for much newspaper