The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-18
PARD0NED LITER
 FAvORS MIR. TAFT
After Fifty-three Years in Pris0r John P. Warren Becomes
 a. Free Man

Hartford, June 19-"Don't worry. I never did, and that is the reason I am alive and am not insane said John P. Warren to a reporter when the famous convict, who is seventy-four years old and has been in prison longer than any other life prisoner in the world, was asked for his recipe for longevity. Warren was pardoned Saturday, after
 ffty-three years in prison for murder ing his wife, but he refuses even now to leave the State Prison at Wethers- field until he has taught another pris- oner how to run the Wardens furnace. Before many days hope to see Gov ernor Simeon E. Baldwin and tell him how happy am.. I guess the wealth CT has something to do with pardons,
 and last December I thought that pos sibly the June meeting of the Board
 would be more favorable. I have nev- CT voted but I am going to try to get the franchise before die.'
 The principal thing Warren wished to avoid was dying in prison felon.
 brother, who has been awaiting him for years. 'It is a good thought to know that I haven't got to die in prison said Warren to-day.stI can't honestly say that it seems too good to be true, for I have always believed that I would get my pardon if lived long enough Sent to Prison on Birthday. 1T arrived in, this prison five days after my twenty-first birthday. At that time I wouldn't turn my back on any one who had a days work to be done. I have never voted, but mean to before die. I'm a great reader, although I don't read as much as I used to. When ] get to my cell at night soon find my self yawning and the first thing know I am off in dreamland. I like
 to read the jokes. in the comic maga- zines. but it is politics that interests me most of all."
 Warden Garner says he will miss Warren and showed to him the Sum- day papers with his name on the front page with that of the third term can
 didate.
 Say, Warden interposed Warren with more snap than before, I'm . and through; he's not loud. and frac- tious as that Rough Rider, who has done something's that are not right. " Telegrams of congratulation were re- ceived by Warren at Wethersdeld yes terday safternoon, one from Gould A. shelton, of. Derby, reading, Thank God that liberty has come to you al l. vein se. s,s Besides his four brothers, of whom Joel is the youngest and Joseph the one from whom he has never heard
 Warren has a sister, Mrs. Marsh. Hea daughter, Caroline Rosie, now Mrs Philip Haymer, has at last won heI bet that her uncle would be pardoned.
 Wants to Ride Oyer the County. To Warden Garner Warren said that he wanted little sleep and rest al brother JOel's farm, and then he wants to get out behind horse and just dream of Holland county, where he was born December, 1888, and where
 all his free life of twenty-one years was spent. ssfxy.
 He admitted that for the first time in forty years he did not sleep very | we'll Saturday night His heart was too full of joy. He loves his flower
 nations. If he gets the chance he will vote for Governor Baldwin for President, because the Governor is the ! head of the Board of Pardons. He
 thinks "Rosenfen,' as he calls the candidate, stole the Panama Canal,
 was far away from the battle of San Juan Hill, watching proceedings through strong field glass. . Warren smiled as he recalled how he escaped from the Holland lookup by digging under a well and going out through another cell and how a treacherous neighbor gave him up to the sheriff, after he had been free
 from July to November of 1859 Warren's wife was Julia Towne and she came from Belchertown, Mass. She was about seventeen when Warren married her.
 The petition for pardon which was | finally granted was his twenty-eighth and many bets were made by the prfs- on guards on his applications. He par ticularly dislikes to leave Jimmie Taylor, a New York life prisoner who murdered a New Haven woman twen- ty-five years ago when intoxicated and while helping a companion to com
 init robbery, and is going to send him a barrel of apples.