Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-14
PRISON
 AND PRISONERS
NIT. Atwood Wrongly Quoted Was His Superior, Engi- neer Ryan, Who Comment. ed-Some Other Things

Engineer Atwood of the office of the state engineer, in charge Of the convict camp now located in Tomb stone canyon for the conduct of high way work, during last week entered denial of statement attributed to him to the effect that another fat con v.ct' had arrived safely, although travelling as a trusty. the remark be- ing made in manner that indicated 10th surprise and relief upon the coming of the convict. who happened to be a man sent up for life and sub sequents commuted to Is year term. f.
 The only trouble with the story as printed was that the name of Mr Atwood was used instead of that Of Engineer Ryan the superior of Mir Atwood. MT. Atwood in making de nial said that he felt particularly con cerned about being hisquoted for the reason that the paper would doubtless come 10 the attention or Gov Hunt and that he would thus he plcSEA III b NlbdEl tG1D4t 4lSLlA HI NAAN eyes of the governor. MT. Ryan is so much higher up the scale in the matter of rank in the states service. that he probably will not care what ] the governor thinks.
 Mir. Atwood may be wrong, but he evidently shares an opinion that is pretty general among state em. : p'Oyees, and that is that the gover. nor is not given to liking of remarks that do not happen to fit in with his policies with glove like nicety. In fact, the governor has been known on several occasions to visit capital pun ishment upon political heads given to the utterance of thoughtIess remarks failing of harmony with the Hunt at titude. Mir. Ryan will not care, in. asmuch as he made the speech fer yently, but MT. Atwood is justified in asking correction.
 That those officials of the state who have responsibility for its con- victs and are yet obliged 10 carry out the loose control and easy berth pol icies of the governor with relation e the cOnvicts are more or less in hot water all of the time, is not to be wondered at. Except those at the psnitentiaTy, who have become hard
 ened to escapes and to the long chances taken with desperate men the lives of those in charge of con victs are probably anything bu dreams of content. They all know they may wake up anytime and fin, one or more conyicts gone. In sucl
 event they hold the sack Self pro tection is lacking both before ant after. Restraint put on the convict in such manner as to assure thei
 sticking around. would bring con
 plaints to the governor and discharg to the officer Either way, the latte
 stands to lose his job, which is no | a pleasant predicament.
 At Florence the situation Is a trifl different The governor goes dow
 there every week or so and occasion
 ally takes some of ''my boys" out fo Ian airing. He is cognizant of and
 fact ordered the taking of the col
 victs out to Sunday bali games .
 Florence, this order including lii
 men, murderers, under no restrain lit is possible for any of these me
 on any Sunday to make break fC
 complete freedom with excelleI
 chance of making it stick. Some (
 them do not want to get away, fee l ing safer inside the peuitentiar
 walls than outside.
 II It is also entirely reasonable
 presume that some of them feel tn
 they are making more money insit 1.-the prison as we'll as enjoying bette