The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-01

He'd another punishment begins,
. NAV be worse and more disheart-
+ than the suffering endured inside
FslIs.
4 listened, on Saturday after
/. or at other times, TO the stories
edly and guardcdly told me by my
4 convicts who had served moro
. than one, ! said to myself, 1.-The
n of prison is bad enough; but this
.of happens to a man after prison
|rse. and monstrous The endless
r|cs follow him, reach out after
surround him, fasten upon him,
4raw him back whence he came.
noe that only, but they mark him
.olatc him. disable him from free
ii make honesty impossible for
No citizen OF whatever integrity
.innding. if so pursued. mall9ned
would have any choice
La bnt either 10 perish or 10 break
MS. The spies Of the government,
he prestige and power Of the gov
10 behind them (howcvcr dcsplc-
md vicious they may be in them
|). can ruin any man; but eE-con-
are their staple food.
Tie latter part OF June, 1913, Il
N Judge named Emory Speer was
n of evil deeds on the bench, and
1ressional investigation was an.
"a. The Judge WAS taken i'll, and
- writing the investigation still
II Fire. Now. the evidence against
6ad been collected. it would ap-
'by the agency Of government
and this fact caused great indig-
n in some quarters. Here was a
uot convicted of felony. but pil-
the state. being pursued by de
Is inst as if for all the world he
Id ordinary pcrson-an obscure
ID citizen, say. or an 'ex-convlctl
hdge himself was very indignant,
ID Friends on the local press were
II IN their comments. in long
al entnled "Ehc Shadow of the
one Atlanta paper denounced the
,dings root and branch. IT af
That the governmental spy sys-
Nd assumed such proportions dur
H. past few years as TO threaten
the mainstays Of free govern
his interested my comrades, not
the spy systom was news 10
6uf because no public notice had
len Of it until il began to wiring
Iders Of persons who had hitherto
Id themselves to he in the posi-
4 promoters instead Of victims of
nctiee. A federal Judge had never
ted against pursuing with spies
Inspected OF crimes. or men who,
< served time upon conviction, had
zone out into the world and at
I'D TO lead a new life, The spy
~ so conducted, seemed to such
II proper and normal. But the
ut they found their own acts in
ted, their own footsteps dogged,
.oecame indignant. and denounced
,1ole principle of the thing.
man convicted in n federal or
tourt, or SET free after having
his time i'm prison, but is abun.
: 5conversant with the methods of
Inerican spy.
Man Is Not Free.
I've all know, the first thing done
new prisoner is to take his ber-
and the record Of these meas
gnts and observations, together
Wo photographs Of him, or with
~ he had beard when convicted,
" to every police office IN the
-, and rs laere studied by the de"
~ and police The intention, Of
4 is to render easier the recogni.
81 H old offenders. and TO cur,
Dir future industries. 1t is gen
affirmed that bertillons cannot
<aken. but in a Detroit court, on
~ j, 1914, An expert declared
- difference Of oue-eighth of an
the laying on Of the fingers
IN entirely different impres.
= and Judgment was awarded
the bank" which, relying upon
[nllibility OF the finger record
uEghC the action. At any rate, the
"a is still potent weapon with
Zee, and when they want a man
ff1me committed, or when they
% drive ont of any given place
nee of the earth Il man who has
rcviously q convict. they have
point to his bcrtillons, and the
done
B sec how this may work out in
i a convict, having served his
presmted by tho United States
ate. as the case may be) with q
new clothes. and with 50 cash
gets a ticket on the railway &c
. OF his destination, and, though
[heory free man from the mo
~ he passes the prison gates
liter OF fact an official Is rs
: ~ take charge Of him and put
nag train; he cannot remain il
isupposjng for the nonce thai
r. peniteDtiary has been his abid
e during his scntence) on pen
9e do so, Of forfeitiug his tick
having TO pay his own way
~ De Il provision Of the law, o.
~ simply a measure TO prevent
cts from talking to nowspapel
or other inquiring persons
"a 'B is invariably done, unless th,
Ai esidence happens to be Atlant;
IYV own case Ito cito an instance
q mar procedure was observed
g " one accidental modification.
a suit OF clothes, my 4.
VW railway ticket-at Ieas
y 4Ecr was given TO the guard dc
accompany me to the station
fll| nim delivered so the couducto
AN; But had previously mad
y pind to gay a few things to tn
NJ OF certain local newspaper
!!{f*1s ready, in case of necessity
y oaon my eleemosynary ticket an
NJ own way TO New York on
i 1'n. ! had money Of my own &
<j with; most ex-prisoners, @
~ neve not. But the sacrifice wa
~ py tho circumstance that MI
tne warden. was absent at In
m 1n Indianapolis, and the depnt
i peiy let me out an hour or NOR
! train started. I lost no tim
( g my reporter, and during tn
yvTty minutes, in an automobil
~ for the occasion, we drov
nka n