Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
By Captain Peter C. Hams. Jr.
Continued from Last Sunday.)
Copyright, 1914. by Star Company,

A FTBR the steel doors of Sing Sing closed behind
~ began to sentence for manslaughter the
degree accepted the result the the jury
with what philosophy might and took the life
there according the rules Meanwhile my lawyers
ing efforts to obtain trial,
was now assigned to the match shop for This shop
considered of the prison. thought
many characters have always had
weakness for hard characters they strong
and not sneaks have always get along fairly
we'll with desperate stability therefore man.
aged get along well with The keeper
in charge quite philosopher way and we got
along excellently together
himself the tnshop when duty
match shop and took over the former.
This keeper had been employed many years prison
and had better understanding of how to the
than any the others subsequently came
tact remember he always claimed that any who had
been in prison year necessarily crazy
life ne led and prisoners should be
treated with this in mind He did exempt himself
from this condition but frankly said that outsider he
would doubtless appear This owing to the
many years of association he had with his
While perhaps going quite length Of his
statement believe his words contain certain element Of
truth the peculiarly unnatural life the inmates forced
to live cannot fail to leave its mark the minds of the
ignorant and upon those weaker intellect.
l began prison and prison life.
Prison a little world all of We understand
these things prone consider
apart They not have had many convict say me-
WELL what you think OF OF People
generally think by ourselves you hnd
just about like the aveage?" This found absolutely
true. strange it may appear to
certain doctor Frank Crane has written, 1.-THE u.s. we
all have criminal quaesmost goodness due to the
restrictions with which our inner.
most hearts known, and judged by
impulses. of which crafty
afraid indulge not single fubooded would
be found at the forty whom strict
have sentenced the penientary Call criminals and
you-make them So"
DR. Crane knows whereof he speaks know this because
have been there. have with my own eyes, and have
perceived with my we are all ncipient saints
or criminals You take either way
which This is orthodox may strange to many
s however, the result Of hard years of experience
What would you think deliberately gave his
life in the endeavo to save the life Of fellow criminal
upon suicide? He who had thrown himself river to
end 1t ALL Yet this what actually happened No grave
for this Carnegie medal him. commentator by
the newspapers and society general His
oblivion He freely offered his life another.
reward filled Quckime and eight feet Of cold
earth in en- unnamed grave the hill by Sing Sing Prison
In prison there many classes there outside
There is the killer class The attempted or
have taken human life in the full tide of passion
with no thought of gain They hold themselves a kind of
arsocracy FOR The most part they kndhearted
honest in intention mild in They
give trouble of any kind
know some who are as honorable gentlemen you will
ever find either outside inside prison. you
please Then there the higher burglars etc. men
who live life OF danger on the outside And
who generally. aside from their profession. trusted
remember particular who boosted he
from those who could afford lose He
with contempt something despicable. dSme OF
the SNUG Pharisee of community truhfuy say
as this very outspokcn burglar?
Then there the venacular the politicians These
are the confidence the bank delauers
Iyers, judges set caught act They
generally the soft the prison. they play