The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-26
REVOLT AT SING SING
FEARED BY 0SSINING
Town Supervisor Prepared to
Call Out Naval Militia
at Any Moment.
CLANCY LAUGHS AT SCARE
Underground RumOrs. However.
Are Based on Mysterious
Fires Recently.


present unrest in Sing Sing prison will
flame Into an open revolt aimed at
general delivery of prisoners was freely
expressed here to-day
Town Supervisor John +. Jenkins an
nounced that he was prepared to call
Out at a moments notice the local d!vi-
sion Of the naval militia. Village Presl-
dent l.. j. Holla declared that never be-
fore in forty years had the State prison
been so ripe for revolution. And the
man In the street saw to it that the
fears OF the municipal executives were
well circulated.
but Warden James NJ Clancy pooh
poohed tho scare. The uniformed and
malicious minded. he averred. had
stirred il up. Yet he admitted that
very tense situation held forth within
the prison. With tho ashes OF the
strangely burned pain, shop hardly cold
with $50 men locked in their cells and
guarded-ls0 OF them because OF a SUI
len refusal to work-w.th insisting ru-
nors OF n new strike impending, this
affairs hardly needed onicial confirma-
'ior.
il takes an attentive ear to interpret
the voice OF that great gray house.
Sometimes it silences have more men,
ace than rs murmurs
While fire was sweeping the paint
shop early Thursday morning that
quarters ~ a mile and struck fear in
the town OF uphcaVel hills. Tin dishes
were banged against cell doors. curses
and walls rushed into the night frprd
the cross-narred cells and the guard,
We're helpless before Ia, din. II smaclseu
OF the memorable outbreak Of last July,
WHEN fires. friction and fury marked
IN" inauguration ~ Warden Clancy.
Calm That PrcsaEcs Fury.
Yesterday and to-day no clamor
reached the outside ear. Within the
prison, too. there was an unnatural
calm-a calm in which wild rumors had
growth. But Il was in the midst OF that
same calm that Warden Clancy rushed
from "A visitor to his Office down the
stairs Ia the prison proper.
wait a Bit" the warden said I'll
30 back"
Tho visitor did wat--for four hours
and thirty-five minutes Then he left
In huff And the warden came back,
too nearly five hours later. looking wor-
r'ed.
I've been instruct!nc n man who was
digging condui,s' he explained
AN the timo?" he was asked.
An The time"
The five hours tool; In an hour ana q
quarter in which no visitor was allowed
the ordinary privilege Of inspecting the
parts of the prison cUstomurlly thrown
open The old mans Interviewing some
prisoners" said some on" who should
have known. There's trouble brewing
below" admitted another 81 this time.
II appeared that the broad faced warden
hadn't learned of this trouble while
super> sing the construction OF the con-
du.ts,
Perhaps the loyalty O. thc people #
OsSinlng To- John :. Kcuneuy. who was
removed from the wardeuship at Sing
Sing last summer prior 10 his ird,ct.
mrnt on fin, counts hy Westminster
Grand Jury. Is responsible in some de-
gree for suncW hat prevalent luminosity
toward warden clancy.
Incidentally there seems 20 he consld.
orahlc suhstanc" 10 the report that
Prison Superintendent Riley IL planning.
"a re!nstatc I<,ruedv. \ short time ago
warden clancy gay, In his resignation.
10 tax" effect May !.
Arguments on a motion to dismiss
the indictments against Kennedy were
heard by supreme Court Justice Tonp-
krs a week ago to-day He gave both
sides until Nav I ~ I'll, lripfs II la