The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-04

Asked about his silence. his aiOofness
from the rest OF his fellow prisoners In
the p%enltentiary. Siegel said:
what have VIC In There
is nothing In common. They go their
ways and I 10 mAne. I don caie what
they do or say. and perhaps they don't
care what / do or say. We are not In
the same class. even II we are In the
same place.
you fcel emurc,y apart from themT'
YES"
Remembers lie IL sieseI.
s!egel keeps constantly in MS mind
the fact that ne Is Henry Siegel. not q
common prisoner. He Is looking for
ward to and preparing himself for the
day of freedom.
Warden Craig said at tho close OF the
interview that Siegel had talked more
thar at any .!me since he came to the
penitentiary. Big BIZ was inclined TO
think t,at the sum OF all the mans
words In eleven days would not equal
what he had said la the fifteen minute
interview.
When the caller arose TO go siegel
Strengthened in his chair. He Gid not
get up. but he put out his hand and
grasped that of the visitor. h hand
shake was of an entirely different char
= lioN Niet ~ Sb'tNN WV Na.a~s
1t was firm and cordial. When the rs
itor thanked him for his courtesy and
expressed the hope that he would see
siegel again. Siegel replied. and replied
as II he meant It: And I would like
to see you again"
Siegei was fortunate to be sent TO
the Monroe county penitentiary. for II
is pointed to as one Of the models Of
its kind in the State. It Is clean.
There's plenty OF SOAP and water In the
institution. Had Siegei been stronger
he might have been sent to the peniten-
tiary farm. Several hundred acres are
worked BY tho prisoners.
sieseI's Day.
Siegei rises at GAS o'clock in the
morning. with the third group OF pris-
oners. Those who care for the horses
and do the "housework" turn out
at 8 o'clock. Others rise at $3.50:
those OF the detention bunch" get UP
at As. Detention men are those who
ave nothing to do but to sit around
n wait to be called to work. More
than one hundred men are In that group
at present. Siegel is one Of them.
In the morning Siegel may have his
plain coffee. on Sundays breakfast In
cludes a cereal. The farm workers
have q to eat every morning. The
detention men do not. Al loon the
prisoners have q heartier meal, usually
soup and meat. In the evening those
men who are indoors all day may have
their meals o plates and take their
food to their cells to eat. They eat at
8 o'clock. Prisoners who are assigned
to do so collect the empty plates.
Siegels plate is seldom empty. He
eats little. Perhaps he doesn't relish
the penitentiary cuisine. He doesn't
complain. The keepers have noticed
that and they IN on IT. Perhaps
he always has been a~bstenious.
From s 40 until 3 o'clock the lights
are burned in the corridors. Then the
men may read II they desire. II is then
that Siegel sits OF the edge Of his bunk
and devours the pages OF the magazines.
II there IL anything he looks forward to
It 10 the time when he may open his
magazine and bury himself in Its pages
for three hours and q half. Al 8
o'clock lights are turned out. Every one
is supposed to retire then.
Siegel sleeps between clean white
sheets. They are the same as those in
every cot In every cell. but they are
better than the bedclothing in many
prisons. Superintendent Craig gave his
prisoners sheets only recently. There
are pillows. too. Sheets n pillows are
prison Injuries.
The occupant of Cell Al may re-
ceive mail once a week. Strange to say,
his average has been one letter a week
thus far. On the first Sunday. which
Is mail day in the penitentiary, Sic
gel received two letters. Both were
from New York friends. None came
from his family. He may write one
letter a month II he wishes. lie hasn't
done 80.
Cutting Down Ills Term.
If he behaves a prisoner may cut
down his term by one month for every
six. Slegel has made a good beginning.
He may cut his term down one month
twenty days IL he keeps on
good behavior. II he cuts down his
term he will have tho chance to write
only eight letters instead Of ten. The
chances are that he will not write
eight letters. lie shows no disposition
to write one. lie is alone. more alone
han any one Of the 332 prisoners.
One strange to,sh Of sadness came
In Siegel's first day within the prison
wall. He nearly had a visitor. On
that day he was seated in the guard
room. waiting to be directed to his
quarters. A well dressed woman. said
TO have come from New York city. On
tered with two men. She asked Super
intendent Craig II Siegel had arrived.
Big Bill was standing In front OF
the guard room door. Siegel was sit
ting on a chair near the door. but hid
den from the visitors by the form Of
the warden. Superintendent Craig
told the woman that Siegel was in the
room and could be seen II she wished
to talk with him.
The woman approached the door n
looked within. She started at the
sight OF Siegel. sitting there SO near
her. Siegel never turned his head. The
woman whispered to tho warden that
she had changed her mind. She went
away again. Siegel did not see her.
Back of he apparent lack of inter-
est In his surroundings tho little man
is doing some hard thinking,
IN the morning in April. 1915. when
Siegel wakes with the rising sun In
his factor Cell AL faces the east
he will have something else to face. 1t
has been reported that when he leaves
the penitentiary Siegei will be rear
rested by Boston officers OF the law on
a secret indictment returned against
him more h a year ago.