Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-03-25
TELLS OF VISIT TO PENITENTI.
AIRY AT BOISE.
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death cell, and whose execution VIII
occur within a few days April 2. He
is the Montenegro who killed d fellow
countryman in Shoshone county. He
had been allowed in the corridor abut
ting his cell, and, as the cell house
crowds close to the first base line of
the diamond, from window he had a
close view of the play. He does not
understand the game, but his face
would break into faint smile, when
cheers from the crowd approved play
The condemned man is not communica
tive, but also is not surly. His seems
now a period of deep thinking. With
in few days the construction of the
gallows in an obscure point of the wall
ed enclosure will be begun, for it is
said the governor has announced that
he will grant no reprieve. This will be
the second execution to occur at the
prison during Mr.. Shocks adniinistra-
ton. The other case was that of Ste
wart, who murdered a girl at Moscow
a few years ago.
Nor is the spirit of comraderie re-
Elected alone on the baseball field.
Convicts group about regardless of pre-
vious station in life. Henle, active in
Boise public matters, now serving for
embezzlement, was playing chess with,
an old man, who is known as more than
a one time. Henle is a German or
Austrian Jew, and report cur ent
during his trial was that was reser-
visit and courted conviction on the
charge to prevent confiscat ioi OF
family property abroad, step taken
where reserves-with ability to do So
do not return to the call of their coun-
try.
Bob Wetter is skillful penman
That fact is clearly established by the
records Of the gallery department of
the prison, which is in his keeping.
The gallows had been constructed once
for Wetter. He Is the man VIII 10 killed
two claim jumpers in the War rem sec
ton of Idaho county. He got the death
sentence. Then followed communication
of life imprisonment; then to forty
years; then to twenty-five years. He
has served eleven years and with allow
ance of his good behavior will be re-
leased in three or four years. He is a
trusty. With courtesy and interest he
explained the method of arranging the
photo gallery and the Bertillion mea
surement system 81 will not impose
further on your time suggested the
visitor. "No imposition he smiling
ly replied. Il have plenty Of time
three or four years.
There are 2S7 inmates of tn prison
with about sixty more on parole
Eighty five per cent of the parole
prisoners make good-an endorsement
of the parole system as well as of Mr.
Shook, who has gained and earned dis
tinction as one of the very able war
dens of the entire United States. HI
is the type that has demonstrated thai
discipline need not be 1nhumane, ant
that all self-respect need not be aban
doned by the unfortunate whose des
tiny led him behind the prison walls
and yet Shook has steel-g eye tina
would tell even the more casual oh
server that there is no "back-up.'
Among these 2S7 prisoners Their are 2;
negroes (and these colored folks hav,
a baseball team that vanquish the picl
III H. In n
Japs, and just one Chineman who fail
ed at forgery. There is but on
woman in the prison and she oecupie
an isolated enclosure yard in singh
cell house She is Mrs. e. G. Brown
who is serving six months to two year
from Kootenai county. She had sho
at man and woman. 1t had been be
lieved that appropriation would b
available this year to construct al
other cell house for accommodation o
women-as present facilities are to
limited in that regard-but this none
with other sums planned to raise tn
penitentiary walls fell under the go'
nor's million dollar economy axe, whic
axe also killed the bill that woul
allow counties to use convicts on pull
lie roads with small wages that woul
go to the convict s dependents.
Idaho's prison is using, in additio
to the Bertilion, the thumb print idei
LITIGATION system, data being exchan
with the federal prison at Leave
worth, which leads in this line of pr
son work The card EXCHANGES on pr
son records is effective beyond que
ton. George Carlson in 1912, sto
some razors from Ben Nelson IS barb
shop in Lewiston. He was sent to pr
son for burglary. His act W as eonsi
cred to be that of a novice influence
by "dope.'' Data now gathered