The sun., 1915-11-10
SING sing SECRETS
. TOLD BY PRISONERS
Four Inmates and Keeper Ap-
pear as Witnesses Before
the Grand Jury.
TO CALL WILLETT TO-DAY

:-...:tIrE PLAINS, N. Y. Nov. s.-D!s.
trict Attorney weekss Grand Jury In
auiry into assaults and alleged inn
morality In Sing Sing prison. which
Warden Thomas Mott Osborne views as
nothing less than an inquiry into his ad-
ministration aud idsas Of prison reform,
got going to-day with the appearance a.
Witnesses Of four prisoners brought from
Sing Sing urder guard and locked in
~ county Jail here for the last few days.
so literally did MIR. Weeks and all con-
cerned take Justice Morschausers in
junction of secrecy ON the Grand jury
that the air of mystery surrounding the
entire proceedings WAS almost impene-
trable. The prisoners, accompanied by
keepers Ray Hin and Benjamin Craw-
ford OF the county Jail. were taken to the
Grand Jury room by rear entrance ana
40 carefully conveyed back to their cells.
Mr. Weeks to-day obtained habeas
corpus writs for two more Sing Sing
prisoners, James Connolly and William
n. Trefry, both members OF the Mutual
Welfare League. They will be brought
here tomorrow from Oesining to TESTIFY
before the Grand Jury regarding assault
cases In the prison.
1t was said thai kid Draper kap-
Ian And James Harvey were among the
four who appeared before the Grand
,vu, ',. AI,,,a,,,,s' ,a,,,.r A. Wssk. nor
snv o,a else wouId discuss II. II was
on.,rn,, IN that their testimony was
40 ,,,a siny ,o warJsn Osborne,s ndminis-
trutios IN that thev told of a loose state
AZ mora d, inside the prison.
Tue four Grand Jury witnesses, ac-
cordinW TO report, told some hot stun
about the wholesale immortality In the
prison that has SO often been charged.
The same men are expected 10 TESTIFY
again along the same lines, to the effect
that much goes on at Sing Sing that
Warden Osborne should prevent. When
ne is through with these men and other
who may give similar testimony Mt.
Weeks will ask superintendent OF PRISONS
John b. tiley 10 nave thom trtnsieIIeu
TO Comstock prison at h'ea' ."eaoow
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vno orousN Nn "." 80, 49,, IUsi1
."at Sou'a VIC ., ,o VI 90 ,hs assn,i,
.'tSe.n a.. G.,na Turv is to inves.
,. Wa",arS,v nor,er nroduced ma r,
..,o.ss ana today wardsn
S.sor". can,a m White plains i'm re.
..o~. -, caiI from tho District At.
,p,na' ~ .~piain where the rest OF them
,o,.h, ha
Mr. Osborne told Andrew B. Bu-
ch.nan re,ired oilcloth manufactu.
rer Of Cortlandt. foreman of the Grand
.Yury that he could not find any trial
,ecord. for the first seyen of the ten
ropnhs the leaxue's court has been In
er,.fence. so ma brought with him only
those for the last three months. The
warden explained that after cases had
been apneal.d to him from the league S
court the records were pitched into a
corner somewhere and might easily be
.,wept up and thrown out or taken by
a convict IL he wished. They are In no
sense OFFICIAL prison records . he re-
minded Mr.. buchanan, These are the
saus rscords that DIR Rudolph Diedling
co,,Id NOT p.t xhrn he investigated Sing
Sing FOR the state Prison Commission.
n was plainer than ever to-day that
Mr. Osborne meant what hs said about