The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-15
INMATES COURT AT
sing Sing ABOLISHED
Hereafter q Grievance CONF
mittpc Will Settle Troubles
Among Prisoners.
SIN MORE TO TESTIFY

OssrSlNG. y V. Nov ii-p~iesa'ss
90 tho Mutual welfare League Of SIN
Sing announced TO III" prisoners to-day
that tho inmates court is no more
Hereafter IN it's stead there Will be -
grievance committee before which ac-
cuscrs ami accused can thrcsh out their
difficulties TIE Judges of the court,
Joe Rotolo, Martin sweeney. Nos'on
Eddie kclly and GEORGE Evans. will con.
stltutc ia" committee.
The prisoners court. which insured the
trial az the inmates before a jury OF
their peers, was ofo OF the first and
hi-ges, Of Warden Osborne Innovations
In sing Sing No.,hcr tue warden nor
his secretary, Spencer Miller, was ~ ths
prison to-day and an Official EXPLANATION
FOR tho substitution ot "a e ,ovaucc COM
iuI,tc- for the cou.l could not I've OBJ
taincd.
NE. Osborne said i'm AZ address ut
Ardslcv that prisoner, toii ia. truth
when they Nci" brought before the court
and that cx-Judge Willctt. who had a
seat on the PRISON bench before he was
transferred from sing sing, repeated
some or these confessions 10 Ilt'Tl'l ~
,orucv Weeks ~ White Plains Willett
had strenuous times u.s. u prison Judc"
once a chair was thrown ~ him while
tho court WIS in session and on another
occasion no was punched ny a prisoner
after courf adjourned. His place on tho
sing Sing b.,oh YVES never filled.
I'll. records OF the prison our, have
been destroyed. TIN" grievance commit
toe. II j. said. will keep NO records.
IL 80 ..-l .t. yNtkgtfarA fAn' tNlf
the stories iold to the We>tcleS'er ,iran'
jury of confessions maid" IL ia" rr'scn
court h4y" mail .t'"d against them.
MUTE prNNs. y. Y. Nov. IA II was
reported here today that District A.
torncy Fr,icriuk y Weeks will call six
more prisoners from Sing Sing ,o-mor-
row 20 testify lcfor. the Westchcstar
Graud Jury. which is investigating con-
ditlous IN IN" prison Il il Also sal
tnat w. i. ''umwiu-, III" l'ruohlyu bank
wrcckcr, viii ~ brought 80 White Plains
from tn" Great Meadows prison.
District Attorney Weeks. when asked
IL ne had anything "a LAY IN reply 10 tbs
statement ~ Warden osborne that there
WI too much politics behind the IN
quiry. simply said. Not a word Ia say
T. .s stated mat IS f,>' a. tho rris
ouers from Sing sing testify they will
be- transferred from the White llains
Ia ~ ~ viva =. tANF +.
- mean that their evidences is OF great
importance and tho prosecutor does not
want tho members ~ the Mutual Wei
fare 1."aru" to seek revenge ou tho WI
rcsscs.
Pruf George W. kir,hWry WHO va
'tuofl,ial warden 90 Sing Slug ~.
Gently whilN Warden osborne was tel
tug tho rot cure, told AZ audience i'm
'h" rorI.u ~ the thUtph - tn MESSIAH
Yesterday that tremendous advances had
been mair in tn" humanitarian direction
Of prisons since NJ tshoTuc took hold
of things at sing Sing. IIs attributed
III" improvement In prison conditions 30
changed publ, opinion rs well as to Mr.
u~horuc.- wcthods.
The Cd. sullen lool4, srav a. the
prison suits, arc gone said r-of
E~Iu,hwty. "Aul as fol INC discinlin.
melted out by the welfare League. It
ma, he said that q Sow York ,ludg.
visiting SIM sing ard a''"ndj' : one -
,h" trial. admitted THAT Il" bad learned
some valuable tnlugs from tho session
lie attended
'ThC thing THAT H. i~"ded u"w l. that
public opinion ~uoulI stand by tho rroE-
| ress already made
AusworiuE various questions, Prot
Kirchwey said That clashes botw or,i
ceased a. S!uc S.n- and tina conditions
IN cv,ry va, ~" tar hctt"r row than
| they were iN ~, days ~ stern. Official
| repression ~ prisoners by unSInps-
-hetic warious.