New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-08
Cullen, Unhappy Fugitive,
Walks I'm On Warden to
Resume Sentence.
FIRST HE VISITS
OSBORNE AT HOTEL
Leagues Influence Brings Back
Inmate for Seven Years More
in Sing Sing.

Peter Cullen went back OF his own
free will to Sing Sing last night. For
the second time since the Mutual We'll
fare League began its work within the
prison, an escaped convict has returned
to take his medicine"
Cullen is ready to take his. He
climbed out Of an automobile which
drew up before the warden's Office at
9 o'clock last night. Back of him lay
the freedom he had enjoyed since
April 20. Before him rose the gray
walls behind which seven more years
Of imprisonment awaited him. Peter
Cullen walked into the warden's Of
flee. He wore the gray green hat and
the overcoat in which he had escaped
"I've come back" told Warden
Kirchwey. calmly. I'm ready to take
any punishment. won't boiler, what
ever you do"
Cullen Back; Goes to Bed.
81 think the best thing for you to
do is to 90 to bed now, Pete" DR..
Kirchwey said. gently. "We1l talk
this thing over in the morning"
SO Peter Cullen went to his cell and
began his new term OF seven years.
To-day the warden will investigate his
case and decide on what action shall
be taken.
81 don't know what / shall do" he
said last night. 81 have not decided.
He was tired and unhappy, and sent
him to bed"
From the night of April 20. when
Cullen put on a keepers overcoat and
a SLOUGH hat. and walked out of prison,
none of his associates, outside the
walls had seen him until yesterday.
Julia Sullivan Cullen, the woman that
he married last August g. has had no
idea of his whereabouts. He has not
tried to see her, for ex-convicts have
been watching her house, night and
day.
Late yesterday afternoon he came
in a taxicab to the Hotel Belmont. His
companion, whose name is not known,
went to the desk and asked for Thomas
Mott Osborne.
Mr.. Osborne. who had spent the day
at Sing Sing, had just returned to the /
hotel in an automobile. He entered
the lobby while the man was still at
the desk.
"Pete Cullen is outside in a taxi"
this man told him. He wants to see
you"
Mr.. Osborne went outside, climbed
into the taxicab with Cullen and drove
down Park Avenue.
81 want TO go back" the runaway
convict told his friend, "Tom Brown"
81 want to square myself with the boys.
! don't know why | ran away. I've
been awful unhappy. | haven't seen
my wife or any one. I've just been
hiding"
Convict Seemed Unhappy.
"He seemed very unhappy" Mr.. os-
borne said last night. "He was wor-
ried and sick with nervousness. He
told me that he was not guilty Of the
crime for which he must serve seven
more years, but he wanted to go back /
for the sake of the warden and the /
league"
when do you want to go back" the +
former warden asked Cullen.
For a moment the man did not speak 7
Then he drew a long breath.
Right away" he announced.
So the runaway was placed in the
machine which had brought Mr.. Os- .
borne from the prison. and was sent /
back The man who took him TO the I
Belmont accompanied him.
cullen knows what is before him."
Mr.. Osborne said, in telling of the af .
fair. "He has to serve at least seven =
years, with perhaps an added SEN
tence for attempted escape. He was
to go back, and he made
up his mind to face the music alone.
He has not even seen his wife since
he ran away"
Cullen's was the third escape from
Sing Sing this year. On the same
night that he ran away John Boris