The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-09
ESCAPED CONvICT. VISITS OSBORNE,
 THEN GIVES UP
Peter Cullen Returns to Sing Sing, Riding In a Lii
 mOuSIne.

CulGn, Sing Sing bridegroom and Sergeant at Arms in the Mutual Welfare League, who walked leisurely out of the prison April 20 with a stretch of four years stiM hanging over his head, voluntarily returned to Sing Sing Sunday night.
 He went back in 3, handsomely up ho1stered limousine, the property of a friend of former Warden Osborne. The friend accompanied Cullen to Warden Kirchwey's office. The con vict ha1f-1imped from the big ma chine, walked up to the warden and exclaimed:
 Well. Inn back again am sor- try ran away. want to repair whatever damage I have done and am willing to take any punishment that is handed out to me-
 Cullen still wore the green hat and overcoat he stole when he left the prison They are said to be the prop erty of MT. Kirchwey.
 Before giving himself up, the re- pentant burglar sought out MT. FOs- bornes who had made him an officer in the Mutual Welfare League. The former warden had gone to the Hotel Belmont shortly before 6 o'clock to meet his friend who was to take him uptown in his car to hl1 a dinner en- gagement. s\N
 
 the desk a well dressed man walked up to him and said:
 Pete is outside in a taxi and wants to see iyou.''
 MT. Osborne walked out to the F'orty-second street curb and there found Cullen. who asked him to get into the machine and ride down Park avenue. They rode several blocks and during the ride the escaped con- yict said he had felt miserable ever since he left Sing Sing and wanted to do the right thing by the Mutual Welfare League. A.
 Advised to go back, he said he was returned to the Hotel Belmont, where MT Osborne found his friend waiting for him. The former warden said he would go to the dinner alone, and asked his friend-wh ose name he de- clined to divufge-if he would take Cullen on the return trip, and he con sented to do so.
 question the convict as to where he had been.
 "He looked shabby and down and out" the warden said. t'One would have judged from his appearance that he had not slept a night since he left the prison-9 Ilwanted to spare him any unnecessary trouble for the time being, so I sent him directly to his cell and-Iae went to bed.''
 MT. Osborne was asked if Cullen would be- severely dealt with because he had rt1n away
 'I suppose he will be- MT. Os- borne answered. District Attorney Weeks of Westchester is in position to put it over strong"
 Cullen was married to Julia Sulli- van of No. 521 West Twenty-seventh street in Warden Osborne's office last August When he was asked last night if the convict hads run away that he might enjoy a belated honey m oon, MT. Osborne said:
 'eI do notCknorw where Cullen has been. did not question him, but do not think that during the time he en- joyed his liberty he did not see his wife,
 : MT. Osborne declared Cu1len's return was actuated purelyby principle.
 There's a lot more principle in that burglar than there is in many of us,'' he said. We would have thought twice before we would have returned to confinement. But now that he has done the right thing the officials will probably forget that he has served any time and start all over. again.
 Cullen is a confirmed burglar and robber. Although comparatively young man he has spent two-thirds of his life in penal. institutions