The sun., 1918-07-24
WAR HOUDINI HELD
BY BALL AND CHAIN
Allison Had Girl With Auto
mobile Waiting When He
Tried to Escape.
SHERIFF HANDICAPS HIM
Now He'll Work i'm the Corn
Field Dragging Around
16 Pounds of Iron.

While 1t may all be true that love
laughs at locksmiths, Henry Lichener
Francis Allison went disconsolately to
his cell in the Mineola Jail last night.
convinced that the man who evolved that
bit Of sarcasm. never got himself into
an official jam of such proportions as
the one which inflicted a nice round ball
and chain weighing sixteen pounds upon
the neatly moulded right ankle Of Henry
Lichener Francis Allison.
For love. 1t may be stated upon the
very positive word of the young man
with the ankle appendage, has played a
prominent part in the recent troubles
of young Mr.. Allison. First. 1t was Mr..
Allison's too ardent love for life as a
soldier that placed agents of the De-
partment of Justice on his trail. For
long time he had desired 20 get into
the army as an officer. and finally Rep
resentative John ]. Fitzgerald of Brook
lyn recommended him for appointment.
But Department OF Justice agents, as
they are wont to do in such cases, looked
up the statements of his educational
qualifications and the upshot OF 1t all
was that the president OF the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute swore in the Fed
eral Court that Allison never obtained
from him the certificate bearing the
Institute presidents name. WherSipon
Allison. having pleaded guilty to con-
spiracy turned upon John J. McGinnis.
Brooklyn lawyer. and Frank dam
brosia, a notary in McGinnis's office,
and they likewise were convicted of hav-
t,,ty haa ty, thA
spiracy
Tall Corn Gave Him an Idea.
So Allison yesterday found himself en-
terng upon the eighth day of his ten
months sentence to the Mineo!a jail.
Not being a backward young man he
had asked that he be permitted to OBJ
tain exercise by working in the war gar
den near the jail under the direction Of
Sheriff Phlneas Seaman. To which re-
quest Sheriff Seaman acquiesced.
Keeper John Henderson cooked sus-
picious eye at Allison yesterday. morn
ing when he noticed that young man
DOMINIC Jail overalls and jumper over
his own clothes at the time set for the
farming prisoners to start for the jail
farm. on came the store clothes, and
Allison soon was deep in his Job OF
tending to Sheriff Seaman's corn.
Now that corn has grown pretty
high. and Keeper Henderson had not
overlooked that fact. Instead. he kept
careful watch on the movement OF
young Mr.. Allison and soon noticed that
the young man was down on his hands
and knees and making his way much
faster than usual toward the far end Of
the corn patch. At just that moment.
Keeper Hendersons revolver barked
Once, then twice, and his voice demanded
that Allison quit crawling.
Allison did quit crawling, but it was
only for the purpose OF getting up on
his feet and sprinting as fast az he could
away from the prison farm. Co good a
Splinter was Allison that the Henderson
gun spoke three times more, and Mr.,
Henderson and other keepers had run
mile to the Garden City Hotel before
the pulling Allison was recaptured
The Little Lady Was Waiting.
Back to the jail went Allison. He
| said he was going to get into that army
or know why Henderson said he had
not shot TO hit Allison, but IL he ever
tried to escape again. why. the Hender-
son shooting would be straight and
Allison would be the target. Allison re-
marked he didn't think so. and. any way,
he was rather bored by the routine OF
the Mineola jail. that farming wasn't
fght!rE and moreover. he had very
good social connections in Brooklyn. was
| engaged To be married. and. war garden
or no war garden. just couldn't keep
that young woman out Of his mind.
After which, Keeper Henderson re-
called that there was n big touring car
moving to and fro near the far end OF
the corn patch yesterday morning. and
| that there was woman at the wheel
| and very pretty girl in the tonneau.
So out came the ball and the chain. and
! hereafter Mr. Allison will go to the corn
patch each day in Just that condition
calculated by Mr. Henderson to keep
| him there.
Nv a WV rHnANY ~ ANN a ~