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and clubman. Weeks arrived Novem-
Der s, 1898, with ten year sentence
and was made prison bookkeeper.
Weeks was the smartest man ever
in Sing Sing" said Helms, THE day
Weeks went out" added Shoemaker,
"he had "A private railroad car waiting
10 take him and his wife out West"
William X. Montgomery, one time
president of the Hamilton Bank, who
was sent to Sing Sing for frenzied
finance, received his company with
Shoemaker looking on. or a .rancorous
disposition, the fellow was forever
quarrelling with some one in Sing
Sing. He boosted he had spent $4,000
to keep John Boehman, a lifer who
once escaped nailed up in a packing
box that left the prison on a truck,
from getting pardon. Albert It. Pat
rick, convicted OF the MUIR err OF Will
lam VI. Rice, the millionaire, and par
doned out by Gov. Dix, exposed Mont
gomery's luminosity toward Boehman.
Montgomery later turned upon Warden
Kennedy and made accusations of
cruelty and mismanagement that
helped to bring about the warden's
removal. Montgomery was paroled
and went his way July 10, 1918, upon
completing two years and two months
in the old house OF intrigue.
Shoemaker stood watch when Will
. lam ]. Cummins, who scuttled the Car
negie Trust Company met his relatives
in the visiting quarters. He occa-
stonally saw David A. Sullivan there,
| too. Sullivan, convicted in brooklyn
had pyramided one bank upon another,
! through reckless speculation, until the
whole pile tumbled down and he was
caught in the wreck. Sullivan didn't
have TO use the visiting room often to
see his relatives, For, as a sensational
expose disclosed. he was allowed to go
out automobiling with Warden McCor-
mick. Thus he was able 10 see his
folks whenever and wherever he
chose. When the scandal got out Sui
Ivan was ordered shut UP inside the
prison walls and got no more favors
after that, Mccormick, Inundated,
fed and afterward was bounced.
| There was a distinguished arrival on
March l, 1894. John Y. McKane, the
political boss OF Gravesend and Coney
| Island, was received for election frauds
and debauchery, He took off his dia-
mond shirt stud in the receiving office
and gave 1t TO friend to take home
and keep for him.
McKane told Shoemaker how he had
been bled out OF a fortune. Crooked
lawyers who claimed to have influence
with the Judges or the Governor" he
said, got S250000 out OF me by prom
Using to get me freed"
McKane was a skilful wood carver
and builder, He not alone was a good
worker but a planner of work. He
bossed the erection OF several struc-
cures for Warden Sage. The chapel
and hospital building and the prison
hose house are monuments to the
politicians memory. "McKane could
manage a gang Of workmen fine" said
Helms.
| Steve Raymond, LITER
Shoemaker was the first prison en-
ployee TO greet Senator Stephen Still
well Of the Bronx when he landed there
for bribery. The veteran attenda nj
stood watch over the Senator and was
thoroughly familiar with his visiting
list.
He also recalls Steve Raymond. the
forger, pardoned July 2, 1899, by Gov
Flower after having been imprisoned
twenty-three years, He was the first
man ever sent up for life" said Shoe
maker, under the habitual criminal
law"
Charles Giblin, lifer, was pardoned
by Gov. Morton June 4, 1895. He had
served but 8. , years OF life sentence
for the murder OF Madeline Goatz IL
New York city in row that began
when Giblin accused her husband OF
giving him counterfeit bill In making
change. Goblin fooled the Governor
and got pardon" said Shoemaker, "by
eating soap. 1t made him awfully thir
and they believed he was going TO die,
Carl Fischer, Il German. was par,
doned by Gov. Roosevelt August 23
1900, on representation of his mother
than = released he would go back tC
lGermany to get q $4,000 windfall. t.