Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-01-13
STYLES AMAZE
"SILENT CORKEY"
Liberated Prisoner Who Has Not
Spoken for Ten Years
Is Shocked.
free AGAIN AFTER Is YEARS
Finds Many Things That Astonish
Him, Particularly Short Skirts and
Gauze Stockinas-Looks as II
They Were on Stills.

Boston.-Free again after Is years
In CharlestOwn state prison, the last
ten of which were spent without utter
Ing a word, p. ]. Hanley, otherwise
known as "Silent Corkey," declares the
things that strike him as most amaz-
ing are women's dress, the general re-
finment of people and the intelligence
of the younger generation.
Still unwilling to talk, "Silent Cor
key" says these things In writing. At
ter "Corkey" had written the first line
servation by pantomime. He pulled
the left leg of his blue serge trousers
almost up to the knees. Then he pulled
both legs together, signifying that
skirts are also tight. Finally, he
placed both hands on his hips as If the
sights shocked him. Then he sat down
and wrote:
Where's the BustIe7
"What became of the bustle?"
The first thing "Corkey" wanted to
do, apparently, was TO perforate the re.
port that he went on silence strike
at Charlestown because of some griev-
ance AS to that, "Corkey" Hanley's
first observation consisted of two
words:
Paper talk"
Asked to elucidate, the man who had
been put away for % years wrote this:
at happened in 1910 that l was TAX
ing the air In the yard, walking about
as all do who are in plant CHERRY
HID, and there was storm and
terrific wind was blowing. stood for
a while under an old chimney at the
side of c. II. CHERRY HilD. Bricks
were blown down. My head was cut.
.(You can see the marks). l became I'M
conscious. l have never been able to
speak since that moment. wish l
could. DIR. L. Vernon Briggs Ga good
man) said / must have received some
kind of think the word is-concus-
sion."
At the prison it has been said
after fellow prisoner had repeated
statements made by "Corkey" and
caused him to be punished. "Corkey"
wrote that he was all worn out from
seeing the sights in New York, where
he went on a visit after his release.
1.-THE Bowery," he said lis not what 1t
used to be-"
A young woman stenographer
thought the visitor should be more
specific In his remarks about women's
dresses. "Corkey" was willing. This
time he wrote:
"When | went away there were no
such short dresses, except (on) little
girls of ten. And the thin silk stock
irgs you wear-bare."
Then there was more pantOmime to
describe high heels, and Hanley sat
down again and wrote four words
more:
LAS If on stills"
He's No knoeker.
But he isn't knocker. He has bee.-
just as much impressed, and very ia
vorably, by the rising generation. He
said:
young people today appear to be
much more intelligent than the young
lOlhS VI 80 dSo. AhCih
are good. They look clean. They've
got go-ahead look that only one in
hundred used to have. This Ia great
country"
There could be only one or two ques-
tons more before Hanley had to run
for his train to the suburbs.
"What are you going to do? What
kind of job do you want?"
"Anything-I don't care what. You
can see how strong I am; that will
help me to lead straight life. l guess
I'm the only man recently discharged
over there who did not have Job
waiting for him."
few words of encouragement to
the visitor and he was asked:
well, how does 1t feel to be out
again and free?" Corkey wrote:
Just like being born again."