The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
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 Stockings-Looks as II
They Were on Stills.

Boston.-Free again after 25 years
in Charlestown state prison. the las:
ten of which were spent without utter
ing a word, P. j. 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
he stood up and embellished the OBJ
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 BustIe?
'What became of the bustle?"
The first thing "Corkey" wanted to
do, apparently, was to perforate the re
port that he went on a 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 25 years wrote this:
ut 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 a
terrific wind was blowing. l stood for
a while under an old chimney at the
side of G. H. CHERRY HilD. Bricks
were blown down. My head was cut.
(You can see the marks). l became I'M
conscious. I have never been able to |
speak since that moment. wish !
could DR.. L. Vernon Briggs "a good
man) said l must have received some
kind of think the word is-concus-
SION"
At the prison it has been said
"Corkey" became chronically silent
after a 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 visit after his release.
"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
lresses. "Corkey" was willing. This
line he wrote:
when went away there were no
such short dresses, except (on) little
girls of ten. And the thin silk stock
ngs you wear-bare."
Then there was more pantomime to
describe high heels, and Hanley sat
lown again and wrote four words
more:
las if on stilts."
He's No knoeker.
But he isn't knocker. He has bee..
ust as much impressed, and very IA
orably, by the rising generation. He
aid:
Young people today appear to be
1uch more intelligent than the young
olks of rs years ago. Their manners
re good. They look clean. They've
OF go-ahead look that only one in a
undred used to have. This is great
ountry."
There could be only one or two ques-
ons more before Hanley had to run
Or his train to the suburbs.
"What are you going to do? What
ind Of job do you want"
"Anything-I don't care what. You
an see how strong l am; that will
clip me to lead straight life. l guess
m the only man recently discharged
yer there who did not have a job
aiting for him."
A few words of encouragement to
le visitor and he was asked:
well, how does 1t feel to be out
gain and free?" Corkey wrote:
"Just like being born again."