Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-30
LL|0|YD,FRE'E AGAIN..
SAYS JAIL IS GREAT
Chicago Radical and Fifteen A.
sociatss Are Liberated
by Governor
FOUND PRISON GOOD REST
By Associated Press

: Chicago. Nov. 3O.--william. f,ro,,
Lloyd. wealthy Chicago radical. ma
fifteen associates had their l,berst,o,
from prisons after serving eight dav, A.
sentences for violation Of the r,l,no,s
anti.Syndicalisrn Act, to be thantfrI
for today.
Governor Len Small commuted th.,,
terms late yesterday.
Shortly before II o'clock last n,,h.
Lloyd and the six others sent IN ,h.
Joliet prison for from one to five ye.,.
walked out Three hours later tho n;,"
men confined in the Cook County i,u
oil sentenced to serve one year. w...
released. "s
BESIDES Lloyd. those released a, Jo,,..
were Jack Carney, Arthur Proctor 'gEs,st Et
gar Owens, Ludwig Lore. L. X rns
land and Niels Kjar. Those freed TS ~.
the County .Jai! were Samuel F. Man.
kin, james A. Meisinger, Karl +. SsrS.
berg, Charles Krumbein, Samuel Az.
Perry Shipman, Morris x. Etoier. ioh..
VOgel and n. j. ChristiansoS. '~""
Mrs. Lloyd was waiting at the prisor
gates for her husband In the famiiv
limousine, accompanied BY Robect
Howe. Lloyd's secretary.
HAD Good Rest"
"Wcll. I'ill." How queried. Alto,
you like IT."
Great" replied Lloyd, 1" IT,, .
good rcst-would be for q tired business
man."
"Oh, honey" interjected Mrs. Lloyd
''did they cut your hairY'
"Not one wisp," answered LLOYD a.
he removed his hat.
Lloyd accepted the $40 "gate money"
given all departing convicts and an ad.
with S28O.4j.
When he entered. on November %
he had $o52. 90. Prison records showed
tina; he spent during his eight days In
JUL total Of $2.41. ~.
Lloyd, in giving his impression Of
prison life, said he believed prisoners
who could not maintain friendly reia.
tions with their guards were persons
who were always in trouble. 80,
~ remember at college," he said,
"therc were some men who could not
get along with certain tenchers. and I
found those teachers fine. Well, It's
the same down there"
In announcing executive elemency for
the convicted men Governor Small suld
he was In accord with the dissenting
opinion written by Justice Orrin N.
Garter. who questioned the constitu.
|, tionnlity Of the law.
Dies Under Sentence
Two men who have not begun scrv.
ing their sentences were not included
in the cle,nency order. They are l., X.
Katterfield, who cabled from Russis
that hc would surrcnder, and Dr.. o. J.
Brown, whose serious Illness prevented
him from surrcsdering with the sixteen.
DR.. Brown. who was a patient in
, local hospital. where he had submitted
TO an oneration, died yesterday. several
hours before it was announced that sen.
, tences Of his associates had been set
aside. .....
LLOYD, with thirty. nine others Of
what wns known rs the left wing Of the
Socialist Party. was indicted In Janu.
ary, 1920. and twenty of the men were
arrest cd and convicted In August. 1920.
From the lower court. the case was
On arried to the Illinois Supreme Court.
where the jury verdict and sentences
were affirmed. An appeal to the higher
, court resulted IN chat bOdq's resusal 10
review the case and the Imprisonment
! Of the sixteen.