The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-11
Boys Will BE Confined Sep.
arately and May Not Have
Opportunity to Speak to
Each Other For Years. 1t
Is Stated by Warden -
Must Eat Plain Prison Fare
and May Write But One
Letter a Week-TO Do
Hard Labor

Joliet, Ill.,, Sept. 1.-two empty
cells at the state penitentiary today
awaited the arrival from Chicago of
Nathan +. Leopold Jr. and Richard
Loeb, expected during the day to
begin life sentences for the slay-
ing of Robert Franks.
Prison guards waited all last
night in anticipation of their com
ing while Warden Whitman had left
orders to be called if they were
brought here during the night.
The cells which they will occupy
their first day in prison are those
to which all the new prisoners are
taken and are termed SOLITARY
court" or detention quarters for in
coming prisoners.
When their automobile draws up
to the entrance to the penitentiary
they will be hustled to the entrance
and will be stopped at an iron gate.
When they pass through this iron
gate they will enter into the custody
Of the prison. Inside the gates the
record clerk will receive from the
sheriff Of Cook coutny two of
the most celebrated prisoners who
have ever entered the walls of the
old building and will give to the
sheriff receipt for the youths.
To Be Photographed
This formality ended, guards will
conduct the boys through a second
iron gate, across the court to the
prison photographers office to be
photographed in civilian attire, Here
they will receive prison clothes. The
last number yesterday was 9,3O4 and
unless others receive them Leopold
and Loeb will be numbered 1906 and
1906. A shave and haircut will
follow for the millionaires' sons and
Warden Whitman said that while
their sleek haircut will be modified
by the prison barber they will not
be eliminated as the day Of cropped
heads has pissed.
The boys will proceed to the Ber-
tillon bureau for Identification
measurements and there they will
receive their first prison suits, Sec
ond hand shirts, shoes and stock
ings used for the incoming prison.
ers. Then will come court solitary"
where they will be kept in separate
cells their first night in prison. To-
morrow they will be assigned reg
ular cells and work, will face the
prison physician and psychiatrist for
examination and will be. given a
lecture on prison rules, being cav
toned particularly about silence in
mess halls, chapel, bath and while
marching. While at work they may
talk and while in their cells they
may talk to cell mates.
Warden Whitman said the youths
would not be confined in the same
cells or even in the same section of
the prison. They may see one an
other while marching or in mess
halls but probably will not have an
opportunity to converse for years.
Cell mates will not be awarded to
the slayers at once.
The youths will be assigned man
ual labor at the beginning, despite
their university education, Warden
Whitman indicated. Office work is
reserved as reward for good be-
havior and new man seldom lands
such work at the start.
Placed in Grade C
All prisoners entering Joliet are
placed in grade c. They are graded
on behavior, workmanship, mental
attitude and general conduct and
after nine months they work into
grade A, where they may be consid-
cred for some privileges. For prac-
tically a year, however, the youths
will enjoy none of those.
Prisoners must eat prison fare,
the warden explained. Today's menu
consisted Of vegetable soup, short
ribs, potatoes and bread, while for
supper the prisoners will eat hot
biscuits, apple sauce, bread, syrup
and peas. Prisoners may buy to-
bacco, gum and candy but the only
time they will have an opportunity
to eat food prepared outside the
prison is on visitors day. They
may receive a visitor once in two
weeks and if the prisoner eats food
they may have an opportunity to
eat it during the half hour of visit.
Leopold will have no opportunity
to write the book with which he
had expressed his intention to oc-
cupy his prison time, Warden Whit
man said. Once week each prison
err may write one letter. This is
the extent of their writing. They
may receive unlimited mail but all
of it is censored.
Books may be obtained from the
prison library for limited time.
"Dickie" and "Bahe" vii have to
lead and they may also secure news
papers by subscribing for them, but
Will not nave the sa.,s.a ,tion of
reading about themselves for this
material IS deieted from them.
RAISING THE ANTE
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