The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-13

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saw the chance for some fun.
Gee, I'd hate to be IN your
shoes when Tom gets back" he
said. He'll probably can you
for being so fresh and calling
him down that way"
Andy's job Threatened.
Being so fresh to him?" quer-
led Andy. What dyer mean,
fresh thin? When was I fresh
t'him?''
Didn't you bawl him out for
knocking ashes on the floor?"
asked Duffy.
.who, that big stiff that was
just here? OF course I bawled
him out. He-had it comm to him
-tryin' t'get me to knock tn
boss"
but that was Tom himself"
said Duffy. ''This is April 1st,
Andy. He was playing little
Joke on us. Ycu'n sure get yours
for being discourteous to a guest
in the warden's house, You might
as well kiss your job good-by,
Andy"
Andy's face was a study. In
tuitiveIy he seemed to know that
we we're telling him the truth.
yet he baked at accepting the
facts.
at don't care" he finally de-
clared. Even If it was the boss,
he found out where I stood. II
he wants to can me, all right"
It developed later that Osborne
had learned a good deal at first
hand through his april Fool"
visit. Money which he had given
to the convict guide he saw
turned in at the office Of the
brotherhood, when 1t might have
been pocketed.
So far as Billy Duffy and my
self were concerned, we never let
Tom know that we had known all
the time who he was. and he lis
tened gravely that night at din
ner, having returned to the pris-
on during the afternoon, as told
him of the frealxish mr.. Marsh"
and his peculiar curiosity.
He must have been interesting;
sorry / missed him, was his
comment, land it's too bad you
didn't succeed in selling HIM one
of your books. He must have
been a tight old codger.
CHAPTER XIV.
1t was during the spring Of
1915 that Osborne. at the request
of Governor whitman. made a
trip of inspection over two pre-
posed sites for a new State pris-
on, one known as Wingdale, the
other as Beekman, both located
in the Westchester district. An
appropriation of considerable size
had been made some years be-
fore to buy and build on the
WfngdaIe site. An architect
named BeardsIey had been paid
more than 100000. and one Of
his claims for 100000 had been
characterized by a former attor-
ney general as Outrageous and
unconscionable upon its face"
In a special message to the
legislature in 1912 Governor Dix
stated that to spend 100000 to
build a prison on the edge OF a
swamp would be bad enough un-
der any circumstances, but to do
so in defiance of an uncontrovert-
ed adverse report on the site such
as had been submitted to the Leg
isIature by a diEinterested COM
nfttee would be manifest out
rage upon the. rights Of the tax
payers.
Purchased by Politicians
. The inside facts concerning the
wingdale site. aS nearly as
could learn them. were that a
group Of politicians had pur-
chased the property adjacent to
the proposed prison, after consid-
cradle money had been expended
on poorly constructed and incom-
plete foundations. specializing that
the State would later have to en-
large the plant. and that their
holdings would be available &C.
cordipgly. and could be sold at
an exhorbitant figure.
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow