Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-07-17

fully once he felt that it was with
in his province to do SO again. So
he planned and he had no difficulty
in getting followers. One evening
at supper time and in the darkness
he and his cohorts having made
temporary ladder sneaked through
the darkness, quick as a fash had
their improvised ladder against the
wall and darted up, but this time
fate was against them for a guard
IN one of the towers saw them and
leyelled his shotgun at them-they
all flew but Zip. He kept on going,
reached the top, but by that time
was SO full of shot that it was
miracle that he had presence of
mind enough to lay fiat on the
wall where he was retaken and in
stead of liberty Zip now found him
self a patient needing the best skill
that the hospital and it's attendants
could afford. Even on his sick bed,
however, Zip lived his code and re-
fused to divulge the names of his
co-pariners. Thus ended the ,dia-
mond career of Zip the hurler.
Violation of Trust.
Men in prison who violate the
trust imposed in them to run away
are looked down upon by their fell
low-inmates for even as hard and
cruel as most crooks are presumed
to be very few of them will go
back on their word. If they prom
Use to accept trusty job and net
run away few there are who have
any sympathy with them if they do
RIM and are caught. Even though
successful in their getaway they
are given no credit for same. AS
this is written the papers are full
of Leopold's (Chicago's millionaire
kidnapper and murderer now doing
life In Joliet) refusal to testify be-
fore the grand jury in the murder
Of the deputy-warden at the prison
because of the "ethics" or unwritten
code" that is law within a prison.
Ma Favors Accorded.
To violate this law or code and to
be found out means for the man
serving time continual prison life
OF damnatioD for no fayors or pres
tige that the officials could bestow is
worth the wrath and irony of the
majority of the prison populace. A
good fellow" in prison is never
friendless. He need not have money,
prestige, influence or even good
job, but he never need want for
anything that is possible to obtain
10 prison. To be traitor to this
code some times means death as in
the instances that the writer will
relate later on, in its proper Sc
quence. In other cases it means
fights, injuries that leave one
marked for life, and a name that
no amount of time will wear the
stigma therefrom. Sometimes the
traitor is never molested while with
in the walls, but meets his fate
when released and his demise, but
becomes one more of the police
pusales of some underworld char
acter shot down in ambush.
A Typical Revenge.
A typical example of prison
revenge will be given in the follow
ing incident. An inmate printer,
having charge of the print shop
which building had an outside ex-
posure forestalled at the risk of his
life getaway in which three
desperate men were seeking adj
mittance, with view of filing the
bars from the window and thereby
gaining their freedom. A few days
later, this same printer was picked
up unconscious and brutally beaten, !
being found between two buildings,
and while he nor others knew the
real identity of his assailants the
reader is correct in surmising who
they were and why? ,,
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