New Britain herald., 1930-03-03

In addition to his prison hclp.' Slnclair's personal secretary Was permitted to enter the gail cvcry Gay and spend an hour or two ta!. ing his business correspondence and writing personal letters.
 People in all parts of the country perfect strangcrs-Nrotc 10 Sil- clair. Some of them Commserated him on his incarceration, and otE CTS taunted him.
 He rather resented the attitude of sympathy expressed in his friends letters. His attitude was, "Of course they're sorry I'm inl here. Why shouldnt they be-"
 He never got over the idea that lis being sent to jail was a great injustice. But he wasn't a bad sport, and he kept his sense Of humor. One letter from an inti- mate friend that made him laugh heartily was something like this:
 Dear Harry:
 T am writing you aboard my new special car, We (naming some n1utual friends) have just pulled out for Frisco for q trip across the continent. Oscar, my very capable chief has just served us most de llcious dinner of squads on toast. etc. We are just now sitting down tor few hours of bridge
 How are things with you?"
 Of course, Sinclair's mail wasn't | censored at the Jail office, as WIS the mail Of the ordinary prisoners In the first place, it was so volum- | inous that ccnsoring it would have been almost a physical impossibli- ty, with tfe staff at hand. In the | second place, since he was one o' the prisoners who held an office | job he wasn't required to come | under this re striction. Major Pear, the warden, held that office meu's | mail needn't DC censored, as q man ought to be sent back to cell if h, | couldn't be trusted with his own | nail.
 So, in the matter of his mail. Sin- clair wasn't enjoying so much moe l than Sny man might have had. He | was getting away with rather more l ill regard 10 visitors.
 Jail rules are strict X man can | receive visitors once q weck-frord | f:3O to ll:%o q. nl, and from I:3J , to D. m. on Tuesday for whit. l inmates and on Friday for color.l | inmates. No visitor IS allowed to | stay more than , minutes Trusties or office men arc permitted 10 rs- ceive visitors in the outer office for | one hour on Sunday evenings. Or.i- | nary prisoners talk to their visitors | through the screen on the rotunda | floor, in the presence of a guard
 Sinclair had visitors at all times. | Lawyers, business associates anl l friends were let in to see him con- stantly, some of them staying as late as midnight. talking to him Tn | his private room.
 Now I'm not complaining abou. | all of this. I know Sinclair was a ! big business man. and that his | affairs probably were Of such scope | that it was necessary for his asao- ! ciates to get into talk 10 him mor1 | often. and more freely, than orIi- l nary jail rules allowed. I'm not | telling this with the idea that Sin ! clair ought 10 have been held right | down to the rules that bound th~ rest of us, I'm simply telling what I saw - telling how the treatment 1 that fifty million dollars gets, when in jail, differs from the treatment that the ordinary man gets when he goes to jail.
 For all his special privileges. though, Sinclair wasn't really un- popular with the other inmates. II vas | pretty good fellow" from the inmates point Of view. Tomor- row I'll tell you some of the things he did.
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