New Britain herald., 1930-02-28
SAYS SINCLAIR DID
 ALMOST NO LABOR
Fellow Prisoner Claims Gilman
 Had Orderly in Jail
BY \ FELLOW PRISONER Copyright 1930, NEA Service, Inc. HOW SINCLAIR
GOT OWN HOOD

HOW SINCLAIR
 GOT OWN FOOD
 ToGdy's article, the third in d series in which a former inmacn of the District of Columbia jall describes Harry r, Sinclar's con- finoment there. tells how Sincla'r obtained both privacy and con- fort in the jail uA getting aSSiga- ed 10 private room. "much Ike T hotel room except for the barred windoW,' Tomorrow he will tell how Sinclair escaped tho monotonous jail fare hy sending outside for all of lis meals.
 The ordinary inmate Of the Dis trict of Columbia jail sleeps in cell with other prisoners, on an iron cot. f he is lucky and gets an or- flee job, he sleeps in a more com fortable bed in the dormitory, much more comfortable place.
 But Harry F. Sinclair slept in room Of his own.
 When he was assigned to fine pharmacy for duty he was given a
 
 firmary. It WAS not unlike q hotel loom, except that it had barred win dows and was not so claborately equipped.
 It wasn't bg-pcrhaps eight lY 1e feet in all. He had q clean com- fCrtaDie hospital bed. chair and a bureau. There was a barred open ing in the door through which the guard could look in and make his official count" on his rounds.
 But Slnclair's room soon took ou different aspect from the others lis bureau was filtered with to,Iat and medicinal articles. A white screen was put in front of his door 10 insure his privaCy-althOugh If course, this made it impossible ior the guard 10 ScC him in making his count, as the regulations require.
 We other inmates wondered about fl. And the ';'rapcvine" gave As tfis explanation; Sinclair was th4 pharmaceutical assistant to the jail doctor. He was an office man. Therefore he rated bed outside the cells, ill his latter capacity, anl h" had to be placed in the infirmary so that if any of he patients needed assistance in the night he could tend them.
 But Sinclair wasn't a doctor. He Was pill roller" The doctor sleeps in the infrmary. His assist ant, q prisoner, doesn't. A trained rursc is always on duty until mid- night,
 So the rest Of the jail wondered. IL Wor dercl some moro when il as found that Sinclair spent Yer, little time rolling pills. He got out O. bed in the morning when he felt like it sometimes not until noon although rising time for the rest of the jail vas $50, Once an "uu- iNrtlatoI" Eldri made the error of shouting at Sinclair to get up at fine regular time. There was no an- sWer ard Sinclair didn't get up. Nothing was done about it.
 Once up. Sinclair took his morH- ing bath. The ordinary prisona~, who probably needed ono a lot more than Sinclair aid, wasn't d. lowed 10 take one.
 Sinclair called an orderly one day shortly after lis arriv.r and asleI for a bath towel. The order!v brought him enc with ID. C. Jail' printed on it, ill big black letters Sinclair looked at it and shudderel He extended one hand, with q s bill.
 Haven't you got another without any printing on it." he asked.
 The orderly took away the often l. 'nS towel and brought Q plain one.
 When the morning bath was over Sinclair shaved. Ordinary prisoners are not allowed to have razors. They get shaved at the jail "barbcr shop" once week. Sinclair had his own razor and used it himself.
 There is, of course good reason for keeping the ordinary prisonsr without his razor. Some prisoners are desperate and might use it as d weapon to force their way ou,. Then, too, the prisoners often fight among themselves.
 Of course, l realize that there wasn't any danger of Harry Sinclair going on q rampage and slicin.3 somebody with his razor I'm not licking that he was allowed to keep his. I'm just pointing out that 50 million dollars, when it goes to jail, Gocsnt get the same treatment tha, the ordinary man gets.
 One of the things that makes an office mans job in the jail so niao is the fact that he has the freedom