The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-27

Sinclair alighted to the tune of
dozens of booming flashlights. He
seemed a bit confused, stumbling
slightly as he went up the jail steps.
The door changed behind him and
Captain Ratherdale led him into
Major Peaks office, where they sat
and talked for a few minutes. Then
they came out. Major Peak nodded
to me. Major Peak is the warden.
I led the way toward the dormi-
tory, as I had been instructed. An
other prisoner was told to pick up
Sinclair's bags. Sinclair and Cap
tain Ratherdale brought up the
rear. We went to the dormitory.
Inside We stopped at table and I
pulled out the "jaiI jacket or office
file book, and began asking Sinclair
the usual questions
Played Safe
He said his name was Harry r.
Sinclair and that he was in the oil
business. They told me I needn't
ask him the usual question-"can
you read and write?"-but I played
safe and asked it anyway. Sinclair
grinned and nodded. I led the way
to his bed, at the end of the dormi-
tory. He locke around at the other
inmates in their beds.
do they bother you?' he asked.
NO" I said. "they stay right in
their beds until morning"
A youthful inmate came up.
mfr. Sinclair" he said, "T've seen
your colors flying many a time at
the race track, but I never expected
to see them here"
SON." said Sinclair, they're fly
ing now and you'll see them flying
again."
Sinclair complained about the
injustice" of his being put in Jail,
and declared that when he got out
he would set aside enough Of his
millions to take care of himself and
his family for life, and then would
spend the rest of it, If necessary, to
defeat the man he said was re-
sponsible for his plight.
Slept in Clothes
He didn't undress completely, but
went to bed with part of his clothes
on.
That was the way fifty million
dollars got treated when IL landed
in Jail.
1t wasn't the way the rest of us
were treated. Sinclair went straight
to the dormitory, much more COM
Portable than the cell where others
were confined on arrival.
He wasn't searched, as the rest of
us had been. He wasn't compelled
to take off his coat, hat, vest, tie,
collar and shoes, as the rest of us
were. They didn't remove his shoes
and knock them on the floor to
make sure he had no contraband
in them. He wasn't made to take
bath, nor were his clothes examined
Tor yerm1n, as had happened to
the rest of us.
Allowed to Keep Money
Not a dime was taken from Sin
clair. He went to his bunk that
night with his hip pocket contain
ing a roll of money so thick that
it couldn't go into a side pocket.
Nobody looked to see if he had a
metal pencil or pen.
He wasn't yet an Office man or
a truSty, yet he was spending his
first night in Jail in a freshly Lined
bed in the dormitory, instead of on
an iron bunk in a cell He had his
travelling bags containing toilet ar
ticles and anything else he chose
to bring with him.
All of this news spread all over
the Jail by the grapevine" So no
body in jail was surprised, a day
or so later, when Sinclair was as
signed to the jail pharmacy. 1t
was quite plain by that time that
this S50,000,000 prisoner was to be
treated as a separate case.
The assignment wasn't especially
with the prisoners. as
they had expected that Sinclair