The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
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mush, two slices of bread, coffee
without milk or sugar, no butter.
Dinner-watery, greasy soup, meat
which consists of bones, potatoes
with eyes and half skins on them, !
and sometimes carrots; water is the |
only drink with this meal. Supper |
tea, bread, sometimes spaghetti |
or beans or hash. The convicts eat
in the mess hall, which is so crowded
that you can hardly move your ell
bow.
Connolly.
This is the treatment which the |
ordinary convict gets, but some con-
yicts, who can afford to pay for it
or who have political pull, get bet
ter treatment. For example, there
is the case of Maurice E. Connolly,
former borough president of Queens,
and Frank Seeley, who was sent up
with him. Connolly came to the
penitentiary in limousine and he
has been getting limousine treat
ment ever since.
When he came to the peniten-
tiary he went directly into the war;
denis office. He did not get I'M
dressed and did not change into
prisoners clothes, as other convicts
do. He walked over to the first
section and was assigned to Cell 10
on the first tier. He was intro
duced to Keeper Collins by Deputy
Warden Pagan, and they shook
hands like good friends, and Con-
molly was given seven new blankets
and then assigned to his cell. He
came right out again and walked
around looking things over, and at
$3.50 in the evening he was brought
a steak supper, consisting of steak,
fried potatoes, tomatoes, coffee and
pudding. This supper was brought
in to him by convict named Moe,
captain of the first section.
Connolly occupied that cell for two
weeks and then was moved to the
second tier, fourth cell, and the next
cell to him, the third cell, was used
as a store-room for Connolly and
Frank Seeley, who occupied cell No.
2 on the second tier. In Connolly's
cell, as well as in Seeley's cell, there
were three drop lights, electric fan,
shelving put in by convicts, chair
with Gus ion, white sheets and
white pillow slips. Their meals are
brought in to them by Charles Stew
art, convict.
Their breakfast consists of honey
dew melon, fried eggs with German
fried potatoes-sometimes they are
French fried-coffee with cream
and warden's bread-the kind of
bread which is never given to the
other convicts.
Connolly's exercise consists of
sitting out on the grass on the left
hand side facing Queens in the
morning, and in the afternoon he is
occupied with his bath and sleeps. I
He gets a shoe shine every morn
ing from Joseph Joshou, colored
convict; his towels are washed by
another convict; the rest of his wash
is done by still another convict.
Seeley is supplied with and uses
his own straight razor, which no
other convi,t is allowed to have;
Seeley's pants are dark gray. with
a light blue check, made to order
for him; everybody else has to wear
regular convict clothes.
He pays SIS to Charles Stewart,
q convict, for cooking his meals;
Joseph Joshou, another convict, gets
$3.50 week each from Seeley and
Connolly. The same amount is paid
to the wash man.
In No. cell, which is between
Connolly's and Seeley's cells, is an
electric stove and they have tea
whenever they want it, including |,
buttered toast, and their cooking is |
done by convict in the second tier
named Charlie.
Connolly had piece in the New
York Times some time ago about |
going to the mess hall and the Won
derful conditions he found there.
This is a deliberate lie, because he
never went irto the mess hall and
never had meal there; he never
had bath with the other convicts;
his bath is a private one and is
taken by him between 1880 and 2
o'clock every day.
l went through hell in that place. |
Once l was injured while | was
working on some machinery and
first was accused of laying down |
on the job, and for hurting my arm
they put me in the bing; when
showed it to the doctor l was put
on miscellaneous, but | was not !
sent to the hospital, even though my
arm was broken. Miscellaneous
means that you have to stay in the
cell all day and get no work what
soever to do and you cannot get out |
at all.
It's He'll IL You're Sick.
The treatment of sick men is ter !
rible. Wht1 man is sick in his |
cell and wants doctor he tells the
tlerman the Herman makes out
report for the doctor, but no doctor
comes around but only a nurse
comes, who always gives him c. c.
pills, no matter what he is suffer-
ing from-whether it be foot sick
ness or head sickness or stomach
sickness-always c. c. pills. Be-
fore a man is allowed to get out
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