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NEEDED IIN PRISON REFORM
Mrs. Anne P. L Field, Who Has
Published he letters of Canada
Bladtie, a “l.iier_,"_ Tells lion It
Affected IliIn III! Flat Time lie
Saw a Warns; After Years oI
Imprisonment
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The New York Evening Sun con-
tains the following article by Edith
'llay Robinson, concerning the life of
Mrs: Anne P. L2 Field, who is living
this season in the Elm. William H.
Thomas cottage .at. Wilson' 5 Cove:
". he psychological moment
has arrived." When a District
Attorney who is known as a strict.
preseri er of society" a welfare IIndIIIho
has sent many of these. men here in
performance- of his duties to society
can get up and address'th'iit. same
body of men and receive the hearty
applause you did, why nothing on
earth can stop the most sccptlblc from
saying the gm eminent. must be right."
Extract from a letter written on the
evening of. Labor Day,1914. by “Canv
ads. Biackie," so named by his fellow
convicts for his night black hair and .
his nativity. to the then District'Atv
torney Whitman following a speech
the latter made at Auburn-that day.
“Blackie” carried the reputation
being one of the most desperate crim-
inals in the State of New York. He
was doing “life and-ton years." lie
died March 29. 19151, at the age of 42
of tuberculosis acquired in the cells
_ In which he had been confined. There
'_ are gradations of the meaning of
1. ‘flife” sentences, one is informed; “life" ;.
and “natural life." The latter medns
. to the end of one‘s days; the former
. twenty yearss.-'1‘Blacltie" had- Iled"
,. through ten “of his thirty years' for-
. felt. In August,1915;'the book bear
ing his name written by Anne P. L.
Fioid frnIn letters .he had sent her
and other material was published by
L E P. Button 8: 00.. having been pren-
that house. The book has inst a sen.
antionufcreception Toad few“ it stands:
Alright-Ry it in regarded as a dramatic-
high light on the record :
:form' to date. ‘
A reporter for '
his influence. aqtivo in my blood,
that directed my attention with un-
usually vivid interest to the Auburn
story in the newspapks I deter-
mined to ask“ Mr. abbot-no to speak
before the Civitas Club of Brooklyn.
of which I was at that time president.
lie replied that he was very sorry,
that he “was sailing for Europe but
would be back in December. On his‘
return I succeeded in getting him to
suit-he date for 1811.21.19“. I went
shows from that meeting moved to a
degree In but I could not sleep. It
1seemed aé'ifl‘jliy grandfather rose In
unit within me. against me. for
having been ‘idle so long—and I was
ashamed. AtI3 o’clock ‘in the morn-
log I got up 1a’ndj1wroye the“ verses
which were read at the first meeting
of the Mutual Welfare League at Au-
burn on Feb212, 1914. 11 '
2
Today I heard of hideous hours spent
In prison dungeonun—those ubodea
of hell
WhereinAa thrust home child of sin
Who .‘fell,
Perchait’ce becau‘se none cored which
'wa n5 w‘eht’
Locked in with hateislooked out from
love. no vent
For any thtiught but vengeance. for
each cell . ..
'Nurtures biack'seedit of bitterness
which swell -
To poisonous fruits of bridal punish
ment.
And In the comfort of my room to-
night,
225? 131115 r90
fair“ .
I hear the cry 1of agony which calls
Up through that dungeon darkness to
my light. a.
O God. whose all~forgiving love is
free, .
Grant me an 'answer to that agony!
many windows and
A
{Lister I attended ‘a meeting at
which Mr. Osborne fetid Blaflrle’s
birthday letter to Donald Lowrle. I
mix seized em an intense desire to
write to ‘Blackie’ thorn!2 . .
"‘B‘u't feeling Wither shy and unim-
portang. I am norno ft. How 1‘ film
now that I1 T180!" 3
Subsequent events dead to '- ,
Field’s first visit to Auburn Oct: .17 1a.
your ago The following day slip”. .mot
“buckle " In the 311-29318; ans descg'bes
him as II man "with ,Ia 911er inabed
head covered with thick... “ ,.
hair streaked with"“gray-,“LII siren
chin. and Jaw. with a firm onI- mould
wbh‘
1 ed mouth. and. a pair estuaries
eyes. the am: gm of which“ «ones
to penetrate a. mans inmost with E3-
‘ tuordlnsry-oyes hey worhcfiafiging
~ to have
it? Please add in war story. that if any
so they had to swing about and face
me, then come forward and pass out.
it seemed like a great human ava-
lanche from which I could not escape.
Then i made up my mind to. face it
and not be afraid. The men after
ward .told me that they knew I was
having a bad grilling. When Mr. Os-
borne returned ‘he told me that some
of the men wanted to meet me. So
they. were introduced. and later he
asked me if any one of them had spec-
ially impressed me._ I replied that
the tallest man in the group. with the
most remarkable eyes I had ever soon.
had made me wonder if he couldbo
‘Biackic,’ the author of the birthday
latter. He smiled. and i knew my
guess had been correct Yet 'Blackie'
had stood there stolid, unresponsive,
hardly speaking to me”
That evening I learned that his
1 message had taken Mr. Osborne from
the chapel box. By some curious
turn of fate I had reminded Blackle
Iiyidl)’ of. his mother, and the rest
of the story is in the ‘book ,-
. “Yes. I behave women are needed in
.priaon work in spite of these who will
not agree with me here. TheyIcnn
men. can never touch, if they are sin-
cere. It is because that note is tuned
to the maternal key, I suppose. Just
some one say 'I know.’ ‘I.un
deraiand.’ It goes a long way; But
she must be absolutely ‘on the level.‘
as they say, and—shrewd as they are
~no one finds It out quicker than the;
prisoners when a visitor Is not ’on
the Iovel.’ In writing to too few of
the boys arilress me as ‘Mrs. Fleid.’
It is more often “Dear. Pal.‘ a name of
which I am“ very proud."
“You do not. feel that in his al-
truistic enthusiasm! Mr. Osborne over-
shoots the mark in his rison work?"
“If.Mr. Osborne could carry out his
ideas as he sees them there would be
no need for such a question," she an-
nivered. “Mr. Osborne does not be-
moving pictures and concerts every
night. But he is willing to do any-I
thing to keep the men out at those
no tune can you go into them and 5am;
(your hands down the walls that your
palm will not come away [arthritis
wet? The place is Intestsd with germ
in spite of all efforts at cleaning
group offlwpmen‘ r club. demarcated
in this Ivorir and- would on in «Mrs
1Ins speakbefors them 8 s e
Ito give my; services. In telling them;
what! know." 1 ‘
"Ah yes. but after an a man can
I.‘
sound a note that men. working for.
have In so much entertainment at Sing
Sing. He. does not believe in having
horrible cells. Do you realize that or
avoid all that Abravoldlng the murder _‘ .1
group. Nobody knew who did the
deed, but they suspected him and he
wouldn't tell, though they tried to
squctze the truth out of him in the
straitjaeket, As a matter of fact be
actually didnt do it. The man who
did it hadawife and kids.’ he said,
'and nobody could get me to squeal on
a 1181’" ,
“Did he suffer very muchwat Dan-
nemora?"
There was a long pause. “lvcannot
tell you the things they put {him
through. or deprived him of. I cannot
speak.of it. ,He died of tuberculosis,
of course. “He suffered nannies-how
great no - one will ‘ever know. .His
throat wassntkely gone. only a cavity
there. They had to feed him every
meal with a. medicine dropper at the
last, and lit cost him excruciating
pain. - When he was with his cat-
fin he weighed eightyipounds, urn-n
tl‘feet 2. whose normal weight was
200. And he wanted, oh how he
wanted. to help keep othenfellows
straight to help them 'do good. makb
good? fit’ III; lush the priest wanted
him to 85v“? 'exfrnme unciioa. ' A final
appeal was
slightly. ‘AIEIer living the life I have
l'm not going to turn and ask fo.be
3
Really. Till not going to whine at
ask to be taken in. God knows and 1
me. I‘m willing to abideby that.‘ " _
According to the. last pages of the
book: . .1 ~
"On Easter Sunday a memorial ser-
prison. As theiittle proces-
sion left the chapel to‘ bear the earth
ly remains ‘to their last resting place
in Fort Hillicémetery some.1,400 pris-
oners sang 'Lead. 'KlndlI “ Light.‘ and
no other music over seemed quite so
thrilling to those who vainly tried to
join in, for a great resurrection light
that prison as never before. BI ckle's
pruning sen answered e'had
counted”
smemmhmrrzns.
can" HQRW$I151K
m‘hkfimmstock
mw. rams. -- I... .
made. He raised himself]
saved from hell ilre,‘ he said with dlf-l
the last minute and am I’m sorry and]
know. And if He sees fit He‘ll ta‘a‘e1
vice was held in the chapel at Auburn- I
' badmitted to a private hospital.
’fourth man is also said to have been
“was flooding the ‘encircling gloom: of‘
sav- DON'T Pom“. THAT
DEATH AEEEW AWE
RAN. W70 MW
~l\l1i1EW1“I‘IAVEI‘I', Conn.“
John F. Crowe, aged 25, died at’the
hospital yesterday from injuries rea
ceive'd when an automobile which he
was driving on the Milford Turnpike
about at. the Orange-Milford line. ran
into a fence. For fact: were obtain-
abie by the Coroner or Medical Exam-
iner during the morning.“ It is under-
stood Crowe‘was running the machine
without lights. He was headed for
New Haven on-his own side of the
highway and turned ‘to‘avold a‘wagon
which wasahesd. lie apparently turn-
ed too abruptly. The only evidence at
the scene was the broken fence. The
machine has brought into this city
by an employs of 9. garage in which
the machine belonged. Crone was
brought In the New Haven Hospital
by a man who immediately l,eft and
do witness of the accident could be
found. .
Ctowe had been employed by a local.
firm as a chauffenr Some years In,
his father and a brother were killed
while driving a delivery wagon over
a railroad crossing on Webster street.
An indulry was ‘to he opened by Cor-
oner Milt. information later gleaned
was to the effect that Jacob Buchman.
aged 19, was the driver of the' car, and
Grows was sitting with him. The car
belongs to a Yale sd'b freshman,
Thorne Donnel'ly, of Ghlcago, who was
in it and was hurt, behaving been
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a, passenger.
it is said that the machine was run-
ning at high speed and an effort was
made to pass the wagon ahead by
squeezing in between it and the fence.
MERIDEN MEN PLAN cANAIu'ro
NEW Haven."
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toI-Aakflonqreeefro Dredge Quinnlpioo
River for 83,000,000 Waterway.
MERIDEN Sept. 17.57“ W18 with.
nouuced here today that plans have
been. completed for the introduction
.- of a bill in congress asking tor an ape;
progrlation of approximutfly {3, 000,
000 for. the dredgingmnt the Quinna-
piac rivcn and the construction of o
, .; canal from New Huron to Merideu
. and pouuibly, to New Britain. _..,
. Plans have prtgressed to_ «sun. an-
extent IijnIt
‘ make aniline colors here. All this talk
No NEED OF WORRY.
w
Emergency.
The curtailmentiof firm" from
trade. but apparently local manufao
turers are meeting all the demands of
their fall business without a great deal
of trouble or anxiety and there appears
to bench the least danger of any
shortage of but: of any color.
A' new'buggestion o’eriibll from New
York, whet-brine may We record
prints or titlk‘upon ‘thé’st‘ibl‘ect of dyes
by a man'wldely known‘In tbe'trade,
who takes the position that'the use of
vegetable dyes in the manuructIu-e of
hats 'ie'practicablovand that this coun-
try need not feel dependent upon ant
line dyes. whether of German or do-
mestic manufacture.
The article in question says:
“Hats were dyed and were entirely
satisfactory with vegetable dyes be
fore the aniline dyes came over here."
"Trade Credit” Ashociation "and at out
time a. large manufacturer of hats:
“These aniline'1’dye's,
member. were nbthing but :1“!*.€ltutel
for the colors wo'had for rum... years
before from Vegetable dyes. The Ger-
mans sent experts oven bare to gnaw
om dyers .bow to use the outlines. and
because of the large bulk of business
they secured they were able to sell at!
prices lower than the vegetable dyeIIII
called. far;
"In the hat trade. 0.1811150 far as I
know. in the mens and mama's gar-
ment trades, no ‘cango back to the
vegetable dye period until we can
about not getting fast dyes for clothes
seems rather foolish, it the people mak-
ing these statements will go, for in-
stance. to the Smithsonian Institute
and seé the clothes Washington wore
long before anilines were ever heard
of. Washington's clothes,~ or those
which are an exhibition at least, have
‘ “Go to the MetropoIitan Museum and
Theydidn' t have outlines then. '
be. made hereond uuod.1iust as they
were. when I made hats ,25 years ago."
1THE BEST 'L'AUGHTER. .
“After all " said Kwoter, "it's a true
133 b ’1
“Not at all,“ replied Wise.
lly time saying is 'He laughs
as“ ugh lasts'."-‘-—Anawers; .
“The .
best: .
Hatter: Could Use Vegetable Dye. In '
Germany continues to make an Inter- ‘
Sept. 18" eating subject of “discussion“ in the hat .
. 7:021, 7:461, 0:651. 10:18:.
111: 08.
said Charles Riggs, actu'ary of the Hath
you must re ‘
not faded: and some of then are-high. ,
;Iy chlored, too. .
inspect the 111.8111! colored clothes orE .
iglnating' in Egypt“, smite 21,000 years “
“The hat‘trado isnot worrying. ove'r .-
the dye scarcity. Veget'ablodyes can 1'
'sayln'g that ‘he laughs best who laughs .
8.7., N. a; a has}?
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