0F CRIMINALS. HE DECLARES
Man Who Has Been Attache 1n Tombs Prison
For 38 Years Sees Danger in Some Reform
Methods—Says Capital Punishment Has
Not Apparently Served Its Purpose
'.,.NE\V YORK. July S. (AR)—
.‘Prevention. 1111111 than cure. is so-
ciety's best method of attacking the
.criminal (‘lOlllt 111 in the opinion of
John J. lianlt‘y, based upon 88
years' experience on the hint! of
Tombs prison. He retired lust
'- .week. Looking back on that period
at which 1‘ 11 last 11ft1 en 3ears “ere
lpent no 11111lcn of the great cen-
tral jail 0t '1‘ ~11 111111. he said to-
dly there 11 1 « such person as a
"congenital 1 11111."
"I have .' :11 tind one—except
Ltho pulpubli meme—411110 was not
1 In. normal 11211111111111 in practically
Tovery rcspm 1." he said. “The mor-
lll‘fibre in his or her character had
lweakened somewhat along the line
Sunder the stress of environment or
lclrcumsiances; that's all.”
If a little of the effort and money
Zdevotcd to reclaiming the criminal
More expended on prevention. the
Noteran jailer asserted, many times
:the effect could be. obtained. lie
" mist) was certain. thoughihc refused
Ito quote persons or organizations,
“that much of the present c111ative
endeavor 11as delete1ious in its ilna
Iflmli.
., "I have in mind" he said, “the
fexhibition of a movie in the prisons
:designed to show the mils of thugs.
‘Over my better judgment 1 penult-
‘.‘,'ted it. to be shown in The Tombs
:where tht-ro 11cm about .‘00 young
‘peoplc, say unde1 25. I rambled
:through the audience during the
:ahow and 11.15 struck with the num-
'ber of instances where the ptisoner
missed the point entirely and got
3only the bizu'1o early effects of the
:use of narcotics.
, 3' “ r‘We must try that sometime," I
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" 1 criminal.
»-.cent. Herecited cases
V ‘, ibis wheels for Ford Cars.
l‘h whispered. lz‘. \(ryone of
‘ cure in the addience t‘elt certain
:h'; would be the cxce tlon who
:could stop 11hene1e1 he ked."
In his stc11'1rdsh1p ll'inlcy acted
as "host" to some notorious figures.
-Among them were Harry K. Thaw.
EIEIIns Schmidt. Roland Molincaux.
EAlbert Patiick and Gerald Chap-
man.
‘ Despite his two score years of
:blose association 111111 the seamy
tattle of the social fabric. however,
7the seneschal of The Tombs re-
toins an emphatic optimism regard-
-lng the progress of civilization
He was found on tht shady porch
lot his Brooklyn cottagt. pra'cpning
:for a. fishing trip to nearby Jamaica
Bay. Instead of the iron and con-
crete corridors of the prison and
Ithe famous “Bridge of Signs." 11
burdened cherry tl‘i'e could be seen
through the open iiOUl'. The place
of the uniformed keepers. who, un-
til a week ago carried out his or-
ders for the care of 5011 prisoners.
was taken by two eager-eyed tots
of the third Ilanlcy generation.
“Sure, the world’s better." he ill-
sisted. with a glance to make sure
his taCkle box was safe from baby
hands. “City and state govern-
ments and 11'cll-1o~do individuals are
taking more concern over the needs
of the' less fortunate. Look at your
clinics and summer camps and
neighborhood councils and all.
"I haven’t heaid of any one who
has solved the. secret of how a sense
of morality is instilled in an indi-
vidual, but it must be ascertainable
to‘ a. degree. To The ’l‘ombs came
prisoners from every walk of life; in
many cases the family records had
theretofore been stainless. .it some
point. the natural desire to be and
do good was warped. distorted. to
be finally atrophicd, perhaps, in
what we considered a. habitual
How that metamorphosis
occurred is society‘s problem."
Instances had come to his atten-
tion. he said, where the progressive
‘ moral deterioration had been sensed
by the individual who often battled
strenuously against a further des-
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U. 8. Wife Accused
in Mexico Murder
4&1". 9971....
Mrs. Gerda Lewis, wife of an‘
American toil operator,1 is the
centrslfligurc in a sensational
murder case in Tampico, Mex-
icojCoioncl Parra of the Mex-
ican army was killed while rill-
in'g in an automobile with Mrs.
Lewisfifl She i told i authorities
bandits committed the crime, but
she twee; arrested ,1‘ and ‘ ‘
American residents are p
ing.
suicides had been traced to fear of
future transgressions against social
laws.
“These are the. most pathetic. of
our potential criminal." he. continu-
ed. "Basically they are of unusual
mine to society because of that
lint-1' moral sense. and proper Pn-
eouragcnicnt would prevent their
N‘ll-tlt'sll‘llt'llltll or the first step
toward the 11111'le1'11'1'11'ld.“
The progress of the average crim-
inal could .l’” summed up. he said.
in the title of a. play popular 40
years ago: "“10 Six Degrees of
C1'i1ne—\\'ln_1-. woman. gambling.
theft. murder, thr- gallows!”
“it was a rather flamboyant ser-
mon." he recalled. “but id like to
see it. 1'-'~1l1ed by good talent. .\i-
must without exception the crim-
inals who hate gone under my sup-
('l‘\lSi()n have walked just that
road." -
lie was emphatic in his opposi-
tion to the proposal that the use of
the whipping post be revived. say-
ing that if anything in the man
were worth saving. a public lashing
must leave a peri’fiancnt soul-hiirt,
expressed usually in a bitt'er sulk-
iness against his fellow man.
llanlcy would not express himself
specifically as to the capital punish-
ment. beyond declaring it apparent-
ly had not served its purpose as a
deterrent. The amount of crime.
per unit of population. remained
the same today as it did two de-
cades ago. he said. and only the
mechanics had'changed with the
advent of the automobile and the
development of electrical devices.
The outstanding change noted by
him was in the age of persons ar- .
rested for the more serious offenses.
This had been steadily reduced, he
the average prisoner in The Tombs
physical maturity.
TOWN MANAGER
STRATFORD. July 8 .—At a meet-
ing of the Stratford Town Council
Monday night the most important
e1 out was the reading of the resig-
nation of Town Manager R. H. Hunt.
er. to take effect September 1.
On motion of Councilman Louis J.
Herrmann of the Sixth district. the
resignation was tabled for action at
the next meeting. which will be held
July 27.
Mr. Hunter's resignation is the
culmination of one of the stormiest
careers in the history of Connecticut
municipalities.
From early November. 1921. when
Mr. Hunter was named town man-
ager of Stratford. political strife has
reigned in the old town. beginning
with his summary dismissal by the
first Council on February 13. 1922.
which resulted in a tow nwlde cam-
paign between the Hunterites am!
anti- Hunterites. after which seven
members of the Town Council were
recalled by their constituents.
After his refusal to give up the
effects of his office to his successor.
Walter W. Hubbeli, legal proceed-
ings were instituted whcih caused
Mr. Hunter to make 111111 for his
chosen successor during the month
of April. 1922. The recall election
was held during July, 1023. and th--
new council adopted a resolution at
ter to return to his: former positiov
ter 1 0 return to his former position.
‘ .which he accepted.
said. especially since the war. until '
notv hardly had definitely attained '
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CHURCH FOLK
Christian E n d e a v o r
Discuss It But Come
To No Conclusion—
Amusements
PORTLAND. Ore.. July 8.—-(AP).
Dr. Francis E. Clark. founder of
the United Society of Christian En-
deavor..has~retired after 38 years
of unsalaried service as president of
that body and the duties of that of-
tlce have been taken over by Dr.
Daniel A. l’oling. native 10f Port-
land and present Upresident of New
York. Dr. Poling for ten years has
acted as associate president of the
organization.
Dr. Clark is more than 711 years
old, and is known as the father of
Chiistian Endeavor.
The retirement drew a. respectful
tribute from the organization which
he had directed. He was elected
president emeritus. and to him and
his wife during their life time will
go the interest from a memorial
fund of $100. 000. to be raised in the
United States and Canada The
money will be used for Christian
Endeavor purposes after that time.
The qugstion of amusement as re-
lated to the church was taken up
Monday by a gathering of 700 En-
deavorers under 30 years of age and
although the conference failed to
agree‘as to whether “a dancing
foot and a praying knee could go
together." it was announced that no
dance may be given under the lus-
plces of the Christian Endeavor.
Although some of the young per-
sons declared dancing of any Iort
was bad and others replied that it
I' .
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combinations.
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was I. wholesome amusement when
properly regulated. the concensus
was that the dance was a. desirable
form of amusement for Christian
young people.
On a large blackboard on the
platform present day amusements
were divided by the conference into
the wholesome. the bad and the
"twilight zone." Amusements re-
garded as wholesome were hiking
and all forms of athletics. home and
church games and sociuls. singing.
pageantry and dramatics. educa-
tional films. charades and fishing.
Reading. at first placed in the
wholesome list. was removed to the
twilight zone on the objection of:
young Endeavour who protested
that the two-bit fiction might be in-
cluded in reading.
The only amusements immedi~
ateiy condemned no bad were gam-
bling. prize fighting and drunken-
ness. In the twilight zone went
dancing. curds. movies. the theatre.
Sunday amusements and reading.
Crush at Woolworth
Wedding in London
LONDON. July 8.-—-(AP). Norman
1) Woolworth. son of Frederick
Woolworth, a cousin of the founder
of1the Woolworth stores. and Miss
Pauline Elizabeth Stanbury of Lon-
don were'married yesterday at the
fashionable St. Margaret'g church
in the shadow of Westminster Ab.
bay. 1 ’
Crowds of sightseers waited four
hours for the wedding because of
the interest created in the cere-
mony by Monday's rehearsal in
which the eight Yule men who came
to London to be ushers at the wed-
ding participated.
The couple will make a contin-
ental trip. later returning to New
York.
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President of West Vir-
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Leaves $200 for Each
Year of Service
BUFFALO. N. Y.. July 8 (AP).—
Aii employee of the Southwestern
Petroleum Company, a West Virgin-
in, corporation with offices here. who
have worked for the company uyear
or more. have been remembered in
the will of George A. Formun. presi-
dent uid principal stookholder of the
company. Mr. Forman's will. which
was signed six weeks ago. was filed
for probate here yesterday. It dis-
poses of an estate estimated to be
worth 85.000.000.
The bulk of the estate was be-
queathed to the tinsncier’s widow.
his son. George A.. Jr.. and his
daughter. Lucille. The Young Wo-
men's Christian Association, the
Westminster Presbyterian Society of
Buffalo. and the Berkshire Indus-
trial Farm 1110.. will recei1o $25. 000
each.
Bequests to officials of the com-
pany which are contingent upon the
estate being worth 82,000,000, vary
from 81.000 to 810.000, and gifts to
other employee amount. to $200 for
each your they have been in the
service. providing the estate amounts
to 85,000,000. Bequests will increase
proportionately with the value of the
estatb under the will.
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