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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
4 'WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1925
CapitalJUournal
flalam. nrnoron
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"Without or with offense to friends or foes
1 sketch your world exactly as it goes" byron.
The Warden's Nerve
If Warden Dalrymple had displayed the nerve at the time
oi the prisoners escape that he displays now in criticizing
C. L. Newman, the New Era rancher whom the convicts
terriorized, there would have heen a different story. His
nerve, however, is of the wrong kkind as proven by his
record ot retreat, battle and pursuit.
Mr. Newman defends his refusal to risk the lives of him
self and family by betraying the escaped prisoners during
their forced visitation as follows:
My wife and children mean everything to- me. Penitentiary
officials had Murray, Willoa and Kclloy In cells, away from firearms.
They let them escape, let them steal guns from tho prison itself, let
them slip through n cordon of guards and conic to my home to ter
rorize mo and my family. I did what I think was right.
I don't caro what the warden or his deputies think of my conduct.
If they had paid more attention to their business, this thing would
never have happened.
Who can blame him? Who would not have done otherwise?
When men employed to protect the public fail in their duty,
and run to cover and oil cans, how can they expect the
innocent bystander not to play safe, also?
v Anyone following the testimony given by. the prison
guards, appointees of the warden, and experienced in their
occupation, must be convinced that something is radically
wrong at the big pleasure house, miscalled the state prison,
and other tragedies may be expected, unless changes are
made. So far, the indications are that the escaped convicts
told the truth in their story of the get-away.
asked as they were caught In the her cool, quiet living-room, high
Jam of people swirling about the
checking booth and the tiny ole
vntor. "Yes, for one by the window.
Who did you say these people
are?"
"The Hewitts. And be especial
ly nice to them, Patricia, please;
the man ought to be a big client
If wo got him. Probably they
haven't come yet. Are you sure
they'll like thld place? Perhaps
one of the quieter ones, In the
Flfitles 'somewhero '
"Oh, Andrew, people always like
this place If they come from out of
town. It s known everywhere. And
some of those clubs In private
houses aro likely to be shocking,
you know smothered sin always
is! Itemcmber the ono with the
mirrors '
Houvens, don't mention It!
Patricia smiled wickedly. "Hero.
Ho spoke to the girl In the booth,
handing her his coat and hat, "Just
a minute," and he took a huge flask
of hammered -silver from one of
tho pockets. "There's another one
there, but don't try to open it; the
top's locked on," he added to the
irl
Patricia nodded and smiled at
her; wafting' for tho elevator, she
eflected that sho was always try
ing to take the edge off Andrew's
(.marks with a smile. Why was he
ko rude to people like this girl? Of
course, ho was an important per
son; they said that he was ono or
the best lawyers in town, and
though he was the youngest mem
ber of his firm the other men re
apected his judgment always. But
why need he act .13 he did?
She shrugged the thought away;
itely eho seemed never to know
anything about Andrew.
The elevator was as crowded as
if it had been one of those in a big
department store during a bargain
sale. A woman's Paradise head
dress got into Patricia's mouth; a
man's elbow Jogfifd her sharply In
the ribs. She thought longingly of
above the nolne and elaraor of the
city. If she could only be there,
free to enjoy herself! Or If she
could only be here with congenial
people. But Andrew would insist
on talking shop all evening, and
she would have to be nice to the
Hewitt whether she liked them or
not. All her evenings were like
that.
"Andrew, do you Xnow what I
am?" she said to him as they es
tablished themselves at the table
she had reserved. "I'm not your
wife at all I'm the wife of your
rirm. 1 ve just realized it. I live
for your business. I spend my
time entertaining your clients the
Qninterestlng ones usually. It's
.Mrs. Norton who takes care of the
others. And I'm getting frightful'
ly tired of It, I'm not Mrs. Cleve
I'm One wife, Incorporated."
"Patricia! That's absurd."
"No, it Isn't. It came to me as I
sat down hero. I've been In thin
place on an average of three times
a week for months. I know the
eabaret by heart. The waiters'
faces are more familiar to me than
my best frlonda'. Have I got to do
this all my life?"
"But my dear, it's as much for
your good as it is for mine. I
work only for you to be able to
give you more than you have now.
Can't you see that?"
"I'd be satisfied with heaps less
if you and I had more time to be
real companions. We haven't had
evening alone in months."
But we here are the Hewitta.
Now be nice to them!"
Patricia sighed. "Be nice to
ihem!" That was Andrew's slogan
nowadays. Then she glanced up
and root Gregory Hewitt's twink
ling blue eyes, startling in his lean,
tanned face. Welt, it wouldn't be
hard to be nice to him!
Tomorrow Flirtation and Tig.i
TOTAL ABSENCE OF
DISCIPLINE AT PEN
BLAMED FOR BREAK
(Continued (rum Page One.)
on?" asked one ot the Jurora.
Governor Aware of It.
"Yes, 1 told him uiyuelL, and be
said be would put a atop to it."
"Did be stop It?"
"No, and I went to blm again
and told 111 m it was et ill going on.
Ho banged his fist down on the
table aud sbouted that be would
see that it was stopped.
"Was it stopped then?"
"No."
Uryun said that when be com
plained to Warden Dalrymple of
tho gambling the warden answer
ed :
"How iu bell can I stop it?"
Gambling All the Time.
"There wasn't a card iu the in
stitution until this administration
camo in," said Bryan, "but siuce
then gambling has been going on
in the 'uor bouse" all ot tho time.
The "dog bouse" is a long shod
where unemployed convicts con
gregate on "tho leiand, a por
tion of the yard separated from
the rest by tho mill race and shut
in on the oilier two side by the
outside walls. About 150 con
victs are usually loitering here
later testimony revealed.
The gambling games consist most
of poker, Ilryun and C. E. Charl
ton, former principal keeper, ex
plained. Tile men are all issued
two cans of tobacco a week and
these they trad.e in for metal
checks made at the prison in de
nominations to correspond to
money. The gambling is done with
the cheeks, and the convicts cash
these In and are given credit for
them by the prison authorities.
ske(l if tile warden knew that
gambling was going on, three of
Of English invention aro wom
en's r.hoes with hollow heels that
contain powder boxes.
about it and had been ordered to
keep It confined to "the liilano.
Miinii Weed Smoked
Rev. liryan also declared that
the smoking of Merrawanna (flow
er of the hemp plant) is extensive
amon the convicts. The drug, he
said. Is obtained from the hemp
hauled into tho prison yard
"it Is worse than opium," he
said, "and sets the men wno smose
it almost crazy ana makes inem
violent.
"There la too much Jangling
.imnne tho officials to get any
dianinllne. If thev have any dlf
fcrences they should be settled In
ihoti- offices without everyone In
the institution knowing about It."
He said tho discipline is very lax
as compared to that which existed
when ho first became prison chaplain.
Testifying as to the discipline
maintained at the prison Guard
Murphy declared that "from my
point of view there is no such a
thing as discipline." Murphy has
been a guard at the prison under
five different administrations.
Convicts Running It
"The convicts are running the in
stitution and aro gaining ground
constantly," said Murphy. He as
serted that tho lack of discipline
has been frequently discussed
among tho guards, and that only a
few days before tho break he had
told his follow guard in tho chapel
that "someone will nave to iw
fnr the way things are running
around here."
.Several of tho witnesses testi
ng that the absence of discipline
,r,n talk among the
guards, and that they were "al
ways expecting something to
break."
Only recently, according to
Murphy, a convict who had ueen
released came to him and saiu:
"Pat, watch your step. There Is
nine- to be guts spilled around
DliniDCCT PIDfMIIT RDMrT 'houtora declared itself bankrupt.
DUUArtOl UlnuUII DflUIVC ITlui circuit announced a deficit of
Budapest. Ttree hundred ac
tnrs and actresses and a like num
her of other employee iu four uf
the citya largest theaters recently
were thrown out ot work when the
Union Circuit, controlling tii;
I hp witnesses testified that lie could
heir, i,.,f knnw nnri Charlton ' here this summer."
said that he had told the warden "An old naru puneu n-
Jess Baldwin would ter.r tills prison
apart now and throw it out the
window," said Murphy.
Conflict In Authority
"In former administrations the
deputy warden had full control
over the prisoners, but that Is not
true now. Until recently tho war
den and deputy warden havo been
working at cross purposes and the
guards and prisoners knew It. They
were even betting as to which
would win out."
Murphy was particularly criti
cal in condemning the practice of
alowing prisoners so much liberty
about the yard and cell house, and
his testimony that convicts aro al
lowed to run promlsciously back
and forth from the yard to tbelri
cells and carry in all sorts or ar
ticles and bundles, was verified by
other wltness?.
Murohy said that on "commis
sary day tne prisoners are uuuw
ed to run hack' and forth without
estraint from tho commissary
with all sorts of articles, and that
the cell house is in an uproar then.
I am fiuro that it was during
this process early last Wednesday
afternoon that the holo through
which the convicts escaped was
cut in the roof. They could have
.lone it without any danger of de
tection," he said.
Asked by ono of the jurors who
is disciplinarian at the prison now.
Murphy replied:
"There isn't nny," he said. He
had been told by Guard Robinson
and others that when attempts
wero made to discipline the con
victs the warden often sided with
the prisoners.
f 00,000.
JAP PEER PREDICTS
WAR WITH RUSSIANS
(Continued on i'atfc Keven.)
Tokyo Count Mlchimasa Soyo
jima, member of the House of
Peers and a noted Japanese- pub
lisher, who left recently for tfao
L'nlted States to deliver a series of
lectures at the International round
table conference at the University
of Chicago, Is of tho opinion that
Japan, within the next ten yoars.
is likely to go to war, not with Am
erica, but with Russia in Man
churia. Ho so expressed himself
recently in an interview.
'War between' America and
Japan on the Pncifio is physically
impossible," auid Count Soyejima,
i account oi tne great distance
which separates tho countries, oven
if there were cause for war. Hut
war with Itu.snia is not only pos
sible but probable."
WOMEN'S LIZABD SKIN
SHOES FAD IN ENGLAND
London Lizard farming in
England haa been greatly stimu
lated within tbe laat few monthn
since the ski ha for womenVi shoes
have become fashionable. Lizard
elio K; for street wear have become
very poprlar in London this sum
mer anJ lizard elfppere for eve
ning wear have been quite tbe
fad for Gome wer'ta.
Dealers say lizard akin fill oca
are here to stay as the material
is serviceable and comfortable
and not nearly eo expensive aa ia
usual when a new idea la intro
duced. Lizard akin shoes retail
here at from $15 up.
The Solitary Tribute
The only tribute nitid the late "Oregon Jones," convict,
killed in the recent prison break, was a floral offering with
a card attached reading:
Complimentary. Willi Sincere Sympathy to Ye Bravo and Noble
Victim of the System. H. It. llruvcs.
Mr. Graves, is listed in the directory as a Salem Heights
fruitgrower. The sentiments he expresses would stamp him
either as one of the maudlin sentimentalists who glorify
criminals or as is more probable a Communist cracking at
capitalism.
Oreiton Jones was a victim to the "system", his own
Ishmaelitic system of warring upon society. He deliberately
chose a career of crime, to one o industry. The only regret
is that the prison system, maintained for the protection of
society, functioned so inefficiently that two guards fell
victims to Jones' system, with the prospect of other victims
before the episode is concluded.
However, Mr. Graves has the right lo express his opinions
even though they are twisted, whether anyone agrees with
him or not. There is much more danger to the republic in
suppression ot free speech than in foolish utterance.
Inasmuch as Oregon Jones paid the penally there, can be
little objection (o a solitary tribute from a slanted mentality.
Brave Men and True
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wounded nnd nnothcr one hIiimiIIiik
It out flhifclc-linndril with the dvtt
pcrador.i. .indcfcr had ncRlpctod
to arm hlnuidf, hut notwithstand
ing that handicap ho hit upon n
way immetliatoly lo ho helpful. He
would bo for n doctor. There was
a telophono rloHO nt hand, hut Ap
parently .Sindtfor thought that In
hln exiting stale of mind ho could
run to tlx ntato hospital half a
mllo away In less. I imp than n tele
phono mmniRc rou Id Ret there
over tho who. From hln own nc
rotint of what followed one al
most arrrfu with this view. j
I hear ! n bullet whiz p;int me,"
ftaid Samtefor, "aim looked h ick. I
Here camo the three of them and
I Hpccdt-d up. They inn.-.t have fir
ed five or j-ix tltnes at me. I readi
ed the hospital aid j;.iv the .-ilario.
hut Wits exhiut'tt'd and hid to have
the nM'Mition oi a di.tor myself."
The HrM whiz undoubtedly was
madi- when (he Imtld pacd
Satul. fi-r. One .suspect he may
have he.Htl u -.nd W,A when j,,.
oveitonk nnd p.iicd the bullet,
like tllO tailored j;. ntlenian 111 Hie
old ci-ny.
A lltt'e h".i e-.-ititi:.- tnit m-ne the
Iwts marluii by e'ie-!ie di-ci . I i:i
W.'W tbe ciiinvo of S i n lef elnef.
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for what followed:
"He knew It would bo useless to
enter the turnkey's office where
he would havo been trapped with
the other officers, so Instead, he
ran back to hn house and nrmed
hhm-elt with a shotgun. Judging
that the convicts would o toward
tho state Insane hospital, the war
den hastened to the prison Rarane,
also outside the walU, nnd lay In
wait. U wan from his ambmte.uto
that he winded Murray a little lat
er." That Is to say tho warden of the
Htato prison, knowing that men nil
tier his chatRO n prison Riiardti
were beiiiR murdered, and In full
und of the shots that were snuff
ing nut their live, lay hidden at
i,u h.inie. folk- nrmed. until the
....m iriii r.oooleletl their w oi u oi
slaughter and were at a safe dis
tance in flight. Then ,md not
until then the warden shot at tticm.
..till fmm tbe .shelter of the nar-
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pute of the farts In i dn set out.
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Bud Fisher
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Ah her hit-bain! tuitir,) to ipeak
io the chauffeur, Patil 'ia Cleve
durveyod I lie nfler-t heater civuvil
that suiKcd ii Itroadwny. It wan a
warm evening for autumn: wometi
a utile rod nlontr with their een
nlnff wraps thrown hack on Ihelr
nhoulders Patricia regretted the
welKht of her heavy nilk fhawl. The
pnaern-by etaretl nt her frank ly,
but fi he wnn neeiiPtomed to Hint.
She looked particularly lovely
this even In nr. Her heuvy black hair
wns dono In n new nnd epoeiully
henomlmr fashion; tho hnlrdrewer
had romplitnented her on-being one
of Ihe few women yho had not
Itnil their h.ilr dhinitfed, nnd she
had Assured him (hat, hem would
have heen cht lon nj?n had her
husband not forbidden It,
'Wise husband," tho hnrdreaHcr
ha exclaimed.
P.ttneia smiled at the menior
now ,m fhe tmlii'd a sof ftiratitl
of her hair into place. She waj
weathijc n fiock of pale yellow
that blended beautifully w ith the
huRfl embroidered flower of her
shawl, ami brought out the Ivory
tints of her ftMn. ' Wlie husband."
She Kbinerd bark over her should
er at Andrew. Was he who. In
deed? She hid thought ho was
during (heir rnirauement and dur
ing all tbe fh.n year of their mar-
'i face; now she be-all to have her
'doubts.
"All r:ht, Patricia: I've told
him he needn't come back. There')'
no tellino; when we'll he Klnn
home." Andtew look her arm And
escorted her ncrow the crow tied
sidewalk to the entrance of the
supper- luh, whom! elect r in siHii
proclaimed that It was the famou
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