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Monday, May 23, 1955
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Man Behind Prison Bars for 48
Years About To Receive Freedom
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Editor's Note: At Christmas tim.
1952. U.P. Correspondent Tom Farrell
of the Lansing. Mich., bureau wrote a
story about the "loneliest man" in the
Michigan Penitentiary at Jarkson. The
man was Tony Duley. a life termer
who had been in prison for 45 years
and hadn't received a letter or a vis
itor in 20 years. Sympathetic readers
deluged the convict with Christmas
cards and gifts. This story tells how
one of those 1952 Christmas greetings
may become his deliverance .
By TOM FARRELL
United Press Correspondent
Jackson, Mich. (U.R) A
Michigan prison official who
says 77-year-old Tony Duley,
who has spent the last 48 years
behind bars, is "as good as out."
Some time later this year hell
be paroled and sent home.
But home, to a man who has
not drawn a free breath since
1907, could be a hard place to
find in 1955.
Unless, like "Pop" Duley, you
have been adopted by a family
outside.
Duley will end his long im
prisonment for murder by being
received into the circle of a fam
ily he didn't even know until
two and a half years ago.
Prison authorities are arrang
ing for him to live at an old
folks home at Muskegon, Mich.,
not far from the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Marion Baron. It is
Mrs. Baron, a housewife and
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PLUCKY Nancy Jo din
ger, 16, of South Bend, Ind.,
once completely paralyzed by
polio, plays piano with her
left hand. Her right arm is
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Not for quite a while, if ever,
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mother of three children, who
has promised to see that "Pop"
isn't lonely in his last years.
"The family will give him a
nice coming out party. We're
even going to invite members
of the parole board," she said.
After that, there'll be a place
set for Duley at the Baron's din
ner table whenever he feels like
coming over for a visit.
Loneliest Convict
Shortly ' before Christmas in
1952, Mrs. Baron, saw a United
Press story describing how Du
ley was not only the oldest con
vict in Michigan, but also the
loneliest. He had no family and
hadn't had a letter in 20 years.
Mrs. Baron was only one of
about 900 persons who sent a
Christmas card or a letter to the
wiry, gray-haired convict known
as "Pop" to other inmates. But
when the Christmas se?son had
passed, Mrs. Baron unlike all
the others kept on writing.
A year later she and her hus
band, Marion, and the children
went to visit Duley at the pen
itentiary. They took a liking to
the humble old man and decid
ed then and there to try to get
him released.
Duley had been sentenced to
life imprisonment in 1907 for
the fatal shooting of a ticket
agent at Tawas, Mich. Duley,
then 29, said the agent was shot
with his own gun during a scuf
fle that started over a careless
remark.
But Duley had been in prison
before for taking $8 from a
butcher shop one night and
his story that the shooting was
an accident didn't impress any
one. He drew a life sentence for
second degree murder.
Lost Touch With Ouiside
He worked for years in the
prison shoe factory. His only
friends were prisoners and
guards who came and went as
the years slipped by. Gradually,
Duley lost touch with the out
side world.
"My folks are all gone now
dead. The last one, a brother,
passed on years ago," Duley
says.
But due to the effort of his
new-found "folks," the Baron
family, Gov. G. Mennen Wil
liams is expected soon to sign
a commutation of his sentence.
His case must still pass the par
ole board but no trouble is an
ticipated. Case examiner Don
Thurston said the other day,
"Duley is as good as out."
"God willing," says Mrs. Bar
on, "Tony 11 be with us before
summer sets in. He can be sure
we'll take care of him if he
gets sick. When the Lord calls
him from us, we'll give him a
good Christian burial."
Duley is feeling pretty chip
per, though. He looks forward
to playing with the Baron's
four-year-old daughter, Gayla
Dawn and plans to teach her to
ride the family's pet saddle
horse, Mike. He said: "That horse
and I are going to have a time of
it. I used to curry a horse pretty
good. I think I still can."
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