Show H G BOYLE AND PRISON LIFE ho writes concerning his incarceration and treatment the following extracts from a letter recently recen lly written from atio penitentiary by elder henry G boyle of payson who is serving ont a term of imprisonment will be interesting to conr readers conr fare here is very good now so it is said by the older inmates of this in I 1 find it much better that I 1 expected I 1 have bad no harsh words spoken to me since I 1 came liere eight weeks ago I 1 eat well and bleed bleep wall and considering I 1 am a convict my conscience conci ence is pretty easy on the ath of may the sugar house ward school numbering from eighty to one hundred students being out on a stay walk visited us with their teacher miss ghie they occupied alie top of the west wall under ordinary circumstances this eight would not have created I 1 any great sensation but under our circumstances it makes it hard to describe at their first appearance on the wall the prisoners gathered in a large group below inside with the pen band consisting of two violins and two guitars cheering the little boys and girls with the sweet strains of music among the pieces rendered was sweed home then the school sang one of their sweetest songs and then was given alternately music by the band and singing by the the boys and girls meanwhile threva boquete to us in the pen 1 confess I 1 broke down in my feelings and I 1 did not see any one that bore it any better than I 1 did rough strong men gave way to their feelings and were melted to tears many had not seen home or friends for months those little children standing on the wall against the silvery clouda of the west looked aa good and as nure to us as angels and none of us will soon forget that eight or alie impression it left upon us last week we had a visit from professor heine wife and daughter who gave us a free concert which we enjoyed to alie fullest extent |