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Show JAIL IS HIS HOME Man Had Been Imprisoned There for Twenty-Sever, Vears. With a record of twenty-seven yours spent in prison, William Rinker of Norristown, Tn.. Is a problem for Presiding Judge Swarlz to solve. The judge said in court that Ibo prison pris-on inspectors are convinced that further fur-ther incarceration will be of no avail; that when he is in jail Rinker is a model prisoner, and is all right outside out-side except when he gets liquor, when he reverts to stealing unconsciously, he claims. Rinker has been out of jnil two years, after serving a five-year sentence for larceny. Less than a month ago he was found at 3 o'clock in the morning with a bag of shoes. Inxpleadlng guilty to receiving stolen goods Rinker said that after a fellow he didn't know had piled him with whisky, he handed Rinker the bag, whose contents Rinker did not know. Rinker's latest employer, Frank R. Heavner, a builder, told the court he is willing to take Rinker back and act as parole officer. The shoes found in the bag had been stolen from the store of Sarah Goldberg, Norristown, by breaking a show window. |