Show PRISONERS WENT ON STRIKE STRIKE Refused to Go Back to Jail Until Ono One of Their Number Was Fired by Workhouse Superintendent Perhaps the queerest strike on record record rec rec- ord was that of workhouse prisoners in Delaware county Indiana recently when they refused to return to Jail unless unless un un- less Jess one of ot their number received his freedom And it was not that they desired desired desired de de- sired him to be free either but because becaUSe because be be- cause they wished to be freed treed of his presence I had my gang of prisoners way out by Yorktown working on a country road that needed repairing said superintendent J James Cole workhouse according to the Indianapolis News when I noticed about time to load them into the automobile and bring them back that the prisoners were hanging back and talking amon among them- them elves Finally one of them came to tome tome tome me with the story and his demands The boys here wont won't go back bacle to j Jail jaU with you unless you OU fire mire Danny there there said the spokesman Th They y wont won't V ride back in the machine with him beI because because be be- I I cause he has vermin In his hair lair and andon andon I on his body You either let him go or orno orno orno no more Jail for tor us Weve We've agreed to tomake tomake tomake make a n run ran for it if you dont don't and you cant can't catch all of ot us us I Of course I had no right to allow the man his freedom Cole Cold continued I but the fellow Jumped jumpe l up and ran ron away Just then and Im I'm bound to admit we didn't try very hard hord to catch him Anyway that broke the strike m I |