Show THE VALUE OF THE THUMB PRINT SHOWN SHO YIN American Returned to Home Jail After Nine Years WAS IN MANY PRISONS SAYS HE LIKES THE PRISONS OF OP PRANCE THE BEST New York Juno June 7 Frank Matusek who was wu second s cond cabin passenger aboard the from Liverpool recently was started for St Louis to servo serve twelve years In prison for tor pick picking pickIng picking ing the tho pocket of or a man in the Merchants Mer Merchants Merchants chants bank there thero nine years ago Tho The detectives who accompanied him John JohnM JohnL of or the M L Shea and John P department did not SU St Louis police tell teU his fellow follow passengers s who ho he be was was wa bue hue they kept him under constant sur surveillance surveillance as they feared reared he might g re to resort resort vice of or leaping sort to oven even the wild wit device with life Ufo buoy and take lAko a athe overboard a buoy I chance or of being pIcked pick d up I This r fear ear ar was Inspired b the tho reckless Jump of Matusek nine nino years 3 ears ago from froma train that was taking him and a fol rol follow rollow low a prisoner to whom he was w l d from St Louis to prison tot at Je Jefferson Jeterson f ferson City He lie was permitted to go to the end of ot the car to get a drink The Tho pair dropped dro ed out of or tho the window escaped into a tL clump of ot woods and although badly bruised got rid d of ot o their Matusek made his way war to othis this hIV city and took aboard the Anchor liner passage Ethiopia landing In Glasgow o The The Theother Theother other prisoner was captured The St StLouis StLouis Louis Louts detectives said yesterday that Matusek would not get a ghost of ot a ashow show at Jumping from the express which will land land him him In St SU Louis Since i i iii the young man went faw awa he has spent most of or his hl time t in prison He Ito Is 18 about 32 3 now and since he was 14 he be has hu been trying to earn a living by br picking pockets He lIe began becan ga in n J native city Chicago Chicag Ills His Identification in England where he was arrested early carly in the for robbery was due duo duoto to his thumb print which had been taken In St Louis Louie and sent to Scotland Yard told the reporters T nia who wha whaI the I talked liked with him aboard the tho Carm that when he reached England h he fol rOI followed followed lowed the races race six months m and then thou went back bock to picking pockets pocket In Ger Germany Germany Germany many he was waR sentenced to five years solitary confinement with meat only four times a year rear tot for taking about from the pocket of ot a merchant He Ho said ald he be would have been willing to exchange twelve y years ars here hero for tor the five He lIe also spent a short term In a 11 French prison where he ho says he was well treated English prisons ho does not approve of at When hen he was last at liberty In England he married an Irish girl d who stuck to him seef after his leave arrest for was at the tho station to see him leave for America and declared that she Rhe would some over to him on his release Matu Matusek Matusek sek lIek said abed he believed he would u never nevor hadu have been detected if It It had hadnot not been for the finger print system lie He might have bothered Scotland Yard by out cut ting off orr his bl thumb but he did not think of or that until afterward |