Show ROAD TO HUMS GALLOWS SHOWN BY THORNE In n Seventeen Short Years He Has Traveled Far on Crimes Pathway V ROPE DOES NOT APPEAL 1 YOUNGSTER SMILES IN m fl TELLING PREFERENCE REF RENOE FOR POR BULLET EULLET Friendless homeless hopeless tho hope lopo of 01 future snuffed out in Harry Thorne Thorns not over 17 11 years old awaiting waiting a sentence that means he will bs bl either shot shat ab t or or r hanged to expiate the murder of o Grocer George W Fassell Fails ell presents an unusual subject for for he betrays no regrets at having no home no family no friends but he shows an almost In inhuman human tuman disregard for the enormity of his ils crime and the seriousness of 01 the penalty The smile which frequently lit up his hie fact during the trial and which did not desert dellert him when the Jury returned a verdict of 01 guilty without recommendation recommendation may still bo be seen illuminat illuminatIng lug Ing ng his hili countenance In the little cell coll ho he 10 Is I occupying on the lower floor noor of 01 the he county Jail JailY Yesterday Y was visitors day at the county Jail j And Thorne scorned s Omed as In Interested tere ted as am the visitors Whenever a pretty girl peeped Into the cell he ho smiled and rolled a and seemed p p be bo musing mUlling over distant rec when hen he enjoyed liberty and uld oud ek t and talk with a little girl ho he 10 used to know In Los Loa Angeles when ho he to was wa a cook In a restaurant rant and she ahe waited on tabler The life Ufe story of Harry Thorne Is remarkable He lIe Is still no more than 17 years old and though his history of 01 crime extends over a period of 01 near neary Ir 11 y three years sr tragically in the I murder r of Grocer Fassell Fa ell he has by no means the appearance of 01 being a hard hardened hardened hardened ened criminal Upon close study how however however ever over a dual temperament tem ramont may be ob observed observed served ned In Thorne A first glance glanco seems to o reveal a buoyant careless youth you tn but hut the ever restless eyes upon loser eloer study denote cruelty and bra bravado bravado bravado vado of astonishing nature Son ou of a n Drunkard According to the story told by Thorne Thorns he was wall born of a good mother motho mothern In n Baltimore MO Md Id who had tried to tomake tomake tomake make a good man out of 01 him until his sixth year ear when she ahe died leaving him In n the care oare of 01 a drunken and worthless father Thorne says that It was wan many matlY manya matlYa a day that he had to go hungry when his father stayed staF 4 out all an day da and all an night Neighbors now and then thon Invited him to their breakfast tables after he ho had cried all oil night with hunger The boy had no relatives and when lose leM oso tha ten years of age he found himself homeless homel On the corners of Baltimore the lad gained the ac ae acquaintance of newsboys ne boys who had been M an unfortunate as 8 himself They taught I him to sell Boll papers and to sleep leep under stairways at night lie He followed this life Ife until his fourteenth year when the life of or a hobo began to appeal to him Then ho he sold papers during the day and slept with tra tramps P In n the railroad yards of Baltimore at night nigh One day he failed to show up on his favorite newspaper corner In his hla native pity ott elt It was wa then his life of or wander ing hig began He lie says MYS that he be drifted all allover ever over the east and south riding the rods and acquiring a fair tall knowledge of the hobo hebo lingo was soon BOOn admitted Into Inte the ranks of 01 those possessed po of or the tho wanderlust Soon Boon he advanced Into the higher r class claN of the hobo society known a r and because they th y were rarely without money he ha liked their company best beet Although admitting that he traveled with n and accompanied them themon on many of their thelt breadwinning ho he Is la true to the order and will not divulge Information regard I Ing leg whatever robberies they may have havo committed Leaving the east he started out Gut for far Ibe t west where the real desperado was W II reputed to live accord Ing lag to dime me novels was un Unable able Ie to find tem and arni he headed for California he associated with thieves and rooks crooks until he temporarily artly tired 4 of Df the fhe game and entered the tho employ emple of Dr a restaurant I I I I JIn lisa ODe Chance A pretty waitress attracted him with the tae result that the better side Ide of 01 his life bean be a to assert aHert Itself Thorne Thorns was w clever nd could adapt himself to al almost almost most anything Soon he be became an ex ez expert expert pert at cooking and aad he ho admits that he had even e formed a resolution to live lIe liv aa an a hout life lit and some day marry the Ule girl who had become Interested la In him bilL After a year 71 of hard work la In the tit th kitchen of ot the restaurant the tile salI 1 of r the th rod returned to Thorn Thor Thore and aad he h e WM was W soon loon back In the t society of r Thorn Tho first wet t Riley In a boxcar of or a train running over oyer the Nevada deserts ts Th Tho dirty dirt red hair cruel eyes sal and determined face of Riley RUey appealed app led t to te him bun And Aad An Riley could tell teU him of or ow ew w ways a and aad d means of committing robberies bert all an holdups A willing pu pupil pupil pil he ho soon en kaew knew as u much as Riley and the latter gave him many man practical hints 8 In the art ar of robbery and the best beet beste methods e of evading authorities Theme says MS that the tile best be t school of rime In the world may be bc found In the Boxcar o e DC an American freight train and claims that it is III first necessary nece ary to t acquire a thorough vocabulary vocabulary a thing that Is la not at all aU easy before It t Is possible to be graduated lilt the tho school He lIe Is III not of 01 the kind wh who would try to warn anyone anone against riding hU g the rods but says that thata a youth tet tJ at steals rides r des over oer rail railroads railroads roads read is I likely Ukel to gain a good work IR lag ng knowledge of how to commit rob robbery bery hen And ADd be he says MYS that anyone fa familiar with how bOw to commit robbery robber will steal after aCter feeling pangs of 01 hunger two or three days da It M Ie Ii the opinion of Th rne that his father ather Is to still alive allYe and probably mak make leg his home In it Baltimore D lIe He has ba not Rot seen n his hi father since his twelfth year 71 and as U a matter of 01 fact tac Is l not interested In 10 him He lie knows of no noether noether ether eUter r I and aad feels feola that there win be bo no ne regrets or tears on the day ar when wh n the th executioner calls him to answer for the tile murder of 01 Grocer Fas Fan Fasel Mi eel el If It nervo stays with him no tears teaM will wUI come from frem his hili eyes eye on doomsday and he be will try to wear the tho smile that has ban not been absent from his ide face since hue the tile day of 01 his Ille arrest arre L Lff ft ff the Is mine says Thorne Thorns I will prefer to be shot I 1 once saw sawa w wa a nl er hung and they bungled bURgled the Job Jb and that sort of or a death will never to me mc |