Show I BEHIND PEISOtf BAillSt u t < Endger Clctvreons r 1f ew con Ms w New Home HOW TKEJJiIYE IN THEJPEN lto tI v i i Five Murderers for Koom Mates Hopts Employment The Cere mommy Initiation r Mr Rudger Clawon was encountered at the Co rt rooms yes erday looking a trifle dusty after his ride in from the Pen but otherwise not altered in appearance ap-pearance froth the day on which Judge Zane first consigned him to the prison wall A shake of the hand and the usual greeting passed between the reporter re-porter and Mr Clawson and the former said Vell it seems pleasant doesnt it to beoutagain even ifit is only in court Well yes responded Mr Clawson this is the first time for eleven das that I have seen outside of the adobe walls and I appreciateit How do you pass your time out there In thereMostly by reading I started Mil tons Paradise Lost just before I went in and 1 am now concluding it The surroundings out there make it somewhat some-what applicable I can assure you with a smile tI Then I have other books and THE HERALD reaches me regularly so that I have plenty of reading matter For exercise I walk about the yard What are the accommodations afforded you On my first night out I was put into the west room You must understand that the convictsthere are about 100 now confined out thereare allowed to mix together during the day but at night they are separated and put into two large rooms fifty n one and fifty in the other In the west room are confined con-fined all the hard cases in the east I think all those who are considerably milder It was in the west that I was put Here there are five murderers lIopt Biddlecome Callacfian Murphy and Fennel The beds are arranged all around the room in regular tiers and two men are delegated to each bed i j Who was your bedfellow 1 the reporter re-porter asked The first night replied Mr Claw son hit was a man from Ogden I dont remember his name When Jos Evans came out I slept with him and latterly I I have been fortunate enough to have abed a-bed to myself How were you greeted by the other prisoners Well it is part of the regular system out there that when a new man comes inthey go through what they call initiating in-itiating him When I got to the door that first night with the guard and they ere about to turn me in with the rest there arose one of the mbst appalling dins that ever I heard The whole fifty as soon as they caught sight of me set up a series of the most fear Let ehs ana execrations some cursed and swore in a manner that was almost sickening others called out a rope a rope some one bring a rope l I knew of course that they were putting me th ough and kept my equanimity but he piofanity and general depravity almost I al-most made my blood run cold for all that 1 he guards shut me in and locked the doors and tlJe whole swarm imme ly6urrbUnded me There v ere flsveral who rather took the lead HII ong I t em hut the man mot generally re o Ti zed seemed to be Catlaghan the I murderer I was U > KCU whether I would I aiug ior them I replied that I did not I II Know how Then > onef asked me if I I would danqe IJ said I could not I 10 mat either Then they saint I must put on the gloves with I one of them Thin I consented to do for policys sake but it was I ftnmd luckily fo me jjerhnwN that the gloves had been left that night on the outside Then another propoed that i i I be thrown up in a blanket This met with sdrue favor till one of them said I they hrfd better waiti till the next night I that I would be there a long time etc and so the ceremony was postponed Next night however I was given a berth in the east room ajwmg the milder cases so thut the west was iiei prived of its chance toimtia e me How does nopf employ himself Most of tlie rime in plitviutf card H You would not know from 1m actions i that he was any neair lis fate than any of the rest By the Way somefchiig that struck me fli being Yomicsal ittS thiS Almost the first man I ran across wag the fellow who robhod my house some time aszonnd Mr Cim > oh laughed q n IA Jl itrv makes strange brdfellows you know an 1 there too I daily met Frank Tre < eder whom yon will reiicmber as n hnv David Riqh ho iJ > bUeu KitfnsJ8Unfis i there too he serves in the kitchen They have regular turns you know vat waiting 3rf the table etc I How do the guards treat you 1 Very gentleniitnly They do their duty well but they have cO besstijictv I with com oi tho e hard eases The punishment roi its in shutting refractory I refrac-tory prisoners up in the sweat bqz This iO a qitlin ofi chamber with jut enough room in it to allow a man to stand up and tam around Rebellious > > iisOnerthoutiwhio fight etcT are shut up here sometimes as long as twenty five or thirty das at a stretch It isa fearful place and a fearful punishment but I fear no more than some of them deserve erve j < f I fi Is there no wdrK Drdvideu for fbe P ioners I None enforced upon them A number num-ber workfor themselves and you have probably heard of the excellent hair BjSdlea made by several gf the Peniten tiarypn oners tI 1 I rHuw is the table fare I I v c > We onryhave fcwo neaLs day now J r1l summer I underbtandrthey have three I heeL broth and soup are the colmnonest dishes dry breadno butter I but-ter unless you pay for it yourself potatoes i po-tatoes and the blackest of coffee with neither sugar nor milk One of the prisoners negro who is allowed some degree of freedom acts as cook It is a strange sightjil can assure yojttotKce 10 snch men as those sit dow n tb a meal at one time and to hear the buzz < cf comments that runs along the lines as the provender Is placed before them U At this juncture JrXirkpa trick began his fine argument in Mr Claw sons behalf and both that gentleman I and the reporter were buried for the next two hours in a contemplation of the able and eloquent appeal to the i Court a I f f 1OO f |