Show THE GOVERNMENT PARADISE News From the Penitentiary and c J f its Inmates 1r J f Osterwald the young German engineer en-gineer who was indicted with Seaboldt the conductor charged with being responsible re-sponsible for the train disaster in Poe Canyon has at length obtained bonds and after an imprisonment of four months and ten days in the Penitentiary is again at liberty and will be his own master until his case comes up at the September term of court Osterwald is a gentlemanly mild and well bred sort of fellow with the air of the somewhat innocent German immigrant and he was well liked by all who knew him on the road A HERALD reporter saw him in the court room yesterday obtaining a wistful foretaste of the proceedings and asked him how he had enjoyed his soiourn at the Penitentiary He replied with a half comical shud derand grimace I had plenty of it I can assure you was his reply No more of that place if I can help it Did you through theinitiation Yes somewhat They only made me dance and sing though and try on the gloves When you comply with their wishes they are all right And what if you refuse 1 Well then you get ossed up in the blanket or something else two men went up in the blanket since I was therePretty tough companionship 1 Terrible Everyone has to have a mate and I was lucky for a while in having Seaboldt for a bedfellow When he went I had to sleep with Decker the Provo horse thief For a decent man there is no sort of company outside of Clawson Evans Pratt and several others the remainder pass their time cursing swearing telling hideous stories or planning of the robberies they will commit when they get out Clawson and Evans are about the only white men in the gang Pratt I did not meet They seem to be feeling pretty well but the heat mustbe terrible in summer Do all have to take turns waiting in the dining room 1 No that is done by a few of the younger ones who are willing to do the workHopt is kept entirely separated from the others is he Yes he has solitary confinement No prisoner is allowed to speak to him He sits all day in a corner in silence and speaks to no one but his guard Osterwalds relatives are all in Germany Ger-many He has studiously endeavored to keep the news of his arrest from reaching them as his mother is 80 years of age and he fears the shock of it would kill her |