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Show About the Arrangements Made at Joliet Prison by Which They Were AG LETTERS FROM HOME. 'ull Particulars of the Plan wd the Results. Achieved. ij-T HI-. May P-- Tin? placing of ("r'uiiin convicts iu solitary con-uml con-uml the discovery of absolute of' an incipinnt plot by them , .)Vi.nii authority, as already in llicse. dispatches, have I j-nfuvorahlo comment-on the: nrtjuv management. That such ,, .affairs could exist in thu ;s a matter of surprise. iilot as widespread. All 'nin murderers aro implicated ilh seveni! others aro in pitnish-ortin'ir pitnish-ortin'ir disobedience f prison while the forenifii implicated as i,jt tlii'in have been summarily ,,,! froni service within the. walls. Warden Bcrggreu ha clnst'tod today with Martin ,. Dan Coughiaii ami Patrick jv,,,,. the iniirderei-s of Dr. , mid convicts layman SeheJI, itviinaiigh and Harrys Myers, worthies have been in the. wat ,1 ,.l pumped in order to gain ilimi us to the source of various ,rnl mail received by them for iiiicpasl. What the warden has ,1-eil is not yet known, clime ago' the warden becamo that several prisouers were in rof alluring the gout from In-ur In-ur in dainties not down on the 1 Ijill nf fart', and also that mail ing received and sent inrougn iiivnt 1 messenger. ' A watch was nob resulted in the discovery of a mtaiiiing sundry supplies such iskv, sardines, butter, sugar, liilileu in a buggy belonging ill Barrett, foreman in tho cooper K'liiliiig investigation, Barrett lipved from duty, and the sus- I convicts placed oil the witness The mail line is raid to have miler the charge of Thomas Hills, t ide foreman, A letter was mi convict Sehell directing that be sent "care of Barrett," 11 n 1 how to manage it. A number of hills were found ou the prisoh-he prisoh-he money was sent anu deliv- iruiigh the foreman mimed. Let-is Let-is s!m intercepted between the Is themselves. . Burke Slight Slig-ht nno that if he could muveil from his present II to imc near his pals they could . things to suit tliomselveit, and lid the possibility of Hill's ar- for them by paying him lie convicts who figured in the .icy are all notorious characters. , who was formerly known as ulid Muldoou," was convicted of iff the home of a farmer named nks in Du Page county, one night seven years ago, to 'rob him of :iiveriinieiit bonds. The farmer wife refused to tell where they hidden and Meyers succeeded iiling tliciu to a bed-post, u took a lamp and applying it to are fet tortured them into aeon-He aeon-He wa sentenced to fourteen Sehell is a Chicago policeman limn for Iweuty-live years for ! Dan Cavaiiiuigh also hails lie (lanlen City and is here on a :uiV visit, the penally for bur- len Uorgjri'en was seen this after-mil after-mil asked if there were any new I'leents. -I can only say now," lied, that we will mako a thor-I'vestigation thor-I'vestigation and endeavor to do J both sides." It has been 'hiving the examination of one i''iivicts that another employee ' eimper shop, the night 'fire .an-was eoticerned in thulrans-in thulrans-in "f si pplics, and he also was I'v suspended. Ho had only I the prison a few weeks, and is . "' ""'sc who knew hini as au m. good-natured fellow, whose lees had been worked ou by tho l until he was induced to siung-Mnall siung-Mnall bottles of old booze for I nelil. Il;nettis one of the oldest cm- II at the prison and has never bo-j bo-j 1,11 subject to suspicion.- There "JTiipaihy for' him nmong his lie stoutly maintains his ! 1 .iiiiiiug 11 to i. a pUt up j '' I'.'ift of Ihe convicts to re ""'"selves for the strictness he "'over them. The box found '"'!.V . he believes was '."''e by two or more of them, a ''"ing removed from the shed for ;!'"; Contrary to the- tirst re-1,1 re-1,1 ""I 'arry the key to the '".'Sf-fo convict having : it in : I He evidence soenis to bo ,'; 'bl'ssofar. and much of it l.v strong. The law provides ; ' "'! these offenses, unless it ''"'''I teat limpet-sons impli-'e'liiiiecteil impli-'e'liiiiecteil with an attempt " are u violation of ; . .however, and the oll'end-" oll'end-" li.ii'i'd lobe summarily dealt V1 "Ch tls ,s not tho lirst time "S "as been practiced at the -i more extensive ami appar-fngamzed appar-fngamzed than any former |