Show IS WILLIAM 3ICX OR SHAMMING Problem of Prisoners Condition Puzzles tho Police William Ryan alias Thomas Jefferson i Jeffer-son an exconvict who Is serving a ninety days sentence for vagrancy Is either u sick a persevering or a very I foolish man Willie seemingly is deaf and dumb although as a matter oC fact he had 1 babbling fiow of language guage when he was In the State prison I some years ago He explains thnt he lost his speech through a severe attack of typhoid fever For a number of days Ryan has evidently been quite sick He has eaten hardly more than l morsel for n week and little more than a skeleton of his former self remains re-mains Hardly a sign of olstrcas does be give and tho Jailer finally beComIng beCom-ing alarmed sent for City Physician King The doctor came examined Ryan and pronounced him a fit subject for the hospital However the police felt sure that the wily Wlllam was shamming Their feelings were granted ed the benefit of a doubt and the nick persevering or foolish man sllll lurks I in the barren confines of hobo corridor corri-dor S I |