Show i EXBANKERS IN PRISON I Q TWENTYONE FORMER FINANCIERS FINAN-CIERS AT LEAVENWORTH Q f Are Serving Sentences In Government Penitentiary In KansasShown No Favors and They Make Model Prisoners I Leavenworth KanCapt Flavins T Tygard the former Butler Mo banker and the twentyfirst member of the bankers colony In the United States penitentiary here Is In poor health and has spent most of his time In the prison hospital since his arrival ar-rival The advent ofTygard has called attention at-tention to the number of former bankers bank-ers now confined In the prison There t are 21 in all and they are rapidly becoming be-coming the most numerous class In the prison being exceeded now only by the horse thieves and territory lid lifters The bankers arc the aristocrats of the prloon life most oT them being educated men of refined tastes and accustomed i ac-customed to polite society But now a they are shorn of all outward distinguishing distin-guishing marks of respectability by f i which they were Identified In the old uuu days before high finance sent them behind be-hind the bars They wear the prison uniform they walk lockstep in tho convict march they eat prison faro they are liable to bo hustled into the dungeon If they become refractory But the 21 bankers are not refractory refrac-tory They are model prisoners every one of them Most of the colony col-ony have attained the honor of being made trusties and their work Is clerical in its nature They keep the prison books check up the prison laundry and otherwise look after the records of the institution One long row of cells Is known as Bankers Row It Is on the second floor of the prison where the deputy warden has his office Many of the bankers occupy cells in that row but tho same rules about locking up lights out and hours of rising prevail there as elsewhere in the penitentiary Tho exbankers are not required to eat with the mechanics and other convicts con-victs who do manual labor But that Is not because of any sympathy They might get their clothes dirty siting by laborers and dirty clothes would soil the books on which the bankers worK The penitentiary is a very demo t oratto tplaoc brit Tnnrwf8i less tin bankers are recognized an the upper crust of the inmates Hero Isa list of the member < of the Danker Colony Col-ony with tho sentence of each anti the work ho Is reqtllroQto da Justus L Bro 1rlck Elkhart InU clerk In chtdf clerks office April 1904 ten years December 1910 Walter Brown Elkhart Ind bookkeeper book-keeper custodians department April 1904 eight yearn March 1910 Wilson L Collins Elkhart Intl clerk In storeroom April 1901 six years September 1108 Cyrus E McCraily Seymour Ind photographer June 1904 six years October 1908 Alfred C Barker Bedford Ind clerk deputy wardens office June 1904 five years t January 1908 John 11 Wood Matthews hid clerk wardens office January 1906 eight years December 1911 I Frank G Blgolow Milwaukee Wls clerk record clerks office June 1905 ton years February 1912 Henry G Gall Milwaukee WIs clothes marker storeroom May 190G ten years January 1913 Robert B Taylor New York city clerk in storeroom transferred from Missouri state prison November 1905 five years April 1908 Milton J Fugman San Antonio Tex runner for mall clerk July 1907 five years February 1911 Thomas E Lary Hillsboro Tex telephone operator November 1900 five years July 1910 Frank M Mabry McGregor Tex clerk to superintendent of construction construc-tion March 1907 five years November Novem-ber 1910 J A Erlckson Minot N D coachman coach-man March 1907 five years June 1909 Charles C King Scotland S Dt clerk In electrical department June 1907 five years February 1911 Charles E Grotefend St Louis clerk to captain of the guard June I 1907 five years December 1910 Thomas Coghill Seymour Wls clerk in laundry October 1907 five years June 1911 Herman E Haas Chicago assistant to mall clerk transferred from Joliet 111 prison December 190G six years April 1909 Flavius J Tygard Butler Mo In hospital November 1907 five years March 1911 Francis B Wright Dundee Ill runner run-ner at east prison gate transferred from Joliet prison December 190G five years November 1907 I Charles H Thornton Chicago IlL I clerk in deputy wardens office May 1907 five years January 1911 It has been reported from time to time by guards who have been discharged dis-charged and by convicts that the ex bankers have what is termed in the prison a fat snap but such Is far fromk being the case Regarding this report Warden McClaughrey says These men are hold to the same requirements re-quirements as to uniform table privileges priv-ileges marching and other regulations that the other convicts are bound by I and In no respect have they privileges that cannot be earned by any other prisoner bo he a horse thief or a murderer |