Show Ui HAS 6OO 6 WHEN HE LEAVES PAISON FARMER WHO WAS PENNILESS WHEN HE BECAME CONVICT GETS SMALL FORTUNE HERO OF THE PENITENTIARY Slayer of a Marshal Saves Lives Wins 5COO In Guessing Contest and Inherits 1100 from a Relative Leavenworth KnnA convict who entered barely sixteen years ago penniless pen-niless has Just left the Kansas prison with n fortune of 0500 500 of which was earned while behind the prison I I bars observing the discipline In every I ev-ery way The monety allowance made to convicts con-victs In Kansas Is two cents a day or 10425 for 15 years so that no such sum as Philip Klllion took with him from the office ot the Kansas prison warden could have been accumulated ac-cumulated except by outside effort From another point Killion left the Institution a hero while he entered It a murderer lie went out to a farm and prosperity with as good a record as ever a man made behind the bars The secret of his wealth Is that ho inherited In-herited 1100 while In prison nnd won 5000 In n guessing contest nine years ago The money was Invested for him and added a reasonable amount by In terest t In 1892 Klllion then a young farmer of Wellington Kan shot and killed n town marshal with whom ho had been friendly Klllion was Intoxicated and quarrelsome and the Interference of tho officer caused him to lose self control lie was convicted of murder In the second degree and sentenced to serve25 years A few years after he was confined he discovered a fire In qne of tho prison pris-on factories Without outcry he risked his life and unknown to any one except ex-cept n few guards extinguished the blaze The warden of the prison on leaving gave him a letter which vouched for tho fact that Klllions bravery had saved tho state 100000 and probably some lives A few years later Klllion had just reached the top of the coal mine when a fire alarm was sounded He volunteered volun-teered to redescend and bring out the Imprisoned convicts This ho did at ITrriI c 1g5 1 9 Shot and Killed the Town Marshal great personal risk When tho last man had left Klllion returned to the runs entered the workings and did much to save the mine from destruction destruc-tion A commutation of his sentence was asked but sentiment was still strongly against him In the town from which he had been sent to prison and the effort to free him failed Ho had however Ingratiated himself him-self with tho authorities of the prison and life was made ns easy for him as possible lie was one of tho few men who never had to be driven to work Not once In 15 years was he known to break tho least of the rIdes Finally he was given an opportunity to study and he Improved It About that time In 1900 Kansas City began the rebuilding of a conven tlon hall that had been destroyed by tire One of the schemes for raising funds rapidly was a guessing contest for which a capital prize of 10000 and several others ranging from 5OOC down were offered Klllion Invested 16 of his prison savings In tlckote and sent In 30 gueses lie won the second prize of 5000 A short time afterward a distant relative left him 1100 He gained considerable fame as the wealthy convict Lawyers swarmed to him with offers Others suggested that he would get an absolute pardon for 1000 Others asked from 300 tc 500 to get him out of prison Klllion stM the humor of the situation and offered 50 down and 300 upon ro lease There was a noticeable falling off In his mall and list of caller |