| Show For Tor Sale- Sale One Human Body for Scientific Experimentation rim en ta tion Alive A live of Sound Mind By BILL McDOUGALL Thus Jack Abbott long at the tho state prison offered his bod body for tor sale Thursday in the classified advertising section of The Telegram Abbott serving time for forgery explained that Td Id like to do something decent with Uh my life and help my family Considering It my sole soie right and property to do with as I see fit I offer ofer my body for scientific experimentation Abbott saidI saidI said I 1 read about how human bodies are arc needed for lor experiments experiment in the treatment of cancer and in the prevention of infantile paralysis and other diseases The Tho ad and ad-and and Abbott claims he means every word of it came inas in inas as do thousands of other ads It reveals the story of ot a man of ot promise who turned his talents to forgery Abbott has only one arrest ar ar- ar- ar reston rest on his record that for which he is doing time prison records show The author of this strange offer was 88 a sto stock k broker before 1929 He made big money He loved the stage and theater When stocks cascaded into oblivion Abbott Abbott Abbott Ab Ab- bott tumbled with them When debts stared him in the face when face when the bread line seemed his only means of at livelihood livelihood livelihood-he he forged a check It worked He forged another The forger forer traveled visiting several states In Salt Lake City he came to grief In the state prison he is doing time Oregon and California want him for the same offense oense Liberation from a cell ceU on East Twenty first South street means only a trip under guard to Folsom or San Quentin then when ho he is through to Salem Ore and another another another an an- other prison Its It's a dreary pros pros- peeL So he explained himself to toa toa toa a Telegram reporter who ran Uran down the adIn adIn ad In defense of the advertisement advertisement advertise advertise- ment meat I wish to say that I consider consider consider con con- sider it my inalienable right to tomake tomake tomake make whatever disposition of my body as seems proper to me me- me S R 4 w 1 W 7 f j y t y t r rr r i. fr 1 2 1 A 4 I I 4 h 7 t w I 4 y 4 q 4 v JJACK J- J ii JACK ABBOTT I He wants to be a human h an guinea pig I barring suicide of course I am of sound mind and have been in in- in I by no other dictates than I those of my own conscience I I I My ry mother a widow is in desperate desperate des des- need My iry grandmother is confined to a wheel chair and Itis it itis is Js necessary that she receive my mothers mother's constant care My family's only income is from the meager salary of an aunt employed as a relief teacher I 1 love these people I desire to provide some small degree of comfort comfort com corn fort for their declining years With my life Ute embroiled as it is at present I can see ace no possibility of accomplishing this in any conventIonal conventional conventional conven conven- manner For the next 10 years I can see nothing before me but walls wails and bars After two years in this place I am faced with the inevitable Il evita bl ble blo fate tate of serving time in Ift two more prisons I have no fault to find with my custodian I am serving a a. just sentence not want to lose Jose all I 1 do ambition ambition am am- all aU pride sink Into a rut of listlessness or become just another another another an an- other convict waiting for years to I pass passI I do not want to become bitter and lust fo for vengeance with a vindictive vin yin sodden hate-sodden useless and poisoned mind nor to give myself up tip to fumbling tumbling stupidity But these things are entirely possible How can I be sure I will not es escape escape escape es- es cape them I 1 should like to do something decent with my life to serve some somo purpose employ these years of re repression re- re in some manner that will prove ameliorating to those around me rue instead of representing representing- a total liability It is not that I have lost the desire to live the live the world still holds myriad interests for me me-It me it is just that these are secondary to my desire to help my family and to put an end to this useless exist exist- ence I have haye thought of every scheme possible for such an end and have arrived at this oner one I r 1 am ant willing to submit my body to any physician or group of ot scientists for lor experimental purposes pur pur- poses poses for for cash I am asking considering it a fair tair price for tor a a. good body This sum would keep my mother moth moth- er and grandmother It would also furnish me enough money to tomake tomake tomake make restitution for that I stole by fraud In turn It would give me something to live for tor I would never lose my self respect |
