Show I V Convict Stages Down Sit Down Atop St Stack t Because Hes He's Homesick for Old Prison I KINGSTON HINGSTON Ont Aug 9 UP After perching on top of a foot chimney at Kingston penitentiary pens peni for more than 12 hours a French-Canadian French convict serving serving serving ing a year 20 term climbed down don early today and surrendered to prison guards The convict homesick for St St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary Montreal from which he was re- re fr transferred here went on strike In an effort to force prison o officials to send him b back ck While working in the prison yard yesterday Y the man whose name penitentiary officials re- re re refused refused fused to divulge scrambled up the powerhouse wall vaIl to the ro roof t tand and then up the smokestack tack h high gh above the prison yard prison ar l Threats promises and the blinding rays of powerful searchlights searchlights searchlights search search- lights trained on him failed to budge the convict Officials finally decided to let him sit there as long as he wants to Early today his food and nd water supply ran out and exhausted the convict climbed down Guards said the convict was a desperate criminal and anda a a a- athor thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor- thor bad sort 1 j |