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Show Goes From Cell to Trench and Glory IFormer Thief Dies a Hero m ' m m m m Sacrifice Makes His Record Clean ' Paroled Inmate of Utah 1 State- PrisoTT Ghrc Life I for Liberty. i By Louite Holt I"!AXK '-'-AM'. Killfl In nr-"L, nr-"L, . Hurt ill Kiamr (Ht.'lirr !. 1 n n-nda the raaualty liHta. i No hum iairr ha da- J vntarl apnea lr iiilotlrn of him ami no ; rlalivra mv mrnlionwj. hut hrn J mrmortala are en-clad In honor of i I'tah a rwhtiiiK hrmi, Irl thrre he one I hnrlnit thr nam of Frank Inland. ,'rltlaan of the world, nowhrra In par-: par-: tirular. Trior to hla entry In arrvlre hla liwln- Ins plara wa the atate prison, anil ; Warden Ktorra hla lanfllord. ' Motlirra of run-fully rrarnl aona who have nlvrn their Uvea for democracy democ-racy ned not lift their irotrl ln haiula In horror, for In dylnc for Ilia country Krank Iceland ctieerfully e.nv 1 hla all for what a llfrtlme had taiiKht him waa hla enemy. i HERE'S THE OLD RECORD. I' lie waa a convicted thief with a flf- teen yeaia" arntence hnnalnp. over him. I and for elaht yeara waa considered the ! moat danfcf-roija criminal at the atate j penitentiary. No one trusted him. New ' wardens were warned on their ! arrival to be on their miard, but he ...... M.I J. .1. I .. .. : , . 1 1 I .. he I I " ERAXK LIXAXl). whose lll'illll ill Kimumm ia; pa j)ortftl. !' v O ; I wouldn't shirk any tank to which he was aasiKticd. Hp liked bent to work In the open, hut because officials did not care to take the risk, be was never allowed to leave the four walla of the prison. ..... 8T0RRS BEFRIENDS HIM. When Warden Htorrs arrived at the prison he put Iceland to work with the chain gang on the county roads. "And how that fellow worked," said Warden tStorrs. "He worked as If his whole life depended on It. It Interested Inter-ested me. He didn't have to work that ; way. The others didn't, so out of sheer' curiosity I asked him his reason, and Imagine my surprise whsn this hardened hard-ened criminal answered, 'I couldn't do less than my beet, I'd be ashamed to.'" "Here waa something to work on. and I tried to win his confidence. In a few weeks he was a trustyhe. who had never been allowed to breathe the air outside the prison walls for eight years and in eight months he waa riven Ms freedom. ...... . ON HIS HONOR. . omu thing Knot bis experience, ac-enrding ac-enrding to his letters to Warden Storrs, was the fact that men treated him as If he had always been honest and a gentleman. - 4 Htm inferno he acquired tenderness. ten-derness. for all things. New hopes were beginning to stir in his heart and new dreams began to take wing In his Imagination. Imag-ination. He expressed a hope to come out of the war so that he could take up a homestead and be a decent cttl-sen. cttl-sen. He cursed the Germans for their pillaging, forgetting that only a few months before h waa undergoing punishment pun-ishment for the thing which he decried. de-cried. HIS BIT. "Hell would be a paradise compared to this," he wrote, "but I shall not falter In doing my bit, so that there may not be another war. The hell of It made me cry I. who had not shed a tear for my fellowman since ' 14. I hope, warden, you won't feel bad that I am fighting with Canada; it is the best I can do. I Inclose a photo of one who waa once a foot. but of whom you have made a man. Tell Mrs. Hoi Btegel I have made good." (Mrs. Hiegel was instrumental m securing se-curing his pardon.) ' i Uw took the culprit to his rell and locked the door. Brotherly love took him out and put noble tools In his hands to do a ssble work. Frank Iceland grasiwd at his little chance and msde good. Who will deny him recognition? At SS he learned at once how to live gnd how to die. "t got him a job working on a farm in the southern part of the state and told him I expected him to make good and thst he waa to Write, me every month. I told him that my 'honor was at stake; Ohat his employer knew nothing noth-ing aout his record, but If he broke faith It would reflect on me. "He waa such a worker that his employer gave htm one -fourth more per day than his other helpers because he thought he was worth It. "That waa a year ago. when young men from the farms were hurrying to training camps to take up arms aga:nel the Hun. DEMOCRACY CALLS. "The bugle call of democracy pierced the recesses of his long dormant soul, and even if It sounded once more the great note of action and adventure, thia time It was for his fellow men. not against tham, and he, too, hurried : to enlist. Hut the thing was not so easy; he had been a criminal he was barred. "'It's queer. he wrote, 'but do you know I couldn't lie about it; I just had to get busy and find another way, and although my own country refused ; to let me fight with it, I can still fight for it; the Canadians have taken me J in. " I And w ith the Canadians he fought j imt I ti ilied And the mot marvel- i |