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Show Outside World Too Tough; Parolee Wants Cell Back IroM, 1 violated my parole by I leaving the state." I PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 1 CJP Trustees of the Eastern penitentiary peniten-tiary today pondered the request of a parolee who, twisting hi prison cap like a bashful swain, asked to return to his celL "You see It a thia way," Convict No. &M5 told the trustees yester-day yester-day at the first parole meeting to which newspaper men were invited in-vited in the 130 years of Cherry Hill's existence: -I did a bit her for robbery soma Urn ago, and I was out on parole, and I went west thinking I could get a job. But things wers tough and so I wrote and asked the warden if I could come back." "We had an officer out there on official business." Warden Herbert Her-bert Smith Interrupted, "and we arranged to pick this man up at a crossroads la Missouri and brought him along home." "I just thought if I could stay her awhile.1' No. 5548 said wistfully, wist-fully, "maybe until spring, why then Father Farley could get ma a Job." "That's the chaplain," Smith explained. ex-plained. "And you have a right to keep me, too," No. 5545 was becoming dramatic now, "because," his voice |