| Show prisoner makes money wording jokes in jail columbus ohio before william ray allman was sentenced to the state penitentiary for automobile theft four years ago he as a saleima sale imn in cleveland now from his cell he turns out jobes and humorous quips for eight magazines the cle eland youths writings net him an average of a month which he sends to his mother in burgh whether allman would have turned from a typewriting salesman to a magazine writer had he not been con evicted and sentenced to from eight to twenty years in the penitentiary Is a matter of conjecture related that lie began writing accidentally to fill in the hours of sol gitary confinement in ills narrow corn apartment part ment A writers which he found in a corner of his cell shortly after his was the incentive the said there wis a market for jol es and funny quips so I 1 decided to write said allman invested his last in stamps and soon ams of colv had been mailed to magazines and publishing houses n the rat I 1 had just four cents in stamps left when my farst check arched aft er that it wis earv and now I 1 receive checks at regular intervals from eight magazines |
