| Show FIFTY YEARS i Joseph H N Mack Tells Tolls Ogden Court Co rt Who Was L o for His Career SENT TO PRISON AS A CHILD t Sentenced to Four Years When Ten Yours Years Y of or Aco Aga 10 Ho Ue Was W Tutored By ny Criminals In Pen Special to tho the News Ogden Ogdon Aug 3 9 Sentenced at tho age ngo ngoI I of ot 10 to the penitentiary to servo serve four tour years Instead of ot being committed to toI I i the reform school was the tho direct cause causa I of at a career of ot crime covering c dose close i I upon 60 years according to the tho story I told t by Joseph Henry Mack Mek alias I Charles Challes Johnson who appeared l Judge How ll In tho the district court yes ye 5 t I to be sentenced to 10 the 1 upon the tho charge of at attempting lg to toI I 1 commit burglary burglar In the tho second degree The Tho defendant who Is 60 years oarB of ot otI inge I ngo made a most pathetic appeal and andI I painted a n picture of at his II life lite e which ought I to 10 afford food for lor thought t Ac According According cording cardin to the tho story told ho h never noyer really r lIy had chance hance a 11 since the tho day ho lie was 10 years old and IM sent to the tho th peni penitentiary In Canada to Ie j with rIth criminals From them he h learned l arnel all he h knew and as ns the th result ha ho has hns been beena a menace to society for Halt half a century In addressing addre Judge Howell tho the man who pleaded guilty to burglary In the second degreE decree said saidI r I would like to say n a few to wordy words When I arrived In this city elty last Feb Fob February I ens a n stranger In the tho city I Ios Iwas was wall os broken down lown own I a dollar doll In my pocket I X came to the city for the first week how I lived I hardly know I never ate more than one ono meal n II day and I slept In the t lodging houses h I went around for work ork About the tho end of ot the tho week I se secured secure secured cured cure l employment from Mr Pearce I hind had about a n dollar or a dollar and a II half In my m pocket I met an nn old time friend down dow at nl one ot of the tile restaurants He lIe was a n crooked man Ho asked mo me what I was doing I I told him I was working In n machine shop that I had made up my mind taint to settle down and be a n good citizen cHITen He lie asked me Ine how I Iwas Iwas Iwas was was fixed axed I told him I had hall no money and no clothes cloth s He lie gave me mo a II little change chango and an with that change I bought some come medicine that I needed At the end of ot the week ek I got some Bomo wages and bought some clothes and bought some more med elne WAS A CHURCHGOER At the onO and of ot the tho week weck I met Pr PI Carver and he introduced himself to tome tomIJ tome me mIJ and from fran that t a time on an to the tho day I Iwas Iau Iwas was au arrested I used Lego to go to his church churchon on an Sunday Sunil evenings I told him film my trouble what my past record was to ton ton toa n a great gleat extent ut nt and ho he became Interest Interested ed in me meI I told him all nil I cared for tor is If It you will make arrangements with some Bome one that will do for far this tits rheu rheumatism rheumatism He lIe made arrangements for tor forme torm forme me m to go CO to Dr Pro Gordon nordon I went to too him but there thero was no relief reller at all nil r 0 I not steady tel dy It l was WUI ex oit expert pert work and they afford to pay wages for expert work nil ull the time On tho the average I worked about threw thre days a n week so that the tho money moncy I did lId earn was just sufficient to buy me Ine soma comma clothes and medicine and pay pay my board I r wrote Dr Carver a letter and I told him everything that was in my m heart henrt I met him a n few tow days clays afterwards at It atthe atthe the ch and he h told me he ho had re 10 received re tho letter and he would meet mo mu motome tome some time and talk talle the tho matter over ASIA L TO 10 MAIm MAKR TOOLS This Tills friend of mine kept asking mo me and urging me mo If IC I would make some Bomo tools for tor him burglars tools tool I I J thought of ot the tho obligation X t Iwas was under to him and I 1 considered It and I Intend to make malte them I told him I dont watt want anything to do with that business at nt all nil allI nilI I went event to the tho Hot Springs and staid nil alt day and took what treatment they the had and I came cam home borne to the hotel that thai night and It was the tho first night In 15 IS ISor or 16 10 months time that I 1 had a de decent dec decent cent c nt nights rest I thought If It only this treatment will do mo me that much rood good what will a month or six weeks do Now I can get this month or six lix weeks rest If It 1 I will do what this man wants mo me rno to for tor ho ha had promised silo jno no a hundred dollars Then I met him Now I never sought him ho he always sought me out and 1111 when ho came that evening I said I have ho got them thom tools made He said I I will give you that hundred dollars I promised and then you can go KO to 10 the Hot Springs NIGHT OF BURGLARY Now wo come como down to the night of ot the burglary He asked me that evening when whet I came from work to 10 Set get the tools and bring them down to toft toI toa ft a I certain place which was across from tho the place pIn co that was burglarized at 11 So I came down there hell I at lit 11 and I met him and three other men moo and I showed them tho the tools Now he said sa there should bo ho another roan man here Ho says I dont want went you to get Ket Into trouble but ho he nays nay It I just rant trant Int you YOl to stand tand In a II certain corner of ot the alloy hero here and you will get that hundred dollars I 1 had lead gone gate BO so tar far Into the matter and aid I got Irot thinking about how much good tho the Hot lIot Springs would woula do me and I yielded I said call I calculate to do this I want to do It but I have gone ono so 80 far tar farand and I 1 will do It So Bo ho he tool ma mo around th the alley way and placed mo nie moIn milIn In position whore I J could look up II tho the alley way Wa east and west but bul I KM see where ho he and the tho other men went to i staid there thero and I dont dOllt know whether I dozed dOled off art or not but pretty soon coon a 11 man came camo up 1111 to mo one and nna said Hurry up lip and got gat away It Is all off ort Then my friend came camo up lip and handed me ms them tools I hurriedly put pu thorn thom In my overcoat and wont away awny When What they got Kot up to tho the middle of the tho alley ulley alleyway alleyway way 11 they ran Ian north and nna south to street they began and nd they thoy Ifft left mo ma When Then I X came camo around the tho corner cornor I thought to myself my elf now I It have got lot Into trouble so I J threw throw tho the tools oll away and then ho he arrested me meNow meO Now tiow O that Is III a true truo story of ot this bur burglary glary ta eo far tar as aff I am an concerned In It to far as ne n lI I know lenow anything about It It was teas never plotted or 01 planned at all Ilio Idea Idel was wall that I J should hould make malte liono hoso bole for him and I yielded 1 to tha temptation not because I 1 was wall hungry tad and ml worn out but because I J was sick and nd I 1 could got get that cured I expected exp Dr PI Carver C Ter down hors hora with that letter lotter and I think If It ho he will produce tine that latter your our honor will understand r what chat kind of ot a a man man J 1 am hatter better than you can from out outside side tumors rumors I hoyo hayo no long lease leoso on life Ufa I thank you your honor Th The Court the counsel Mun desire to the court Do you ou destra to 10 too toso so o heard eard h r upon this matter manor Mr r Render H n lIOn Mr Ir nond I know nothing about the Iho he facts may cony It loo your honor honer Tho rho Court Have you been on a II good since ln In you wore ro elu oln Jill Jail 7 f HODO YEa Pt Defendant Mack Maskell Well J t Am nm ono one of lit thoi hose n that try to II o bo ho III as f much by y na IIA Wm ld of ono eno In fiance j 1 i trunk think I 1 h hays v boon blOn n l but ut mm M one 1 rpm Olin cart bV be c way Vay honor Boner l I le not tU the tUo clap of 91 hil ha arp IrO lit h jv UM UV nn Jail you ou are aNI not acquainted with what to wo call coll hobo thieves Now No I got Into a n acell colt cell ell with ith a man like that and ho got me mo Into trouble In a n very cosy easy manner man manner ner He lie broke the tho lock one day and then he came and asked mo me If It I would Whittle out a n key ko like that and I said saidI I would and when hen tho the sheriff spoke to tome tome me about It I told him I 1 did They The Theare are all aU looking for tor a II chance to get fa to favors faVera Vera vors from the tho sheriff and If It they thO cant do It arty any n other way they concoct a astory astory story and then they go and tell teU It to him The Tho Court Where re la is this key you OU made madeA A AI I think Sebring ha has It Q It was a 0 key that fitted titled the tho door do r down thero A AI I dont know whether It fitted the thedoor thedoor thedoor door or not but It wens was WJ Intended to At nt Atthe the door Q You You knew m that when you made It ItA ItANo A ANo No I he be told mo me It was made mado for tor the tho lock I made It Just from tho the piece place that he lie gave me Q Have Havo you been In Jail before in your our life lito A AYes Yes your honor I have unfortunately I hAve havo struggled and made modo up m ny mind never to be In It again I would have kept out of It all nil the tile rest of ot my life lite Q What have h ve you been be cn In Jail for lor or What charges 1 ROBBED CORPORATIONS A Burglary I have robbed corpora corporations tI lUJ My sly environment has been such mien that I possibly cs e apo po being b a 11 criminal I never novel know any better What little education I 1 have had In my life lit I picked It Itu up myself Q How old were you when you were first sent Bent to tho rho penitentiary A Ten y Cr or ago age I r Thad hod been gambling for tho the last three years I had no fatter father and mother J I was wao nat naturally naturally naturally bright at least they told t ld me I Iwas Iwas Iwas was Q Where was teas that SENTENCED AS A BOY BOYA A Toronto Canada I had hod the name namo of being a wild boy The Judge told mo ilia I am afraid It f I send sand you to the tho reform school you will contaminate the Inmates that are there Therefore you are sentenced to four tour years In the pen penitentiary where woo cant contaminate them and they the cant contaminate you ou Now that was my education The only friends I ever knew know In my life lite when whim I was waSI a little boy among tho the pris prisoners They made me a n pet thoy they taught me all aU they know I listened to their stories and listened to their tales tale and I thought they were Verc Just like me meI 1 I spent tour four years In that place every everyday everyday day getting educated more mure nod and more moro In crime There wan waR nobody to take tako any merest Interest In me When hen I finished those thosa four years I I was about 15 years of or orase age ase I 1 came out and in less loss than lQ months I was hack back in tho the same vInce place for tor five live years nunar nY AGAIN Q What wag waa WI that for tor burglary again A AYes AYen Yen burglary again Q What was WWI It you OU took the first time what was It you broke Into and what was It you took tookA A Running Into hallways and taking anything I could see Q What was 1 l you ou did the second time FIVE YEARS MORE MOREA A ATho The second time was Just pre precisely precisely tho the same pome This time the tho Judge gave mo me Il five e years In the same peni penitentiary penitentiary and I went there and I 1 thought at lit that time jt It was waR about as pleasant as ue they could coutu make It Of ot course when wheat I came there I associated with roughs rough and crooks I 1 put that five ne years In Nobody ever took any Interest In me AGAIN ARRESTED I was arrested again In June 1870 By this time I had cod grown up and und I had studied considerable and ond thought a n good deal to myself and studied mat matters tars In general and when I was wis brought before the court at nt this time I 1 was WIlS charged with burglary this tide time It was IWI a II night time burglary When the court asked me mo It If 1 I had anything to soy say why the sentence of the court should not be bo passed upon mo me I asked naked film to look took over the records of ot the tho court of ot April 1880 and ho he could see Beo recorded there thore the sentence and con conviction conviction of ot a child 10 and a II half halt years ot or age If It he h kept k pt any uny minutes of ot the trial he would find out the re remarks remarks remarks marks that lad and been made mado I called call cd to his hla mind the words ho said to me that ho he was wan afraid to send mo me mo to tho reform school for tor fear I would con contaminate contaminate contaminate those t boys but he would send me to the tho penitentiary where were all 1111 the rogues and cutthroats of ot the country coun country try I went there the same Imme na as a 11 boy would wold go So to school I mot those murderers mur murderers rogues s and cutthroats as you call them They were wore all the friends that I knew they taught mo ma all that I Idid Idid Idid did know I learned lerned the lessons that they the taught there the only lessons I ever eve knew in my life I have come out here hero and I have hav put those lessons Into practise to the best of ot my ability n I Isaid Isal Isaid said sal 1 Your honor can you find And It In your heart henrt to sentence me mo to that pen penitentiary penitentiary again after atter educating me the ns as asI I havo have been hen It If I had been sent pent to tho the reform school I might have been taught something else olee Well he told me then therm ho h considered the matter and looked over the record flog found that I told him the truth He told me TIO that Instead of ot sentencing me mo to 10 the long Ions term he had Intended to ho would re reduce reduce duce luce the tithe time to five fio years yearn yen Now I Iwas Iwas was Just In my m early manhood and five years at that time lime I had helel had a little money monc and seen a good time It Will was Just the tho same as death to me I took desperate chandos and jumped out of or orthe the courtroom window a matter of or 45 feet flOt and I got away I put In that five years I got away and staid away aU but I l 4 the same name kind of or alife a IL alife ILliCe life liCe I have hn led the same game kind of ot a am alit up until a n few tew years ago It sec soo second ond nature It Is first nature It has been be n Instilled Into me mo from my m first childhood It may have been boen heredi hereditary tart tary for tor all I know knew but certainly In Inthe inthe the tho environment ell the thee temptations were wore forced upon Uon me meNEVER meNEVER NEVER KNEW ANY BETTER DETTER I 1 choose It myself I was waa sent nt there and I have havo never known any bet bot better bottel better ter tel Tho The time has como come when I have llave been robbed myself several times timeR and from that time on I havo have never robbed an Individual man I never novel did rob a woman and I have havo never understood the tho moral wrong of ot robbing a corpora corporation tion Sometimes I have made money enough to keep mo me for a II year or two In what they call good society go ort oft somewhere where I known and andrest rest and bo be Quiet and I J have studied the tho matter over but I havo have never seen the moral sid of or that question I never lJ er could see when I was WI doing wrong I saw I 1 was waR running risks Tha rho only on wrong I could see that I might get Into Inlo prison and be punished for tor It but I sea Reo the moral morn |
