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Show TALENTED CONVICTS GO FREE Song and Poetry Bring Pardon . to Two; Cartoon Work Frees Third. A prisoner has just been released from jail because he sang well. Only a little while ago a convict was pardoned par-doned because he wrote poetry. This sort of thing can be prolonged indefinitely, indefin-itely, the Cleveland Plaindealer remarks. re-marks. Convict Bill Drydock will be pardoned next month because he is a fine cartoonist. With a bit of plumbago plum-bago and a whitewashed wall BUI drew a striking likeness of Banker Swoop, who is his seatmate in the prison dining room. Convict Joe Skeetch, the notorious Brooklyn thug, has developed rrae talent as a carver. A rolling pin he whittled out of a bed leg for the warden's wife shows a high degree of art craft skill. Active measures meas-ures are being taken to interest the governor in Joe's behalf. Convict Mulky Sludge, he kidnapper, has made a monkey wrench out of a bit of iron hoop from a water pail and two yards of wire from a broom. The fact that be tried to brain Guard Tomkins with this ingenious tool will not weaken weak-en a determined effort to secure the governor's recognition of Mulky's remarkable re-markable mechanical skill. Convict Jerry Twiggs, who poisoned the ice cream at the Methodist church picnic In Skinkle's woods in the suburbs of Weehawken last May, has developed a keen interest in line engraving. Entirely En-tirely unaided, his only tools being a shoemaker's awl and a bit of sandpaper, sandpa-per, he made a plate for a $2 bank bill which was so well done that he had no trouble In selling it to a visitor for two pounds of cut plug, a box of knockout drops, three files and a bottle bot-tle of sulphuric acid. Convict Twigg's birthday comes next Monday, and his leading birthday gift will be an unconditional uncon-ditional pardon. |
