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Show L W. W. Poet in Jail Yearns to Be Free In Chicago by Judge Landls for violation vio-lation of the espionage act, the selective selec-tive service act, aivd a number of other statutes, as a member of the I. W. W. He was also fined $10,000. Ashleigh Is thirty-three years old. He was born In London and has worked In South America on newspapers. newspa-pers. His longing for the beauties of nature finds expression in poetry. One of his poems, entitled "When I Go Out," contains these lines: O be to. me tender, .leaves that wall out- side , ' This sullen wall, and keep Inviolate Until I come to you with love-dumb lips From out this dull tenement of hate; -Out of the fresh breathing of the earth To draw allayment of my rasping fear. My woundings and my trettlngs, till my mind Is soothed by winds that draw lika s nurses near, When I go out. . . . O roads of all the world! O beauty, fields and cities, do not fall! Walt, strong friends, my coming let my heart Once more drink glory on a careless trail. YEARNING for liberty, Charles Ashleigh, poet and a "follower of the road" by inclination, languishes lan-guishes today a prisoner In Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, buoyed only by the hope of pardon from President Harding. Through the Intercession Of -Vaohel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Hudson Maxim, Charles Kann Kennedy, Judge Anderson of Boston, Mary Heaton Vorse and others who believe In- his Innocence, Ashleigh hopes that Attorney Attor-ney General Dougherty will recommend recom-mend his pardon to the President. He went to the federal penitentiary on April 25, 1921, to serve a sentence of ten years' Imprisonment passed on him |