Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-13 | Page 8 | A Half Holiday for Prisoners

j A HALF HOLIDAY FOR PRISONERS i The 500 inmates of the state prison and county jail of -Rhode Island, at Cranston, In that state seventeen of , them doomed to life imprisonment I received a welcome respite recently in I the first of a scries of Saturday half holidays with games and baseball, ,- granted them through the recom- mendation of Warden James F Mc- Cusk'er. To the prisoners, one of the best appreciated features of the day was a distribution of 500 clay pipes and fifty pounds of tobacco. Several of the "lifers" enjoyed their first .i fresh air In more than a score of Ij years, and more numerous were the Ij prisoners who had not tasted" tobacco i in one, five, ten, twenty and more I years. I Noted among the men in the yard I were Captain Robert Crow, serving a I life sentence for murder on the high I seas, the oldest prisoner in the Insli- jj tutlon, both as to age and incarcera i tion. He is 65 years old and 'was Im- prisoned forty-six yeare ago II , r Martin Mowry, who has served four- B ' , teen years of a life sentence for tho A ', triple tragedy in Burrlllville, said he 1 1 i was fooling well Alien Dorsoy of ' I r pardon-seeking fame, who has served j I a quarter of a century of a life term I I for a murder, appeared no different I rrom the ordinary workman. Trent, J I, one of the latest arrivals among the I "lifers," squatted as nonchalantly as li an ordinary "fan" and criticised the f work of the ball players. Boston J.j Transcript. VA nn