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Show I OUT OF PEN S Rj I Convict Poet and Maga-M Maga-M zine Writer Is I Jefferson City, Mo Dec. 16. Albert Al-bert Ferguson, convict poet and magazine mag-azine writer, who loft the penitentiary today on parole, owes his liberty to some oxtcut to tho fact that while jn prison he conducted a school for illiterate prisoners. More than one convict who entered the prl&on, tin- I able either to read or write, left it with a fair education because of Fer- I guson's efforts. This gained for For- ' gnsou tho aid of the ponltcntlary of- j Icials. It is said Ferguson is a member or an excellent Kentucky family. He gave his ape at 24 when ho entered the penitentiary Jan. 22, 190G, uncer ten-year sentence for robbery, from ' Kansas City. j J Ferguson from his cell kept up correspondence v.ith several publlca-J publlca-J tiens and wrote much verse. He Is I paroled to William Marlon Reedy, St. S Louis editor, who publlshod some or Ferguson's poems and at every oppor-J oppor-J tiinlty pleaded for clemency for him. ."(. The parolo requires Ferguson to ab-f ab-f stain from the use of Intoxicants. m oo |