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Show The devil Is the meanest boss and I the cheapest pay In the world. The Eible says that the "'Wages of sin ,; is death," but before the devil pays a man off with death he works h!m overtime and doesn't pay him all the time while he is working. The records of the penitentiaries show an enormous list of these underpaid un-derpaid men. They are in every prison and the Rertillon records l show that many of them have been sent to prison for comparatively trivial offenses, such as the robbery rob-bery of a box of cigars. The only reason for sending them to prison II is because they will refuse to work i at anything but the jobs Satan outlines out-lines for them and they are class 'i as habitual criminals. Now and then a man is sent to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for srimo big robbery, but if his past can be known It will bo found he suffered untold miseries when he cotfldn't steal enough to live comfortably on. He worked at night to break Into homes and then got nothing but cheap silver spoons, which he could not pawn. He held j up men and -got nothing but a few I cents and a cheap revolver. Here arc some records in the office of-fice of Bertillov! Expc-t John S li i which show some of the trivial offenses of-fenses for which men have been convicted Fred Gross-, alias Fred Miller, alias Fred Turner, was arrested tabout -::;,J a- ni February 4, 1910, In a saloon which he had entered ; by cutting out a panel of the door leading up from the cellar, but was arrested by the officers before he had stolen anything Ho was liter j identified as the man who pawned II rr.'filiv.r nr l"l i r- Y Btftvll 'I f,l' pll'll I'.' ! und some whisky had been stolen I In the burglary of another saloon. II Two informn lions were Issued, ono for burglary, second degree, arid i ho other for burglary, second degree and larceny. He was also charged with being an habitual criminal, he havng served two previous terms in the Missouri State Penitentiary, one for burglary, second degree, I and larceny and the other for grand larceny. April , 1910, he pleaded gulltv L to burglary, secon'd degree only, and was sentenced to ten yean in the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson Eity. Joseph Monroe, alias James Mon-r Mon-r Me, alias Harry Roth, was arrested Bbout 5.10 p. in. December 2 1, loot',, and later identified as the 1 nwn who about 5.15 p. m. on December De-cember 17, 190C, entered the off.co of the Bundersehide Manufacturing Manufactur-ing Company and at the point of a revolver attempted to force Miss Margaret Kuhn, the cashier of the concern, to give hiin a lot of pay envelopes en-velopes containing about J600, which she was putting in the eafe. The young woman held to the envelopes en-velopes and made an outcry and he fled without securing the money. An information charging him with attempted robbery, first degree, was issued. January 1."., 190 7, ho was c uivictcd as charged and sentenced sen-tenced to a term of ten years In the Missouri State Penitentiary. He had formerly been employed by the firm under the name of Harry Roth. P ROM left to right Fred Gross, Walter Meyer, Charles Adams. Harold Mc-Rae Mc-Rae and Joseph Monroe. He had no previous record. Harold Mcliae. alias Hunt, alias Red, was arrested November 17. 1906, and was later identified and also admitted having held up and robbed Fred Woods at tho mouth of an alley on the night of November Novem-ber 7, 1906, and taking 50 from his person. January t;, 1907, be was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of nine years. He had previously served a term of two year in Missouri Training School at Boonville. Mo., for petit lar-ceny, lar-ceny, and also a term of three months in the City Workhouse for petit larceny Walter Meyer, alias Meyers, alias William Jones, was arrested about 9:40 p. m. February 27, 1911. with two other men, after they had been i hased by the officers from a drj goods store, which had been entered en-tered by breaking tho lass In tho front door. The officer discovered two men In the store and they ran, followed by Officer Koetter. A revolver re-volver duel took place between Koettor und the two burglars and Officer Holthaus, who had also joined in the chase. They did not secure anything from the store. Ho was sentenced to ten years. Charles Adams was arrested July 1. 1908, and was identified as having hav-ing knocked down and robbed of $1 one Harry Wilson, who was stopping at a Salvation Army barracks bar-racks An information charging robbery, first degree, was issued. He pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob and was sentenced to two years In the penitentiary. Convictions are not based on tho amount of money stolen The convictions con-victions are based on the enormity of the crime. An habitual criminal will get a heavier sentence than a first offender. A man who walks into an open building and picks up 51 000 is not as bad as a criminal who break Into a house The chief hard luck jail bird of the country recently was found In Milwaukee. He is Thomas Henry Murphy, 59, alias Thomas Melntyre, alias "Snake" Murphy, alias twenty other names, and his record (considered one of the most remarkable of any criminal), is in every police statiou in the United States. Murphy, he says himself, is a "cheap crook." He has served thirty-six years in penitentiaries in three. States. This docs not include sentences In houses of correction, county Jails and calabooses cal-abooses for minor offenses, or the lime, lying In Jail while awaiting trial, about five or six years. "The wages of sin are mighty small," whined the aged, bent man, as he crouched on a scat In district court "I have spent more thsn forty for-ty years of my life In prison, but the total value of all I have stolen will not reach 8100. "I started when I was a kid," he explained after some wheedling. "I was living with my mother in St. Louis, A negro washerwoman was drunk on the street and a cop stopped an express wagon to take her to Jail. I picked up a stone and hit the cop back of the ear, layinc him out I was sentenced to the reformatory until I was 21. In two years my mother got me out. 'After this I was In no serious trouble until I moved to Colorado. This time 1 stole about 55 worth of stuff and got twelve years In the penitentiary. I had broken Into a place und the charge was burglary. I was sentenced three times in Colorado, Colo-rado, serving about eighteen years in all. 'Then I went back to Missouri, but it was no use I kept getting In bad there and in Kansas. As fast as I got out I would steal some small thing and get back In again. I haven't had a free summer in twenty years. Every summer I had been locked up. That's why I came up to Wisconsin I planned to have a great time, working around the bit; hotels and taking it easy. I had made up my mind to be honest-'' Murphy was arrested in a saloon He was drunk and way trying to sell a new pair of shoes for 25 cents. He -aid he bought the shoes, but could not name the place, so w is sentenced to ninety days In Jail on a vagrancy charge. He had been In Milwaukee four hours Murphy pro-tested pro-tested be had bought the shoes and declared he was being sentenced because be-cause of his past record. 'IT you really bought those shoes. Murphy," a raan wno bcard tno story told him- "I will help you. I will go to every store within a mile of bero you think you got them. If it is found that you bought them I believe tho Judge will let you go." Murphy scratched his head. "Maybe we had bettor let well enough alone," he said. "Maybe If you found the place 1 would be In , ire trouble than I am now." Why is it that you wer never straight never really tried?" Murphy Mur-phy was asked. Booze." Tie replied. "I never hud sense enough to let it alone. It la hard enough for a man who has game. A man with a record can never do it. As soon as I get out of jail 1 beat it for a saloon. I might M well WSlk right back to the pollco station. During tho forty years T ffidSjrJ have been locked up I have thought Bt; of an epiteph that I would like to IBV have placed upon the headstone of HfEm my grave If I am lucky enough to ppy have a headstone. Here it is: Wi'v Hero lies ' Snake" Murphy. v'fcl He was In Jail forty years, El Cheap booze kept him there, They still sell it. Wfi't A Thermos Bottle Home. By :' :4 A typo of concrete construction BS I new to Kansas City will have Its wr'T-I first trial here this fall and winter, mi'' I provision being made for its use in .Evtf'V:-the .Evtf'V:-the erc-ction of the now homo of F. Kiifc!' L. Williamson, vice president of a srl fc" cement company. This new con- mk-st mk-st ruction involves neither the use ft;'"4 of the familiar "cement blocks" Br ' nor the pouring of concrete in a Br"' frame form. Bvy Mr. Williamson's home will have K$r?i double concrete walls with a con- W I I tlnuous air space between. Above !r the foundation there will be two 4- j inch walls with a 2'-a-inch airspace. For the foundation there will be two 6-Inch walls. The?o walls will be cast by a small machine that Will travel along the wall as each unit is formed In place. This unique house is being erect- t ed on a tract of land with a 290-foot I frontage on the west side of High j Drive between Mission Drive and West Fifty-ninth street It is on the Kansas side of the State line. jl The house will be built on the j common prlnciplo of the thermos I bottle. Advantages- that make for economy arc the fact that the ma- f terlal has to be handled only once and that plaster and stucco are applied ap-plied direct- The rooms will be finished in oil, wall paper being dispensed with. Shepard & Belcher are the achl- I tects employed and have designed I a house of the modern Middle West type with wide overhanging eaes. ! The main feature is a large central t. living hall 32 by 20 feet, from i which the staircase goes direct to the second floor. To the south an j Inclosed dining porch, 15 by 16 feet, onnectS with the fining room, pro- MMon being made for the two to be j thrown into one room. A library i and a sun parlor are on the north. j The serving quarters, wit servants 1 dining room, are to the rear. The second floor includes four I main bedrooms, with two sleeping porches opening from them. There also are four bathrooms and two sen ants' rooms. The basement has a sarac for three ears, a man's room with bath, cold storage room, i nmcln. a boiler room and a chll- Oren' room. J The front porch will form the top of a large cistern. Another Interesting In-teresting feature will fle tne we J cement title for tho floors In U. j glassed-in porches. J The house will be 68 by 32 feet with a rear Ming 31 by 27 feet Even the belt courso will be cast by the wall-layinc machine. The piers between the second r ftoi r casement windows will & molded and then put in place. Dining War Cars. The commissary department of I the Canadian Pacific Railway has provided ten special dinin cars for tho trains carrying troops In the Dominion which resemble in equip- J ment hotels on wheels. From 500 to 600 men can be accommodated l daily with facility In these cars. Mong the sides of the cars are ranged big steam boilers, great j cooking kettles, steam ovens, ranges , Uld other modern appuratus for foe operation of the culinary do- , partment. In the center and ex-tending ex-tending tho length of the cars are counters on which the feed Is served Suspended from the cell- r ins or roof are rows of plates, and oeneath the counter, In specially I prepared cupboards. are dishes, saucers knives and forks, spoons j aDd other serviceable articles. I above the counter ure ranged rows of tin cans which can be used for serving soup, coffee, tea and other jj liquids. |
