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Show SILENT FOR TEN YEARS, LOST POWER OF SPEECH BOSTON, Met. Patrick J ("Cor-i ka I llanley end. .1 a - . car M ll-lence ll-lence at the state prison Wednesday ag .inst his will and maintained to the last a sller.ee begun ten years ago. He) hud asked, in writing, that he be allowed al-lowed to stay on for a few da; s more to finish some work but, his sentence ha.lng expired. Warden Shattuck put hint out. ; At the state house, to which he was .t.iken by th.- warden on his firr.t automobile auto-mobile rids, lo was asked If he .,.s not rcd to talk, llunlex stood mute, then reached out for a pencil and pad. and wrote: "I can't. He took a vow of silence ten years 'aro after 0. fellow convict had rc-to!d something he said, and. although parole pa-role was offered him several times If lie would voice a rcqucai for it, he rc-; rc-; fused. Hanley was committed to the prison as a habitual criminal from Ixiwrence In 1 S 95 after he was found guilty of stealing $S4 worth of shoes |