Show BAD BAY CONVICT REFORMS NOW MODEL CITIZEN conscience hurts after escape so he returns and finishes sentence houston texas success as an engineer social position ease case a big salary all these deserted for the life inside a texas prison because a trusty could not run away from his conscience this Is the story of the worst convict in the penitentiary who came to be a trusty through the falth faith of a friend who became a competent engineer with encouragement and who broke ills promise and escaped only to give up an evitable en eni table position 1 in fit life to satisfy the demands of an awakened conscience bill jones a poor mechanic was given a life glen sentence tence for the murder of a rich man who attacked him because he wanted to marry the rich mans daughter bill entered the penitentiary tent iary lary bitter and resentful once in a fight with guards resulting from an effort to bomb his way through the prison walls he injured a guard seriously he was tried and given an additional sentence rim A few months later he prisoner seized another opportunity to escape they flung the eng engineer ineer and fireman out of the cab of a penitentiary locomotive which worked in and out of the walls they opened wide the throttle in a dash for liberty liberty Is costly the sentries fired at them and oell cers immediately gave chase bill was found with a bullet through ills his k J 1 q I 1 with a bullet through his chest chest and taken back to the prison where he lay for a long time hanging in the balance between life and death at length he began to mend abys icalla but not morally the prison superintendent then col L A what tey decided he bould try ills band alib the man after all the others had failed bill he said if give me your word that behave yourself land try to reform ill make aou a trusty make him a trusty bill jones the worst man in the pen I 1 the superintendents ten dents sincere fulth faith touched bills heart heare the hard bad man broke down and cried like a baby ill try colonel lie sobbed that was tile beginning of bills creation the first step he took toward reforming was to take up correspondence courses in engineering by studying spare hours in the pent lent fent lary he graduated and received degrees in civil and electrical engineering from the university of chicago within a remarkably short time bill changed from the worst to one of the most trusted and useful prisoners in the system but circumstances again thrust him under the hard boiled sergeant under whom he had first served and then trouble began finally bill ran away because as he afterward declared he knew he would be impelled to kill the sergeant it if he remained 4 fortune favors bill bill went to san francisco then down the west coast to south america where he be built railroads in the andes from there he drifted to africa and there became superintend ent of a railroad company at a handsome salary he was free and safe from prison but not from conscience flee to alie ends of the earth as he may he could not escape the accusing finger of self reproach tor for having broken his ili promise to the kindly superintendent who find faith in liliu him voluntarily lie he returned to the texas penitentiary ile he made good again as a convict and after a few years was granted a full pardon today lie Is a respected and honored citizen and again holds an important engineering position in one of the large concerns of the cou country n |