Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1955 — Page 9

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 7, 1955.

' Rejects Parole To Remain In Quartet Parole Refused By Alabama Convict MONTGOMERY. Ala. (INS) rPrison life doesn't appeal to a 28-year-old Alabama confict but the auburn-haired native of Arkansas rejected a parole and freedom because he didn’t want to, break up the prison quartet. Why should this young man, who has spent eight lonely years in the grim solitude of a prison, deny himself freedom — especially after he risked his life in a daring escape several years ago? Only Harwell D. Gray knowa — and ‘.'because I don't have the Word explain how I feel, no one can know exactly.’’ Gray was handed his walking papers recently by. Alabama’s pardon and parole board. He declined to accept, saying he just “didn't want to leave the prison quartet.” But although the motive is -The same, there is apparently a deeper meaning to his decision. The slim viefim, who sings a healthy bass in the “Kilby Gospel Quartet” has found a purpose in i life since being sentenced in 1947. ! He organized the prison quartet earlier this year after singing with prison groups for the past five .rears. His comment: “My work with the group brought a change in me* that I can't express." Smiling broadly, the slim convict reminisced: —- “I was just a punk kid when I first got to prison, but now I feel like for the first time in my life I I am doing somethi’iig worthwhile.” Gray's biography is similar to

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that of many young convicts Inhabiting prisons. At the age of rive, his mother died leaving him to the custody of his father. His wayward career began when he was ten years old upon confinement to the Searcy, Ark., reformatory school. As Gray pjjts it: - "I've had only five years of freedom since 1 was ten.” Choosing his words carefully. Gray tried to explain why he didn’t want to leave Kilby prison: - “There’s no one here who can Take my place at the present. I think I’m a big help to the prisoners and it does me a lot of good to help them as well as those I

might help at other Institutions.” The quartet, composed of three others — all In their twenties — sings each Stthday on a Montgomery radio station specializing in gospel hymn singing. Gray was forced to "answer the music” in 1947 when he was captured only two days after his prison break with ten convicts. The lash system was used in Alabama's penal system then and Graygot “15 lashes.” He and the others made the ■break while on a work detail and stole guns and held two prison guards as hostages in their dash to freedom. “Things have changed now

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though," the youthful-looking license plate painter (his iprisoa job) said, adding: "I believe in model prisons, so I'm. going to try to be a model prisoner." Gray, who was convicted in 1947 for grand larceny and concealing and receiving stolen property, had extra years added to his sentence for the prison break: He finishes .— his time in 1988. His comment about the future: “I do plan to leave prison — when I finish my time, though." - Providence — Rhode Island is only one twn-hundreth as big aa Texas, but has 4do miles of coastline. 1..: .^—■ ■ - * — '■■._■ ■ "■"*