Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1912 — From Behind Prison Walls. [ARTICLE]

From Behind Prison Walls.

Not long ago a story drifted down from Sing Sing about one of the colony of local bankers now doing time, says the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times Star. The banker had a caller, who had been of service during the trial. The caller had then learned to regard the jugged financier with an affection which was not reciprocated. ■M want to see Mr. Banker,” said the. caller to a keeper. “Write your name On a card and I’ll take iCin,” said the keeper. “And what do you think,” said the caller to a friend, on his return to the city. “That keeper brought my card-back to me. ’Sorry, sir/ said he, •but Mr. Banker isn’t at home today.’ ” A complementary yarn is the one now told of “P. K.” Connaughton, who for years has been principal keeper at Sing Sing. The other day Connaughton told a prisoner to drop a bag of onions he was carrying at the door, and come into the keeper’s office to be questioned about some recent offense. The prisoner stood the crossexamination well. When the prisoner and “P. K.” came out the bag was there, but the qnions had disappeared. “By thunder,” said “P. K., n “there’s a thief in this place." ' S'i