Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — Oldest Convict in States Given Freedom Monday. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Convict in States Given Freedom Monday.

Among the half hundred petitions laid before the Connecticut board of pardons for consideration and action Monday was an application for the pardon off John Warren, who is serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary at Weathersfield. Warren has the unenviable distinction of being the oldest convict in the United States in point of years, having been a prison inmate for fifty-three yqars. If Warren should be liberated it will be like' stepping into a new world. When he was placed behind the prison walls Buchanan was president; four millions of negroes were held in slavery; the great Civil War had not yet been thought of; coal was not used as fuel; cook stoves were a rarity," electric lighting had not been dreamed of but in their stead/were the tallow candle and grease dip. Of course some of these things he has seen in prison, but he has probably never seen a thrashing machine, a binder, a railroad train, a street car, an outomobile or a flying machine. The probabilities are that Warren would ask to be placed inside the walls again to keep the modern world from running over him.,