Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — Bore Mark of the Convict [ARTICLE]

Bore Mark of the Convict

Rata With Peculiar Btripo the Result of Their Being Littered In a Penitentiary. Parental influence has been the study of scientists for ages, and many wonderful results have been recorded, but the most remarkable case known has come to light in this city. White rats striped with brown have been bred at the penitentiary hero by Newton Trusty, a convict, and the association of the rats with convicts wearing striped colors,- the body of the clothes being white and the stripes brown, is believed to* account Tor these freak rats. Trusty was sent to the penitentiary years ago for murder, and was to have served a life sentence. Hope of securing a parole or pardon caused him to study out some method of soaking money while in the prison, and he decided to breed white rata and sell them. He had been conducting the ratbreeding farm within the prison walls for years before the first white rat striped with brown made Its appear- ...... . •*».,. -- It was sold, and then the same lie-

male gave birth to another litter of striped rats, which laid the foundation for the freak rata, which were good enough sellers to earn Trusty a snug sum of money, so that when he was paroled recently he had money enough to go to his native county and buy a form,—New York Herald.