Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — 85,000 PIECES PUT IN TABLE [ARTICLE]

85,000 PIECES PUT IN TABLE

Part of a Pennsylvania Prison Exhibit k Is Much Admired—Made by a Convict. - Pittsburg, Pa.—An exhibition of the v| work of prisoners of the western Penn- J sylvania penitentiary, was opened re- | cently. One article which attracted' widespread comment is a table made / of 85,000 pieces of wood. The surface of the table contains ten Masonic devices and insignias. Thousands of visitors attending the fifty-ninth annual 7: Pennsylvania state conclave of the 1 Knights Templar admired the table. A well-known judge visited the exhlbltion. "Didn’t so and so make this table?* he asked. When asked how he knew he said m he had the counterpart of It Th»4| judge had sentenced the talented vrU&m oner to a life term for murder and. later had it commuted to twenty year*. §s