Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1914 — Lively Enough. [ARTICLE]

Lively Enough.

“Do you not find the dead, humdrum monotony of prison- life maddening?” asked the humane visitor. “Oh, I don’t know,” answered the convict. “I’ve been in four riots, had two transfers, one fight with a keeper and have escaped and been recaptured three times. That's crowding more excitement in two years than most law-abiding men get in a lifetime.”