Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — Sparrow Shares a Philadelphia Convict’s Cell [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Sparrow Shares a Philadelphia Convict’s Cell

PHILADELPHIA.--" Jimmie, the sparrow," & new prisoner, arrived at the Eastern penitentiary the other day. He occupies the cell with Caligerio Strazzeri, who began a ten years’ sentence for the killing of Diego Randazzo

to Berks county. “Jimmie” is a real sparrow. This little bird flew into the cell to the Berks county jail, where Strazzeri was kept a prisoner for six months after his arrest for the killing. He came and went for several days, and then took no his permanent residence there. When Strazzeri was transferred to the penitentiary here, be brought Jimmie along, hoping against hope that the warden would i«st him keep the bird. Kind-hearted Warden McKenty said: "Of course.

•ou can keep him." to his bluff, hearty way. When Strazzeri took his first shower bath to his new prison the little bird sat upon a desk, then flew to the top of the open door of the shower, watching. When the bath was over he perched on the convict’s shoulder, looked up to his face and thee pecked gjt Strazzeri’B nose. «n»ma is gala to know many tricks, all taught him by