Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1919 — WELCOMED AS RIGHT SORT [ARTICLE]

WELCOMED AS RIGHT SORT

Newcomer's Record Made Him <ll* j gibie to Inner Clrotea of Indk i ana’s Big Penitentiary. Frank P. Lltschert, secretary to Governor Goodrich, spent several days at the state prison, Michigan City, recently, and being fortunate enough to get out again ‘is telling the following yarn: Warden Fogarty of the prison-Hkes to make as easy as he can the hard lot of the prisoners, and has arranged for ball games at intervals within the prison walls. Convicts form the teams, and while there 14 some difficulty in getting one to act as umpire, the games usually are pulled off in good style. A visitor from South Bend was at the prison one day when a game was scheduled, and being a former ball player It was suggested that he put on the prison uniform and get into the game “Incog” and put a little professional “pep” into It. Eventually the “ringer” was all fitted out and was placed in the lot. He was sitting on the bench when a typical convict “hard guy” swaggered up to him and sympathetically inquired: “Hello, bol What ya in fer?’ The outsider was nonplused, but recovering In a moment he replied: “Oh, I beaned a guy.” "Did ya put ’lm clean out?" again .Inquired the hard guy, with professional' interest. “Yep,” said the ringer. Whereupon the convict, fraternal to the core, gleefully “Atta boy I”—lndianapolis News.