Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1930 — Page 5

FEB. 28, 1930.

'Millionaire Drug Clerk' Had Room of Own While Inmate of Jail; 'Rolled Few Pills'

Fifty Million Dollars Get Plenty of Privileges, Say Prisoner. Today's article, the third in a series in which a former inmate of the District of Columbia jail describes Harry F. Sinclair's confinement there, tells how Sinclair obtained both privacy and comfort in the jail by getting assigned to a private room, "much like a hotel room except for the barred window.”

BY A FELLOW PRISONER (Copyright. 1930. NEA Service. Inc.) THE ordinary inmate of the District of Columbia jail sleeps in a cell with other prisoners, on an iron cot. If he is lucky and gets an office Job. he sleeps in a more comfortable bed in the dormitory, a much more comfortable place. But Harry F. Sinclair slept In a room of his own. When he was assigned to the pharmacy for duty he was given a private “hospital room” in the infirmary. It was not unlike a hotel room, except that it had barred windows and was not so elaborately equipped. It wasn’t big—perhaps Bxlo feet in all. He had a clean, comfortaQle hospital bed, a chair and a bureau. There was a barred opening in the door through which the guard could look in and make his official “count” on his rounds. But Sinclair's room soon took on a different aspect from the others. His bureau was littered with toilet and medicinal articles. A white screen was put in front of his door to Insure his privacy— although, of course, this made it impossible for the guard to see him in making his count, as the regulations require. a b n WE other Inmates wondered about it. And the “grapevine” gave us this explanation: Sinclair was the pharmaceutical assistant to the jail doctor. He was an office man Therefore he rated a bed outside the cells, in his latter capacity, and he had to be placed In the infirmary so that if any of the patients needed assistance in the night he could tend them. But Sinclair wasn’t a doctor. He was a “pill roller.” The doctor sleeps in the infirmary. His assistant, a prisoner, doesn’t. A trained nurse always is on duty until midnight. So the rest of the Jail wondered. It. wondered some more when it was found that Sinclair spent very little time rolling pills. He got out of bed In the morning when he felt like it—sometimes not until noon, although rising time for the rest of thp jail was 5:30. Onre an "uninitiated” guard made the error of shouting at Sinclair to get up at the regular time. There was no answer and Sinclair didn't get up. Nothing was done about it. Once up, Sinclair took his morning bath. The ordinary prisoner, who probably needed one a lot more than Sinclair did. wasn't allowed to take one. When the morning bath was over. Sinclair shaved. Ordinary prisonerr are not allowed to have razors. Tic get shaved at the jail "barber shop” once a w T eek. Sinclair had his own razor and used it himself. Os course. I realize that there wasn't any danger of Harry Sinclair going on a rampage and slicing somebody with his razor. I'm not kicking that he was allowed to keep his. I'm just pointing out that fifty million dollars, when it goes to jail, doesn't get the same treatment that the ordinary man gets. B B B of the things that makes an office man's job in thp jail so nice is the fact that he has the freedom of the jail and so gets plenty of exercise. The other prisoners’ exercise com sists of walking down to meals three times a day, and perhaps

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pacing up and down the corridor three times a week. But Sinclair, at first, had more than this. He was permitted to leave the jail and ride to the unloading docks in an automobile with a jail doctor to attend the physical needs, if any, of prisoners unloading bricks from the barges. When the newspapers discovered this it was stopped. After that Sinclair roamed the spacious jail grounds for his daily constitutional, breathing the fresh air and limbering up his muscles. There were other people in Jail, who didn't have fifty milion. who would have benefited, likewise, by some of these privileges. I remember one such—a dope fiend —who was locked in a cell with his supply of narcotics cut off. He suffered agonies for days, and finally got so bad they put him in the infirmary. There, with special care and food, he got better; but at last, over his pitiful protest, he was taken back ,o liis cell, to make way for another

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patient. And pretty soon he died, there in his cell, clutching the hand of a bewildered guard who was unable to help him. # # # WHEN Sinclair got out of jail it was remarked that he looked better than when he went in. And why not? He had a comfortable place to sleep. He had fresh air and exercise. His clothes always were in good order—he had an orderly keep his suits pressed and his shoes shined, end he sent his laundry to New York, while the ordinary prisoner washed his own linen or else went dirty. NEXT—What Sinclair ate and what the other prisoners ate. Swedish Cow Is 28 By United Press GOTHENBURG. Sweden, Feb. 28. —A 28-year-old cow, believed to be the oldest in Sweden, is living contentedly on a farm in the western province of Holland.

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AVIATOR GROUP WILL ARRANGE TOUR OF STATE State Officials Invited to Attend Dinner Session at Columbia Club. State officials and leaders of the aircraft industry wall attend the dinner of the Indiana Aircraft Trade Association at the Columbia Club at 6:30 Wednesday night, according to H. Weir Cook, president. Among those invited are Governor Harry G. Leslie, AdjutantGeneral Manford G. Henley, Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and F. Harold Van Orman of Evansville, former Lieutenant-Governor. Annual Indiana air tour of the association will be held in June this year, it is announced. Cities desiring to be included in the tour this year should notify the association, Cook said. Arrivals and Departures Curtiss-Mars Hill Airport—Lieutenant D. D. Watson and Lieutenant Matt G. Carpenter, Indiana national guard, to Pine Bluffs, Ark., national guard plane; Walker W. Winslow, Indiana Aviation Corporation president, to Lafayette and return, Curtiss Robin; T. A. T. passengers included L. E. Tanner, 1434 North Delaware street; W. E. Anstis, East Thirty-eighth street; H. A. Kahl, 3293 East Thirty-seventh street; Einbry-Riddle passengers were Mrs. B. G. Frame, Indianapolis to Cincinnati, and R. S. Tilden and Harry Bauer to Chicago. Capitol Airport—James A. Douglas, Capitol pilot, to South Bend and return, four passengers; Lieutenant Ralph Hunter of Long Island, N. Y„ stopped at the field.

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