Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1939 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1089 New Deal Comes to Women’ s Prison

JURORS’ FINAL REPORT WAITED

Many Indictments, ‘ Review Of Inspections Expected in Court Friday.

The Marion County Grand Jury is expected to make its final report tn Criminal Court Friday. The jury, the same which conducted the investigation of Center

Township poor relief, is reported to be prepared to return one of the

lengthiest reports handed down in |

the past year. It is reported to contain many in- | dictments in criminal cases bound | over from lower courts. 100 case has piled up for Grand |

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Jury consideration as a result of |.

the relief inquiry. The jury also will report on its inspection of county benevolent and penal institutions Several of the cases in which indictments are reported to have been voted are said to be those which attracted attention in the past two weeks during a flareup of crime uctivity throughout the city. Prosegutor David M, Lewis two weeks 0 promised he would ask! the Grand Jury to consider those! cases of violence in preference to minor cases previously scheduled for action. With its final report, the Grand Jury will end its service. It was selected last July. A new Grand Jury, to be known as the January term jury, is to be selected Jan. 2 $0 serve until the end of next June.

FALCON FLIES TOO LOW PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20 (U. P).| =A falcon with a 38-inch wingspread was killed by a plumber in the basement of a central city sky- | scraper.

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BOARD DECIDES ON MODERATION IN SMOKE FIGHT

| Hope to Overcome Resist:

ance of Violators at Friday Conferences.

Safety Board members have oli

R cided that the best way of abating £ | the smoke nuisance is to pursue a {policy of moderation in enforcing

| the Anti-Smoke ordinance, hoping |

| to overcome the resistance of viola-

The interior of the prisoner's single room is cheery. The window bars are disguised effectively.

Prisoners Have System of Self-Government Instead Of Torture Chamber.

When, on or before Jan. 1, the old Indiana Women’s Prison building is razed, it will dramatize the passing of an old and the inaugura[tion of a new philosophy of corrective technique. Neat and clean single rooms, with

No one could explain how unnoticable window bars, will have

{in use when the old building was | first occupied. And “heh that old building is razed, the city and the state will

one of the most antiquated of the correctional institution buildings. People at the Women's Prison have three cheers for the event, Officials and inmates alike cheer the

ministration buildings are fireproof and safe. They have a cheer for the fact that the institution, when the old building is gone and the grounds e landscaped, will be one of the most

the bird had been able to get so been substituted for cells. Plant and [beautiful state-owned plants,

deep in the cellar.

methods all will be foreign to those! And they have a cheer for the

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be rid of a notorious firetrap and

fact that the new cottages and ad- |

{pital for a few days’ observation.

this newly |were transported from the old prisjon at Jeffersonville, manacled in| ‘heavy chains and handcuffs and

the debris. |Tndiana Women's Prison now. lof plain wood and the window bars

(work glass,

tersonville prison, where both male [and female prisoners were lodged, to be pretty awful.

[entirely by women and has been so

gd and crowds unequaled since

[ermine trade. A telecast was made | | Capitol lobby. Duke Cromwell, David Sarnoff, Wal- |

ter Damrosch, Will Hays and Robert | . E. Sherwood.

fact, only recently accomplished,

laundry will be done with modern equipment and not on washboard’s over old-fashioned tubs and ironed with flatirons heated over a coal stove. And when the building comes down, down also will come the battleship - steel - enclosed punishment cell which hasn't been used for years and years, but which never-

ly for storage but originally for extreme punishment were somehow in the dim past named Japan. Nobody now knows why, but they still are referred to as such. When, for instance, the soap for the institution was stored in them, inmates and officials alike would say, as & matter of course, “The soap is in Japan.” Manacled in Chains

Now, when an inmate is unruly, she is immediately sent to the hosIf |it devBlops that the offense was se-

|rious enough, she is confined in one

|of two cells on the second floor of the hospital building and is punlished by not being allowed to eat with the others in the dining room. When, in October, 1873, the first |women prisoners were delivered to erected structure, they

guarded by armed guards. What prison officials believe are

| those same chains now are rusting In 1936,

in a bushel basket in the basement of the vacant prison building, and | will be carted out with the rest of

They don't use manacles in the Some of the single room doors are made

are camouflaged to look like art

Conditions ‘Awful’ The Woman's Prison was built at [the insistence of the Quaker population of the state when investiga[tions revealed conditions in the Jef-

that from now on the institution's

theless stood grimly in the basement. | { That and four other cells used late- |

| tors. This policy was outlined at a Board meeting yesterday by Leroy { J. Keach, president.

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CATS’ ALLOWANCES CUT TO $9 MONTHLY

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 20 (U. P.).— The late Sarah B. Hathaway's cats, which once shared her $41,000 estate, will have to get along on monthly allowances of $9 each. Miss Hathaway died in 1934. Her will provided that her estate be used to support the cats. After their

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Mr. Keach said he saw no reason

|for drastic enforcement of the or-| as haling violators

{ dinance, such linto court and having them fined. The Board then invited the own ers and managers of six buildings | and officials of Manual High School, | where alleged violations have been found, to a conference at 2 p. m. {Friday. City officials will advise the |group on methods of preventing future violations, Mr, Keach said. At thre close of the Board meeting, the attention of one of the members strayed to the window where he discovered a pillar of dense smoke rising from an apartment house chimney near City Hall.

Too Much Soft Coal

Other Board members, Police! Chief Michael F. Morrissey and | | Building Commissioner George R. [Popp Jr., watched the smoke grow {thicker and blacker. “Someone in that place is firing too heavily with soft coal,” Mr. Popp explained. “I guess we'll have to have him in here one of these Fridays.” Board members nodded in agreement and the meeting was adjourned.

PREFERS TO HANG, ADMITS SLAYING 4

JEFFERSON N CITY, Mo., Dee. (U. P.).—Charles Garner, 19, woul) much rather hang than spend the rest of his life in prison. For that reason, he has confessed three murders in addition to the one for which he is serving life in Missouri State Prison. Authorities to-

day were checking on his confession. Garner drowned his 18-year-old wife and is in prison for life for it. he confessed to Warden | Tom M. Scott, he pushed another boy hobo under a train in Kansas City yards because he nad made him mad. He also killed Alvin Collingham, 22, and Clem Hall, 60, in York, Neb., shortly before going to prison, he told the warden,

$350 TAKEN FROM CHURCH AT MARION

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MARION,

Ind, Dec. 20.—Police

As early as 1877 it was governed |

governed since. Mrs. Marian Gallup |

{has been superintendent for the last |

seven years. Since the inmates have been] moved to the cottages, Mrs. Gallup | has inaugurated a system of partial | self-government. Each of the six| housing units elects officers and| holds meetings. On Tuesday after- | noons, Mrs. Gallup confers with the | presidents and secretaries of each | of the groups and together they iron | out problems. She said the system | appears to be quite beneficial. And so, when it is dedicated early | next summer, the Indians Women's Prison will be modern and up-to-| date in plant as well as in philosophy.

‘GONE WITH WIND’ BLOWS INTO N. Y.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (U, P).— “Gone With the Wind” hit Broadway last night, opening simultaneously in two theaters with a flash,

e two-theater premiere of “Hell's

{here are searching for the method|ical burglars who took $350 from

Church.

the vault of the First Methodist

The thieves drilled through the vault door and carefully opened 200 donation envelopes containing the (money. Apparently they took too {much time opening the envelopes

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