Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1906 — McCoy and Sherrick. [ARTICLE]

McCoy and Sherrick.

Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 14. —A re cent visitor to the state prison at Michigan City found Tom McCoy, the Rensselaer banker, working in the binder twine department engaged in tying sacks. Afterward he was permitted to meet McCoy in the reception room and during a limited conversation, notable for the stoical manner of the erstwhile banker, McCoy said that he had been making the best of it and that he had not lost an hour’s sleep since he had been in prison. The warden spoke of him as a model prisoner, who had never asked a favor of any kind. He also met “Dave” Sherrick, who is employed bn the convict farm, who said that when he was first received in prison the food did not agree with him and the surroundings were galling, but he had made up his mind to accept what came and make the most of it. Sherrick expressed great hope of a reversal of his case in the supreme court.