Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1931, Page 10

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To Louis Thorvick, with nine years of undeserved penitentiary life behind him, those few words, inscribed on an unqualified pardon, mean the culmina- tion of the hope that sustained him through the long, dreary years behind the wal's of Stillwater Penitentiary. But for that hope that his innocence of complicity in the robbery of the State Bank of Almelund 10 years ago eventually would be proved, he would have, in his own words, “gone bugs.” Saturday, two days after the steel gate at Stillwater opened for him and two others, Thorvick was just begin- ning to find himself. In another day or two, he said, he thought he would have courage enough to enter a theater and witness his first talking movie. Victim of Mistaken Identity. It was one week short of being the which he was sent to prison #hat Thor- vick became a free man and the sen- tence of life imprisonmeat was wiped o ut. “A victim of mistaken identity,” the State Pardon Board had decided. It took more than a casual glance to tell that the man seated in the office of | | his friend, Ramsay County Att y |M. F. Kinkead, one of the two "“best {men in the world,” just had re-entered the world of free men. | "'But the marks that prison rigor and routine impress on a man were notice- |able in Thorvick’s actions and conver- MINNEAPOLIS, Mina, July 22—A/| tenth anniversary of the robbery for hi THE EVENING tions when he was freed, and the things that have been done for him by Mr. Kinkead and by E. H. “Red” Stanton, who now is serving a life sentence in Stiliwater for the very crime for which ‘Thorvick was convicted. Stanton, a notorious criminal, accord- ing to police records, but a “prince of a fellow,” according to Thorvick, is the man who shares his gratitude with Mr. Kinkead. Without Stanton's aid, Mr. Kinkead said, the task of freeing Thor- vick might have been impossible of ac- complishment. Already Thorvick was getting used to the realization that he was free to talk when he wanted to, but he had to keep | reminding himself of ft. grip of prison silence still had its hold on him. Little Movement of Lips. He talked fluently enough, but with very little movement of his lips. That was one mark of the prison inmate, who learns that trick to fool the ever watchful guards. ‘Thorvick is a Norwegian immigrant. He did a great deal of reading in prison. Some times there wasn't a great deal to read in the newspapers he was per- mitted to see, because the prison au- thorities cut out everything that had the slightest bearing on crime or prison disturbances. “Lots of times my. weekly papers wouldn't have anything but the wed- ding licenses, the death lists and the church announcements,” he said. “But I read all that, and the ads.” He chuckled when he told of that clipping of his papers and magazines. He, and all the other inmates, knew all about the Columbus Prison fire and the prison riots of a year or two ago almost as soon as did the persons who got_their newspapers intact. “In_prison,” he said, “such news spreads like that.” With both hands he made a gesture denoting & wide and rapid scattering. “And how does it feel to be free again?” was the obvious question put to im, “I'm lost.” He told how, that first day out of prison, he let five street cars go by be- fore he mustered courage enough to get on. He was afraid of people, and even among friends he scarcely’ had the courage to speak when any’one was watching him. “And what have you been doing since you got out?” “Lying under the trees and feeling the grass.” Thorvick’s story had a strange be- ginning. It started in Center City, Minn., near Almelund, six years ago. sation during the hour in which he | Red Stanton was being tried for com- | talked of his life in prison, his reac- New AST TRAIN to the plicity in the Almelund robbery. Mr. The awful | Middle West. STAR, WASHINGJON, Kinkead, then in private practice, was defendlng1 Stanton. Thorvick, in pris- on for the same crime, was called as & witness, 5 Stanton swore that Thorvick had nothing to do with the robbery. Stan- ton went to Stillwater for life and Kinkead began the almost impossible task of setting Thorvick free. For six years he worked, tracing the five men who did commit the robbery, obtaining prison records, searching through hotel registers and accumulat- ing an imposing mass of evidence in an investigation that traced the bank bandits to Texas, to the West Coast and scores of places throughout the Case Built Up Gradually. Gradually he built up his case, until | the evidence wiped away the last shadow of a doubt. Never before had such a thorough job been done, pardon board clerks said. As the long grind continued, Thor- vick was kept informed. And if it hadn't been for that, Thor- vick is sure, he would have “gone bugs.” As it is, Thorvick managed to stick it out, and now he feels a pride in his ac- complishment of laboring eight years in the prison foundry, a job at which most men weaken in a year or two. " From his work there, paid for on a| lece-work basis, Thorvick saved $452 n his years in prison. When he came out he tried to pay Kinkead at least part of it. “You need it more than I do, Louls,” Kinkead said. Just before leaving prison, Thorvick went to bid Stanton good-by. And he's going back to visit him at every oppor- tunity. He has Warden J. J. Sullivan’s promise that he will be allowed to see Stanton any time he comes to the prison, whether during visitors’ hours | or not. “He's a prince of a fellow,” Thorvick D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931. said. “If T ever can do anything for :chil:"mm T'll do it, I don't care 'whnt Thorvick believes that five years in prison is ample punishment for the mfln hideous crime any one could com- mit. “Let all those fellows out tomorrow and two-thirds of them never would get in trouble again,” he said. (Copyright, 1931, by the North Newspaper Alliance, ey Amerie? Nutriment From Cotton. A mnew food has bien made from cotton seed which is sald to have many of the elements of meat. It has been called vegetable meat. It comes in the shape of a paste convenient for the making of sandwiches and is rich in pootein. In fabt it is claimed that the cotton seed crop of this country will supply 50,000,000 p-ople with all the nutritiony they require. 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