New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1919, Page 10

EFGRYED CONVICTS TOBETTER PRISONS ay Brotherhood Working Ior ane System in Penitentiaries ‘New York, Dec. 30.—A nation-wide impaign to “humanize” the prisons the United States has been under- en by the Gray Brotherhood, an or- ization of reformed ex-convicts, €ording to a former inmate of Sing bz who served 10 y behind gray he walle. Another abject of the mpaign is to counteract anarchy for b ‘suid “of th 0,000 convicts, men who d women, annually i American prisons re potential Bolshevis man, @ product of the New slums, who not only redcemed owp life but saved two vounger others from criminal carvecrs, all as 1t of the mutual welfare work ng of which the Gray Broth- | od movement is #n offshoo ola that American penal institu s are being surreptitiously flooded | th radical literature, with leaflets of | ope to the oppresse and that the | et movement to Bolshevize the na- n’s prisons is being combatted from é,jrmde .. Has 18,000 Memberships. 'He said that supported by the ef- rts of 15,000 members of this Gray | otherhood. its unnamed leader, own as the Gray Brother, hopes to ke prison reform a plank in the atform of one of the big political pties in the next presidential cam- dgn. He is reputed to be a man of eati influence in Washington and to the intimate of several s e\former Sing Sing inmate e &ray Brother was back of a pros- tive investigation of Joliet, Tl ison, intended to be the first of the stherhaod's national prison reform gTam. i Have Great Trust. “If the Gray Brother should come here now, and tell me to jump out | that window (a four story leap) do it at once,” confided the for- r inmate of Sing Sing. “We all uld trust him with our lives and, jlieve me, this prison investigation cked by him is going to be a thon- gh job. The people outside haven’t v idea of how Bolshevism is spread- | ' in the prisons. A few days ago r Reds, it was diseovered by our n, actually had themselves con- ted so they could work behind the s. 'The Reds have their literature in public libraries, some teachers in public .schools are ‘sympathetic’ d for some time they have been dis- buting their doctrines in prisons, ls and workhouses to win over to leir side the army of discontented lefactors who have an alleged ievance against soc The Gray 'otherhoad is alive to their propa nda, however, and hopes to abolish Omne of the best ways to stop it i treat convicts like human being tead of beasts and give them a ance to redeem themselves. The te is breeding anarchists by turning large men and women who have cn Drutally treated and who leave lison with hearts filled with the de- e for retaliation and revenge. The OId vs. the New, “Under the old system a kind-heart- warden is cngaged in making lthy burglars and porch climbers of t offenders. The prison experience | | the Welfare league in New York city. All of them are ‘mak ing good.’” Most of them are youn and of the 1,600 more than 400 wer in the army wy during the They include former burglars and similar so-called members of or (be ) Mott Osborne, for- ing Sing, took charg of the naval prison at Portsmouth, ) three ve g0, he hus been in- strumental in returning 10,000 former immates, men ‘made over’ in character, to the United States navy. enough to man three battleshi The present ime wave! in Chicago is due to bad prison treatment and the desire of ex- convicts to ‘get even. If it had mnot been for Osborne’s administration in New York prisons New York would be suffering from the same evil.” Since Thoma mer warden at THIRTY-THREE HURT IN HAVANA RIOTS Trouble Started When Police and Crowds Fought—>Many Windows Damaged-—200 Shots Fired. Havana, Dec. 30.—Thirty-three per- sons were injured, several seriously, in vesterday cncounter betw n the po- lice and a disorderly crowd during the progress of a funeral procession through the city, aceording ta an offi- cial estimate issued early today by the authorities. . The gravely wounded include three policemen, one soldier and three labor When the police attacked the crowd the rush to escape was so disordderly that plate glass windaows were broken in many of the principal stores along the street, damage amounting to many thousands of dollars resulting. The proprietor of one establishment in an endeavor to prevent damage to his place of business, rushed to the front of his store and waved an American flag but the excited crowd paid little heed to his endeavor. Fully 200 shots ¢ fired during the disorder, according (o police esti- mates. Bolsheviks Shoot 14,000 During Jan., Feb., Mar., ’19 Berme, Dec. 30.—Fourieen thousand persans were shot by the Bolsheviki during the first three months of 1919 by order of the extraordinary commit- tee at Moscow, according to an offi- cial note published in the Bolsheviki organ ls ia cf Moscow, says a dis- patch 1 ved her: TOBACCO STRIKE GIROWS, Madrid, Dec. 29.—Workingmen and women in tobacco ories Spain threaten to join in the strike movement centering in Gijon, Cagliz and Seville. Salesmen for tobacco companies throughout the country are demanding higher comm more goods to sell as there n many place all over | war. | ‘slick’ | NEW BRITAIN TWO SLAIN IN CHASE AFTER ARMED NEGRO Shoots Scidier, Jumps From Car and Runs Three Miles—Woman Killed Accidentally, Believed. Louisville, Dec. 30.—Mus. Lillian E: Lynch was shot and almost instantly killed and Private Jarl Hager of the First division probably fatally wounded during a fight between a nc- gro and soldiers that started last night on a street car near Camp Zachary Taylor. After he bad been reprimanded by soldiers on the car for cursing in the presence of wolen pASSENgers, a negro drew a revolver and shot Private Ha- ger. A fight ensued during which the negro jumped from the car and ran miles to Louisville, closely pur- a number of soldiers. Both xchanged shots. As the negro ran, Mrs. Lynch got between him and his pur 1d fell dead with a bul- let through her bres Police arrested J. Hudson on a > of killing Mrs. Lynch. Hud- son suid he appearcd on his porch and shot at the negro as he passed. He does not believe, he said, that he shot the woman The negro Cscuped. TROOP A AGAIN New Haven Will Have Cavalry., Ors ganization in State National Guard; Officers Chosen, Hartford, Dec. 30.-—New Haven is again to have its Troop A cavalry in the Connecticut National Guard. An order from the adjutant general’s of- fice today announces that the petition of George M. Wallace and seventy two other residents of New Haven that they be allowed to organize ' them- | selves into such a troop is granted. The order makes the following ap- pointments subject to the regulation | of the war department: Captain of Cavalry, George M. Wal- lace, New Haven; first lieutenant of cavalr; Wilfred H. Tiernan, New Haven; second lieutenant of cavalry, | Thomas J. Reilly, New Haven. All are signed to duty with Troop | A with rank from December 29. | REMOVE DIFFICULTIES. 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