The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 17

i | : _in’ him up by the thumbs don’t 20 " more.. Thatkindofthmsdm’tg&t D, C. COATES, Manager “Advertising rates on application, 3 Communications intend for the Box m. Fates. North Dakata. and ot to. & e Leader tNorthDakou. as it goes into practicall {‘nudulent and blllt:é:i any firm which patronizes our advertisi py for in order to insure insertion in current issue. - The Nonpartlsan Leader Entered September 3, 1915, st the postoffics : ; FtrzoNortthkots,mxhrthaAetotMuehs.lfl # - 0 Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; six lh'l‘m:nt.l:-. $1.50. any . individual is the mpremn advertising medium thmugh whleh ‘to reach the rural population o y ‘every farm home in the state. ®'The ILeader . solicits advertisements of ~meritorjous articles needed nsible firms are not knowingly advert s will advise us promptly should they huva oecnlon advertisements. must reach the Leader ofice by Saturday previous to nublica,t{on Guaranteed Weekly Circulation of 50,000 Coplw and Upward. m«m_mm' GASTON, Biltor. addrcssed to tha Nonpartlsan Leader, | by - Farm Quack, ertised; and we will take It as'a favor to doubt c= questlon the. relia- \ The Honest\ Oplmons of a Thlef (Contmued from page 8) - 1 was on the lookout near,a bank-door. The master mechanic was at work on'the . safe inside.” A fellow raises a window on a second story zbove and behind me and starts shootin’. - You mlght say that’s all right. The fellow .is within, the law if he feels sure I'm a thief; but’ I say he’s a coward. I wouldn’t pull a trick like-that on anybody, I don’t eare what he is. I don’t want any murders in mine.” McLeod incidentally touched a few features of his personal history. His father .was a Scotch sea-captain. He himself .made a number of voyages as a young lad. Later he obtained papers at Brooklyn entitling him to ship as: first-mate - in - sailing vessels. He has made voyages to many countries in remote parts of- the world. “The circus made me a crook,” he said. “] had an aunt with the old Adam Fore paugh shows. I went with them for a few =seasons and that’s where I got my. start. “But, hell! there’s nothin’ in it. thief always gets the worst of it. “Take old Frank Dunldp, There’s a man that was one of the highest class burglars the cluntry ‘ever produced, That fellow has pulled out upwards of $50,000 for one job. And where is he now? Runnin’ a little cigar store in one of the Chicago. office buildings. Just a broken down old man—a quiet decent old fellow makin’ a pretty small livin’, Not a cent left of all that big money. “The Pinkertons got him the little cigar stand he has now. He was down in Joliet, too. They knew he was through—too old to pull off anythmg else._The old man didn’t want to die in the pen. The Pinkertons put him there, so he asked them to help him get out and they did, and started lnm up in busi- ness, too. HE WANTS TO QUIT CRIME BUT CAN'T SEE THE WAY g -“T'm forty years old—I don’t look it, do I?—and I'd like to cut it out and settle down now. But I dunno whether I_can or mnot. A fellow don’t get a chance after he starts in this game.. “You know how it dis. Suppose I go to a man lookin’ for a job. I'm a big, strong man. I want work. He says ‘Where you been working ?’ - ‘Oh, I-just got out of the North Dakota state pen- itentiary,” I tell him, “Fat chance I've got after that.. ‘I'm sorry,’ he says—you know~ you always . get this ‘sorry’ stuff; either that or they want to know if you’re ‘saved’; but that don’t help 'a man—T'm sorry, but I haven’t got anything for you just now.’ Yes, there’s a lot of sympathy for the poor ex-convict, - but to hell with sympathy! ‘Nobody wents to:have lum aroun The talk turned to prisons, and pnson reform. The visitor had gone t6 Bis- marck to find out the state of ‘affairs on the inside at the state penitentiary, - ““Well, as far as things here goes, I got no holler to make” said Mcleod. ~*I been in several penitentiaries ‘and Tve & . heard. all about all of “them, from the fellows that kmnow. This old stuff of ' beatin’ the life out of a man and hang where mth any man, especlally if him. : The - couldn’t stand for that. ‘one of the guys that framed. it, ‘but 1 was init. | #You know, I’m a 'Scotchr-an and I’ve ‘zot a little of ‘the old Scotrhr stubborn- ness in me. I was about a.. .1 when the warden came around. He says ‘Well, MecLeod, have you got somethm to tell~ me now ?’ “‘No, Warden,’ I says; ‘I haven’t any- thing to tell you. “When a man -goes. through things like that it don’t make him love the law any. It don’t give him any new. respect for society. rest of t! good people that hire the cops and the wardens and build the peniten- tiaries. Treat a man like a dog and he’s goin’ to get even if he can, whether there’s anything in it for him or. not. Treat a man like a man and you’ve got a little better chance that when you turn him loose he’ll have a try at goin’ straight. : MEN WHO TELL TALES - 2 TO WARDEN AND OTHERS “Of course, there’s always a sneakin’ lot o’ hypocrites workin’ for a pardon an’ tryin’ to work the warden and the keepers for a soft thing, You'll find that in any prison. That don’t prove nothin’ against the honor system. “These are the guys that are always tellin® somethin’ on somebody -else so as to make themselves the warden’s friends, you’d hate that kind of an animal on the outside. Suppose you told a man that you supposed was your friend some information in confidence and then this guy blabbed it where it would do you ‘the most harm: You'd~ despise the dirty, yellow cur, too. “There are-always a lot of cowardly 4 murderers and rapists that are too good “to associate with common - thieves. These are the fellows that get up in _religious meetings in prison and tell how good they are and how sorry they are for ~what they did. “Y remember:one of these fellows in Joliet one time’that. stood up and told how he was ‘saved’ and then he says, ‘I thank God that I never was a thief. “There was a: bunch of good: square. : crooks = sittin’ near him ' and ‘they They began to growl and mutter: ‘Why, you damned murderin’ rapist, you’re. worse: than ‘any thief that ever breathed.” “Thig particular fellow happened to be asmgned “to work in the comnnssary ; agoreroom, where T was workmg the next day and ‘a couple of us”heaved a pile’ of boxes over on him. We didn’t hurt him any; we just let lum know what we thought of him.” - wasenabledtomakegoodontheparole - by the kindness of a friend, the publisher ‘It’s the bankers and . the- et Of course; we hate those fellows just like Before he got through, Mg:Leod ~pBld : his respects to the Fargo police depart- ment. They're 8 lot of “Hoosier yars, 1 “he said. “This guy: special word addresset of & theatrical magazine, who employed 3 him in/ reviewing burlesque shows: Thxsfnend:sanoldmmusman,apslofl. his Forepaugh days. The Fargo police ‘took lus measure succeeded in" getting an- ments and - identification from Chicago. In "police and criminal parlance, they Ymade him.” : He got a year on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon where an ordinary hobe would have ‘drawn a jail sentence and a respected citizen would have been let off with a warning or a fine. - Ag the visitor shook McLeod’s hand in - parting and expressed the hope that he “'would have a chance to talkto hlg:dgggm, = the veteran 'of - many prisons:e administration. “You, tell them‘ pnht.lcal fnends of, yours,” he said, “that they don’t want to put any warden in here that will try.to. - There'll bring back that old rough stufl'. be hell in this stir if they do.” ! “Stir,”. in crooks language, means prison or pemtentxary IS THE LEADER ANY GOOD %s an advertising. medium? Aaker’s: Business College placed.seven students in good positions last week and has aiready placed Conrad ‘Leraas with Fargo Knitting Mills, Agnes Wood with the Co-Cperators’ Herald, and Luella Basset with an insurance com- pany this week. 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