Friday afternoon, july 31, 1925
Congresswoman Huck Gers Self
Arrested For Setit Larcency
Winnifrcd Mason Huck, former
congresswoman and the first wom
an to nrcside over the house of rep
resentatives, got herself sentenced
to prison.
Guiltless of any crime, she nought
an<Wcrs to the Questions-
Are our prisons humane?
Can a girl, crushed by her fel
low men, regain her place in socie-
W. Here is he rfirst story, written
for The Times-Reccrder.
By Winnifred Mason Huck
Former Representative to Congress
from Illinois.
“Put your hat over there,” said
the matron, glancing toward a dingy
corner of the cell room, as she pre
pared to search me.
I stepped gingerly across the dark
floor to the hat rack.
A wild assortment of feminine
head gear confronted me. One peg
was hatless. From that high van
tage point, a lusty cockroach viewed
the world.
One cock-eyed glance of welcome
he shot at me, and scuttled off into
the dark.
The smell of stale tobacco smoke,
mixed with that of rotting food
in the vermin-infested corners of
the room, accosted me at every
breath.
And the stench of cooped-up hu
manity pervaded all.
“Have you any money?” asked the
matron.
As I showed her my pocketbook,
my hands trembled. It was not all
acting, for the cockroach greeting
had startled me into some dismay
ing anticiaptions.
“Is that all?” she asked sus
piciously.
“I have $lO pinned on the inside
of my stocking,” I said, looking un
utterably guilty.
“Now tell me the truth,” she said,
with the severity of one catching a
child red-handed in a lie.
“Well,” said I, “you can look for
yourself.”
But she went no farther with her
searching.
The Door Clang*
The door clanged behind me. The
bolt shot.
I was locked in the Cleveland po
lice station, with the owners of
those indescribably squalid hats.
My eyes were getting used to the
darkness, and I thought that soon
I could see as well as the rats whose
green eyes shone in the corners of
the room.
K? My nose, however, never became
’X acclimated, and during the davs
that followed, every breath I took
in that place left its sting on my
memory. - • -
In the half light I discerned two
colored girls watching me with cool,
calculating eyes.
My knees shook. I said to my-
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England has only 20. Eleven com
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Last year 454 persons were res
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British coast.
I self that I was not afraid of them.
: 1 kept saying it.
But my mind ran riot on the
i thought of how many bestial crim
inals lurked in all those tiny sells,
: waiting to steal out into the center
of the room and stare at me.
My imagination had me in its
grip, and ! ,'gar to know a terror
different from any that I had ever
experienced.
I looked around for a place to sit.
There was none. Bevond tb > door
ol a cell I saw a floor which looked
somewhat cleaner than the rest.
, The cockroach who had greeted
! me faded into insignificance before
the scene that presented itself with
in the cell.
A Million Roache*
A million or more of his kind
wandered about the place, listless
!ly, arrogantly, making no move to
avoid me.
Wrath seized me. I fought for
my right to a seat in the cell, snap
ping them here and there with my
'cry own fingers, controlling my'
horror of them in my rage to dis
possess. them.
Their nonchalance infuriated mt.
I hated them because thev did not.
scurry out of sight when I entered.
I should have liked to build a bon
fire under a thousand of them, as
they promenaded up and down the
iron wall.
But I never reached the point
where I could have stepped on one.
I fought for the seat, and I got
it. - I did not enjoy it, but I did -it
there and wonder how I could ever
have been afraid of bur's.
Life had moved swiftly for me
within the last hour.
For years I had wanted to see the
inside of a jail from the inmate’s
point of view, and for months I had
schemed how I might do it.
One day a good friend said in m'
presence a few of the things he f«di
about persons who were too chick
en-hearted to prosecute those who
wronged them.
If people stole from him. he’d
show them! He’d send any thief in
the world to jail, if it was the last
thing he did.
My Opportunity
A few' days later, my opportunity
came. His car was standing at the
curb. His new coat was inside, and
the door was unlocked.
I waited until I saw him coming
up the street. Then I reached in.
grasped, his coat and started to walk
away. I did not look back, but I
felt he was quickening his pace.
“That’s my coat,” he said at mv
elbow, with a touch of excitement
jin his face. Then, recognizing me.
1 “Ye gods! What’s the big idea?” He
looked completely amazed.
“This is my coat,” said I, without
changing expression.
“Say, this isn’t April Fool. What’s
the joke?”
“Well,” said I, “perhaps it is a
joke and perhaps it isn’t.”
Then I told him of my secret am
bition to get a real inside view of a
jail, and that I was expecting him
to make good on his threat of a
few days before.
Sweat broke out on his face.
“Come,” he begged, “let’s go to
lunch and forget this whole busi
ness.”
“I should say not,” I answered,
all the while guiding our steps to
ward the police station. “Anri
where’s your sporting blood?”
This gibe went home, and while I
had the advantage, I made another
lunge.
“This is the chance I have boon
seeking for months,” I said. "1
can’t imagine your going back on
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Flint Rock Ginger Ale for an
appetizer—before end after meals
5c per Lottie. Oe sale at all gro
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I WANT to do your fine Watch Re
pairing. I want to set your dia
monds for you. I will exchange
new mountings for old ones. I
will pay cash for old gold and
platinum. I want to sell you dia
.monds for cash or credit. R. S.
, And so I was brought up in court.
I was proud of my friend as ho
; put on a long face and swore out a
I warrant before Cleveland’s young
assistant prosecutor, John Boylan.
Six Months
; Judge F. IA Stevens, a man with
I kindly eyes, but with lines in his
; face that told of const ar- contact
, with a worn of evil and suffering,
i lectured me >.<?■ unkindly. The g:r.-
i el pounded on the desk.
1 * Elizabeth Sprague, six month-. ’’
i ho raid.
; I was led out, turned over to a
I policeman and within an incred!!-;-,
i short time, found myself locked in
i with the scum of a big city.
1 had seen their hats, at i tor the
present, there war, nothing else
about them that I want d to see.
But I was doomed not only t- sec
the women themselves, but to oat
with them, to talk with them, at
times to peer down into the abyss
where their crafty, ugly, depraved,
thoughts writhed.
A scuffle, a curse, a sharp com
mand, the sound of the impact O’
flesh on flesh brought me sudden/
to my feet.
In the outer room the matron ami
a policeman were bringing in a new
prisoner. It was a sort of free-for
all wrestling match.
The three plunged into the room.
The policeman and the matron with
.1 deft twist of their strong ai -...i
dispatched the woma nprisoner wit!)
a reeling velocity into one of Che
cells.
Livid Rage
Tn livid rage, she regained hrr
feet and made for the door, it
•hummed in her face an.l the rain
ing bolt was shot. Her fury broke
into a storm of such language as I
had not imagined ex’rt.'d on tin
earth.
The policeman went out, straight
ening his clothes. The matron was
rubbing her wrist, which was red
and swelling from an ugly scratch.
She said nothing. This was a mere
trifle in comparison to man.,’ of the
hurts she received.
I wont back to my call, shaken
with fright.
What next, in this place wh?re t
was caged with smells, vile sights,
crawling filth, rage and obscenity?
I wondered why Damn had no'
described hell as a cage instead of
giving the souls of the dead unlim
ited space in which to roam.
I felt that I had experienced the
prison feeling, but what I knew
then was a mere shadow of the hor
ror that crept upon me during tl e
later days and weeks of life behind
bars and locks and gray walls.
Nothing could shock me anew, I
thought. But I was wrong.
Looking up, I saw one of the pret
tiest girls I had ever looked at,
framed in the doorway of my cell.
She was young, slim and grace
ful. \
Her hands were delicate find her
feet small. Her clothes reflect c 1 cm
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While reviewing the guard of
honor at Witwatersand, Johannes
burg, South Afric'a, the Prince of
Wales is- forced to stoop down anil
fm tened and is hanging over his
shoe tops. To avoid such embar
ra. -iments as this the prince should
emulate the American college boy
v ho wears no garters at ail.
quisite taste.
She had good features, fine gray
eyes, a well poised head and an ap
pealing expression.
She stood and stared at me.
Tomorrow —I meet two pretty
girls and learn mere about the
English language.
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$14,000 FOR DECLARATION
SIGNERS SIGNATURE
ATLANTA, July 31. The sale
of the signature of Buttoh Gwin
nett, Georgia’s signer of the Decla
ration of Independence, for $14,00G
came to light by the publication
of an essay by W. R- Benjamin.
Mr. Benjamin, known as the “Dean
of Autograph Dealers” in New York
city, publishes an essay on the
Signers of the Declaration of In
dependence and tells of how Hames
E’. Mannin, late mayor of Albany,
N. Y-, and lifetime collector of
signature and documents of the
Revolution period, was ridiculed
for paying $4,600 for a good docu
ment bearing the signature of But
ton Gwinnett and how this docu
ment sold later for $14,000.
There are 27 sets of the original
signatures of the signers of the
Declaration and eleven or these are
privately owned. The remaining 16
are divided among state institu
tions, libraries, ejad historical so
cieties.
BIG MONEY RUINED
HUGH M’QUH.LAN,
SAYS PRETTY WIFE i
(Continued liom Page One)
hand. Soon his work had been no- ]
ticed by a scout and he was taken
over by the Bostonians.
Then came the “Big money!”
Success and fame mounted fa t.
Boston had given him $4500 for
five months work. The Giants want
ed him and paid SIOO,OO0 —or some
such figure—and his salary leaped
to S9OOO. Thence, she says, it has
ascended to $22,000.
All this Mrs. McQuillan related
with the shadow of a wistful smile I
upon her lips.
Big money 1 !
“It wont to his head—poor boy,”
she went on. “Three years ago the
crisis camo. I noticed the change
when the S9OOO job with Now York
came his way. Big money in his
pocket and fast company just be
yond the corner! Then came gay
parties—women—-drink—and night
after night he didn’t come homo.
Those were terrib’e years. I thought
he would get over it and was pal i
ent. The past year I went home to
my parents in Worcester. But for
my religion—l am a Catohlie—l
should have divorced him. It seems
tragic that money should so muddle |
Far more than this she has said I
in the legad phrasing of the court
papers, “Another woman” is nam-
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South Georgia Public’Service Company
W. H. CURRY, District Manager
ed, Miss Helene Goebbcl, the blonde
beauty who was “Miss Bronx” at
the 1924 Atlantic City bathing beau
ty contest. She tells of fines al
leged to have, been imposed for
drunkenness; of a debauch staged
upon the eve of an important game
v.hen, she avers, the fine was $500;
of an a;.i-< i oient for separate main
tenance that'was not lived up to
and charge sthat “he was transform
ed from a good husband into a
drunkard.”
Big money!
There is also McQuillan’s side of
[Grant Sees His First
I Well Dav In 9 Years
'lf This Wonderful Karnak Cost <
Ten Times Its Price ; Would '
Have Still More Than Got
Valve Received,” Declared
Atlanta Man.
No longer docs anyone doubt the i
xtraordinary merit pl' Karnak. It j
s proven by tile experience of the ;
■eople themselves in all parts of!
Georgia to be the greatest medi-j
?ine that ha ; ever been known. 1
Listen to v.hat John E. Grant, of
119 Stewart avenue, Atlanta, say:/
“If Kai imk 4-o- t me ten times the
mice I would still have more than
gotten value received from this re
i arkable medicine.
“Why, for nearly nine years I
had hardly known what it was to
re free from indigestion and rheu
natism. (t didn’t seem to matter
>ow careful I was about eating, my
itomach would bloat up so with gas
hat it would almost cut off my
breathing. Sometimes I thought
ny heart was stopping.
“My head would whirl around
and I wcraid get so dizzy I was al
r.ost blind. I had sharp pains in
the pit of my stomach nearly all
he time and 1 was so nervous I
wouldn’t get a night’s sleep to save
my life. I would get up in the
morning with a bad taste and no
appetite at all.
“Then on top of all that 1 had
rheumatism in my right shoulder so
bad I could hardly use my arm
at all. I was sure in a bad way
and jriSt couldn’t get any relief.
“But that’s all forgotten now. 1
took Karnak and the very first bot
tle relieved the rheumatism com
pletely and I could use my right
arm the same as my left.
To Our Friends and
Customers I
The Ginning Season is here. We specialize in ginning
cotton and we have the most up-todate and simplified Gin
nery in this section. We owe it to our customers to give
good service. We have put in new saws, new belts, etc.
The ' ’juice’’ is on and wc are ready to gin. We would
like for you to look over our gin plant and let us gin your
cotton and show you that we can make good samples and
give the very best of service.
We are in the market for Cotton Seed. Why not phone
us when you have cotton seed to sell or when you are in
the market for cotton seed products’?
IT WILL PAY YOU !
FARMERS COTTON OIL CO.
Phone 92
PAGE THREE
the ease. He says she didn’t attend
to wifely detiert that he came home
many times to find I er gone; that
he tried to build a happy home, but
they drifted apart.
As for Miss Goebbcl, she denies
any intimations of “gay parties,”
admitting only a friendship in which
hers has been an influence for good.
But whatever the true circum
stances, “big money” again has writ
ten its story of scandal and unhappi
-1 i-'-ss and a frail woman with luster
| lost eyes asks; “What man can
stand its acid test?”
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Grant
“I eat like a horse, three or four
times a day, and feel like a three
year-old colt. My indigestion is
gone—eat anything 1 want—noth
ing hurts me. I haven’t had an
ache or a pain since I began tak
ing Karnak and f .sleep like a log
and feel absolutely well for the
first time in nine years. I have al
ready gained seven pounds.
“1 am telling everybody about
Karnak, for 1 think that anyone
who had gotten as much benefit as
1 have from this medicine and
wouldn’t recommend it to their
friends hasn’t got much humanity
about them.”
Karnak is sold in Americus by
Americus Drug and Seed Store,
Howell’s Pharmacy and leading
druggist; everywhere.^(adv.)
