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OSCAR MILLS,
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An auto trip (and we promise you many of them) over Fulton
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EVERY GOOD CITIZEN OF FULTON COUNTY JOINS ME
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OSCAR MILLS
County Commissioner, Fulton County
HBARST’B _ SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1015.
J0LTSPHIS01 HONOf! PLJHI
But Keeper of Joliet Retains Faith in Con
victs Who Cry for Life of Murderer of New
Orleans Stage Beauty.
CHICAGO, July 3.—The “honor system” in State prisons has
been given a staggering arraignment.
The beautiful young wife of Warden Edmund M. Allen, of
Joilet Penitentiary, Illinois—Odette Allen, a former comic opera
favorite—known to the convicts as the “Angel of the Prison ” is
dead, brutally murdered, and strong evidence points to a product
of the “honor system” as her murderer.
Two years ago that system was inaugurated by her husband
at Joliet among the convicts. Joliet became the most talked of
prison in the world. Crushed and broken-hearted now by the death
of the woman he Idolized, he still de
fends it. It Is defended by Governor
Dunne, the warden’s stanch sup
porter, In his belief that the worst
criminals can be regerenated by
kindness, by appealing to the smold
ering instinct of their manhood.
Opponents of the “honor system”
now declare vociferously that the
’'fcU tar system” must go—that the dis
covery last Sunday of the mutilated,
seared body of beautiful Odette Allen,
the kind, tender-hearted woman who,
It la well known, inspired the warden
to establish the “honor system”—ut
terly disproves its merit, brands it.
Instead, as a terrible menace.
Was New Orleans Beauty.
Mrs. Allen was 34 years old. She
formerly waa Miss Odette Mazie Bor
deaux, a native of New Orleans. At 21
she joined a musical comedy company
In New Orleans. She possessed tal
ent and beauty, and when “The Merry
Widow” company was organized she
was made an understudy to Ethei
Jackson, who played the title role.
Shortly afterward she was given the
title role to a road company.
She met Edmund M. Allen in Chi
cago about six years ago. They were
quietly married, and then Mrs. Allen
left the stage.
When her husband was appointed
warden of Joliet penitentiary by Gov
ernor Dunne in 1912, Mrs. Allen’s in
fluence did much toward establishing
the “honor system.’’
It was due to Mrs. Allen’s Influence
that the Joliet prison band was al
lowed to leave the penitentiary walls
on various occasions unaccompanied
by a guard.
Trusted Convict Suspected.
Singularly indeed, suspicion of hav
ing been the slayer of Odette Allen
now centers on the convict who, above
all the other 1,800 inmates of Joliet,
was favored by the “honor system,”
and the one who especially had been
honored by the murdered woman.
“This man is “Chicken Joe” Campbell,
a negro, convicted of manslaughter
in Chicago five years ago and sent to
the penitentiary to serve an indeter
minate sentence of from one year to
life. Several months ago he was cho
sen by Mrs. Allen to act as her per
sonal servant.
Mrs. Allen’s body was found in the
warden’s suite on one of the twin beds
there. Her skull had been fractured
and her body was fearfully burned.
A fire was iaging in the room.
Campbell Last in Room.
Campbell was the last man in the
warden’s suite Saturday night. He
carried a thermos bottle to Mrs. Al
len’s room at 5:50 Sunday morning.
He came down with the dog 25 min
utes later.
Dr. J. P. Benson states his belief
that Mrs. Allen’s skull may have been
fractured by a blow from the thermos
bottle.
The negro went out five minutes
before fire was discovered.
He insisted there was no Are when
Captain of the Patrol Clarkson point
ed to smoke coming from a window.
A bloody collar belonging to Camp
bell was found in Mrs. Allen’s closet.
E DMUND ALLEN, warden of the Illinois State prison at
Joliet, and Mrs. Allen, “the Prisoners’ Angel,” who was
slain by one of the more trusted convicts of the honor system
she aided so greatly.
The grief-
stricken
warden sent
a remarkable
appeal to the
convicts to
bo “100 per
cent men” in
in this great
crisis in
the prison.
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Campbell says he cut his cnin while
shaving, but no wound is found.
The most damaging evidence
against Campbell came out in the tes
timony of Michael J. Kane, assistant
deputy warden, who has been em
ployed at the penitentiary for 30
years. Deputy Kane said he saw
Campbell change his clothing during
the excitement attending the finding
of Mrs. Allen’s body.
Other circumstances have put an
other negro trusty, Walter Edwards,
under suspicion.
He had access to the linen closet.
He changed his clothes immediately
after the fire.
He was in the building at the time
of the fire.
He insisted Mrs. Allen’s body was
in bed when other men in the smoky
room could not see it.
The other convicts without excep
tion believe Campbell to be the mur
derer. Their admiration for the war
den’s dead wife and their fear that the
murder will cost them their "honor
privileges” inspire them with hate.
They would rend him to pieces if he
were not kept In solitary confine
ment.
Nearly 1,000 convicts were at the
noon n^eal in the main dining room
the day after the murder when a man
rose from his seat and shouted:
“Boys, follow me and we’ll string
him up!"
Violence Prevented.
A hoarse cry reverberated through
the mess hall. Seventeen convicts
leaped from their seats and started
to gather around the leader. Armed
guards seized them and hustled them
off to their cells, while other deputies
scattered through the room to pre
vent further trouble. The danger was
past for the moment, but mutterings
were still heard.
Then the warden’s brother stood up
and announced he had a message from
Wraden Allen. It was the first as
surance many of them had that the
warden was still alive. He had not
been at the prison all day, and this
served to strengthen the rumors that
he, too, would not return.
“Boys,” said Jim Allen, "the war
den is coming back.”
A hoarse cry followed.
"But he is not coming back unless
you help him in this time of trouble.
He has placed you on your honor and
he will continue to do so. You are
his friends and he needs all of hi*
friends at this crisis. Do nothing to
violate the confidence he has in you.
He will come back, but he won’t if
you do violence here to-day.”
Was to Go With Husband.
So far as is known, Campbell, the
(personal servant, Is the las. person to
have seen Mrs. Allen alive.
Mrs. Allen, disappointed by her
dressmaker at the last minute, had
been unable to accompany the war
den when he started on a ten-day
trip to West Baden, Ind., the night
before, and had been the only occu
pant of the bedroom.
At 6:10 o’clock, nearly an hour be
fore her usual rising time, the gong
rung by a push button at her bed
side set up a clamor. Usually such
a summons Is answered at once by
Campbell, whose station Is in a den
opening off the bedroom
The bell continued to ring steadily,
0U1SVILLE
as if an impatient finger were press
ing against the bedroom button.
James Larkin, a keeper, was at
breakfast in the butler's pantry,
around a bend In the corridor. He
ran into the hall and met George
Simpson, another negro house serv
ant, who had been across the corridor
in another suite.
Fire Alarm Sounded.
“The lady's ringing,” snapped Lar
kin. “Why don’t you answer?”
“It ain’t my bell,” protested the ne
gro. “Where's Campbell?”
The keeper raised his voice and
called t'ampbell. There was no reply
from the negro, but I^arkin’s call and
the continued, unbroken ringing of
the gong brought Harry Rogers, a
night turnkey, from his post on the
lower floor.
‘T smell smoke," Rogers announced
as he reached the head of the stair
case, panting. "Get to the fire whis
tle! ”
The convict firemen raced to their
rendezvous, the boiler room. A half
dozen of them followed Michael Kane,
day captain of the department, into
the warden’s house With them ran
Christy O’Leary, the warden's chauf
feur.
Kane, O’Leary and the rest found
Larkin beating with his fists against
the locked door connecting the bed
room with the Governor’s suite.
Smoke was curling through the
(.racks between dcor and frame, and
Kane’s arrival was greeted by a
crashing of glass as the bedroom
windows fell out.
Body Is Found.
O’Leary smashed a panel of the
door with a wrench and reached
through and turned the key. Smoke
billowed forth in a cloud that drove
back the fire fighters.
"Mrs. Allen’s In there!” cried some
one In the crowd.
“No, she’s not,” another voice con
tradicted. "I just saw her run up the
stairs.”
Later it developed that the woman
seen on the s»talrs was Katherine Al
ien, Mrs. Allens 17-year-old step
daughter.
By the time the flames had been
drenched out it was 6:40 o’clock.
O’Leary and Kane groped their way
into the room, stumbling over the
ruins of a lounge.
They came to the twin beds. The
charred posts were still standing. The
rest had gone up in the fire.
O’Leary bent over the bed nearest
the den door—the one occupied by the
warden’s wife.
“My God!” he cried. "There's Mrs.
Allen!"
Bryan Has No Time
Now to Raise Onions
Former Secretary Offers HI* 200-
Acre Texas Farm for Sale
for $20,000.
WASHINGTON, July I.—Now that he
ha* retired as Secretary of State. Wil
liam J. Bryan has no time to run hi*
onion farm down in Texas. He is
therefore willing to aril out for 120,000
with a liberal discount for cash. The
following advertisement appears In the
current issue of The Commoner:
FOR SALE.
An improved farm of 200 acres, under
irrigation, three miles from Mission,
Texas
This farm la in the Rio Grande Val
ley I have not time to look after It.
It has a house costing 12,500, with barns
and outbuilding to match; Is fenced and
in cultivation.
I am willing to sell for less than the
cost for unimproved land In that sec
tion Is selling
I will aell entire 200 acres for $20,000,
with a liberal discount for cash. Small
tracts, not Including the one upon
which house stands, may be purchased
us follows: 10 acre tracts, $125 per acre;
20 acre tracts, $122 50 per acre: 40 acre
tracts. $120 per acre; 80 acre tracts,
$115 per acre. .
I have 40 acres of unimproved land
near Mission, which I will sell as a
whole or In 10 acre tracts for $75 per
acre cash.
Address. W. J. BRYAN, Lincoln,
Nebr.
Bruck and Miss Anna Htaigenskaitls-
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ceived a letter from Miss Mae Matou-
pakosalouskis. of New Bedford, Man*.,
congratulating her on the loss of her
long name.
The clerks in the lost poatofPice strug
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Pu^pademanakakoopouloua.
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Sentenced 15 Years,
Weds, Goes to Prison
NATCHEZ. MISS. July 3 —Immedi
ately after he had been sentenced to
fifteen years in prison for murder. P. A.
E. Warren, Jr., was married to Miss
Elizabeth Beard, If*, in his cell here.
Warren left for prison an hour later.
His bride will rent a cottage near the
penitentiary and wait for his release.
Cuts 15 Letters From
Name When She Weds
DUQUOIN. ILL., July 3.—Several
weeks ago the St. Louis and Chicago
papers announced the marriage of Frank
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