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FTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA
E DMUND ALLEN, warden of the Illinois State prison at
Joliet, and Sirs. Allen, “the Prisoners’ Angel,” who was
slain by one of the more trusted convicts of the honor system
she aided so greatly.
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 Jpliet 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, ip his belief that the worst
criminals can be regerenated by
kindness, by appealing to the smold
ering instinct of trreir manhood.
Opponents of the “honor system”
now declare vociferously that the
"honor 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 is 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 was 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 Ethel
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 t6
life. Several months ago he was cho
sen by Mrs. Allen to act as her per
sonal servant.
Attempts to obtain a confession
from Campbell have failed. A dogged
denial Is his answer to all accusa
tions. Meanwhile a net of circumstan
tial evidence has tightened around the
suspect.
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 Jiis 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.
Campbell says he cut his chin 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,
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Colonel, Backed by Lodge, Dis
approves U. S. Giving Pref
erence to Foreign Laws.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—Whether
the United States is to abide by its
own laws on naturalization and citi
zenship or give preference to those of
foreign nations is a question now be
fore the State Department, and a
question of special interest in these
parlous times of international com
plications. Also, three authorities
have become involved in debate on
the subject. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge and Colonel Theodore Roose
velt advocating the recognition of the
American laws, and Secretary of State
Robert Lansing at present leaning to.
ward observance of the foreign laws.
In a nutshell, the question, as epit
omized by Colonel Roosevelt, is:
“When is an American an American?”
To which Secreary Lansing replies
that an American frequently has a
"dual nationality," while Richard W.
[Flournoy, Jr., chief of the Bureau of
Citizenship, uses the phrase, “alter-
| nate nationality.”
The question first was evoked
through the case of P. A. Lelong. of
New Orleans, who was born in the
(United States of a French father. In
answer to an inquiry as tq his status,
j Secretary Lansing wrote to Lelong
I that he “was born with a dual na
tionality,” and, therefore, the State
Department “could not give assur
ance that he would not be held liable
for the performance of military duty
in France, if he should place himself
in the French Jurisdiction.” In a let
ter of April 2, 1915, Secretary Lansing
quoted the French Civil ('’ode defin
ing as a Frenchman “every person
i born of French parentage, in France
J or abroad.”
Whereat arose Colonel Roosevelt
land said: “It is dangerously close to
'treason to the United States that men
born here of foreign parentage, men
who have served here in the militia,
j who have voted and held office and
have exercised other rights to he told
by fhe State Department that if they
visit countries where their parents
were born they can be seized, pun
ished for evasion of military duty and
be made to serve in the army."
In this line, also, he pointed nut that
if General Goethals went to Holland
or Admirals Osterhaus or Schroeder
went to Germany they might he seized
under the “Lansing doctrine.”
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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 ha*e.
They would rend him to pieces if he
were not kepty in solitary confine
ment.
Nearly 1,000 convicts were at the
noon meal 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 furuier 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 (he
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 his
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 last 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 lie 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,
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 h 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.
Fir© 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 Campbell. There was no reply
from the negro, but Larkin’s call and
the continued, unbroken ringing of
the gong brought Harry Rogers, a
night turnkey, from his post on the
lower floor.
‘I smell smoke.’’ Rogers announced
a6 he rekohed the head of the stair
case, panting. “Get to the Are 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
cracks between dc or and frame, and
Kane’s arrival whs greeted by a
crashing of glass as the bedroom
windows fell out.
Body Is Found.
O’Leary smashed a panel of the
aoor 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 stairs was Katherine Al
ien, Mrs. Allens 17-yeur-Oid 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!”
Bell Saves House.
Through all this time the bell had 1
been ringing. O'Leary saw why. The
alarm had been sounded automati
cally w'hen the wooden covering had
been burned off and the wires short- |
circuited. Had it not been for this j
freak of the flames the w'hole building
might have been burned out und ail
evidence of a crime destroyed.
The excitement apparently had not ;
disturbed Campbell, who was loiter- j
ing behind the greenhouse, outside
the prison walls and about 100 yards
up the drive, while Mrs. Allen’s pet {
bull terrier romped on the lawn.
Close to the hou»e and outside the I
walls Captain A. J. Clarkson, chief |
parole agent, was strolling at the |
same time. He heard the crash of J
glass and saw' smoke coming from the
windows of the warden's bedroom. j
Clarkson started intx> the house,
then spied Campbell walking slowly
toward him in the driveway, the ter
rier worrying his heels.
“Quick!” yelled Clarkson. ‘War
den's house if* afire: *
“Don’t think so, boss.” replied the
negro, who seemed neither surprised
nor excited by the news. “See any . ■
smoke? I don’t.”
The Negro's Story.
“Are you blind?” Clarkson de
manded. “Come on!”
“I ain’t been in the house since a
few minutes after 6," the negro said.
“It was just 6 when Mrs. Allen
called me. I was sittin’ in the den
since half-past 5.
“ 'You get me the papers, Joe,’ she
said. I got ’em for her and filled her
thermos bottle with ice water Then
she says to me to be sure to tell the
barber she wanted him to wake her
up at 9 o’clock, because she w r anted a
shampoo.
“Mrs. Allen got back into bed after
she let me in and she didn't lock the
doer when I went out.
“Whenever I ain’t got anything else
to do I'm supposed tc take the dog
out. So, seeing Mrs. Allen was goin'
to sleep till 9. I went on out.”
Warden Allen was reached by long
distance telephone at West Baden and
hurried back to Joliet, a broken
hearted man All he could say was: (
"I didn't want tc leave h**r Some
thing told me not to go without her
Artists and Autos
Hurt Jewel Trade
Gem Dealers, in Convention, Favor
Campaign to Revive Lagging
Business.
ATLANTIC CITY, N J., July 3.
Automobiles and magazine illustrators
were held to be responsible for a slump
in the jewelry trade that had cost
manufacturers and dears millions inthe
last two years, by delegates to the an
nual convention of the National Whole
sale Jewelers’ Association here.
Members of the association said the
artists were omitting Jewelry from their
cover designs because they lacked in
formation on the subject and feared to
blunder.
The motor car was called the biggest
menace to the jewelry trade, since both
jewelry and automobiles were con-
siered luxuries and women preferred
handsome cars to gems. The delegates
favored a $100,000 publicity campaign
to show that jewels were essential to
good dressing.
COUNT IN WORKHOUSE.
NEW YORK. July 3.—Count Wil
liam do Classan, 30, a member of
a prominent and wealthy French fam
ily, was sentenced to thirty days on
Blackwell's Island by Magistrate Her
bert on a. charge of annoying women
in Central Park on June 10.
Tries to Steal Ride;
Gets a Job Instead
BALTIMORE, July 3.—Henry Day,
18. of Washington, hopped on an
express train out West to steal a
ride home on the “rods.” He had no
idea how fortune was to smile upon
him. He was caught in the act of
boarding the train before the eyes of
President Willard and Vice President
Thompson, of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
Hauled before the officials. Day said
he started a year ago to seek his for
tune in the West, had reached Wy
oming. worked on a ranch, became
homesick and was then trying to get
to Washington. The railroad offi
cials, impressed with Day’s frankness,
had him scrubbed up, took him
aboard their private car and brought
him to Baltimore. On the trip East
Day made so good an impression that
President Willard and Vice President
Thompson gave him a clerkship with
the railroad.
‘Old-Fashioned’ Cook
Wins Biscuit Prize
Couple Find Work After Long
Trudge That Gave Him Relief
From Tuberculosis.
MINNEAPOLIS. July 3—Walking
more than 500 miles, from Chicago to
Minneapolis, carrying a heavy pack
on her back, and leading by the hand
Claude W. Deelany. her husband, who
is affected with tuberculosis, Mrs.
Sylvia Deelany, 24, cut off her hair
and sold it when the pair were
stranded. From the sale of her hair
she obtained $1.50 to buy food for her
husband and herself, both weak from
the exertion, and again they trudged
on to Fixcelsior, where she obtained
employment as maid in the home of
F. H. Meyer, and her husband was
given work as gardener
Meyer had them taken into custody
to explain the disappearance of five
rings and some clothing from the
Meyer home, but after thinking over
all that the woman had gone through
and the »ad plight of the man he re
fused to prosecute and the two were
freed.
Sheriff Langum says an effort will
be made to have the Associated Char
ities obtain transportation for the
couple to Colorado or some other
mountain State.
“Claude was a chef in Chicago.*’
says Mrs. Deelany. “and we were get
ting along nicely. Then he was
stricken with tuberculosis. He lost
his Job. Then our landlord turned us
out.
“We decided to come West. We
started to walk, and at first made
only a few miles a day, hut when we
got into the country Claude gained
strength. I carried the blankets and
coffee pot. We camped by the road
side and slept on the ground
“When we got here I looked for
work, but couldn’t find any. Then I
was walking by a hair store one day
and the thought of selling my hair
occurred to me
“I went in and they clipped my
hair I got $1.50 for it. That gave
,us something to eat. The next morn
ing we walked to Excelsior and both
got work at the Meyer home.”
Looks forTree toHave
Peaches and Cream
Big Wind Drove Milkweed Through
a Tree and Now It Ha*
Sprouted.
BENZONIA, MICH., July 3.—Enos
Martin is showing visitors to his farm
what he thinks will be the greatest
horticultural curiosity in the coun
try. Last. June, when the big wind
cut through Benzie County, it hit
Enos’ peach orchard. It tore up a
few of the trees.
After the windstorm Enos discov
ered a stem of a weed driven entirely
through the body of one of his beat
peach trees. He left It there to show-
people how strong the wind had been
to drive a tender weed stalk through
the peach wood.
This spring, to his surprise, Enos
found that the weed stem was putting
out leaves and wondered what it was.
Now that the leaves are uncurling,
he has discovered that it is a milk
weed, and he thinks that it will unite
with the peach and that next month
he can serve peaches and cream off
the same tree.
William C. Plunkett Ends
markable Year With
• Honors.
Wakes to Find He
Enlisted for War
TORONTO, CANADA. July 3.—Purely
Douglas Bailey, son of the Professor
George Bailey, of Cazenovla, N. Y., re
covered from a lapse of memory and
found that he had enlisted In the Cana
dian Dragoons on March 11, under an
other name. He walked Into police
headquarters and was so affected when
he heard of the efforts made to And him
he had to be sent to the hospital bar
racks.
Bailey received a shock from lightning
in Denver, and disappeared while on
his way to a Syracuse physician.
Sends Socks to Army,
Gets a Romance Note
WASHINGTON. July 3.—Mrs Susie
Jones, wife of John Jones, recently sent
socks and shirts to the striving' war
riors in Europe. In the box she in
closed her name and address Mrs.
Jones received a letter from Corporal
Richards, of the Police Rest Camp, sta
tioned at Southampton, England, telling
her he had received the shirts and
socks.
Going on the principle that letters
found in bottles have given rise to ten
der attachments between the sender and
the finder, the corporal, in his message,
hints at a romantic sequel to the gift
Mrs. Jones says, however, he must look
elsewhere for his motion picture plot.
Want to Fight? Go to
Europe, Reads Sign
CHICAGO. July 3.—“If you want to
fight go to Europe.’ ’is the substance
of a sign posted in the Municipal Court
bailiff’s office by Frank KremI, the
chief clerk. The notice reads:
“After to-day no more arguments as
to any foreign country will be tolerated
in tills office. Our flag is the red. white
and blue, and If you want to fight for
some other flag, leave at once. They
all need you badly.’’
Ever}- warring nation is represented
among the employees of the office
Krc.inl says his action was due to quar
rels arising in his office.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., July 3.-4
blind boy. jo \cars of age. has en4
at
v.ird He is William C. Plunkett,j
R*»\l,tiry. who -ntered the uaivers
I last September with honors, and !
! ha j >r.ood the pace in academl- wcj
«^t Cambridge.
’’ •* -un s Plunkett ha «* mst in j
first vear, which is the most
►•von to students n j•• - •* <. on Of
their faculties, has given him cour
in his hope that he will be able to ]
all the way through college and eaj
a degree.
A typewriter of peculiar constrij
tion has enabled Harvard’s blind
to maintain a high standing in all M
clas es At Harvard, w! r
■ora of national reputation
lectures, one of the paramoun^^^B
of the students is that of writij
notes on the classroom lectures,
sightless student is unable to ti
pen and ink like
the undergraduates, but a tyj
writer which marks the paper on
roll with Braille point character* i.
ablcs him to take down the lectulj
and preserve them in such a msnf
that he can read them with his
gers. and thus he as well prepared]
re dto as the other students. i
Plunkett Is a familiar figure in
college yard, and his dailj wal|
about university territory have
abled him to know the lay of tl |
perfectly. With the aid of a cane
can now make his way from tl
freshman dormitory, where he llvj
to the Harvard yard unassisted,
is often accompanied by nis i
mate. Carl A Mendum. The oth
members of the freshman class do j
that they can to aid Plunkett in
work.
Zinc Prices Doubled
By European War
WEBB CITY, MO., July 3.—A new
world's reoord price for zinc was es
tablished in the Joplin district, when
$80 a ton as a basis price for 60 per
cent ores was offered by buyers. This
is $5. better than the previous high
basis.
Since the outbreak of the European
war prosperity has hit Misouri’s great
lead and zinc mining district in bunches.
Ore one year ago was selling at $35 and
$40 All mines are running day ami
night, old diggings long idle are being
reopened and the biggest boom In years
is on.
LimeJoss in Tuberculosis
In The Journal of the American^
Medical Association (January 171
1914). was th© following: W
“It has been many times stated
that in tqberoulosla or In the pr©4
tuberculosis stage an increase^
amount of calcium (lime) I* lost both
In the urine and fecee. In fact, i
demineralization has been thought td
be a forerunner of the '-'•veloomeni
of tuberculosis.” 1
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Always we have urged con-sumpJ
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KOKOMO, IND., July 3.—Old-fash
ioned biscuits, “such as mother used to
make," scored a signal victory over the
cooking school kind when Miss ^Blanch
James was awarded an electric range
for having baked the best pan of bis
cuits in competition with a score of
other girls.
Miss .Tames had never had any do
mestic science training, but won over
girls who bad been students in the do
mestic science, department of the Ko
komo High School. Miss James said she.
learned to bake good biscuits in helping
her mother in the kitchen.
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