back covers of this
book were drawn by him in a few minutes. I hope some newspaper will get in
touch with him and give him a position.
Another
notable guest lives at Lancaster, namely George St. Clair, but he is not as
much of a saint as the name would indicate. Mr. St. Clair was sent up to serve
from one to seven years for stealing a bolt of silk from a Lincoln department
store. From the start he refused to attend church services, claiming that it
was against his religious belief. Being asked what religion he professed, he
said that he was a Jew. We called up the Rabbi and had a talk with him
about it. The Rabbi suggested that he be a good boy and go to church,
and that there was nothing wrong in so doing. Still St. Clair refused
and it was decided to place him in a dark cell every Sunday during
church hours until he decided to go to church; but he evidently preferred
the dark cell to the Reverend Johnson's sermons and
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kept on refusing to go to church. He also wrote a
letter to the attorney general and the chief justice of the supreme
court, and both of these gentlemen wrote him a courteous letter
as private individuals and advised him to obey the prison rules.
Even that did not satisfy him, he became more and more unruly and
disobedient and is now kept in a dark cell all the time. And what
has he gained? He has gained exactly what he sought for, namely,
a lot of newspaper notoriety which will do him no good. It is astonishing
what some people will do in order to get their names into print.
Had he acted like a man, he no doubt would have been paroled when
he had served ten months; as it is now, he will perhaps remain
at the prison for seven years.
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