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VANCIL AND SCHNECKMODEL PRISONERSDouglas County Life Termers Well Behaved While Expiating Crimes.Mr. B. D. IMills, superintendent of agriculture at the Kansas State Penitentiary, at Lansing, Kansas, was in Lawrence yesterday in search of a prisoner who literally took life in hand,while he scaled three walls, early yesterday morning during the prevalence of the fog, and although the wall guard shot at him twice, made a successful escape.Superintendent Mills stated while here that “Chipty” Allen, colored, recently sent up from here, had been making considerable trouble, and had been shifted from oncPplace to another until now he was employed ii the prison coal m'n?. Eve.-Jtbcre he was unruly and one day “mixed it” ,with another prisoner, with theresult that “Chipty” was laid up with a badly bruised head, the result of coining into violent contact with a coal miner's lantern carried in the hands of the other man. Sine9 sthat episode ‘ 'Chipty ” has been quite good.As to Vancil and Schneck, both life termers and both from this county, Superintendent Mills said both were model prisonres. Vancil is in the shoe factory, his previous training in that branch making hima most valuable man. Schneck is• •in the “crank room or hospital devoted to prisoners who show mental disorders. Neither of the two men have ever given the authorities the slightest trouble and both are givenas much freedom as the rules of the— •institution allow. Mr. Mills declared .that the health and deportment of the prisoners was much better than it had ever been before, and attributed it entirely to the officials in charge.](1ltfIJ]r
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Lawrence Jeffersonian Gazette
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Wed, Jan 31, 1912
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