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f, - rf-VMODEL PRISONERS.Tine petition of Rae Krauss for a• •* parjdoa pn the plea that her prison4\ record has been a commendable one is nauseating to Hartford City people familiar with the life history of the murderess.Prison is a placc where even the most vicious criminals make records for good behavior. They are good not because they wrfnt to be. but because they have to be or suffer the consequences of their unbecoming conduct. In penal institutions there is more than one incentive for a convict to contorm with the prison rules, but probably the most impressive of these is the fear ol punishment that is sure to follow the slightest infraction of any regulation. Dread of the♦dungeon or other vehicles of chastisement go farther toward the making of model prisoners of the vicious element, relieved of their liberty because of some law violation, than does their actual desire to willingly submit to the restraint under which they areplaced.Rae Krauss could have been a in Kiel prisoner without half trying, and, while the fact t ha I she has been submissive to all the regulations may have gained her favor among prison officials, it is a poor excuse upon which to base a plea for clemency. Xo doubt when her petition for release is considered by tin* pardon board nothing will be found in it which would justify the members in granting a complete pardon to a woman condemned to liie imprisonment by a court who received her admission of one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in the state of Indiana.Rae Krauss is not entitled to her* liberty, and stands little chance ofSEKYICCORTEGEExtremey\etting it.AThe ft er, who noon at day inoi home at Grant s of St. J( in chan at Mario The blt; Monday die trait: where h evening with tin. large dc funeral as an e: Marior ers ■ and dren an the body back to neral. w in the I cial trai o’clock, ry the d' ing piac The p eight ill have bemany ylt; xhon Jfh'r
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Hartford City Telegram
Hartford City, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 17, 1914
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