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PARDONED LIFER FAVORS MR. TAFTStAfter Fifty-three Years in Prison John P. Warren Becomes a Free ManHartford, June 19—“Don't wor»y. I never did, and that is the reason I am alive and am not insane,” said John P. Warren to a reporter when the famous convict, who is seventy-four years old and has been in prison longer than any other life prisoner ifi the world, was asked for his recipe for longevity. Warren was pardon®* Saturday, after fifty-three years in prison for murder-ing his wife, but he refuses even now to leave the State Prison at Wethersfield until he has taught another prisoner how to run the Warden’s furnace.‘‘Before many days I hope to see Governor Simeon. E. .Baldwin and tell him how happy I am. I guess the weather has something to do with pardons, and last December I thought that possibly the June meeting of the Board would be more favorable. I have never voted but I am going to try to get the franchise before I die.”The principal thing Warren wished to avoid was dying in prison a felon. He intends to go to the farm of his brother,. who has been awaiting him for vears.“It is a good thought fo know that I haven’t got to die in prison,” said Warren to-day. “I can’t honestly say that it seems too good to be true, for I have always believed that I would get my pardon if I lived long enough.Sent to Prison on Birthday.“I arriyed in, this prison five days after my twenty-first birthday. At that time I wouldn’t turn my back on any one who had a day’s work to be done. I have never voted, but I mean to before I die.“I’m a great reader, although I don’t read as much as I used to. When I get to my cell at night I soon find myself yawning and the first thing I know I am off in dreamland. I like to read the Jokes in the comic magazines, but it is politics that interests me mosit of all.”Warden Garner says he will miss Warren and showed to him the Sunday papers with his name on the front page with that' of the third term candidate.“Say, Warden,” interposed Warren with more snap than before, “I’m a Taft man, I am a Taft man through and through; he’s not loud and fractious as- that Rough Rider, who has done somethings that are. not right.Telegrams of congratulation were received by Warren at Wethersfield' yesterday ^afternoon, one from Gould A. Shelton, ot Derby, reading, “Thank God that liberty has come to you at last.’* The others were in a similar vein.Besides his four brothers, of whom Joel is the youngest and Joseph the one from whom he has never heard, Warren has a sister, Mrs. Marsh. Hs« daughter, Caroline Rosie, now Mrs. Philip Haymer, has at last won her bet that her uncle would be pardoned.Wants to Ride Over the County.To Warden Garner Warren said that he wanted a little sleep and rest at brother Joel’s farm, and tfcsn he wants to get out behind a horse and just dream of Tolland county, where he was born December, 1838, and where all his free life of twenty-one years was spent.He admitted that for the first time In forty years he did not sleep very well Saturday night. His heart was too full of Joy. He loves his flower bed, his roses and geraniums and carnations. If he gets the chance he will vote for Governor Baldwin for President, because the Governor is the head of the Board of Pardons. He thinks “Rosenfell,” as he calls the condidate, stole the Panama Canal, and he believes that the Rough Rider was far away from the battle of San Juan Hill, watching proceedings through a strong field glass.Warren smiled as he recalled how he escaped from the Tolland lockup by digging under a well and going out through another cell and how a treacherous neighbor gave him up to the sheriff, after he had been free from July to November of 1859.Warren’s wife was Julia Towne and she came from Belchertown, Mass. She was about seventeen when Warren married her.The petition for pardon which was finally granted was his twenty-eighth and many bets were made by the prison guards on his applications. He particularly dislikes to leave “Jimmie’1 Taylor, a New York life prisoner who murdered a New Haven woman twenty-five years ago when intoxicated and while helping a companion to commit robbery, and is going to send him a barrel of apples.IF YOU NEGLECT TARING A TURKISH BATH AT THE ATLAS You Are Doing Yourself Injustice LADIES’ DAY FRIDAYFIRST THINdaThe site of Boston was sold to the white colonists by the Indians on this date in 1684. When Gov. John Win-throp and his company, with the king’s charter, had arrived at Charlestown on June 18, 1830, they had found the peninsula without human habitation, except for the little cottage of the Rev. William Blaxton, a clergyman of the English church. The English settlers at first called the peninsula Trimoun-taine, or Tremont, but in September 1630, it was ordered that the name be changed to Boston. The aboriginal inhabitants had been devastated by a plague, but in 1684 an Indian sachem laid claim to the site of the city, alleging that it had been the property of his grandfather. In order to- avoid trouble with the redskins, the settlers paid a small sum for the property, on condition that they be left in peace. The name of .Boston was chosen in honor of Isaac Johnson, one of the foremost of Winthrop’s company, who hailed from the English town of Boston.MYRTLE AVENUE SCHOOLGDinC I CAVE MEIirmiAl
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Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Tue, Jun 18, 1912
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