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16 A THE BROOKLYN DAIL EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MARCH 9. 1924.

1- Degan through her Intimacy with 4 Women Criminals, Well Known Locally, Serving Terms at Auburn Lillian Raizen and Other Man-Killers Making Mattresses at Auburn Are Fed on 21 Cents a Day Each and Live in Cosy Cells some dark ro'n, although no one would admit tears when morning comes. A place of heartbreak and pathos and aometimcs comedy and nobody is fooled by the dotted curtains over the window, for despite the feminine drapery everybody knows that the bars are there forever. of taking f74 costs awarded to Jacoby's client, a "Mrs. It. in a divorce action.

The "publication" of the letter, so far as the papers show, consists of dictation to the stenographer in the Content office. The matter came before Justice Lazansky, who called it a "usle and unfortuniRte" dispute. Content asked for a dismissal of the complaint on the gund no cause of action was shown. Walter Brooks of tho Bedford gang, for whose murder she was acquitted, was pretty, well groomed, well gowned. Florence, who served 7 years and 10 months In Auburn several years nio for tho badger game, la "In again" on a similar charge.

Her yellow hair is dingy and streaked nowbi.t Florence, to do her justice, seldom missea a trick in her profession. In order to keep her hand in after her arrival she looked about for some man to "frame" and selected no less a person thnn the warden himself. postal cards at Christmas. And this from Brooklyn for the first time. It MEN'S CLUB TO DINE The Men'a Club of Pilgrim Con Is more like a second-rate country is the number written by Frederick Brunnemer when he sends letters to hotel or a Y.

W. C. A. boarding home Mrs. Mario Yetter, has daugnUr.

than the stereotyped idea of prison. whose conviction for the slaying of gregational Church, Richmond Hill, will have Its annual dinner Tuesday evening, March 11, in the Sunday School room of the church. liHih m. I By MARJOniK JXJTEKAV. What becomes of thnm when the it front pusjcs of thft newapupera kr.r.T ji them no more? What of the women li of this State who.

driven desperate jf by circumstances and Iheir own weak wills, take the law into their own hands, and are sjivn "20 years to For a few brief months everything they say and do is corded, they are interviewed, graphed, fingerprinted and their A large, rambling building of hr former lover, Alonzo .1. Storey sent her and her husfcand. Ernes' Veitrr. to prison for 15 years. and 89th ave.

The speakers will limestone, that has weathered the snow and rain of 70 years, set to Colonel Jennings is a likable person with a twinkle in his eye that never loaves 'hlni. He commanded the 108th 27th Division, overseas. be the Rev. J. Percival Hncet of the rear of the men's prison, it has High above the prison a great Continental soldier, his musket over a wide porch where on warm sum nd is accustomed to think and act me lompKins Avenue Congregational Church, Deputy Police Commissioner John A.

Leach and Supreme Court Justice John his left shoulder, stands guard. That mer nights the women sit toEether quickly in emergencies. Florence made a poor selection, but then the. is "Copper John," 14 feet high, cast for on Hour or two before retiring. emotional reactions, past and rires- by the first felons of Auburn Prison The floors throughout are of wood, number of men at the women's HOTEL MARGARET Reopened, Remodeled and Refurnished At 97 Columbia Heiphts, Brook- lyi-, overlooking New York Harbor, The Margaret will be found just across the Brooklyn' Bridge, and near the Clark St.

subway station. Small and Large Apart ments at Eaneciallv Atlvx. the walls are painted a soft Colonial prison is limited. Mac-Crate. The club was organized March 2.

1904, and Is one of the live civic bodies of Richmond Hill. William J. McBurnie Is the president. Harry F. Itelss, a former president, will be toastmaster.

100 years ago. "Copper John has become a byword among crooKS as vellow. the trim throughout is of Hearing the warden's voice in th white. Of course, there arc bars at corridor outside her room, Florence they enter with bowed heads they never notice him. set on the highest every window and the prisoners are called to him to conic in as sin tower of the prison.

His back is locked into their rooms at night wanted to speak to him conflden ASKS $90,000 FOR LIBEL and guards watch from the walls at tnt. are chronicled in detail. Then they are sentenced and sent to Auburn Prison for Women and the grim, frray years begin their silent march and tho public forgets its sor- did and tragic heroines of crime. But hey are not dead, for rare indeed is a. murderess sent to death.

What be-- comes of them? FJghty-elglit Women ai. Auburn, i Auburn Prison is the only Slate prison for women. It has at present tially. She then went to the far end of the room, her back to the door. ways and are set at the barred gates.

But any one not knowing this wan- her face to the innocent white Swiss turned to the center prison blo-k, and when the men walk In the yard they cannot see his face. When they leave the prison behind them and return to the world with their old weaknesses of character still Innate, they turn and look "Copper John" lering through the wide, scoured curtains. As the warden entered halls and looking Into the rooms of Florence besan lo scream, turning Oswald X. Jacoby, lawyer, has brought suit In Supreme Court for $90,000 damages against Harold A. Content, lawyer, whom he accuses of libelling him.

Jacohv. In his the women, would not be aware that to meet the cool and quizzical eyes the place was a prison. W' '''V J--'-- 'tw WrnlM pI rv3- tive Rates by the Day; Month and Year E. D. De PUY of the warden.

Behind him stood the matron he had asked lo step in niw (II inmates, despite the complaint, says he got a letter from Content, Inferentially accusing him Iirl(jt orners In Grim Prison that there are 3,279,178 women of in the face for it Is said to bring good luck to the new venture into life. For at the windows, shutting the 31 win of aee and over in this with hiin. Fa IN io Vamp Warden. bars from sight, bang crisp curtains Rtate. It is adjacent to Auburn "You musin't think, warden, that 1'rtaon for men.

tine same of sheer dotted Swiss, valanced and I've anything against you person wtone walls tnclosins both, with a di side-draped with bright flowered ere Baby's Picture in Jlrs. Vetter's Cell. In Mrs. Vetter's room at Auburn there, is a baby's picture the picture of a little girl who was on'y 2 months old last May wheji the ally," said poor old Florence, who onne. The beds ore of white, and viding wall between.

Tbere are 1..0. has battered about a good deal since main nrlsoners at Autxurn, tho two on the floors beside tbem are old GOWNS JPPThATS she was at Erasmus Mali fashioned rag rugs woven on looms wretched mother relinquished her to prisons being so widely separated by arounds-and walls that the men and High School and is well into her by the prisoners. Potted plants, pictures, knlcknacks in Mrs. Vetter's the care of her grandfather. Frederick Brunnemer.

Another women never get even a glimpse of forties now. "You musn't take this thing per sonally, warden, because it's profes room a small yellow duck that had father who is caring for the baby of once been the favorite toy of little Marie Krnestlne such things be sional. That's my game, ycu know, a prison mother is the father of Gussie Humann of Woodhaven. And warden." And Colonel Jennings reas token the eternal feminine, that sets Wet MARIE VETTEfm each other. Built more than 100 years aso.

Auburn Prison, to which Brooklyn nd Manhattan send more than hair the prisoners, faces the railroad station, being the first building noticed Vs one steps out on State st. from the depot. The entrance to the men's surcd Florence that he wouldn't hold Mrs. Pearl O'Dell, the Rochester girl who. with her husband, mur UP house in tho desert, that seeks to make the corner that it inhabits it against her, just as he hoped she raizen iXx uu, dered a former suitor under circur.v wouldn't hold It against him cither warm and cozy in the name of love.

More poignant than the grim elc being a warden being his game. And Florence seemed to understand that Outstanding Values in Smart Apparel stances not unlike that of Storey's murder, is another Auburn prisoner who has a baby's photograph in her trie chair in the basement of the snrlson in on State st, but the woman's orison Is reached on the street life Is like that each sticking to his motion pictures. The days are filled with work making mattresses, sew men's prison, that small yellow duck with its dirty bill touching to tears of common humanity the eye of any or her own game from first to last as it were. nails gleam like shells and her hair is dark at the roots and yellow at the ends enough to destroy tho morale of any daughter of Eve. So, too, with Florence Burns, who 20 years ago, before her downfall A queer No Man's Land, the one who loves a child and feels that women's prison where sometimes at cell.

Cell is hardjy the wofd to use In describing the rooms of the women prisoners of the State for the law merely directs that these unhappy women shall be held prisoners for a certain term cf years, and does not direct that they shall be treated in the child is the hope of the future. ing in the dressmaking shop, toiling in the laundry or the kitchen. When Mrs. Raizen arrived she and Mrs. Paulette Saludes, who shot Oscar Martelliere, the broker, were com night muffled sobbing is heard from $25 Afternoon Frocks Chiffons and Printed Silks in the gay colors and patterns that are favorites.

Values to $55. Mrs. Raizen one of the Tjeadcrs. which crosses it, the address which the relatives of women criminals address their letters being 60 Wall at. Wlfcre Mrs.

Raizen Gets Her Mail. II Is so that the mail arrives to Mrs. Lillian Raizen, who shot Dr. Abraham Glickstein In his Bedford live, office letters from her father and testers and her husband. It is to 60 Wall Auburn, N.

that Gussie Humann's many youngar brothers and sisters addressed their Mrs. Lillian Raizen lifts her mournful eyes as the visitor pauses LIVING ROOM SUITES humanely. at the door of the chapel where mitted together she was placed in the prison hospital, and, like Mrs. Saludes, carefully watched lest sh-j attempt suicide. The next day Mrs.

Raizen, who had said, "I accept my fate" as she left the Raymond Street she stands beside the piano turning More Like a Boarding House. So that the only prison for women over some songs. Two afternoons a at Manufacturers' Prices Tappe Frocks are the Fashion we.ek there is chorus singing at Au in the State comes as a startling Dinner and Evening Gowns lovely colored chif--fons, crystal beaded; creations in lace and net. Values to $8S. '50 burn three nights a week they have surprise to the visitor who goes there Jail, requested to be put to work.

She is unfailingly gentle spoken and sympathetic with the other women, A Set of Slip Covers FREE and has become one of their leaders. It twitches the heart to hear the women singing old songs 75 Stunning Models for the season's gaieties, for dancing and restaurant Silks, Chiffons, Taffetas. Values to $125. Witk Each 3-Piect Suite Pirchised Handsome and durable. Perfect fitting.

Pretty desijrn in Cretonne. like "Sweet and Low" as the twilight Abraham Straus 1 vnmrr.mv 1 -LI -Ul deepens on the snow outside the barred windows and the lights begin to glow In the little homes outside INC. the prison walls. All Suites thoroughly overstuffed. Large, deep, comfortable Arm and.

Wing Chairs and Settee. Superior workmanship throughout. Velour or Tapestry, $95 to $149 I Genuine Mohair, $165 to $295 Pinkie Lucas Making Good. Pinkie Lucas, the young negress who was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Auburn in October. 1921, for killing her lover, Henry Williams, In Brooklyn, Just as he was about to- Modish Tappe Suits 1S 2S '35 Extraordinary Values Madam' vill welcome with delight this charming selection of modish Tappe models for street and sports wear tailored in the smart materials so much in vogue.

Re-upholstering; Old Sultunncl Odd Fleers Slip Covers 3 Pieces Any Kite choice of txlm-a or Cretonne shrunk hiniitng. Hpfr-ularly J36.00. Special. $15ft lOJLSTERING CO. FACTORY AND SHOWROOMS 724 Noitrand Ave.

11118 Flatbush Ate. Near Proipect Place Near Cortelyou Rd. ttx portly Done draw on his successful rival, is making good at Auburn. Tinkle could barely make her mark when sent to prison, but class instruction in the grades ranging from the first to the seventh is given in the classroom, at Moderate (ol. Uecatur 5945 Flatbush 9808-J fhon or Writ for Salttman with SampUt, Spring Dresses 20 new women's models JjJtlQ.50 for street or afternoon NEW, authentic styles that interpret every new mode of Spring.

Every silhooette that is new and smart. And every new trimming note, every, new color effect, find expression here. In a collection so varied that every women may choose the very frock best adapted to type and to- the needs of her wardrobe. and examples of Pinkie's work are posted in the hall on the bulletin I board, showing that now she writes and reads well. There is a library of some 3.500 volumes at Auburn and the women read a great deal, chiefly Action MARCH ggggj; MARCH i ney nave tnree Hardships, grievances that annoy th-m more than anything else.

Fed on 21-Cent a Day. At th BuagaloWM the auua llaor BfbMhrvy Stan yoa 'mmr di. plarW l-nom. 4-rooai ajl 5-mow HammOutu. Tea wary afWa- At th Model Into-rien at Our Flatbush Score, th fWrnirur i artistically arranged for apart-menu.

Many blp Ivl MiggeftioQB. To begin with, they must be fed on 21 cents a day each meaning of course that the food is not calculated to awaken any enthusiasm. Butter is served only four times a year. $5 Deposit Delivers $100 in Merchandise There are no green vegetables, only tinned ones. Plenty of home baked bread minus butter, cereals, a good meat slew every day, macaroni beans, stewed fruits this la the bulk BAUMANN'S CREDIT TERMS 5oc WEEKLY DELIVERS JJ50 'i WEEKLY DELIVERS fioo 75c WEEKLY DELIVERS J75 WEEKLY DELIVERS fzoo This important Sale ia a iroaderlul opportunity for the Easter Bride fnrnaih her new home most bcsnti fully and leant her nrtt team in Tracheal thrift.

Just as you're thinking about new furnishing for your home, we come along with our annual Spring Refur. niahing Sale enabling you to lave the furniture you desire at prices that will "tickle- your pocketbook." of the dleC The State pays its con Met labor 1 cents a day. which of course amounts to nothing. But most or trie prisoners have small EXTRA SPECIAL EXTRA SPECIAL I Two new, favorites pictured at the left The first shows a new use of all-over embroidery on Georgette. Graceful side-draperies are held with self-fabric (ornaments.

Other models of satin, georgette and crepes, are tucked, pleated and altogether smart. In black and the leading street shades. The printed silk vogue expressed in georgette, left Blue motifs on softest gray its color scheme repeated in handsome beading on front-panel and blouse. And in the two-toned girdle of satin ribbon." oanK accounts or tnelr own, supplied them by relatives, and they are permitted to purchase $3 worth of supplies weekly. In this way they miy ouiier, additional sugar, condensed milk, chocolate and other SUITE mi articles to stimulate Interest In prison fare.

Xo Cigarettes for Women. The. second grievance is that no cigarettes are allowed a rule as old TTtii beamirul Read Suit it Hunfclr OM-ttructacf. iratlr Open an decount Whk This BED ROOM SUITE Comfort-hie spring mu. Back and teats ttwared with beautiful cretonne.

Suite, amaistt of Settee, matt 3-fieee BED OUTFIT Heavy two-inch continuous post Bed, with full one-inch filler. AU fomhes and all as the woman prison, a rule for which Warden Edgar S. Jennings This buuriiul two-cone Bed Room Suite, handsomely nnuhed in American Walnut it sturdily constructed and extremely anistk in design. Suite consuls of Bow-end Bed, Dresser and Wardrobe. Full Vanity Ann Uicir and Kodtar.

finished a a g- my in cream sKiec. cn aiu be had fAW''5 in walnut finish Pttxei msry ht pufxksmd Mpcretoll falUw Chair 12.79 Rockar 14.25 1 Settea 22.75 sizes. Sanitary Link Spring; has no sympathy. He believes that I I ail-conon maRTCM KJ I may be purchased separately, A wonderful value at rm 75 as the majority of the prisoners are Other Wed 'Room Suites up to S11S0- I accustomed to smoking the loss of their cigarettes is a real deprivation. Finally, the eternal feminine is al-vays the eternal feminine, in prison or out.

Among 88 female convicts, 12 of them held for murder in the second degree, two in the first degree with sentences commuted to life, and 20 of them imprisoned for manslaughter, one might imagine that lip sticks, rouge, powder, cologne and manicure sets might sink to a level of comparative insignificance. Not a bit of it. Th -y RUGS REDUCED a 9' Bnuaeb Rug til.iO Sftcul H6.00 6" a Valval Ruf KrfuUrfSl.50SfxeMf27.fO 9' a 12' Bruaatle Ruf ftegvar 49. 9 a 12 Axminstar Seamkas Htplrte9.00Spcilti7.7S Hall and SceirCafpac Special fu as. "It Sirres by Day and flight" Open on tAccount With.

This ly priced tor uus Open an tsActount-With Tft'u DINING ROOM SUITE Sab. Kroehler DAVENPORT SUITE Consists of Davenport, Rocker and Arm Chair, covered with handsome, long wearing imitation leather beaurifril rumiture. Davenport opens into a comfortable three-ouarter sue bed with a.rf This hincjcome Dining Room Suite, fniihed in American Walnut connsts of Eitcnsion Table, Buffet and China Qoaet. Server and Diners extra. A remarkable value at this reduced 17 I one automatic motion.

Now reduced to are not allowed these things and they miss them as only women can. The prisoners must all dress alike in blue and white striped gingham on week days, pale blue chambray on Sundays, when church is held in chapel, with Protestant, C'utholic and price. I Other Dinini oom Suites up to $1095. Other Linn 'Room Suites up It $17 J. 3 I EH I Complete Home Outfits im 1 Rooms qiqa Jewish services.

Hair Dye Barred. About one-third of the prisoners have bobbed hair, and every now and then another appears with ehinpled locks. The worm are allowed to arrange their hair any way '331 COLONIAL BUFFET Sturdily constructed and beautifully finished Ecru lace lends charm to street frocks at right Every woman wants a black satin this Spring, and this one, with its slenderizing panels of pleated georgette, is very flatterinr. And its flower girdie of self fabric is very, very smart. The coat dress holds high favor at right This simple, tasteful frock of heavy crepe will grace many occasions.

Its blender, straight lines are very becoming. So is the ecru frill. UPHOLSTERED CHAIR Wing Chair, richly upholstered in tapestry or velour, very comfortable, loose cushion, mahogany Jinished rurtlstt Cjibsort REFRIGERATOR 1 Apartment-Style Refncera- ill 111 ilf 4 w. wm Thi Qolden Oak DRESSER Contains three toomy drawers and a good-sired $1 C.95 mirror tor, of nationally known reputation is a very unusual tt value at this low price We have a cempleae Una of particularly attractive base. Spring back and spring seat 34-95 srr22-95 i I they like but they cannot tint it.

Thus many arrive blondes or Titians who depart with black or gray locks, to their Intense chagrin. It is impossible for them to convince Jennings that they oughi to have them. Cologne may drunk and cosmetics and washes contain both drugs and alcohol, while manicure implements might be put to suicidal use. Mrs. Anna Biizzi, wbn was a prisoner at Auburn before being s'-nt to the death house at Sing Sing, where she is awaiting an nppeal to C.LUDWIG BAMIMN COMPANY OUR save her the death p' nalty for the murder of Frederick SrhnHder, TWO BROOKLYN 933-939 FlafbushATE at Guu'ckAve.

1449-1459 Birjddwajr Cot. Putnam Ave. Expect to find ready at A. S. at all times an extensive variety of Spring Drcsxes or all occasions at $39.50.

golden Oak EXTENSION TABLE Attractively finished in Oak and sol-4. qc idly constructed STORES Metal DAY BED Thai a vafy amrMtaeff Daf BaataMraradwriliaftoiuMa: CMtpJtttwitb ipnne, 1 7 OS laanraai and eulew. lav g. 67 Gold Trains Sumn efvea FREE me (onrra-lor. rc't th loss her mani-ure set and Ikt peroxid-move k'-rnly than anything nbout her imprisonment.

Her were her pride and her hair was quite yellow when she wan arrested. No longer do her almond-shaped ol Stern Often Salnro'oy Till 10 P. M. FUlbulh Stort Open Afoffday Till 10 f. M.

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