CUPID IN GAOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 19

CUPID IN GAOL.

TEN MEN READY TO DIE FOR GIRL PRISONER. Because tueu and women arc in gaol i.< nn reason to think they will not fall in love, says Mr. Morde.-ai Plnmmer, warden of tbe county prison in Wilmington, Delaware, defending bis hospitality to Cupid in his bailiwick. It is Mr. Pluninier's experience that lots of romances begin in prison, and he would rather have flirtatious carried on openly than through the exchange of secret missives. Wherefore he has established a gao' post office and censorship for letters.

He told the Women League uf Women Voters, who volunteered In a body to act as censor of tbe posted epistles, to the inditing or which tbe air of Wilmington's peniten tiary is so propitious, that notes were hid den in food, iv articles of clothing, nr car ricd by "trusties."

Sometimes men sent notes outside to have them concealed in cakes, pies and sweets sent to tbe girls. He could, he said, name ten men who had written that they wore ready to die for one girl imprisoned

here. "You can't blame the men." he said some of the girls are uncommonly pretty.'

Some members of the league questioned the warden's quailillcatlons as a judge of beauty, and it was proposed that Ihe ser.vtary tie appointed censor of the billetsdoux In a purely honorary capacity and without being pledged to secrecy. Tbe warden demnrred. "It s.s«n't be done." be blurted emphatically. "One has to use common sense in censoring these letters." Whereat the ladies looked at one another without smiling, and with eyebrows arched into a semblance of an interrogation mark, while the warden, somewhat flustered, sal down hard.