O. HENRY’S PHOTOGRAPH
MOVED FROM ROGUES’ GALLERY.
A photo has been reverently moved from the rogues’ gallery at the Ohio Penitentiary in United States. It is the photograph of prisoner No. 30,664. This prisoner left the prison one hot day in July, 1901, resumed his restless wandering, found a permanent home in New York City and began to write. The prisoner is listed in the records as W. S. Porter, but he is known to the world as O. Henry. The photograph will be given to Dr. John Thomas, prison doctor, who befriended O. Henry. Sydney Porter, cashier in a Texas bank, was convicted of embezzlement. He was committed to prison on April 26, 1898. He was officially described as “Born Greensboro, North Carolina, newspaper writer; height, sft 7in: hair, medium chestnut, sprinkled with grey; fore-head, high and wide, slightly receding. Heavy drinker ;good education.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22296, 11 April 1934, Page 3
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