The following members of the Committee on Corrections approve and sign the report:

Mr. E. Stagg Whitin disagrees with what is said about the employment of convict labor on public highways in the more thickly-settled northern States.

EYTINGE

By Charles Wheatley.

[In the State Prison of Arizona is a life prisoner who has made a remarkable record. The Delinquent has followed with great interest Mr. Eytinge’s business career while inside the prison, and now, through an article from the Ohio State Journal, presents Mr. Eytinge’s story in part.]

Down in Florence, Arizona, in the State Prison they have penned up a Daytonian for life on a charge of murder. This man went into prison an outcast ready to die—or rather about to be killed by tuberculosis. He had been a “con man,” forger and all-around crook, and today, seven years after his conviction, he occupies a prominent place in the business world.

The man in question is Louis Victor Eytinge, born in Dayton in 1878. At the age of three his parents separated. His mother was a talented musician, while his father had been actor, broker and gambler. Sometime after the separation young Eytinge went to live with an uncle. He was educated in the First District school, Central high school, spent two years at St. Mary’s Institute and one year at the University of Notre Dame.

At the age of 16 Eytinge started on his life of crime by forging a check. He went from bad to worse, and was soon known from east to west and north to south by the list of bad paper he had left behind. Many times his relatives kept him out of jail by straightening out difficulties into which the young man drifted, but finally they became tired of this and refused to have anything further to do with him.

Cut off from home’s ties, Eytinge became even more desperate and finally ended up in the Ohio State Penitentiary following his arrest and a daring attempt at a big jail delivery. While in the penitentiary Eytinge was known as a “bad one” and when released it was found that he was suffering from the advanced stages of tuberculosis. This was at the age of twenty-seven. When relatives learned of his physical condition they weakened in their determination to do no more for him. They sent him to Arizona with an allowance of one hundred dollars per month. He was to remain away from Dayton and live within the law.