A MAN WHO MADE GOOD.

Shannon News, 25 May 1926, Page 2

A MAN WHO MADE GOOD.

A case of a convicted criminal reforming his ways of living in this country -of criminals, and of the reward that attended his reformation, comet from Milwaukee. There, six years ago, a young man named Walter McDaniel* and a companion held up a salon in Eiins, getting only about £b for tbei foup. Four hours after they were arrested. McDaniels was sen *9f ced 1 25 years’ imprisonment for robbery un the walls of the penitential y, where most men give up and lai into routine until the day cotnes io l them to go out again into th ° *' ol ' ’ McDaniels laid the plans for his new life, distant though it might be. r • education had been neglected, 01 m would not have been a gunman. , der the advanced sympathetic meat-accorded criminals here lie able', from his prison earnings, to PA. for a university extension course y correspondence. He took up simple

arithmetic at first. It is stated that McDaniels “worked overtime” in order to earn enough to pay for his course. Finishing arithmetic, be took up algebra, then physics. Electrical engineering was his ultimate goal and, to cut a long story short, In five years he sat for his examinations as electric engineer and was successful. It is stated that, in the examination, he “ made high grades. ” Of an inventive mind, McDaniels set to work on an electric sign and succeeded in getting it patented successfully. Next he applied himself to electrical devices for hosiery knitting. After completing six years, at the end of next month, McDaniels is to be released.