In 1893 at the age of 12 he was the youngest person to be serving in a prison in the United States.
Born Anton Woode
Arriving to Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City on the 8th of August 1893 he became the the youngest person in the United States to be confined to a state prison. He had been convicted of murder in the second degree of Joseph Smith for his gun and pretty watch during a hunting trip near Brighton, Colorado. He was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor.
In 1900 he was one of four who escaped from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. Though he did not participate in the killing a guard was murdered during the escape. Woode was captured soon after the escape and returned to the prison.
Governor Peabody granted Woode a parole on the 13th of October 1905. At that time he had already served over twelve years of his sentence at the time of his release. He was paroled to East Aurora, New York where he became part of the Roycrofters community. There he worked as a music teacher. He had learned to play the violin while incarcerated in Colorado. He assumed a new name, Charles Henry Howard, married Miss Mabel Estelle Terry on the 4th of June 1906. He reportedly never ran a foul of the law again.
By 1917 Charles and Mabel had relocated to Menomonie, Wisconsin where he worked as an auditor for Wisconsin Mill Co. The couple lived at 710 10th St. in Menomonie.
On the 8th of March 1950 Charles died of lung cancer in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota
He was buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Born Anton Woode
Arriving to Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City on the 8th of August 1893 he became the the youngest person in the United States to be confined to a state prison. He had been convicted of murder in the second degree of Joseph Smith for his gun and pretty watch during a hunting trip near Brighton, Colorado. He was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor.
In 1900 he was one of four who escaped from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. Though he did not participate in the killing a guard was murdered during the escape. Woode was captured soon after the escape and returned to the prison.
Governor Peabody granted Woode a parole on the 13th of October 1905. At that time he had already served over twelve years of his sentence at the time of his release. He was paroled to East Aurora, New York where he became part of the Roycrofters community. There he worked as a music teacher. He had learned to play the violin while incarcerated in Colorado. He assumed a new name, Charles Henry Howard, married Miss Mabel Estelle Terry on the 4th of June 1906. He reportedly never ran a foul of the law again.
By 1917 Charles and Mabel had relocated to Menomonie, Wisconsin where he worked as an auditor for Wisconsin Mill Co. The couple lived at 710 10th St. in Menomonie.
On the 8th of March 1950 Charles died of lung cancer in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota
He was buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Minneapolis.
In 1893 at the age of 12 he was the youngest person to be serving in a prison in the United States.
Born Anton Woode
Arriving to Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City on the 8th of August 1893 he became the the youngest person in the United States to be confined to a state prison. He had been convicted of murder in the second degree of Joseph Smith for his gun and pretty watch during a hunting trip near Brighton, Colorado. He was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor.
In 1900 he was one of four who escaped from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. Though he did not participate in the killing a guard was murdered during the escape. Woode was captured soon after the escape and returned to the prison.
Governor Peabody granted Woode a parole on the 13th of October 1905. At that time he had already served over twelve years of his sentence at the time of his release. He was paroled to East Aurora, New York where he became part of the Roycrofters community. There he worked as a music teacher. He had learned to play the violin while incarcerated in Colorado. He assumed a new name, Charles Henry Howard, married Miss Mabel Estelle Terry on the 4th of June 1906. He reportedly never ran a foul of the law again.
By 1917 Charles and Mabel had relocated to Menomonie, Wisconsin where he worked as an auditor for Wisconsin Mill Co. The couple lived at 710 10th St. in Menomonie.
On the 8th of March 1950 Charles died of lung cancer in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota
He was buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Born Anton Woode
Arriving to Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City on the 8th of August 1893 he became the the youngest person in the United States to be confined to a state prison. He had been convicted of murder in the second degree of Joseph Smith for his gun and pretty watch during a hunting trip near Brighton, Colorado. He was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor.
In 1900 he was one of four who escaped from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. Though he did not participate in the killing a guard was murdered during the escape. Woode was captured soon after the escape and returned to the prison.
Governor Peabody granted Woode a parole on the 13th of October 1905. At that time he had already served over twelve years of his sentence at the time of his release. He was paroled to East Aurora, New York where he became part of the Roycrofters community. There he worked as a music teacher. He had learned to play the violin while incarcerated in Colorado. He assumed a new name, Charles Henry Howard, married Miss Mabel Estelle Terry on the 4th of June 1906. He reportedly never ran a foul of the law again.
By 1917 Charles and Mabel had relocated to Menomonie, Wisconsin where he worked as an auditor for Wisconsin Mill Co. The couple lived at 710 10th St. in Menomonie.
On the 8th of March 1950 Charles died of lung cancer in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota
He was buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Minneapolis.
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