Honeck spent the first years of his sentence in Joliet Prison, where in 1912 he stabbed the assistant warden with a hand-crafted knife.
In the decades between his conviction and the time his case came to public notice again in August 1963, Honeck received one letter-a four-line note from his brother in 1904-and two visitors: a friend in 1904, and a newspaper reporter in 1963 [REF].