It leaves Myron plenty embarrassed but he finally says to Pete he can go free anyway now for being such an honest jailbird and old Sing Wah can go too having been punished enough by Pete's handling - Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

I'm a jailbird I say - McAllister and His Double by Arthur Train

He looked a veritable jailbird - The Second Deluge by Garrett P. Serviss