The Placer herald., 1859-04-30
Jackway the Ingrate..-A Story of Point
San Quentin.

was once a citizen of the county Of Alameda,
but being of wayward, reckless habits, weak
in the upper story, fond of froic and all
kinds Of company, moreover fiddler of
much preteasion, he contracted (as is too
often the case with such young men in Cali
fornia) bad habits and taste for dissoute,
bad company. AS consequence of this
character and state of facts, Full Trusty,
being one night in the company of some
riotous young men Of unscrupulous morals,
and the party coming in contact with a
party of Cinnamon, some Of the party kick
ed up shindy with the Johns and relieved
them of the spare change they had upon
their persons. No one believes that our
hero ever obtained one cent Of this ill-got-
ten wealth, to his own proper use and benefit,
but being in the condition of poor Tray,
twelve of his fellow citizens voted him guilty
of grand larceny, and his Honor the Judge,
sent him to Point San Quentin, where the
State has an institution commonly called
'the State Prison" If we were romancing
we might say that it was an unhappy passion
for some fair but false one, of the opposite
SEX that brought this apparently bad fortune
upon f. I. j., and more skilful pen would
wiring tears from rock, by the picture Of
female anguish as loaded with chains, the
unteelng officers of the cruel law, tore him
from her fond embrace, and bore him away
to confinement and disgrace. Oh. injustice
thy name is law. Oh. misfortune, thou are
personfied in Jackway Back, back, we say
thou too ready fountain of tears-back to
thy sacred recesses liquid sympathy-we
have but to deal with facts. The public re-
cords of the prison show our hero to be
the 806th person committed to the place,
that he entered January 10Th. 1856, for the
term of three years. This was the year
that the great retormers of all public abuses
came into power, the mystic Know Nothings,
and accordingly we find that on "all-fooIs
day." Gen'I James NJ. EsteI, (play upon the
word honesty,) an enterprising citizen of this
great commonwealth, was placed in pos
session of the said prison, prison-grounds,
property and prisoners of the State, under
contract on the part of the officers of the
State Government, to pay him ten thousand
dollars per month, for five years. AS is
known to the world, our friend, the enter
plsing General, sub-Iet his contract to John
f. McCauley, (play upon the word A5erdltty)
another worthy citizen who has shown by
his zeal to the public, in recent charges made
against the Directors Of the Prison, to be
worthy Of all confidence. The latter gentle
man undertook, to run The machine and fulfill
the obligations of his friend the General, for
five thousand dollars per month, whereby
the worthy General turned an honest penny.
During all this time, and these mutations
in prison matters, the history of Full 1rus
ty'simprisonment is buried in obscurty, but
shortly after, Mr. McCauIey (not the isoran)
came into power, we find our hero, like
Joseph of DID, had obtained the confidence
of his keeper, as an evidence OF which,
F. I. was entrusted with the KEY Of the
eastern portals of the prison wall, and duly
enrobed with all the powers of gate keeper
over some nine hundred prisoners, employees,
his obligations at the gate, that his master
in further expressing his confidence in +. rs
lnte e-rity, with a view to relieve him by
heathtul exercise from the confinement of
prison life, dispatched him with one Murphy
into the forest some four miles from the said
prison to hew out spars for the good ship
civilian Hicks" then in course of erec-
ton by the worthy John f. Oar hero
showed himself worthy of this confidence
of his master, for he labored faithfully to
the end accomplishing the undertaking, not
withstandng Mr.. Murphy evaporated one
foggy morning, and his home and habitation
has not since been known. When +. T. re-
turned to the prison after his labors in the
forest, Mr.. McCauly, as further mark of
his confidence and perhaps with view, some
what of profit, dispatched him to live with
his father-in-law, Mr.. Hicks, whose residence
on ranch, is some twenty-five miles from
the prison. There was also with him ano-
ther worthy one, Isaac Morris, a prosecuted
man, who had been sent by John f. to re-
create upon his relatives farm, and lend his
assistance (possibly), at labor thereon. We
are not posted as to the length of TIME Full
Trusty spent in this delightful retreat, but it
does not require the aid Of very powerful
magnifying Imagination to assume, that he
had his fiddle with him, and spent his days
in quietness and his evenings most pleasantly.
The tates have ever been cruel to Full Trusty,
1--WE use his gloen name, in that familiar man
ner SO pleasant with warm and intimate
frends,) and so we find, that on or about
the lst of March, of the year A. D. 1853,
one John B. Weller, then holding the office
of Governor, ia good brth,) accompanied
by two or three other most dangerous men,
all of them armed to the teeth, with tooth
picks and some of them with brass buttons,
assaulted the quad, Gas per Supreme Court,)
and With force and violence, and intimida-
tion, play upon the word TECHNICAL carried
the prison. capturing by this coup de main,
about twenty guards, armed with pistols,