The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-11-22
THRILLING EPISODEIN THE LIFE
OF CARL SCHURZ.


A writer in the Easton Penn J
Times gives an interesting sketch of the
Lille OF Carl Schurz.
He was born 80 years ago, in Bonn ,on
The Rhine. in the Prussian domains. In
le49, be joined the Constitutional army,
and sharing in its reverses, he was SEN
fenced to death for high treason. For
three days and nights after the Prussians
had entered Radstadt, he lay concealed
in shed, oD beam or rafter, just wide
enough to conceal his person from the
eyes of those who stood below. A
guard of some kind was statioued in the
very house to which this shed belonged,
and every night the soldiers Assem- bled
on the floor beneath bis hiding place, and
danced to the music of the trumpet. On
the fourth night heavy shower of rain
gave him the first opportunity of attempt
ing an escape, and he jumped from the
roof upon a chicken coop, which broke
down under him with loud crash,
though without attracting the notice Of
the sentry who was, or ought to have
been, but few yards off. By the as
sistance Of his friends he reached a sew
er, and thus attained the outside of the
Notifications.
Even here there was sentry. but by
following closely behind as he walked by,
he managed to gain cover before the
sentiy turned On his beat. He made his
way to Paris, and remained there some
time in the vain hope of favorable turn
in the affairs of his native country. In a
little book published by the chief spy OF
Bonaparte's poliece, he received honor
able mention as the most audacious and
the most adrtit Of the exile, who, while
constantly active, could never be en-
shared into any act furnishing pretext
even to the liberal conscience of a Bona
parte for his extradltion. At this time
the public opinion of Germany w as much
aroused by the cowardly Prussian Gov
ernment on Godfrey Kinkle, townsman
os Schurz's. professor. who had joined
the constitutional movement at the same
time with himself. This man, poet o.
delicate frame. highly educat ed, and ac-
customed to all the re6nements Of life,
was imprisoned at Spandau, twenty miles
from Berlin, dressed as convict, his
hair cropped short and forced to labor at
wool-carding, and 10 room and mess with
felons. Schurz, having determined to
rescue him, repaired 70 London, collected
the means and made the arrapgements.-
With forged passport he travelled di-
rect to Berlin, left his papers with the
police over night. obtained q vise for
some other town the next moraing, and,
instead Of proceeding, took lodging in
boarding house. There he remained for
six weeks. going to Spandau every day,
and returning late in the night. when the
policeman was always SO obliging as to
unlock the door of his boarding house for
him. All the arrangements having been
completed, he carried off Kinkel in a
coach one rainy night, together with his
keeper. Relays of horses were in readi-
ness from station to station until they
reached the sea shore, where pilot boat
received them. Tkey landed at Hull or
Yarmou long before the Government
had the most remote idea of the prison
er's whereabouts. Coming to this coun-
try in 1861. he registered himself as a
law student in Philadelphia, and sojourn-
ed there for number of years. occupy
inr his time almost exclusively. with the