The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-10-13
Somebody's Escape,

would stretch out by Lord Clare's instead OF
going as it did. There is Black Clare street,
built of handsome private houses, which
We're afterW ards let and sub let cheap to
| lodgers-nany of the lower class Of trades
people. 1t was in one of these houses that
a reduced gentlewoman-AlissS Sally Carmo-
Idy-iyed, in or about the year l76l. There
was a deal of French money sent over i'll
those times, and some it was thought, APP
proprated it to their own purposes. Frank
Arthur even, when he was building Arthur's
Quay, was accused of having got some.
am quite sure this was untrue, but the story
q was believed, because, you see, in those days
it was thought such an impudent thing for
La Catholic to build whole quay. Three
| times, they say, he was on the point of be-
ing hanged, but the Earl of Limerick saw
ed him. However this might be, Frank
Arthur, being considered mighty ''uppish"
Chat was the world for a Catholic was sus-
pected, and not himself alone, but all who
4 were known to be connected with him.
Arthur's wife was better born than himself
and poor Miss Sally Carmody was cousin
Of hers and we'll known as such. So she,
good old lady was under suspicion also.
/ Miss Sally being, as | said, reduced, was
obliged to take Ia needlework to support her
self She was very skilful at her needle,
and numbers oil fine ladies used to mount the
stairs of her lodgings. to entrust her with
work they were particular about One would
think there could be nothing very danger
GUS in this poor gentlewoman. Still being
related to Arthur's wife, she was watched
and she knew it. Above all, she lived in
constant dread of fellow ledger who occu-
pied the rooms on the ground floor, imme-
diateIy below her This " oman who fol-
lowed the calling of clear starcher was an
acrid close, Uncommunicative little body
| very Industrious, but very odd in her ways.
She was what the neighbors called "a bit
ter Protestant;" consequently she was en-
ployed by ali the Protestant ladies Of LINER
lex. and was moreover weekly penEl0ner
Of some religious society. BY Miss Sally
the little Protestant clear starcher was look
ed upon as a spy, and dreaded and avoided
accordingly. One day a handsome carriage
1 stopped at the door, and lady of modish
appearance having inquired for Miss Sally,
;,lighted and assembled the stairs TO her room.
She had some very fine work with her, and
concerning this she had hundred instrue-
lions to give Miss Sally remembered after
wards that while she was talking about the
work the ladys eyes kept CHANGING here and
there rather curiously. But as this was by
no means unusual in her fine lady visitors,
it caused her no uneasiness at the time
i.er customer at last departed, and Miss Sal
~ rlsaied her occupation, suspended du-
4 riGg the IA Their tedious directions to which
she mad to hearken. ...t r..
The visitors sharp eyes, however had not
I l.,
room there was as have often seen III those
old houses, a little room or closet, Without
eny window, only lighted by means Of a
glass door connecting it with the apartment
without 1t came out subsequently that the
fine lady spy had seen tho shadow Of a man
inside. In less then half an hour the whole
street was filled with soldiers up to Miss
SaIly's room. They came to secure their
prisoner They knew he had not time to
| escape-they also knew that from the closet
there was no second outlet; So when they
were in the room without, they were sure he
was trapped.
Into the closet, then, they thronged, Gen
eraI Duff himself at their head. But the
room was apparently empty. 1t was with
out furniture, save nattrasS, a chair aud
table on which was a little heap OF fire
wood, but not large enough to conceal
man. For moment the soldiers were TIA
| ken aback-next nroment they were re-assur-
| ed. .-
There was a bricked up fireplace in the
room and round it they gathered. At that
time there was tax called hearth money
and people used to build sort Of wall of
bricks around a fireplace, that the Inspector
might see when he c,tlne that they made no
use Of it. Ay, and may be when he'd turn
his back, the bricks would be taken down
until the time came for the next visit
However as luck would have it, Sally had
really no use for this fireplace [ suppose
it was as much as she could do,poor lady, to
keep up the fire in the front room. And so
it happened that the bricks were well and
firmly built, and even plastered over, and
they reached to within a couple OF feet of
the ceiling. There was just room for man
inside and down there, and, as the soldiers
guessed, the poor fugitive had dropped He
had ouly few minutes notice Of their COM
ing, and catching up a Ratchet that was in
the corner with the tirewood, he had just had
time to Chamber up and gain his temporary
place of refuge when they broke i'll.
With throbbing heart he listened to
their threats, their cries Of anger, their oaths.
He heard them asking if it would not be
best to shoot down upon him, and kill him
in his lair But General Duff bawled out :!
"No,no-Irot for hundred thousand pounds
lie must be taken alive! lie cannot escape
us; pull down the brickwork, and he is
ours !" They then set to, and worked hot
ly; and what with the knocking and ham
mering, and cursing, and shouting there
was such an uproar as was never heard be-
fore in poor Miss Sally Carmody's lodgings.
The bricks being soiidly built and plastered
| it wassnot so easy as they anticipated TO
tear them away. And when at last they
did effect that purpose their supposed prls
oncr had again banked then-how was
plainly to be seen. While they were up
roofing the bricks that screened him from
them, he, seeing, or rather feeling, that there
was no learthstone under his feet, had con
ceived the hope that by cutting away the
! floor he might drop into the room below,
and so have another chance OF getting off,
| With the Ratchet he had caught up, he fell
to work, the noise he made was completely
drowned by the uproar without; and some
minutes before there Object was affected he
landed iii the room below,
Instantly the alarm was given by the
soldiers nearest the Learth-place. Some Of
their number remained above, while the
rest hurried down t. get into the room be-
low. But here was another delay, for the
woman who occupied it-a good Protestant.
as several Of them knew, and therefore not
to be suspected Of voluntarily harboring a
French spy (for such they declared the fugi
tive to be)-was absent and the door was
locked Some who had hurried round to
the back Of the house, found the window OF
this room fast bolted OIL the inside, and there
was no other outlet from it. With a shout
they announced their certainty that the
Frenchman was still in the house, caught in |
lis own trap. So they call for cr0wbar to
to break open the door, and seize him at /
last Somehow none of them ventured to I