The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-02-02

J, !. THURSDAY 'FI
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T. .af A RemarkableStory. ;sul
Ed ievs7d 10 nsifoE 9Tr To .Yees4 E.ns ri !
The Adventures eta Felon Mar
cfb iii ID rated tbyfHiMself. oag sao
IFh A Liverpool paper says; s;' f-ao7a, 4.
y The2 trial of q convict named Rossiter; .
fhe Ate- Gsocester Assizes,, befare Mr., Fsaro,
Bramwel. disclosed facts which are, in them
Iseivss,T n romance, and the interest sttache,
4 to the prisoner $ career. was considerably en-
dhaneed, by, a'paper5 which he read, to tn,
court-his own compositicn--which evinceG
] considerable literary ability In this pape
Rossiterr traced his whole career, from tn,
4 FIRST time that he came under the Lash, Of the
law. down tp.his conviction AZ Gloucester o,
the 9th Of December. His, .fyst sentenc'
vas fifteen years transportation, when b
was sent to TsAterA, Australia. and conduct
led hisRssK ~ we'll Shat, after > short term, p
imprisonment, he was allowed, to oper. 4
/ school in the town Of Freemanrle, aud, had
as pupils the children Of the principal inhab
itants Of the place, In this school Robson,
Redpath and Beresford were assistants, Tbs
lschool Was success. bpt the head, of il, ac.
| cording, to his own showing. sighed for some.
thing higher than mere money making he
desired to be admitted on terms Of equality
to the houses Of the parents whose children
Of both, sexes. he was. inst-ucting. This be
could not achieve. - .aa.,,sl.: -, 49,
ID Then he married, thinking that man
with wife would stand in more oreditable
position. He was no nearer the object Of
his ambition. II passed" he said, "upree-
ognized on the streets, even by my LADY pu-
pills and the older boys The brand of the
convict was on him., smarting under this
feeling, he pettioned the government, for
pardon, and obtained it. He went, to Sing.
apore, but the ,stiGma still followed him--he
was not allowed to land, and had to return
to Freemantle, having spent f45 in the at
tempt. Ultimately he made his way to the
iIsthmus, of Panama,. and subsequently,, to
New, York. The, ,odiousness, attached to a
ticket-of leave man still pursued him. !. He
had thoughts Of enlisting in the federal ar
my, but feared to meet the fate which he de-
ciares inevitably attends federal draf,sa en-
From Boston he came to Liverpool with a
decent wardrobe, but little money! All his
resources were exhausted in, seekineemplov-
ment without obtaining it. He pawned his
wardrobe to enable him to push his way to
London Bath and Bristol, but without re,
suit. "Filthy, dirty and hungry" he said,
81 came to 3 stands;ill. and offered myself
to a a.recruiting sergeant Of. the Sixtyfrst
foot, who, on measuring me and testing nv
sight, rejected and, discharged me- The
paper, ended by declaring that hunger and
.destitution, staring him in the face, he, com
mitted the crime which ended in his last
conviction-breaking into a Methodist ehap-
el and stealing the communion cloth and BIZ
bles. e<'3
Il The prisoners voice became weaker az he
proceeded with the reading Of the document
of which the foregoing is the substance, and
at its close he burst into food Of tears All
the persons in court were moved with SYM
pathy; but he did not impose on Baron
Bramwell who told him that 1t was the third
time he had seen his face in that court On
the first occasion he was almost a child ac.
cused Of robbery The fury looked at the
offence in the light of boyish freak, and ac-
quilted him. On the second occasion, while
still youth, he was convicted of burglary.
and sentenced to fifteenf years penal servi
tude, and for this latter offence the same
amount Of bunishment was inflicted, datin g
from the time Of his present conviction. It
may be mentioned that this clever thief who
has thus given so iiiu h trouble to the ad.
ministration of justice in the Midland Dis
trict. is now only in his twenty fourth year :.
- We think ii probable the story which he
told. of his various peregrinations was in The
main correct, for the man able to write the
narrative we have thus briefly condensed ap-
pears to be fully capable of making tolera-
Die schoolmaster in a convict settlement; 4
but as all experience was lost on him in Eng
land, it is clear that his course in Freemantle
afforded in some way or other good ground
for the suspicion with which the free colo
nists treated him. Indeed, the whole course
Of this wretched man. is striking illustra.
ton Of the saying thata knave is fool with
d icircumbendibus.l goirp ,riyars, -,a j,
= Take Your Wife with You.
What blessing is labor, whether Of the
hand or of the brain! How it sharpens the
appetite for sportt With what an esicure.