The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-22
the PRINCE or couSrERrEIrERs
How he Fell in with the Ring-story Of
Charles Ulrich His Last Auempi TO Es-
cnpc-How his Friends ribbed the JaiIcrs.

| FROM ne C,nlitldu Commercial
Charles Ulrch is Prussian by birth, and came
to this couuirya lew years ago, according to his own
account, with no purpose OF entering upon career
OF crime, but, like thousands Of his countrymen,
simply intent on bettering his condition in legiti
mate way. The story OF his subsequent course. as
narrated by himself is OF no little interest, being
substantially as follows lie had acquired high ex.
celience in the practice OF the engravers art and
readily found employment at hign wages from, the
American Bank Note Company in New York lie
was fond OF display and nigh living and in the enjoy.
ment with others took his dinners at fashionable
restaurant There he was accustomed after q while
to notice At table not far from the one where he
onJ niasts seSS.u, s.nVenhn VI aslonlUie dress
anu pressing address, who almost invariably made
We appearance At about tho same hour ns hineelf
Neher paid any apparent attention to the other for
cause changed his seat from his usual position at
the table to one opposite that Of tie accomplished
engraver During dinner they exchanged sauta.
IONS the Rontemanly stranger remarking that they
mo so long heen accustomed to see each other there
without acquaintance, aud 40 leading the converse
NJ engraver and NJ work for the Bank Note Com.
PAW, when tie following conversation ensued
An engraver, ndeedi Wei, | have wanted
some work done IN that line for some time but am
very particular about IT, would be willing TO pay,
however for good job"
What !. the subject :"
lhs;" and he produced n handsome medallion
OF female face. am very particular about II.
costr
Tha, depends upon the Gneness OF the work 1t
ean be done for my dollars. or with great deal OF
me work, be made to cost two hundred dollars"
" want the best, an am willing TO pay for H."
Orlch ~ length proposed to do It for $l1j. and
finished. Ne returned 10 his nov enrloyoT His new
TREND expressed bimsef well pleased and with m.
ucnll lipeIaiy said he understood the price to be
similar Jobs were atcrward frequently furnished
rom thc same source for awhile untl one day his
ncw.iouud patron broke out with the exclamation
I'm surprised to see you plodlinc along this
way when lou might just as well &C, rich and own
ray the country with your skin. would II had
How would you 40 ~"
w making bonds money. anything. There Is
no riAk. 1Ou enrrave plates for parties they pay
yon, and you have nothing to DO with the use Of
1t seems to have taken no great amount OF porsua.
sion TO lead rlrch into this view, IS he appears to
have cared little for any principle involved. and ere
long he replied that II he saw chance he would do
r. or course the chance" was before him. He
wss ut once furnished plenty to do, and received
better paw from his new and unknown employers
than in the legitimate use OF his talents. by and by
he was suspected. arrested. convicted. But IRON
water in the hands THE Officers who brought
him TO the peniieutiary expressed the belief that
he could not ne kept there six months,
aud tie two years Of his confinement had
attempts aud devices on his part to fulfil as nearly
az possible the prediction. He belonged TO "ring"
OF the most accomplished rascas in this country,
and his services sre too valuable to his confedcrates
TO allow them to remain idle when there appears any
door ny which " seems possible tor lin to effect his
escape. That they should have been able to tampcr
with and bride two OF the regular Euardsmon, most
trusted by the prison authorities. Is less
surprising TO those VINO have carefully noted
prison developments, than to Outsiders who
never took any special interest In the
subject There seems to beat least such IL the
opinion OF careful obseryers-a sort Of moral con.
tacOn In the atmosphere where large bodies OF Grim.
inals are congregated. even though confined in e1.
piltion Of their offences. So the ofee OF guard or
keeper OF prison may be said to call into requis
ton in a peculiar manner ali the moral stamina Of
the man iulhlng it's duties. These two men Ba.
bite and Rachcle were to receive for their trolch
cry TO the state the pltiul sum OF twenty-five hun.
dtcd dollars apiece. The prison cell was clandes.
timely opened, but the direct road to
the outer world and TO liberty lay through
other iron door which In the keep.
ing Of other men who could not be
PASSED SO the prisoner furnished with
ropes and turned loose in the chapel to effect his
cape over the roof and outer walls by the exercise
OF his own wits and muscle confederate was in
waiting to conduct him 10 friendly shelter near by,
where he would be safe from rearrest Ere the roof
was reached the alarm given, the prison au-
thoTties aroused, and the halfescaped convict led
back 10 his cell.
1t Is evident that the prison authorities hoped to
must have known all about It, informed yonr CORE
that nothing OF public interest had TRANSFERRED in the
institution. They have probably learned how vain
i the effort to seal up tie lips OF half hundred