Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-23
Justice hut is said to be fair sample Of what

! Justice, hut is said TO be fair sample Of what
occurs there many times every year.
"On bright morning in August, as / was
going ont of my house to ramble in the Central
| park, was met by Il polite, gcntcmanly man,
! with a paper in his hand, who asked my name
| and handed me document, 1t was an order of
! arreSt--S40,G0O ball-~grantcd by a county Judge
! in Buffalo. The plaintiff was entirely unknown
10 myself The polite officer, ioI the tritle of
S25, Offered 10 30 with me TO NV LAWYERS, where
the papers could be examined. | paid it, and
went with the officer. My LAWYER found, first,
that the matter ut issue took place over ak years
ago, and was consequently barred by the statute
OF limitations; and second, was only brought
into il by the plaintiff swearing thar, in an oil
speculation some seven years ago, lawNcrWho
was 0edd told him so and so about the property,
and this person he claimed was my agent.
There was under arrest for $4,000 bail, on the
complaint of man never saw or beard of Ia
Canadian, helleve-nOt even citizen OF my
country, for what man said seven years be-
fore,
What was TO he doneP The bail was too large
for me to procure, and my lawyers told me that
if / attempted TO try the great writ of right,
that my Saxon ancestors wrnng from n
tyrannical king, the sheriff would disregard it
where the bail was so large, ] submitted TO my
fate and went TO Ludlow street, Jail. After
several weeks of Imprisonment in that vile den,
during which my lawyers were nrging every
means TO rescue me in vain, finally despared
of any relief from the courts and appealed TO
the plaintiff through my lawyers. NV atfidavitS
were SO strong that even he was convinced of
my innocence, and the hopelessless Of his case
if ever it could be brought before
jury, so that he generously consented to
large reduction of the bail and the
acceptance of what we could procure,
andcame down to New York himself TO instruct
the sheriff to carry out the arrangement. But
here our difficulties began anew. Our bail was
entered in the sheriff. Office, the bond signed,
and the Plaintiff in person approved the bail,
releasing the sheriff from liability. TO get my
bail | got out with an officer for seven hours one
day, on Warden TTacy's liberal scale of prices
for sem-liberty, IS per hour.) But the sheriff
did not know the plaintiff, although two re-
spectacle lawyers of the New York bar youched
for his identity, and JudsOn Jarvis told my law.
yer he would release me on telegram from
plaintiffs attorney at Buffalo. Next day the
telegram came all right, but JudSon Jarvis re-
fused to release me, as he said the telegram
might be bogus.
tiIthc plaintiffs attorney would write, it would
be all right In three days more the plaintiffs
attorneys letter was received at the Sherti's
office pCrcmptorily directing them to discharge
me. JudSon Jarvis now made the excuse that he
did not know plaintiffs attorneys writing. (he
could arrest me onlt, but he did not know it
when it came to a discharged He would con-
suit Brown, Hall & Vanderpoel, and many were
| the consultations that were held. They would
have to send to Buffalo and see if the papers
were genuine, and also wanted the bond Endorsed
by the plaintiffs attorney, and in this way two
of the most WcarisOme weeks OF my Lille passed.
One day was lying on my pallet of straw Il
could not sleep for the bugs,) and some one call
ed me in the corridor. | rushed out OF my cell.
1t was my lawyer. He held paper in his hand.
1t was my release. | gave a wild shout. My
ielOw-Sufierers gathered round me, as wild in
their reiolcngs as was. Tearing myself from
them, and paying Gardner his bill without look
Iur AT the amount. rushed info the street and
ran nearly a mile from Ludlow Jail without
stopping. Then paused and cried as ! looked
at the blue sky and the glorious sun again, not
dmmed by prison walls and dark corridors,
and thanked God in my Utmost heart for his
greatest blessing to man, liberty. had been in
Ludlow street just seven weeks and one day, on
a false and fictitious charge; and though it was
as false as hell, there was no way out through
the legal mcSheS of our law"
In regard to the new collector of the port of
New York, there is not entire agreement among
the papers Of that city, but perhaps they differ
not more than would be expected from their
partisan plepossessions and antipathies All
admit that he is gentleman of education, and
at least respectable, if not Of eminent ability in
hslprofcssion of the law, against whose personal
character. not a word can be said. 1t is reported
that the appointment was Offered successfully
to eX-Mayor Opdyke, TO John A. GrlSwold, of
Troy, late member OF congress and republican
candidate for governor Of the state and to
William A. Orion, president of the Western
Union telegraph company. These gentlemen
declined the Office for personal reasons, but each
in doing SO recommended the appointment of
Mr.. Arthur.