The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-03-14

Ooiiie years aSod young lliali COIll-
mitted a crime in Indiana and fled
to Kentucky, where he married.
Three weeks after his wife became
a mother, he was arrested on a
warrant from Indiana, and, in the
custody of three men, taken on
board a steamer to be conveyed
back to Indiana. His wife, with her
infant child, after a hasty ride of
twelve miles, reached the same
steamer and secured passage. The
remainder of the narrative we give
in the words of a writer in the Bow
ling Green (Ky.) Democrat:
The prisoner was sitting near the
stove in the forward cabin encircled
by his guard. | saw, slight though
it was, the thrill or start as the
wife's eye first fell upon him and
his surToundir gs. Her salutation
was constrainedly quiet and unde-
monstrative. With but a slight
pause, she rather peremptorily said
"Come!" as she started toward the,
ladies' cabin. The guard rather
hesitatingly objected, but she re-
piled in q compressed tone, "He
shall come" He arose, and the
guard accompanying, all walked aft
and sat down in the ladies' cabin.
With sort of a fascination I tol-
lowed. Here there was but little
conversation for some time, beyond
mutual inquiries in regard to health,
and some expressed apprehensions
on the part of the husband ofinjury
to both mother and child from expo
sure to such weather SO soon after
her accession to maternity.
The steamer had progressed many
miles by bedtime, and meanwhilea
stateroom had been assigned the
woman, in which, after being well
warmed and snugly enwrapped, the
little babe was sweetly sleeping, and,
as mothers fondly fancy, smiling in
response to angels whispers any
rate, happily unconscious Of its pa
rents troubles. About 10 o'clock
Mrs. said, "John, it is bed
time; | know you need sleep.
Come into my room and 60 to bed"
The guard thereupon arose and pos
itively objected; but she turned
upon the with q withering glance
and q desperate resolution in her
face, saying: "You need not open
your mouths. You are three great,
brave men to fear q little unarmed
man like him! Guard the outside
OF the door as you will, but in here
he shall sleep!"
Her tsunt prevailed. The guard
yielded, and the prisoner retired
with his wife. / was astonished at
her success, and wondered at the
imbecility Of the guard but at sew
eral successive landings, while the
lady was still up, they would de-
mand admittance to her room, look
in upon the prisoner, and then re-
tire.
The steamer was about arriving
at Calhoun. When nearing the
landing | noticed the boatin q most
unusual position relative to the
bank-her head pointing obliquely
across to the other shore, while her
stern was scraping along the bank
in the bushes on the landing side. |
looked, but there was no wind to
explain it. | could not understand
it. After scraping her stern along
the bank for about hundred yards,
she at last righted, and came into
the landing all right. AS usual on
landing, the guard rushed up for
ward to watch the exit Of all, for
getting that . boat has two ends,
and that it is possible to get off at
either. Had they been cognizant Of
this fact this true story might have
been materially altered. After leav-
ing the dock ct this point, the guard
as usual went to Mrs. IS room
and demanded admittsnce. She, for
the first time, refused to open the
door, alleging, as . reason, that she
had now undressed, and they could
not come in. They appealed to
the captain. He told them be was
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