Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-06
stokes ut Sing Sing.

Edward S. Stokes was conveyed from
the Tombs on Saturday morning to the
State Prison at Sing Sing, and contrary
to expectation, without any notice
ablepartiality on the part OF the
officers who had him in charge. So care
fully did the officers keep the news from
all except the representatives of the
press and Warden Johnson, that on Sat
urday morning, even the TOmbs officials
were ignorant of what was about to hap
pen. AT about 10 o'clock Deputy
Sheriff Shields and his assistant, Mr..
Cahill, entered the prison and told
Stokes to make ready for the journey
When Stokes appeared in the corridor,
dressed in the dark checked suit and
black felt hat, so familiar to those who
attended the last trial, he looked pale
and anxious, and taking place near the
stove, remarked that it must be chilly IN
the omen air. and drawing handker-
chief from his pocket, tied it aronHd bis
neck, butt0ned his coat up TO his throat,
lighted a cigar, placed his hands IN his
coat rockets, and looked complaceHt
while be awaited the end OF the pFepar
alton in progress by the deputy sheritfS
Holm d. CouSe. who was sentenced on
( October 81, in the Court of General Ses-
siqns, to AN Imprisonment Of two and
| half years for forgery in the third de
gree upon Lawrence Bros, bankers, tor
whom he was cashier, completed his
\ toilet and joined Stokes. CouSe was
neatly and indeed comfortably dressed,
( and had anticipated the attentions Of the
/ State Prison barber by shaving off ms
I Dunflreary whiskers and mOnstache, So
4 eypgditiously Was everything done that
I the conyicts, nlanacledby q single brace
| let and attended by the deputy sheriffs,
left the Tombs few minutes after 10
! o'clock. A Fourth avenue car was
| hailed and seats were taken, the prison.
! ers sitting in corner near the front
platform. The prisoners sat SO close to
/ each. other that the handcuff could not
( be seen. While passing from one car to
smother at the Thirty-secona street de-
! pot, Stokes was recognized: '.Many a
I dollar | got from him at the Hoffman
! House, fresh-leolling youth was heard
| 10 say. Gle looks we'll, too, was q
general remark.
4 AT twenty minutes past 10 o'clock the
/ victims were seated in the smoking ear
i Of the f0:45 train. Mr.. Shields, who is
! well known to the railroad employees,
! attracted their notice, and it required no
! fine for them to find ont who were the
men in custody.
Like wiIdfire the news spread through
/ all the. cars of the train, and police Off
/ GERS laid aside their dignity, elderly Ia
dies and gentlemen forgot their anxiety
! to obtain seats, employees forsook their
/ work, and all joined the newsboys In the
! rush to see Stokes. s,,s....
/ On the way up the river Stokes con-
| versed. freely with his oompanion in
/ irons and the deputy sheriffs, When
/ ever he spoke of the trial he affected to
| feel that he was badly treated, but a
/ close observer could detect q heartfelt
(! rejoicing that he had escaped even an
other trial, and much more a seyereT
! Judgment II would have died." said
| he, "If had been confined another
/ twelvemonth in the Tombs. !"
i On arriving at Sing Sing, MIR. Shields
] allowed Stokes and Couse to eat lunch
before they entered the prison In the
Office of the prison the conviets were
4 received by Warden Hubbell, who told
! them that he would do all he. could le-
| gally to mitigate the misery of their con.
! dition. IN response to the. usual in.
auiries of the prison clerk, Stokes sale
/ he was native of Pennsylvania, thirty
two years of age, and was broker wher
he committed the offense of which ht
was convicted. Couse said he was born
in Jersey City, was thirty three years Of
age, by occupation a bank teller, ant
was convicted on his own confession o.
I forgery The two were then takeI
charge Of by the prison doctor. WheE
Stokes saw his striped suit he indulgeC
+ in little pleasantly, saying that he wore
something similar when playing bass
. bali s he never had pair of pantalooni
Il to. fit him so we'll lie noticed. the alb
senee of a pistol pocket. ~ fr..s /.
They were, then: measured. Stoke
! stood five feet ten, and Couse five fee
!; eight and half !; then weighed, Stoke
turning the balance at one hundred AM
thirty-eight pounds and Couse at ON
/ hundred and twenty eight pounds. Th
e regulation towel and comb were thel
given to the convicts, and they We're as
! signed their cells, Stokes being No l73
q on the second tier. a parting scene fol
! lowed between the convicts and tn
! deputy sheriffs, and the farewell betweel
Stokes and Deputy Sheriff Shields, VIII
. has been his constant custodian durint
: the. twenty-five months Of his confine
r ment in the Tombs and from who's
/ / kind attentions Stokes derived mlc
cheer and strength to bear up under Tia