Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-07-26
ACanxIet'a Release.

LIBERATION OF A NOTED ENGLISH RUR0LAh-
sxEToH OF HIS CABRERA LONG STAY IN TIE |
EASTERN PENITENTIARY-LIFE OF HONESTY AND |
uaEFuLNRss DETERMINED UPON. -. 1
On Monday noted English burglar, whose
name, for proper reasons, is withheld from puo-
location. will leave the Eastern Penitentiaiy
free man his long term of over nine years I'M
prisopment being now up His career has been
an eyentful one since his arrival in this country.
and. perhaps. on the other side also As to bis
exploits in England, however. our authorities
have been able to learn but little.
In 1854, after having been just liberated from
the Trenton penitentiary, where he had served
3 three years imprisonment he was arrested Tor
committing burglary in Northampton county
Pa He was tried and found guilty Of the charge,
and also of committing an assault and battery
upon those who undertook TO capture hun. ana
was sentenced on the 22d Of January, 1868, TO
an imprisonment in CHERRY Hill Tor nine years
and three months.
He is spoken OF by the prison inspectors as
being man of more than ordinary intelligence
and of prepossessiDg manners. The possasslon
of these qualities he soon tnrned to account he
obtained sundry small advantages from those
who bad been warmed to confidence in him by
his plausible manner. and on the sth of Febru-
ary 1857 he was among the missing, rgid
search WAS set on foot. but his whereabouts was
not discovered until year had elapsed, and even
then by peculiar circumstance.
His mode of escape was in this wise The
prison authorities having purchased number
of government blankets for the beds OF the pris-
oners one of these blankets was given to the
Engishmen, who, being shoemaker. fashioned
for himself a snit of clothing out of the blank
cts and sewed the garments with wax ends.
Putting on the pantaloons and vest Of the mate
rial he made bundle of the overcoat, and TAX
ing the lSster under his arm. he. having gotten
out under the corridor, walked to the front gate
just after the gate keeper had been changed
The gate keeper of course stopped the convict,
but the latter said, innocently, that he was a
shoemaker and had come to purchase some pris-
on-male boots He added in tippant tone
that he would have no very great objections to
STAYING all night il he were made comfortable
The suspicious of the gate keeper were all dis
armed and the man was permitted to pass
He made his way to the the west and settling
in Chicago carried on the shoe business en-
poying a number OF hands. Although the de-
tectivas OF that city were on the lookout for
him he remained nearly two years, thriving in
business, and sending great deal Of money to
| his family in Northampton county. lie ultimate
ly desired to bring lis wife and family out te
| Chicago and wrote to his wife, Offering TO send
| on sufficient money to bring her and the family
| out. She had short time previously married a
policeman, into whose hands this letter fell, aut
| who proceeded to Chicago and arresed the fugt
| tive who returned TO the penitentiaIy OF
| the 18th of January 1869
Since his return he has been giving what mon
| ey he earned by assiduou4 labor 70 aid in thu
| support of his little son He is going to star
| in his trade occupation Of shoemaking, and aver
| an intention Of hereafter leading a correct an'
honest life, He is now forty years OF age, am
as most of his time in this country has oeei
spent in prison cells. he expresses determine
tlon to enjov the balance Of his natural life i
| the pursuit of the pleasure that is to be toun
in honest toll, aud judging from the opinion Ell
tertaned of him by the prison officials, he ha
intelligence and energy enough to make an hon
est avocation pay hin az well as the more nefd
rious and hazardous occupation Of roobing otl
ers for living.