Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-11
encamped that it was almost impossible

encamped that it was almost impossible
to breathe.
There were two men on the train who
stood close by Ingersoll and harrington
all through the journey to Sing Sing, the
duration of the trip being an hour TWEEN
ty-eight minutes. One was brother-in-
law of harrington named Muller, sugar
refiner in New York, big, good-natured
fellow, and the other was small man
named McGraw, who never left the side
of Ingersoll until the latter entered his
cell. There was very little conversation
vouchsafed by either Ingersoll. or Far
rington on the trip up the river, although
the deputy sheriffs talked quite freely.
Ingersoll kept up his spirits, while Far
rington would every now and then look
out upon the river and the hills that are
eternal. Occasionally he would try to
whistle an air, but it had the effect of
man whistling a grave yard
The face of Harrington is, indeed, a mo-
bile one. Any one who saw him yester-
day could not doubt but that he has
loved and does love Ingersoll, and in
lesser degree, no doubt, Ingersoll loves
Harrington. The bookkeeper watched
every change in the features of 1ngersoll
as famished dog would watch his re-
turned master.
When the train reached a point in a
bend of the Hudson just below Sing
Sing; and at the moment when every
open-mouthed, ill-bred and staring pas
senger knew of the vicinity of State
Prison, visible shudder passed through
the frame of Ingersoll. All remem-
brance of wine parties, all the thoughts
of the swindle he had perpetrated on the
city in which he had got his bread, and
all the gloss which covered his forgeries
faded away, and his face was as blank
as the grave, Deputy Shields stood up,
the whistle blew, Harrington gazed
fondly at his master, and, as the train
stopped, the two criminals landed on
the earth, which was variegated with the
iron rails.
Every person on the right side of the
train peeped out to look at the chair
maker and his assistant, and they hur-
ried up, for it was now four o'clock OF q
December evening, toward the prison,
the Hudson looking gray and rather
dirty, and the scene was sombre as q
funeral ceremony. Harrington walked
first, between Deputies Van Claim and
Cahill, and Ingersoll came after, with
Deputy Shields and the reporters. In
the tunnel the party stopped for a mo-
ment, and a consultation was held.
Then they emerged into daylight again
and the walls of the dismal prison loom
ed up, their portfolios, meant for win
dows, yawning on ALL Guards, in blue
uniforms, were everywhere, with q pre-
tence Of watchfulncss in their move
ments. The gray stone female prison
4. Eraf,ioY, MIA
and as Ingersoll walked up the steps
which led to path parallel with the
track, he remarked,
''They are taking us in, amt they:
Then Ingersoll cleared his throat in a
husky manner, two or three times, for
| be was about to plunge into an abyss.
| The party descended to the right and
| entered the antechamber of the prison,
! where a clerk named Clifford, asked
their names. Harrington behaved like
veteran soldier; all his care seemed to
| be that Ingersoll should not break down.
AS Ingersoll passed in he gave a few
dollars in change, all he had left, to his
friend McGraw. The two convicts
were then asked their names and occu-
! patiOns by Clifford the clerk. lngersoll
answered that he was chairmaker, and
! harrington stated that he was a tinware
manufacturer Both prisoners stated
that they were thirty-three years of age
the prime of life-and that they had
been born in New York city. When
I Ingerson was asked if he was strictly
temperate he answered that he had been
for some years, but that he had drank
occasionally. harrington, when he wa:
asked the same question, hesitated anc
admitted that he had drank some. Their
the two prisoners took leave of theil
friends, aud as Ingersoll ms about K
descend the stone steps into the caVef1
of despair, he shook hands with tive
= men, and for the first time his lips tFem
/ h,aG aud his eyes flashed. He had WORT
. ' nair of classes until his name was regis
tered red I6gers,ou was assignee, on enter
ing the prison cell No. 702 and Earring
| ton to cell No. TOT, on the same tlcr
/ They were not disrobed at me TIME TAI
| prison closed. bat will be pnt IN uniform
as soon as Warden Hubbell thinks th'
time has come for such extreme meas
ures with these two conyicts, one O
whom is worth 50, 300, 900, and who i
fully sure that he viii be out in thre'
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