The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-22

A PANIC was created in Kentucky last week
by the announcement that poet, one Charles
Williams. had escaped from jail, and general
hegira was imminent. The dismay aug
mented by the statement that two other pris-
oners named Yarmouth and Shacklett, evident
ly lawyers, had escaped at the same time the
poet did. They effected their deiverance from
their cell by means of false key, made by one
OF the attorneys and from the corridor by call
ing the jailers wife to supply them with a
needle and thread. They threw a blanket over
her head, thrust her IN a cell and made way for
liberty, leaving behind them the following
articles, the first being evidently the work of
the lawyers, while the poets work speaks for
itself:
ABSTRACTS OF DECisIoNs-Appeal from
Meade Circuit Court, opinion by Judge War
mouth Observation-Disclosures a prisoner is
placed in Jail. he is not to carry the keys, or
the implements whereby he could construct the
same.
"Second-It is not alleged in this Indictment
that the defendant was to possess the keys For
that reason the case in reversed
"Charles Williams for appellee; ]. H. Bryant
for appellants. Attest: N. SHACKLFTT."
Following is the poem:
"You cannot blame me if leave
This dark and gloomy room
And choose a brighter, better spot
To meet impending doom.
And if kind Fate will favor me
I'll soon be safe and free,
For who would lead a prison life
When they have liberty?
"Adleu! CHARLES WILLIAMS"
After run of about half mile the poet and
one of the lawyers were recaptured, and the
terror of the people in a measure subsidized.
shacklett, who, by the way is colored DARK
succeeded in eluding pursuit and is still at large
The Commonwealth still lives.
ANOTHER alleged nobleman has been captured
by an American girl She was sent To ROME by
friends to perfect herself in her art studies, and
while there brought Baron Ferdinand Antonio
Sonello to her feet. He sued for her hand, and,
like good girl, she referred him to pa. After four
months investigation, probably to see If Ferd
had more than one hand-organ, the parents con-
sent was given, ana it is possible that Mary Kel-
Ter for that is the lady's Dame-wil become
baroness. The Kellers poor, while it is barely
possible that the Baron is erich in some dozen
paltry villages, and only great in that strange
spell-a name"
A LONG ISLAND man has been sent to prison
for three months for kissing woman on
the street. A distressing lack of details in the
account leaves the reader in doubt as to whether
kissing is of itself u criminal offense in Long
Island. or whether the woman was so ugly that
the offender could not plead mitigating circum-
permitted in the secluson of u parlor with the
lamp turned down.
GUEST at a hotel at Norwich, Conn. who had
arranged about his mirror photographs of a
number OF actresses, was outraged to find that
in his absence the chambermaid had thrown
them out of the window. She said she did 1t in
the interest of morality. If the actresses were
represented III that stage of undress most ad-
mired by the average man, this little outburst
Of puritanism was not unprovoied nor supris-
lug.
HoUsEKEEPER: The best substitute yet found
for oil-coths or druggets are ordinary lap
welded boarding house pancakes. Those who
have tried the latter are enthusiastic in their
praise, aud declare that they will wear three
times as long If those in front of the stove
should give way before the others, new ones
may be set ia with copper rivets, and the'tsbric
will be nearly good new. But the greatest
advantage Of the pancake fl cor cloth Is that 1t