The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-02-15
Innocent and GUILTY.

| The oft-told story of the painter who
| painted an ideal picture of Innocence"
| from the face of beautiful child who
sat as his model, and in his old age had
a villainous-lo looking criminal sit to him
for the model of q picture named
''Guilt, as the companion-piece to the
other, and discovered that the child and
the criminal were the same person, has
received some startling illustrations in
real life. A convict discharged from
the old Charlestown State Prison told
the following history of himself to the
warden of that prison:
Some years ago a gentleman, his wife
and their only child, a boy then five or
six years old, visited the prison. They
| were shown through the workshops
and prison by an officer, who pointed
out the different objects of interest as
they passed along. The gentleman
was inquiring abou. man who had re-
Gently been sent to prison for life for
| murder.
by the way, this is his room," said
the officer, stopping before one of the
cells, the door of which was open.
The little boy, with a child's curiosi-
ty, stepped up and looked in. His faith
er came up behind the child and play
| fully pushed him in, and closed the
| door,
| The little fellow shrieked to be let out.
The door was Immediately opened, and
the child ran sobbing to its mother S
arms. She, brushing back the light
curls from his forehead and kissing
him, said soothingly,-
mo, no, they shan't shut my little
son up in prison.
The boy was terribly frightened; he
turned his eyes once more toward the
dreaded cell, and for the first time no.
ticed on the door the No.
The incident made a deep impression
upon his mind.
Time passed. He grew to manhood.
| His father and mother were both dead.
He became sailor, and good one,
rising step by step till he was second in
command of one of the California
steamers sailing from New York.
But like many others, in consequence
of that vice which has dragged down Sc
many, even from high positions, he lost
! his situation, came backto Boston, sank
| lover and lower, and was finally arres-
ted for breaking into store. /. He was
sentenced to the State Prison for four
years.
When received at the prison, he was
taken to the bath-room-the usual Gus
tom-and bathed. shaved and clipped,
clothed in the prison dress and conduc-
ted to the cell he was to occupy.
| Judge of his horror and consterna-
ton when he found himself standing
before, and the officer unlocking, the
door of the same cell, NO. into
which he, when child, had been
thrust for moment by his father.
In relating the story to me (says
Warden Haynes), he said no one could
imagine his feelings when he found him
self an inmate of that cell. Every Incl
dent and scene from childhood rushed
upon his mind the exclamation of
his mother, mo, no; they shan't shut
up my little son in prison" rang in his
ears; and he threw himself upon a stool
weeping, in utter despair and wretched-
| ness.
But it is pleasant to see shinine o
through this strange story of circuIll
stantial retribution the truth of the IA
nous line, There's divinity that
shapes our ends" The convict became
religious man in prison, and years
after his discharge rose to be an officer
| no