The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-05
, Innocent and Guilty.

The oft-told story of the painter who
painted an ideal picture of Innocence, ~
from the face of a beautiful child who
sat IS his model and in his old age had
aviitainous looking criminal sit to him
for the model of q picture of 'Guilt'' as
conpanion-picce to the other, and
discovered that the child and the Grim
inal were the same person, has received
some startling illustrations in real life.
A convict discharged fro the old
Charlestown State Prison told the fellow
ing remarkable history of himself to the
warden of that prison:
Some years agoa gentleman and his
wife and their only child, q boy of five
or six years old. visited the prison.
They were shown through the work
shops and prison 6y an officer, who
pointed out the different objects of in
terest as they passed along. The gentle
man was inguiring about a man who
had recently 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 stood open.
The little bog. with child's curiosity.
stepped up and looked in. His father
came up. behind the child and playfuuy
pushed him in, and closed the door.
The little fellow shrieked to be let ous.
The door was immediately opened. and
the child ran sobbing into his mother s
arms. She. brushing back the light
-curlsfro his forehead and kissing him,
said soothinglys
mo. no, they shan't shut up my little
son in prison.n
Theboy was terribly frightened; he
turned his eyes, once more toward the
dreaded cell, and for the FIRST time
noticed on the door the MO-
The. incidentmade deep impression
upon his mind.S i
Time passed. He grew toznuanhood.
His father and mother we're both dead.
He became saiIsr, and q good one.
rising step by step until he was second
in command of ore Of the California
steamers sailing from NsH Fork
But like many Others. in consequence
of that vice which has DRAGGED down Sd
many even from high POSITIONS, he lost
his situation. came back to Boston. sank
lower and lover, and vas finally ar
rested for breaking into q store: He
was sentenced to State Prison for four
years. - rz
When received. at the prison he was
taken to the bathroom -the usual Gus
tom-bathed, - shaved land clipped;
clothed in the prison dre4 and eonducted
to the room he was to OCCUPY.
Judge of his horror and CONSERVATION
when he found himself sanding Before.
and the officer unlocking, the Aesr OF
the same cell, NO. Into which he.
when child. had been thrust for {, mo-
ment by his father. x=rzvzS +
In relating the story to me (says
Warden Haynes), he said no one could
imagine his feelings When hefound him
self an inmate Of that cell. Every Incl
dent and scene from childhood rushed
upon his mind, the exclsmation- Of his
mother: "No, no; they shan't shgt up
my little son in prison" rang in his
ears, and he threw himself upon 1. stool
weeping, in utter Despair and wretched
ness. M nSs az
But it is pleasant to- see shining
through this strange story Of circum
stantial retribution the truth of The fam
Gus line: There's q divinity that
shapes our ends.n The convict became
q religious man IN prison. and years
after bis dischazge rose to be an officer
In the navy.-T0nEs Companion.