The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-11
REFORMED, BUT TO NO AVAIL.
An Escaped Convict Captured while Leading an
Honest Lie.
New York World

New York World.
A sad scene. illustrative of the utter
immortality of Justice to all scenes and
tales of sentiment, was enacted in a
comfortably furnished flat on East Sew
enty-ninth street Friday evening. Ju-
Illus Fuerer was forced to confess to his
young wife, who had married him sup
posing him to be an honest man, that he
was an escaped convict, that he had mar
ried her under a false name ami that her
happy home was about to be broken up
and she and her sixteen-months babe
were to be thrown upon the worlds cold
mercy. He had been captured after
more than three years of freedom, dur
which he had led spotless life, and
even while he made the confession, was
in company of two officers of the law,
who were waiting to take him back to
Sing Sing.
Fuerer was convicted of forgery in
this city in May, 1884, and was SEN
fenced by Judge Cowing to five years
imprisonment in State prison. He was
young man, about thirty-two years of
age, the son of minister in Germany.
where he had received an excellent med
ical education and had graduated with a
diploma. Coming to this country, he
had obtained employment as a drug
clerk, and eked out his income by OBJ
tainining goods on forged orders to the
amount of $500.
In September, 1884, he escaped from
Sing Sing by slipping out of the line of
prisoners and hiding in a corner of the
prison, He had been permitted to sleep
in the old female prison on the hill, on
account of the crowded condition
Of Sing Sing. He made bis way to
the rIver, stripped himself of all but his
trousers and piundged in. Halfway
across he thought himself too weak to
get to the other side, and he made the
best of his way back to the prison side
He wandered half naked in the woods
till kind female supplied him with
clothing. Them he made his way to
Stamford, obtained work in a drug store,
and saved enough money to travel to
Hartford, where he again earned more
money, proceeded to Boston, worked
there, and thence pushed on to Canada.
Detective jackson, of Sing Sing.
found him employed in a drug store in
Montreal. Although the crime of for
gerry comes within the extradition treaty
yet an escaped convict, urder sentence
for forgery. cannot be reclaimed There
fore Mr.. jackson could do nothing while
-Fuerer remained in Canada Fuerer
worked at his business of drug clerk in
MONTREAL, Toronto and Quebec, under the
name of Charles Chestnut, but all the
time conducting himself unexceptiona-
bly,. About four months ago Fuerer be-
gan to drift back to this city by the way
of Boston and Philadelphia. He was
accompanied by young wife whom he
had married in Canada, and by his little
child. Detective jackson became con-
WINGED recently that Fuerer was some
where in the city, and he consulted In
spector Byrnes, who detailed Thomas F.
Adams to assist the officer from Sing
Sing.
Friday evening the two officers en-
tered drug store on Graham avenue,
Williamsburg. Fuerer was behind the
prescription desk, when Officer jackson
stepped up to him. The young man
recognized the officer, turned pale and
ceased preparing the prescription on
which he had been at work.
You are my prisoner" said Detective
Jackson.
so you have found me at last said
Fuerer, attempting . CHASTITY smile.
But the smile soon changed to tears, and
he sobbed: 'sOh, my poor wife! Ny
poor wife and habyr'