The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-11

"Coms along quietly" Officer jackson
said, land we will make it as easy for
you as we can
LET me see my wife and baby first,
Let me see them once more before go,
sobtsed Fuerer.
can see them, and we will accompany
you"
Sadly Fuerer, accompanied by the
officers, came to this city TO his home
ON East Seventy-ninth street, where in
neat apartments were found his wife
and child. The wife, bright, young
brunette, at first started 10 welcome her
husband, thinking he was home for the
night, when something in his appear
ance and in that OF his companions
caused her step to back without the kiss
of greeting she had evidently meant to
impart.
.'Oh, Charley" she sexclaimed. ''what
is the matter:
The husband and the officers sat down
and the husband could not control him
ielf sufficiently to talk for some min
utes. At last, as his little child crept to
his knee and looked about wonderingly
at the unaccustomed visitors, he sobbed
out:
MARY, 1 have a story to tell you 1
should have told you long ago" Then,
with broken voice, and every now and
then stopping, as to summon courage To
proceed, he made a clean breast To his
stricken wife. He told her that his NAME
was not Charles Chestnut, under which
he had married her, and that at the time
of tine marriage he was fugitive from
Justice. He asked her to forgive him
and declared, which there Is no reason
to doubt, that he had reformed and pur-
sued an honest career since his escape
from prison. The effect of the confes-
sion on the wife was heartrendIng. She
was too dazed 10 speak for several
moments after her husband had con-
cluded his story. But she had not a
harsh word for the man who had de-
ceived her.
"You have been a good husband to
me Charley" she exclaimed, land love
stillI' and she flung her arms around the
convicts neck and joined her tears with
his, while the little baby cried with
them:
The scene could not last. The officers
permitted tender farewell and the wife
was assured by her husband that she
would be sent to his relatives in Ger
many, there to be cared for until he
should have completed his prison term.
Fuerer was then taken To Sing Sing.
On the way to the prison he told Detec-
tive Jackson of a singular presentiment.
The portrait of Mr.. jackson was pub
Fuerer- saw the portrait, and read the
accompanying article. LAS / looked at
the picture" he said, Il had a PRESENT.
ment that you would capture me about
Christmas, and it made such an im-
preston on my mind l felt uneasy until
Christmas had passed, and then | began
to breathe freely again." By his escape
Fuerer forfeits One-half of the seventeen
months which would have been deducted
from his five years sentence for good
behavior. Should he be an obedient
prisoner hereafter, he will have about
four years more to serve. An effort
will probably be made to obtain his par
don on the ground of good conduct since
his escape.
"Fuerer came to US, said Mr.. Fink,
of Lehn & Fink, the prominent drug
house at No. 1913 William street, yes
terday, with a recommendation from
his uncle, Prof. Marsh, of the College
of Pharmacy. in Philadelphia, than
whom none stands higher in the esti-
| nation of the drug trade in this coun-
try. We recommended young Fuerer
to Mr.. Joseph Weber, who has stores on
Lexington and Second avenues. When
Feurer came here with orders purporting
to be from Weber we readily gave him
the goods. The orders proved to be for
geries."
1.-The young man was with me about
three months, said Mr.. Weber in his
Lexington avenue store, last evening.
He forged a check for thirty dollars
purporting to be signed by one OF my
customers and l cashed it. l did not
bring the matter up against him in
court The prosecution was ins tigated
by Elmer & Amend and other wholesale
houses which lost by his forgeries. l
though / saw him on the street in this
city almost two years ago, but l did not
think it worth while to say anything
about it. His wife and child are to be
deeply pitied, and if it is true that since
his escape he has led new life / am
gratified to hear it, ~