Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-25

Sixth and Liberty and bought long
heavy ulster, butt0ning up which
covered me from my head TO my heels
/ next went to hat store and Dough
hat. From there went to clothinl
store and bought suit Of clothes, tell
ing the dealer / wanted them for NJ,
brother, about the same size as myself
Having secured complete outfit o
clothing, passed over to barber shol
and bathing establishment on Fifth
avenue, where In the privacy of thu
bathroom / made the change in cos
tune. Emerging from the bathroom
and having been shaved and my shoe:
shined, passed out on Fifth avenue
bought roll Of newspapers from q
newsboy which carefully wrapped VI
in the express Office a little later anC
carried under my arm. Ithen made nay
way to the Union depot, where found
the alarm of my escape had reached,
and / saw the detectives scurrying tC
and fro. took a train and went tC
Braddock, where, alarmed by some sus-
picious moves on the part of the con.
ductor, left the train, passed over to
the Baltimore and Ohio depot and took
another train. l rode on that a short
distance eastward, having an ample
supply Of money, which had been con-
veyed to me through a guard at the
penitentiary by friends on the outside.
THE JOURNEY TO THE NORTH.
/ took across the country until /
struck the Pennsylvania lines again,
thus changing back and forth. made
my way TO a point on the Pennsylvania
railroad called Marysville, where / took
Northern Central train for Elmira, n.
Y. l arrived in Elmira at twelve
o'clock Christmas Eve. The bells were
ringing out the old anthem that the
Christ was born who taught peace on
earth and good will toward all.
With haggard face and bloodshot eyes
/ made my way to the depot to ascer-
tain when train left for the East, and
to my chagrin found that no train left
before $50 the next morning. To stay
out in the cold air that Christmas Eve
was an imposslbility. Sleep and rest
l must have, for even my iron constitu-
ton was giving away under the intense
fatigue which / had undergone for the
last few days. stepped into the hotel
adjacent to the depot, and tho first
man l saw was a police official, who
knew me quite well. He arose, greeted
me cordially, inquiring where l came
from. 1t would have been folly to have
lied, and looking him boldly in the eye,
I said came from Pittsburg, Pa. We
went to the bar and had drink. l
went to the register and registered, and
the same register can be seen to this
day, James w. Miller, Pittsburg, Pa"
A clerk assigned me room, which l
was assigned to. Suspecting the police
officer might have been afraid to make
the arrest alone, and had simply acted
in friendly manner to throw me of
my guard, | locked the door and climbed
over the transom, and finding an empty
room further down the hall went to
bed. l slept soundly until o'clock in
the morning, when 1 prepared to dress
and leave the hotel and took train for
Pa.
A COLD NIGHT FOR WALK.
From Bradford took train to
Meadville, from Meadville I proceeded
to Kent, O., and arrived at Kent about
shutdown on the evening OF Christmas
Day, and, afraid that might be recog-
nized If attempted to take train for
l started to walk from Kent
to Cleveland on the narrow gauge road.
l shan nover forget that night walk.
The moon was bright anu ~ hitter |
cold. l was worn and weary from So,
eral days fatigue and several sleepless
nights, and tottered along the track
on that terrible journey, almost dead.
When I came to o little wayside station
l would throw myself down, face lore
most, on the platform, and slumoer I'M
I'll the intense cold awakened me, when
l would rise and stagger on.
Six o'clock on the morning OF the Goth
of December found me In the city OF
40 miles had been walked the
night previous. | went to friends
house who put me to bed, from which
did not arise for a week. At the end OF
that time made my way by the Lake
Shore road to Erie, Pa, from there TO
Buffalo, and from Buffalo to Toronto,
Canada. where after consulting with
some of the best lawyers OF the Domln-
ion, I became convinced l could not be
extradited as an escaped prisoner.
LET THEM KNOW WHERE HE WAS.
had no hesitancy in communicating
with some of my friends, as much for
the purpose of letting the police know
where was, and thus cause them to
abandon pursuit, as for the purpose OF
allaying any fears as to what had be-
come of me. Under the old treaty be-
tween the Dominion Of Canada and the
United States, if your bookkeeper
should embezzle money from you to-
night and make his way to Canada,
from where he could not be extradited
for embezzlement, it is only necessary
that you should secure some person who
would go before Squire, make afida-
Wit that on q certain night burglary
had been committed on his premises,
and that he believed the absconding
cashier to be the man who had COM
mitted the burglary, Gf burglary was
an extraditable crime). 1t is only nee
essary that you should go to Canada,
arrest the absconder, have him brought
before justice for extradition on the