The Helena independent., 1892-12-03
Prisoner George Townsend Makes a
Break for Liberty, Leg-Iron
and All.
The Jar of Hack That Run
UP the Price OF Real
Estate
A New York Papers style OF Sizing Up
Chairman Carter Before tho Recent
Heavy Landslide.


George Towne, one of the mon, refused to
60 to work. Adams tried to quell his re-
bellious spirit by dragging him out Of ths
jail. through the hall and onto the street.
Still the mon refused to go to work, and
Adams put leg irons on him. after wrapping
the chains around the telegraph pole in
front of the marshal's office. There the
ovsrseer left Towpe with the idea that he
would repent and 60 to work. Clerk Poz-
nanski happened to look through the win
dow OF the marshal's Office and saw that
Towne had removed his overshoe and hia
shoe from one foot and had slipped the leg
iron off. Poznanski stat ted out to prevent
the mans escape. As he reached tho post
Towne was unwinding the chain wrapped
around his hitchng station. As he came
around the post for the last turn he met
the clerk. Poznanski says he doesn't quite
know what it was, but probably the mans
fist. struck him in the eye and the top
of the head. knocking of his glasses and
running new hat which he had just re-
ceived on an election bet. Before ths
clerk could recover his eyeglasses Towne
had picked up the leg-iron and chain, and
with the other iron still about his ankle,
started up West Main street and turned
into Cutler. Poznanski ran into the Of
flee. got a whistle and going out again,
blew an alarm. Policeman Bossler an
swered the call and started after the run
away. He found Towne sitting down near
the east side reservoir trying to remove the
other leg iron. The officer took Towne
back to the city hall and the prisoner then
concluded to 90 to work. which he did with
tha lao iron po1napaLi at profarraH
charge of assault against Towne. George
Towne was one of the four men arrested
few nights ago as suspicious characters.
Three of them had been beating the fourth
on the suspicion that he was stool
pigeon" Nothing could be proved against
Towne except that he had no visible means
of support. He was charged with being
vagrant and fined $40 This he couldn't
ray and he was working it ont at the rate
of 81 a day. His time would have been out
to-day.
The following story will offer some de-
gree of encouragement to any persons who
may be burdened with large holdings of
real estate, having no immediate prospect
of unloading at profit. The story is
vouohed for by Bishop Fowler, Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. During the real
estate boom at Los Angeles, CAL. an enter
prising real estate agent pursuaded hack
driver to purchase "a hole in the gro und"
for 81 600, by telling him that he would be
enabled to sell it for him in short time
for $1,000. The hack driver became impa-
tient after time and finally instructed the
real estate agent to sell the LOT for him for
$1,000. The efforts of the real estate agent
TO secure purchaser were of no avail. One
evening the hack driver went to the depot
and secured two passengers in the persons
of a married couple from the east. As the
hack approached the lot owned by the
driver the gentleman remarked to the
driver: "1here is fine location for a
dwelling" and inquired if he knew who the
owner was. The driver replied that he was
the owner of the lot, The gentleman pas
senRer asked, "What is your price?" The
driver replied $1,5OO. The hack jostled at
the time and the gentleman understood
him to say $4,000, and requested the pa
pers to be brought to him the following day.
He paid over the 1000. and now the hack
driver lis strictly in it,
This is how one of the Now York papers
sized up Hon. Thomas H. Carter, in an arti-
Gle on the various cbairmen of the repub-
lcan national committee. published few
days before the recent disaster: "He ia
somewhat undersized Montana man. who
looks like Uncle Sam just out of a ready
made clothing store. He has q stubby
white goatee and a wandering right eye.
He is a new man from a new state. What
sort Of chairman Brother Carter will
prove cannot be fairly told until after the
presidential contest is over and the fruits of
his activity have been subjected to the
crucial test OF the ballotinR. But. at all
events, he is a very different citizen from
his republican predecessor of twenty years
ago. Edwin d. Morgan. He is the first of
new line.''
Sons of Veterans dance. Tuesday, Dec 6.