Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-07

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The two awaited in On. old Hudson Central
station the making up train for Albany. The
place was full OF PEOPLE. The sergeant wss .
fne-iooking fellow and as fond Of bestowing %
OF exciting admiration. The two sensations
concurred when an uncommonlv pretty girl
began a Irritation with him which was most
scspiclous an its promise and decorated with
dangerous occurrences in its tactical methods-
SIC moved toward q recess and looked the in
vitatlon To have him address her. which he
CALAMITY proceeded 10 accept. The acceptance
Obliged him for only moment 60 lose sight Of
his prisoner, OF whose fealty he had no doubt.
but just before he got 60 where the girl had
been standing she drew herself up 90 her
utmost inches. froZe him with look turned
he- back on him and walked from the platform
into the waiting room then into the street
When Mars recovered from the extemporized
polar scorn of Venus Mars discovered
that his prisoner was not where be
had left him. He never saw him agHin
What the government did TO the sergeant IL
| another story from the ore We are telling He
was not severely punished. but an order vas
laid on him TO keep his mouth shut. for the sd-
ministration was not jealous to advertise the
third victory which the bold soldier boy had
gained against many odds.
Nearly, If not quite. twenty years sftervard.
in the administration OF Chester A. Arthur, DIR.
office in the asylum at Utica card from q
caller was sent IN. The name on IL not one
tnat Dr. Gray ever remembered having seen
before. When the caller received be Was
revealed As tall. stalwart, heavily bearded
maa who told the sequel of this true history
The man, ucder The seal OF a confidence that
DR.. Gray never violated by mentioning auy de-
tails that would locate identify him. told
the physician that be the soldier that had
escaped on bis way to life imprisonment
swEETHkARrs RrsE.
The girl was his second cousin. The notion
OF escape was formed by her on the instant in
the station. where she had come to bad him good
bve. She had managed to brush by him while
flirting with the guard. and TO saw: Get away
IL you can and meet me outside" Her coouetry
| was at once seen by him to be part OF the
scheme. the moment the guards back was
| turned the prisoner walked through the bag
gage room to the street. The girl got there bv
| the waiting room at the same time. The guard
| was busy looking among the passenger. for
his prisoner. who was no longer among them.
Prisoner and cousin drove at once 90 the latter's
house, where her father sheltered him. He
was wdower of wealth His daughter was
ms only child. The cousins married. pursuant
| TO an engagement that had long existed between
| them. The marriage IN his case was under
| an assumed name. The wife's father gave
| the pair money TO settle in a northwestern
| state, where they We're respected and where
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| The year before this man made this call on Dr.
1 GRAY the ingenious and devoted woman who
| had effected his escape died The object OF
| the man cal was to get DIR. GRAY 20 20 TO
Washington and to obtain for him. under his real
1 name. pardon Tor the offense and a remission
| OF the sentence against him. DR. GRAY. how
| ever, learned that the mans wife and her
| father were the only persons who knew Of the
| identity OF the citizen with the prisoner and
| that they were both dead The children tina,
/ had lpen horn had - vi.
| father under his new name had acquired wealth,
| respect and confidence. He had several times
represented hiss fellow citizens in the Legislature
| and had been elected TO a state Office of honor
Under these circumstances DIR. GRAY strenu-
ously and successfully dissuaded the man from
| reopeniag the case. he got his promise
that he would go back TO has home and live out
his life. WI b he is probably dong now.
GOVERNMENT MEDICAL EXPERT.
DR.. Gray. in much better words than the
foregoing, told US this story in the course Of .
narrative 81 his complete relations TO the fed
| eral government as a medical expert. relations
| which eliminated with his service on the trial
| of Guiteau- The story here written down wal
his first experience with the federal govern
| ment in that character. Another experience
| involved his entirely unsupported employment
4 BY Secretary Stanton the trial Of the assas-
| sins OF Lincoln. DIR. GRAY attended them rs
physician from their capture TO their execution.
1 ne oVersaw the preparation OF their food be
| examined all communications meant for them
or prepared by them He daily inspected
| their quarters while they were at the trial. He
made notes of his observations for the great
Secretary, whose confidence in him was abso-
| lutte. when the desert of such confidence was
| even rarer than its bestowaL Poor GRAY him.
self was really assassinated. A crank shot him
| at night In his Utica office through both cheeks
| He sneaked in on him in rubber shoes while the
doctor was writing at his desk. and although he
| got well of the immediate wound the resultant
shock killed him in the end. Across the story
| of this monster OF murder and morphine in
Michigan the one here written comes to the
| memory with the relief that a denotement OF
human nature in better phases brings 10 the
| study OF human nature at its worst