The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-07
HRoL,GHT BACK 70 LlFE.
eensations Experienced by Two PFanunrr,
set 81 Liberty Alter Twenty years.

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ssnsations Experienced hy TWO Prausnsrs
SEE ~ Liberty After Twenty YeaSs.
At 8 o'clock ON Sunday morning
Warden Chase Of Lansing, Kan, nm.
looked the cells Of Arthur Winner and
Charles McNutt He took Winner and
McNutt TO the prison barber shop and
after they were shaved gave them two
government suits. which did not ut "a
all Winner. who worked in the prison
shoe shop. had brought two pairs Of rat
emit leather shoes The men put these
ON With the highly japanned and styI.
ishIy pointed footgear and with the
ridiculousiy cheap and awkward clothes
they, in company with ex-senator O.
81 Bentley Of Wichita stepped outside
the great stone walls.
For 30 years they had seen neither
tree, shrub, bird, flower, grass nor do
mestic animal Two OF Warden Chase'a
daughters met them inst outside the
door and presented them with twosbean-
tiful flowers Several trustees approach
ed them. beaming. and presented them
with bouquets % they went down the
path.
Tears were in both mems eyes
''Seei'' cried Winner, the more do.
monstrative of the two There Is Q
town There was no town here when
went In.
''That Is Lansing, said Mr. Bentley.
''Let'snot 90 there. said Winner. II
want to 60 to those woods. "
McNutt agreed, and they went over
10 . thicket by the roadside The two
came across o cow
is that cow?'' asked Winner hesi-
tatingly. "Don't go ON. Lst me look at
it."
And he circled around the animal.
Then he approached her timorously
and laid his hand ON her back 'This, =
he said, lis the only cow have seen in
30 years
Arthur, . said McNutt very slowly
and deliberately, ''do you notice how
queer is is to talk loudlyp How queer
the words Gomez
81 wonder IL conld sing. guess
not, said Winner. And he did not try.
Both men curiously felt the bark Of
every tree they came upon. Finally.
with their arms filed high with green
twiRs and flowers. they went TO she
hotel In Lansing
Later I'm the day the whole party went
to Kansas City. The long imprisonment
had dulled the men o minds. They asked
about everything they saw. McNutt
wanted TO know what grapevines were
When they reached Kansas City, they
both began TO place things that they had
read about in the newspapers.
McNutt could not distinguish between
cable car and electric car. He insisted
upon trying both and finally got &c into
his head which was which Winner
was 10 years old when he went to the
penitentiary and McNutt 30 years OF
aga McNutt has secured job of deco
rating in Leavenworth and viii open q
shop there.
Winner will 60 back TO the peniten-
tiaxy as general manager Of the Burr
company's shoe business there, thas
company having the convict labor Of
the Lansing prison
The Winner and McNutt case In prob
ably the most famous III the history Of
Kansas EARLY In 1878 Winner and
young McNutt came 20 Wichita and
started o paintshop. Soon after McNutt
insured his life I'm favor Of Winner for
96. 1000. One night few months after
the young men settled I'm Wichita some
one discovered that their shop was ON
fire The people Of the town turned out
and extinguished the fire. but McNutt
was missing.
The partly burned body Of man was
found In the ruins OF the building.
Winner declared that it was McNutt,
bat the people of Wichita did not be-
lieve him. The body was recognized as
that of tramp known as Texas. 7"
The sudden departure OF McNutt and
the fact that his life insurance was In
favor OF Winner, though McNutt was
married and the father Of child, ex-
cited so much suspicion that Winner
was arrested the next day. A few days
later McNutt was captured i'm the woods
In Newtown county, Mo.
They were tried for murder. The evi-
dence was 30 clear that they were CON
yicted and sentenced by Judge w. r.
Campbell, now department commander
Of Kansas. Under the law they went tc
the penitentiary for life. - Wichita
EARLE.
Making 1t Perfectly Clear.
John Anderson of Cedar Springs