The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-08

Inc next morning at ~ o CLOCK IOll
Muldoon was released on $4,000 bail.
The surety was promptly furnished by
the alderman of the til ward Null
doom was to present himself before the
grand jury, which met the first Mon
day in each month. AS this was the
beginning of the month his appearance
could not be required for three weeks
at least, and by mutual agreement of
the district attorney and the counsel
for the defendant, action might be put
off for one or even for two months
more, pending the recovery or event
ual death of the assaulted. This would
give the saloon keeper plenty of time
for the two ribs that Isaac Masters
had crushed to mend.
There are sensitive men and women
who would go insane after spending
an innocent night in a cell In the dry
est, the largest, the best of them, there
is everything to debase the manhood
| and nauseate the soul. The tin cup on
the grated window sill, half filled with
soup which the last occupant left; the
cot to the right of the hopeless door,
| made of two boards and one straw
mattress; and that necessity which is
the nameless horror of such a narrow
lncarceration-that which suffocates
and poisons;-then the Pickering let I'D
full shadows by the prisoners side that
he starts from his cot in terror to
touch the phantoms lest they be real;
the alternate waves of choking heat
and narrowing cold; the hammering of
! the steam pipes; the curses the groans
and the eruptive breathing of the
stricken and the drunkards-the
thoughts of home, and friends and IT.
reparable disgrace, the feeble hope
that, after all, the family will not hear
of this, SO far away; and the despair
| because they will-mad thoughts of
suicide, blasphemy, repentant tears
and prayers, each chasing the other
amid the persistent thought that all
| things are inlpotent but freedom. Oh,
what a night! What a night!
| There are souls that have existed
| fve-ten years under the Courtine of
Catherine in the Petropavlovskaya
Fortress-drugged tortured, at last
killed like rats in a hole. All the while
the maledict banner of the RomanOffs
writhes above them. What has been
prisoners in those bastions beyond the
natural endurance of the flesh? The
| glory Of principle.
No wonder that CHASTITY face and
| haggard eyes and Wavering steps fol-
| lowed the keeper to the American
court room the next morning; for moth
! ing could be tortured into a principle
| to stimulate Isaac's courage. Ut is easy
to die for right but not for wrong.
There were three short flights of iron
that led past tiers Of cells, through the
tombs into the prisoners dock. Isaac
DULY remembered the huge coils of
| steam pipe that curled up the side OF
the wall. He thought of pythons. AS
! he passed by, the prisoners ENa1tIng
sentence, held the rods of their doors
in their hands, like monkeys, and
swore and laughed and shot questions
at the keeper as he passed along.
''Have you no friends in the city,"
proceeded the judge, after he had ex-
amined the witness.
Isaac shook his head disconsolate1y.
81 have about So; that is all, and my
bag-and, sir, my character.
Then [ am afraid 1 shall have to
hold you over in default of bail until
the trial" The judge nodded to the
sheriff to bring on the next case.
Where are you taking me-"
ITO the city JAIL answered the
sheriff CURLY. Come alongH' With a
mighty effort Isaac wrenched himself
loose, and strobe to the bar.
"Judgep' he cried Judge, you
wouldn't do that! Let me go! I will
come back to the trial. Look at me,
Judgel What have 1 done? Why
should / be sent to prison? L am an
honest mani
But the judge was used to su !;Il
scenes. and he turned his head YEARLY
away.
.'tThe law requires the government 10
hold the witness in default of bail, in
cases of capital crime" The judge was
kind man. and he tried to do a kind
act bv explaining the subtle process OF
the law again to the lad. When ne nad
! done this. he nodded. And gov the
men approached Isaac to remove = nm,
nv force. if necessary. But the New
Hamnshire bov stood before the bar OF
Justice stolidly. His eyes wandered
ainnlessly, and his lips muttered. Para
1vsis swept near him at that instant
sAn-Ilinlprsone because l am
friendless and poor? Is this your
The Judge shrugged his shoulders
but many in the court room felt I'M
comfortable. ,;z;o,
To his greatest height, and uplifting
his hand as if to call God to witness,
''if this is Iaw-damn your law! III
was his first and last oath. Every
man in the room started to his feet at
the utterance of that supreme legal
blasphemy. But the judge was silent.
What sentence mlSnL ne uOt lliAiiOe ~
such contempt of court? What SEN
tence could he? The witness had no
money v,herewdth to tbe fined, ana ne
was going to prison at any rate. The
iudge was great enough to put hlmselL
in Isaac's place. He stroked his beard
meditatively
Remove the Witness" he said. TINS
was sentence enough. Although Two
| officers advanced cautiously, as II pre-
pared for tussle. a babe might nave
led the giant unto the confines OF
Hades by the pressure of Its little nm
ger For Isaac wept-
There were two other witnesses IN tine
whfte-washed cell to which Isaac was
assigned. 1t was on the south side,
and large, and sunny, and often the
door was left unlocked; but the cell
looked out into a crumbhng grave
ward. One of these witnesses was
boy of about eighteen, pale to the sug-
eestion of a mortal disease. 1t did not
take Isaac long to find out that this
complexion did not Indicate consump-
ton. but was only prison palor. The
other prisoner was less pathetic as to
color. but he was Istless and d1scour-
aged sThe only amusement OF these
men consisted in chewing tobacco IN
enormous quantities, playing surrepti-
tious games of high-low-jack, in
reading the daily paper, a single
magazine. and waiting for the sun to
enter the barred window, and watching
it in the afternoon as it slipped away.
These two men tried to cheer the new
conner in a rude, hearty way; but when
the country lad learned that they had