Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-07

equal step, and so unfailing is the effect
that even warders wait to SEQ 1t and re-
mark to each other that So-and-so is
"going off +" When the sufferer begins
10 carry his arms in front, every one mn
derstands that the end ia coming. The
projecting head. tho sunken eye, the
fixed, expressiunless features are merely
the outward exponents Of the hopeless,
sullen brooding within. Sometimes the
man merely keeps on in that way, vast
ing more and more body and mind,
every day until ut last he drops and IL
carried into the infrmary to come out
no more.
During all these years never saw my
companions Mac had been sent to Port
land, Moves to Portsmouth and George
to Dartmoor.
After 1883 strenuous efforts were
made for our release.
My sister came to England that year
and remained permanently there. She
worked bravely and we'll, but year after
year passed without result. None Of US
was prepared for the vindictiye fury Of
the Bank OF England Its power was all
potent with the government George
had been bedridden for years and was
slowly dying. At length in 1887 the
medical officer of the prison certified his
speedy death was certain, and the gov
eminent released him to die, but he re-
solved that he would not die until / was
free. With liberty and hope health came
slowly back, and he devoted every hour
to working for my liberation, but for a
time he devoted it III vain. More than
once had seen the prison emptied and
filed again. Of all the life prisoners
had met there on my arrival or who for
years aftor had Joined me l was the sole
survivor.
One by one sickness or insanity born
Of despair had laid them in the prison
graveyard or buried them in the asylum.
Out OF more than 70 none had lived to
be liberated, and determined appeared
the Bank Of England directors that l
should not form an exception, but that
if ever the prison doors were opened to
me it should be only when SO near death
that l Iuight join the many who had
COMO before
My fate seemed inevitable, but never
for moment did cease to believe that
fortunes frowns would one day disap-
pear and that should yet again feel
the warmth and sunshine Of her smile.
From his sickbed and in his health
George never ceased his efforts. He sue
ceeded in interesting James Russell
Lowell and many others in my behalf.
Tho president asked the English gov
eminent officially to grant my release.
Mr.. Blaine, the secretary of state, sent
a very strong letter through Minister
Lincoln, in London, and thought when
told of it that my day to go was not far
away.
1t will interest Americans, perhaps,
to learn that the representations Of the
president and of the secretary of state Of
the United States met the same cour-
tesy as was shown to all the previous
ones. Still my brother was not discour-
aged. He sent agents to England, who
managed to interest the newspapers in
the matter, and never did he cease un-
til by the statements of the press upon
the ferocity of my treatment, the re-
proaches OF my friends and the repre-
sensations of many had never seen the
home secretary felt the pressure and
was forced to order my release
Thou shalt forget thy misery and
remember 1t as waters that pass away"
Twenty years had passed away since
l had babe my friends goodby under the
Old Bailey, and now 1893 had come. 1t
was frosty February night and was
alone in that little room, with its arch