The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23

nan the alarm is given. and Hautdebont's
orleI term OF office as garde-chiourme is
ended. He lost his privileged place anor,-
the tailors, and was sent TO the chain.
gang. o''''i
t1ercy' condemned perpctuite for muir
ger saw some scanoldins erected for re-
PAIRS Wnlch seemed TO offer a means Of
escape ideal in its simplicity. II stood CON
Nehlehtly against the wall THAT ought
10 bear me- thought Piercy. ana I'M "a
tWhkllng he found himself on the rigbt
sue OF the wall. i'm Bourbon street Ton
- Dut there was warder who could
CumD almost as well as Piercy. and who
iald hands on him at the corner of ne
street Another prisoner. equally adroit
was equally unfortunate in his affair a
rope served him for scaling the wall but
looslng his hold on the other side win tne
expectation of dropping into a quiet lane.
ne Tell plump into hand-cart In ,,-l,Icb !,
warder was taking his midday siesta
You never know your luck" as the noef
sang IL came to the warder en- dormant
bringing him the legal bonus OF fifty france
Tor an arrest effected within the limits of
the town. "a
An old forcat, Comet by name. and es
years OF age became so famous by reason
or his failures that his maladresse rassed
into a proverb, and q botched escape was
known IN the bagne of Toulon as a gon-
cite PATIENCE and TOLL long sustained and
renewed after discovery had made thorn
Irultess' did not always triumph I'm the
ehd- andre Fanfan, who had found or
Fought his way out Of every nr,iaop a.
France, and who, whenever he was IN du-
rance. had the honor of a guard sneclalI,,
appointed to watch him, was brought
BACK TO the RochefOrt after one of NE
most brilliant triumphs over Justice In
ms most brilliant triumphs over Justice
In ms communings with himself one day
Ahure SAID: Now suppose, my boy. there
was an underground passage runnfne tIf
length of the yard. with a nice little omen
ing into the port, couldn't you make a
nice little opening in the wall and find e.
or course you could" There proved Ia
20 one difficulty and one only-the under
ground passage was not there. dig one.
my boy" said Andre
1t needs strenuous effort of the imae,i-
nation to put ones self for a moment in
Andre Fanfans place-constantly watch
ed, solid mass of masonry to reduce and
no tools to his hand worth Speaking Of
A rev grains of plaster or chips of stone
undisposed of after the nights work were
enough to betray the affair. Fanfan ad-
mitted few pals" in the gang TO his
confidence, but took the direction upon
himself and with his own hands did the
main part of the work. Night by night
after the gang had been chained upon the
guard-bed, he wrenched his anklet off and
with mis- nails and a rusty bolt he bit his
way inch by inch through stone and earth
He worked with the strength, swiftness
and silence of a mole. and never by a tan
of the bolt OF the scratching of a nal be-
trayed himself. He seemed to swallow
the stone and the earth which he dis
placed for he left never a trace behind
him. He was always on his plank, sound
asleep, when the whistle gave the signal
to turn out in the morning, his ankle safe
in the ring.
When the tunnel was within a yard or
two of completion the plot was disclosed.
One of Andres subordinates, condemned
for breach of the rules to the black
hole, begged an interview with the gov
ernor and blew THE gaff" The governor,
accompanied by an orderly with a dark
lantern, made a round of surprise" the
next night, and the bulls-eye was flashed
upon Andre burrowing in his tunnel He
had an interview with the fogger, and
it was noticed that he smiled at the last
| stroke but one. An inspiration had come
to him under the lash. He was three
weeks in hospital, and went to work
again on the night of his release. A sec
ond time he was betrayed, and Jean de
Bourreau, piqued that Andre had so soon
forgotten him, made a terribly serious
use of the whip on that occasion. An
DIRE, however, had the satisfaction OF
learning that the governor had expressed
establishment at the skill of his work.
He had made a second tunnel reaching
to within arms length of the harbor
wall, and a kind of little vestry room
midway, in which he had bestowed pro-
visions, tools and a useful assortment
of DISCUSSES.