The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-15
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forded the regicides much amusement. They were concealed in various places in Milford and at one time in the store of Governor Leete. There are many stories of thier escape and pursuit, and the one referring to the Judges cave took hold of the popular mind. There Is no doubt but that they spent several days in concealment in the cave
 According to Goffe's diary they were in the cave from May 15 to June H. They were fed while there by a farm CT, Richard Sperry, who lived about a mile distant. Sometimes he carried the food to them himself and some times he sent 1t by his boy wrapped up in a napkin, directing him to leave it on a certain stamp.
 October 13, 1864, the regicides went to Hadley by night by way of the Meri- den pass. There they remained in hiding in the house of MT. Russell from thirten to fifteen years.
 Some time between 1874 and 1876 Whalley died, decrepit old man and was buried in the cellar of the house.
 In 1878 Goffe disappeared. The last letter written by Goffe' is dated April ?, 1879, and is supposed to have been written near Hartford. It is proba- ble that Goffe died about the year 1879 at or near Hartford.
 To suppose that the two judges were buried in New Haven and that the two old headstones are theirs ne- cessitates many difficulties.
 The removal of Whalleys body from Hadley to New Haven would have been difficult considering the spirit in which the restored government re- garded the judges of Charles I. A A third judge, Richard Dixwell, came to this country in 1864 and lived and married under an assumed name in New Haven.
 He later took back his right name and lived and died here unmolested.
 The reason of his immunity from ar rest is probably the fact that he was not the personal friend of Cromwell, as were Goffe and Whalley. Goffe, dur ing all the time of his exile, carried on a secret and timorous correspondence with his wife under an assumed name. l It is natural that their romantic lives should give rise to a host of leg endary and mythical stories which come to be believed as true. One of these, the rescue of Hadley, is with | out foundation
 | The suffering of the regicide judges arouses our pity, theiricourage our ad- miration, their service in the course of human freedom in releasing the world | from the superstition that somehow one man or one family can secure a divine right to tyrannize over the mass of humanity, is sufficient to enroll them among the martyrs and heroes who have perished in the evolution of con- | stitutional government.
 1 At a meeting of the directors of the l Historical society, held October 1, il
 was voted that MT. H. l. Thompson
 the New Haven artist be invited te deposit with the society and in its care his famous portrait of Rev Dr. Leon l ard Bacon. They added that the di- rectors all were desirous that the pie ture might be where it could be seen I by the society at it's meetings, and they
 expressed the hope that the placing of
 it in the society's Colonial hall might
 lead to steps being taken for it's pur- | chase for the society," Accordingly
 the portrait now adorns the walls al | the south end of the Colonial hall al
 the right or east of the Governor Eng | fish picture.