The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-02-05

was gas ga each cell. 10 was mighty
comfortable, that hold over.
"Ol course, 20 good man a. Joe
Butts being nabbod brought ont a lot
OF tho family. / was among 'em. We
used 90 get word 20 Joe through his
girl She was a bird, too. end che
looks 20 soft aud good with her big,
tired brown eyes. Tho Sheriff gets
dopoy and lotg her como every day and
talk 10 Joe She loved Joe with tho
love tho dogs haye-tho love that never
quits. She was the sort to stick 10 q
bloko till the prison doors pinohod her
hngers II was through Joe's girl we
gets word TO Joe, and he 10 us Wild
Willie was what we called her.
"Our lay was 30 settle; ray on the
party bis $4,000 aud give him tho run
out Of town. But ho gets funny and
wants $40, 900. Joo's pal, who grabbed
the roll In the bank, was Btill In tho
town undor cover and laying dead. He
still had the bundlo-el000-and he
stuck that in. No and a fence named
Ignatious Fuchs was 10 put up tho
other $4,000. But Joe, on the inside,
sends out word no We can beat EN-,
he says, on the trial. They had no
evidence against him, he says Which
was true, only he iorgets one thing
he was Joe Butts, a world over cook.
When De Wolf, the lawyer, brings
that out, the jury took two looks, one
at each other and one at Joe, and
handl him out ten spaces at hard labor
Then the case goes to the high court
About this time We made up our
minds We must get 200 out We must
beat the jail, too. II they ever took
him TO the pen II would DO Katie.bar-
the.door. II was the Jail or not at all.
Fuchs and / aud the others had forty
talks. Wild Willie took word TO Joe,
and he sends back word 10 US. We
made up a big bundle and tried to do
something with the Sheriff. He was a
square man liked Joe and felt bad for
Wild Willie, but when he saw the
glimmer Of money he just gives the
gang the laugh. We couldn't touch
him.
cali this time Joe had been plan
ming and thinking. Wild Willie took
him in bar of rubber an inch and a
half square and foot long. II was
heavy and timber. You could knock
an elephant down with it. The girl
gets it into the jail under her frock,
and when the guard was talking to a
prisoner who called him away she
passed it to Joe. Wild Willie wanted
to give him a gun, but Joe wouldn't
have it.
Il never killed a man aud never
will. II don't want no such sin on my
soul, said Joe.
"Wild Willie didn't say nothing
but her eyes burned like lamps when
she tod me about it, and gave me bacl
the pistol. could see she'd put
mans light out like drinking spring
water.
"There was two or three things tc
get ready, and Joe puts off ais coming
ont a week. he was to come Saturday
The Tuesday before, as Wild Willie il
going into the Jail, the Sheriff stop
her, polite and kind enough.
What time will you see Joe to
morrow says the Sheriff.
"'At l o'clock, says Wild Willie
She always goes at l.
" Couldn't you make it IL o'clocl
tomorrow, says the Sheriff, and TAX,
dinner with Joe? I'm going to blow
Joe off to feed.
"Wild Willie never changed he,
baby look, and didn't hesitate. Sh,
said she'd come at IL o'clock. But sh
knew that something was up. She TOLD
Joe the moment she got in.
"'Going to feed me at IL o'clock,
says Joe, thinking hard. And wants
you to come After a bit he says
ASK the turnkey to give you morn
ing paper.
"When he looked ut it, he all a
once broke out.
"'That's it, he says. The trair
goes south at 1.35 o'clock. That's tn,
train he takes to go to the pen
Matches and the Sheeney takin
money to him made him leary, and b.
takes me to the pen tomorrow to ge
rue off his mind. He don't have to hol
me here while the case is in the higl
court, and he's going to get rid of tn
risk Of me. If get out, it's got to b
tonight. See Matches and do you
part oil right, and tonight will do a
we'll as any
"That night, at 8 o'clock, the iat
guard inside yelled, Lights out
Then he made his rounds. The ligh
in Butts's cell was burning.
" Turn out your gas, Joe, he sayl
through the CRATE.
" Turn it out yourself, says Butts
from where he lays face down on b
bunk.
"The guard snorts out an oath, an
begins unlocking the cell door. Butt
sets up, looking shaggy and ugly
Just as the guard doused the glim-ht