The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-04-07
1t is now engaged in continuing ag-
gressive tyranny in Ireland.

o"o VI iC9 oppOueuIS WAS klIlot
Among the strike leaders were Nc
Neil, McLane, and others, who wer
charged by the government wit
murder. In the Chartist Council {
Glasgow young Pinkerton represent
ed the Coopers' League, as we'll as be
ing treasurer of the latter organization
aDd he strove W th ali his resistles
energy to collect funds for the de
fense of the culprits. This resulted il
his being boycotted by all the maste
coopers OF the United Kingdom. Fo
nearly year he was compelled t,
tramp, begging for work, to be refus
ed everywhere, until starvation wa
upon him. Luckily employment fl
nally came, back in Glasgow, in ths
largest oil and color establishment il
Scotland. The Chartist movement
progressed, young Pinkerton coDtin-
u1ng one OF its foremost leaders and
supporters, until the great Bi1ming-
ham demonstrations of July, 1888
and OF Newport in November of tha,
year, at both of which he was a dele
gate from Glasgow, and from both OF
which he barely escaped with his life
1t will be remembered that among
the leaders of the great though tenn
porarlly futile movement were such
men as John Taylor, editor of the
Glasgow Liberator, the Irish patriot
Fergus Edward OConnor, Williams,
Jones. and many other of the Repub-
llcan Radical enthusiasts of the time.
Frost, Williams, and Jones were sen
fenced to death, their sentences being
committed to transportation for life;
great numbers were imprisoned in the
"Hulks,' and still greater numbers,
on whose heads the government had
set price. managed to escape to
America. Pinkerton was ore of these.
Though in hiding for some months,
when he did escape he carried with
him the best fortune of his or any
mans life noble wife.
"You see" said the old Scotchman
IN relating to how his good luck came
to him, twas part O my business to
Tx mp the concerts which we got few
pounds from now and then to help
along the charter boys. Was I sing
er, too?' The old man roared at the
idea. mo more than the precentors
bull. Auld Davie WAS a precentor in
a Presbyterian Church O Lanarkshire.
One Sunday be got mighty fu' an
goln' along home across the meadows
struck up his best hymn tunes, happy
as lord. Just as be was climbin' the
stlJe up comes bull, mad at his sing
H. an tossed Davie over into the road,
an stood there PAWN and bellowin'
Up he jumped, crazy from the insult,
an shakln' his fist at the bull, which
Kept on be.lowin' an roarln,' yelled at
his supposed rival: "Oh, aye, SCUM
guild fechter, but w ye cahHna sfdgta
noten [ was just like that bull about
both tightin' an singin'.
"Well, gettin' the singin' folks to-
gether in the little parior of Richard
ONeils public house, opposite King
Williams statue. set my eyes on one
wee lass they called Joan Carfrae.
She was book folders apprentice,
from Paisley, an sung in the famous
DR.. Harris Center Street Unitarian
Church. She was the best singer O
'em all-so l thought, anyhow. l got
hangin' around her, an sort O clingin'
to her; an we'll, when l had the price
set on my head she found me where
l was hidin': an when l told her I'd
got to set up American barrels the
rest of my life. and ventured that
'twould be a pretty lonesome business
without my bonnie singin'-bird round
the shop, she just sung me little
Scotch song that meant she'd go, too,
an God bless her, she didr'
The political cooper criminal and
the book folders apprentice were
married March %, 1S4O, and some
good friends; among them old Neil
Murphy, got them safely aboard the
bark Kent, which sailed from Glasgow
April 9, following; Pinkerton shipping
as the vessels cooper, and his wife
taking steerage passage; but their
story becoming known to the cabir
passengers they were given snug
apartments as man and wife. The
participants in the Chartist movement
were all granted pardon and smnestry
by the British Crown in 1856; but the
world-famous detective only returned
once to his native land. This was il
1870, in company with ''auld Bobbie
Fergus" noted. and the first, publ,
printer of Chicago. The two were
old cronies from boyhood. Among
places they visited to recall Old days
in a sort of larking spirit was Glasgow
police headquarters.
After bit O solemn wait" aulc
Bobbie Fergus told me When describ-
ing the incident, Chief Miller. wht
was Classy detective in the forties
comes in. He sets doom an eye
Penkerton, an Penkerton eyes hin
back again. You're auld Penkerton
says Miller. 'hn' you're auld Miller,
says Penkerton. oh, aye says Mil
Ter, AN Penkerton. mon, I'm glad t,
see ye. But l mind the tine I'd beer
more glad, an ye slippaa my fingers
dom yer buttons' Then PenkertoI
yelled, an Miller yelled. an they slop-
ped ain anithers backs until ye'd
thocht their rubs wud crushed
through"
But sailing away on the Kent dit
not end the young couples romantic
experiences. On May 8. a montl
lacking day from the time of thei
sailing, the Kent was wrecked on Sabl
Island, off Nova Scotia, the crew ant
passengers, with a few of their effects
being saved. By fishing smack the.
were taken to Asp Bay, where the Uni
corn of Quebec, changed mails will
the Brittaina, one of the first Englisl
steamers across the Atlantic. The
were helped from here to Montrea
where the cooper got work headin
beef barrels, and the couple soon &C
to housekeeping famously in cne room
Soon members of the Cooper's unio
informed him this job would shr
down at a certain date, and, to tax
the narrative from his own lips whe
he was once endeaving to illustrate
me what trifles shape human affair