The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-01
Who was promptly named :.

! who was promptly named John
| Brown
Mr. Brown stayed at our house to
| rest and in the afternoon / was greatly
| termed when Allen Pinkerton, the
| great detective, presented himself and
| inquired II John Brown was there. The
fugitive slave law was in full force and
l reared our lives and property were in
peril. But l told the truth and he
| came in and cordially welcomed Mr.
Brown, and turning to me said:
You will take good care of him to-
day, won't you, for there is a county
democratic convention at u o'clock and
am going to get those men to give the
money to get Mr.. Browns party out
of the city?'
nightfall. with the exception of Mr.
Brown, they all went away in a char
tered car, well stocked with provisions.
During the day and evening all the
prominent abolitionists of the city call
ed on MIR. Brown and the propriety of
getting him out of Chicago secretly was
thoroughly canvassed. DIR. Dyer was
full of jokes, and he suggested that
the best disguise Mr.. Brown could pos
sibly have would be nice new suit of
clothes. They were ordered and pre-
scented to him and he was hung in them
few months later.
He was a tall man, all bone and
muscle. The first time l saw him he
was clean shaven, but afterward wore
full beard. He was very neat and
tidy so far as personal cleanliness was
concerned, but was perfectly indiffer-
ent to clothes. In fact, none of the
Browns feared for poverty. He was not
a politician and did not belong to any
party. His creed was based on the be-
lief that every man should have his
rights.
of course we were keenly interested
in his plans, and when the first meager
news came Mr.. Jones hurried home, eX-
claiming:
There has been an instruction and
as sure as you are born it is John
Brown,
when Mrs. Brown went to Charles
ton to bid her husband farewell before
his execution she visited us both going
and coming. Among the pathetic in
cidents of these last sad hours she re-
lated the following: The night before
he was hanged she was allowed to
take supper with him. After she had
been there some time the cell door was
unlocked and the guard entered, say
ing:
The limit of time allowed Mrs.
Brown has expired and she must leave
you now
Very WELL replied Mr.. Brown, COM
posedly, she can go, for he added,
proudly, L have no favors to ask of
virginia. ana klSS1IS MS SODDlHS VILE
farewell they parted forever
mo, i have no momentoes of him."
said Mrs Jones. you know we did
not write letters in those days, for lit
was unsafe to put anything on paper,
and if he ever wrote to my husband
the letters We're destroyed"
Mrs Jones has lived in Chicago since |
1916. Her only daughter used to pick
flowers in the lot back of their home |
where the Reliance building in State
street now stands. She is rs years old |
and is an exceedingly picturesque
woman, with little to indicate her age
or race. A bit of lace crowns the snow |
white hair and there lis scarcely a
wrinkle in her genial face. Her father
was Portuguese and her mother of |
mixed blood. Indian, white and African. |
While having no actual experience in |
the horrors of slavery, she has been an
ardent abolitionist and has the salts
faction of knowing she gave the move
ment a push. She is frequently i'm
portuned by suffragists to attend con-
ventions, but she rarely accepts say
ing she has done her work in this di-
rection for she has repeatedly attend |
ed meetings that she expected would
cost her life. Evidently she considers