The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-25
BURIED 80 YEARS IN JAIL.
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1hit'v-thrcc years and ono month ngo to-day
vincent cod, lcf' New lurk cit, m the custody
" tho shcrin ~ servo bis nio out IN Siup sing
prison for murder. YESTERDAY 10 came hnck
hero n free man 81 tlis llmc 10 had been
STRIVING fur the pardon which cnuc ~ llsi from
Uov Ruo~oNclt 10 find INN ~ vclGcd into the
WAYS al rrsun HE that hr dared not ro1t3f"
fu,th alone Ilr change thst had tome to
\"N Work. since las departure were hcyond
Nv. comprehension and b" vas dII'h ~ -"
ooAcd about him Wien once nor" IN the tur-
moi ~ the city streets ~" left her" FROM
the old passenger station Of the New Work.
Central AZ ThIrty-third street and Tenth avenue
lie zane back through the great pile of steel
and stone and brick at fortN-second street
In the year OF hI~ departure, js01. the onc-l"csed
elevated road Of Dr Gilbert was put into opera
ton IN Ninth avenue. running through the
Smith ward. where cody lived. In the year Of
hi, return he finds elevated roads on four ave-
nues. which. though new TO him.. have been
outsrown 10y the city and are now having their
system of traction changed. When his liberty
was taken from him even the Tribune building.
for 40 many years boastful OF It's tall tower.
had not been built. lie comes back to find II
dwarfed by Others twice as high. The New
York he saw as he stepped out into Forty
second street with blinking eyes was no more
the same New York than was the prison mess
room the same a. the cafe at the Grand Union
Hotel. to which he went 10 lunch.
II was raining when he arrived. but he did
not mind IL. He went out into the middle Of the
street and gazed up at the Murray Hill Hotel.
the Manhattan, the great depot. the electric
cars running into the Fourth avenue tunnel and
across Forty second street. and was so over
whelmed that he could scarcely speak. lie
wisairaid. The,noiSe confused him, Hecould
not remember his way about. There was
nothing familiar in any thing he saw. not a single
andmark that he could recognize, tie wanted
TO And some friends. for he thought somewhere
in this city there would be a few to remember
him, but he did not know how To- go about it
Warden johnson had consented to bring him
down, so that he had some one to rely on. The
warden took him across to Brooklyn, where
he found some relatives and lett him in their
care To get used 10 the new order of thinIa.
Cody was sentenced 10 Sing Sing for the
murder Of John X Livingston. whom he killed
In a quarrel al. n political meetirg in the Id
Ninth ward He was 81 nien,ed by Justice
Ingraham. Every member 81 the jury which
convicted him Is dead He entered Sing Sing
on oct rs. 1897, ~ the. age Of 20 years There
then The service 81 the Oldest Employee
about the place goes hack only twenty-five
years. When Chief KeeIer Connauehton first
went there as a keeper cody had already been
eight wears wearing strir IS He had AZ that
time earned the reputa ton 81 icing the best
behaved prisoner In the institl ton He kept
up his record 10 the end In all. his term there
was never n complaint lodged against him.
He was n willing work or md all the keepers