Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13

to the public.
About a year after Stewards body was
stolen-September 10, 1879 to be exact
business called me to the Joliet penitentiary.
l was sauntering through the prison with
John Mcdonald, who had worked for me
more than once in rounding up counterfeit
ers, when a convict working in the marble
yard attracted my attention. For a moment
could not give him his proper place in the
gallery Of rOgues / carried in my memory.
My delay in recalling his identity, however,
was but mOmentary. and | recognized my
erstwh!e friend, james X. McClaughrey,
now No 2oU7.
| Mcdonald" I said indicating the object
Of my attention. do you know that MANI"
| My companion eyed him narrowly mo-
ment. Il don't remember him." ne said,
! You know him"
/ 81 may have known him at one time but
| cannot place him.
| Then l whispered TO Mcdonald.
you're right ho said; Il recognize him
| now"
1 asked Deputy Warden Sleeper to have
/ No, 2s07 brought into the office, explaining
| that l wanted undsturbed chat with
| him. also requested that no one else be
| allowed in the IOom. No. 2SO7 was brought
| in and soon found ourselves alone.
| What brought you here?" l asked.
| "A little job down in Cairo, There
I wouldn't have been any trouble if l had
! not drunk too much whisky"
| ! asked him for any information he could
| give me concerning the counterfeiters of
| his acquaintance, and he confded to me
| the location of a plant for making Mexican
| money In New Orleans. We changed from
| one topic TO another rapidly, our time
| was limited and at last [ preached the
| Stewart case.
| do you know how the Stewart job was
| done" l asked.
'Do II" he smiled well. I was in the
vicinity.
| knew in an instant that my surmise was
| correct. Long and close acquaintance with
| this man had taught me that he had never
| lied to me. and now, under a twelve-year
sentence. with one to aid him. he had
| the most powerful incentive for telling the
truth. even If he had not been square"
| Il want to know all about It," said l.
"Tyrren," he replied. you've always
| played fair with me. and l believe you al
| ways will. l know all about 1t and will
| tell you the whole story. but l want you
| to do me favor in return. First. / want
| you to mail my letters to my mother and
| help me to get word to Emma c.. 1
| haven't been able to write to her for some
| time. and she may think 1 have gone back
| on her. She's true girl. and don't want
| her to think l have lost faith in her or
| ceased to care for her as l did. And I
| want to find out If she still has faith in
me. Then, / want you to give me your
| word that you will do all you can to have
| my term here made as short as possible"
| So far doing as he desired about the
| correspondence, that was easy to promise
| and easy to perform. To intercede for him
| to the extent of having his term short
| ened-that was another matter. l had
| never done this for any criminal and 1t
was contrary to what l believed right, I'M
| less the emergency We're great. | at last
| promised to look into his case and see how
| far l consistently could go in his behalf.
| He then gave me very brief account of
| his connection with the theft of the body
! of A. T. Stewart. the understanding being
| that he was to write the confession in full
| and mail II to me. Before l left the prison
| arranged with the warden that such COM
| munica tons as No. 2S0I wished to send to