Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-25

cred with one foot.
When all was quiet, called to Dull
Gina and babe her tell Jack Mount
that had the poison and would use il
on us both If we could not find other
means 10 escape the gallows.
The poor child took the message and
presently returned, wiping her tears,
TO say that Jack had every hope of
! liberty; that must not despair or take
the life which no longer was at my
own disposal. and that she, Dulcima,
had already communicated with Shem'
uel
She handed me steel awl, telling me
to pick at the mortar which held the
stones on my window ledge and to fill
these holes with water every night, so
that the water might freeze and crack
the stones around the base OF the steel
bars.
The next week the weather was BIT
terly cold. had drilled some few
holes around the base of an iron
stanchion, and now | filled their with
water and plugged them with a paste
Of earth from beneath my flooring,
threads from my towel and some soap.
At dawn was at my window and to
my delight found the stone cracked,
but the iron bar was as firm as ever,
so set TO drilling my holes deeper.
At the end of that week Dulcima let
me know that Jack had loosened one
bar of his window and could take 1t
ProYo Us cncly or xvhapavar 7 mos randy
So worked like a mailman at my bar
and by night was ready to charge the
holes with water.
1t was now the middle of March. A
! month only remained 70 re IL which
to accomplish our liberty II we were
to escape at all.
sent wcrd to Mount that / could
not move my bar, but that he must not
wait for me If he could escape from the
window. He answered that he would
not stir peg unless could, and the
girl choked as she delivered the mes
sage, imploring me to hasten and loose
the bar.
| could not do It, Day after day |
filed the cracks aud holes, waiting for
freezing weather 1t rained. rained,
rained
Weeks before Mount had sent the
girl to seek out Mr.. Foxcroft and tell
him OF my plight / also had sent by
her note to Silver Heels.
The girl returned to report that Mr.
Texcroft had sailed for England early
In November and that nobody there
had ever heard of a Miss Warren in
Queen street
Then Buffers boast came to me. and
sent word to Shemuel bidding him
search the village OF Lexington for
Miss Warren. | had not yet heard
from him.
Meanwhile Mount communicated
through Dulcima with the Minute.
mems club, and already delegation
headed by MIR. Revere had waited ON
Governor Gage to demand my release
ON grounds of mistaken identity.
The governor laughed az them, as
sorting that was notorious, but as
the days passed SO serious became the
demands from Mr. Revere. Mr.. Han
cock and Mr. Otis that the governor
sent Walter Butler 20 assure these
gentlemen that he knew Mr. Cardigan
well and that the rogue In prison who
pretended ito that name was in fact a
notorious felon named the Weasel.
Meanwhile Mr.. Hancock had com
municated with Sir John at 0noDdaga
and awaited reply to his message
urging Sir John to come TO Boston and
! Identity me
| No reply ever came, nor did Sir John
stir hand or foot In my behalf. Posi-
bly, he never received the message.
| prefer to think so.
| Matters were at this pass when
| finally gave up all hope Of loosenine
my window bars and sent word tc
Jack Mount that he must use his
sheets for cord and let himself out
| that very night. But the frightened
| girl returned with an angry message
OF refusal from the chivalrous block
| head.
| The next day 1t was too late. Bish
l ops suspicious somehow had beer
aroused, and 1t took him but sborl
| time to discover the loosened bars 81
| Jack Mounts cell.
| How the brute did laugh when Ia
came on the work accomplished. FL
| searched Mounts cell, discovered TIL
awl and file. shouted With laughter
| summoned masons to make repairs
and, still laughing. came 70 visit me.