The daily Alaskan., 1905-05-19
The Man Who
 Was Wronged

prison it was Tor burglary. lie nau eil- tered a dwelling house at nighttime and stolen money and goods, The own CT of the place was a we'll or man. He could spare what had been taken and never miss 1t. The burglar could not understand why so much fuss was made over it. He felt injured when the lawyer spoke of him as a criminal and when the papers had something to say about his hanSiog look, It seemed to him to be a combination against him, a conspiracy to prevent him from liv- ing his natural life,
 By and by, when 1t so happened that the detectives were giving Cassidy rest for few weeks, he got married. In his way he loved the young woman. In another way she would be of help to him. He knew and respected other men who lived on what their wives earned at the waShtuh, and he had no doubt of being respected in his turn. He had been married week when he blackened his wifc's eyes and broke couple of ribs for her. He felt that it was his privilege. When the police and the judge differed with him he looked upon 1t as a put up joh Co discourage hlm from seeking natural enjoyment
 While he was serving his sixty days a fellow prisoner told him that the great constitution of the United States guaranteed every man certain rights. There were eight O: ten of these rights, according to the mans list, and Gas sidy came forth with determination to have them all The law had hereto fore depended on his ignorance and taken advantage of him. He would now show the law that he knew his privileges and was bound to maintain them. Within a week he had broken a policeman's head with a rock, assault, ed a man who differed with him about the social status of states prison, Stol, en a wagon and robbed drunken man. With the constitution on his side he felt that he was getting along.
 Mrs. Cassidy would have come in for another beating in time but she has. tened the event by becoming a mother. Being busy at the time, the husband adjourned the beating for week, Then he blackeneI her eyes, broke her jaw and dislOcated a shoulder, and he took it very ill of an oficious neighbor who hastencd away and informed the Noli,a and S,,,,r.n1 his or-Ngr
 The wife died, and Nlr. Cassidy was put on trial for manSlaughtcr, He con sidered it altogether unfair. He was privileged under the constitution tc beat his wife, while she was not privi- legged to die under it She hal died to spite him, and he looked upon it as more spite when he was somehow sent to prison for fifteen years.
 Of all the things that hurt him most were the words of the prosecutor He had called direct attention to his evil face and his previous record and hal vowed that he was more Of a wild beast than a man. Nothing else hurt likc this. and he determined on revenge.
 From the day he entered prison Gas sidy lived only to escape and secure revenge on the man who had hiSScd at him in court He didn't blame the judge or the jury. AS for the neighborS who had volunteered their testimony, he would knock them about and let it go at that. but the prosecutor should die by his hand. His words were re membered morning, noon and night, and day by day the convict thought of escape.
 Seven long years passed by, and then a day came that a guard relaxed his vigilance for ( moment, and Jim Cas- sldy made his escape Another convict would have tried to get away as far and as fast as possible Not so with Cassidy, He had only twenty miles to go to reach the prosecutors house. He had kept track of his enemy through visitors, He knew that he oc- cupied a house in the midst of grounds just outside the city, and over and over again he had planned how he NNulu hllIENd'lls HUN fllt0I Alls ANNSNs how surprise the man in his sleep and take his life. He made his journey across the country in a doggCd sort ot way, and he would have killed any living thing ohStruCtlng his path for a moment. He was a wroNgcd man on his way to right himself
 The escape was made in the early morning. When evening fell the con vict was at the end Of his tourney The grounds contained two acres and were full of trees and shrubhery, He easily found a hiding place and then waited There was no thought of turning back. Years had gone by, and the prosecutor was now an old man and no longer had to do with the law, but that made no difference to Cassidy, Let him but secure his revenge and the prison officials might pick him up the next hour. It was midnight before he moved. He had heard the growing of thunder for the last half hour, but had given it no heed Now, as he final. ly rose up to approach the house, the storm broke over his head.
 It did not delay him a moment He went forward with less caution for the swish of the storm, and he had drop