The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-17

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ltlal eViG X Iny ~ foEner there, IS
always p spieaso f em9tEoQal Insanity,
While In the Ia=ter, the prpsecutiqn has
only to put the evidence together, true
u, false, to proye the accused guilty.
z ifsaugh 3Bassett was Convicted OF inTIr!
der on cIrcunstnntIaT evidence. but
since It was proved that he had been
-perseeutedS 10 FRENZY by the murdered
man he was not banged, he was. mn
,prispned Tor lie. This, perseSut ton
though II saved him from the death
penalty, was the mnin cause OF his con-
'vfctIbn. BIS prosecutor was murdered
and who coulEt have miro cred him but
THE man he had peFsocuted7 Thlsi IS
what twelve good and true Inenndei
cided, and decided wrong Ten years
after the CONVICTION q hArde1ed Grim
fnal on his death bed confessed to a
priest that he ana not BasSett had COM
.mitted the murder. 3ti or alttss
.i5 i,Bassett, torne awayofrom HIS wife
and children to- be taken tosprtson for
q crime Of which he WAS Iunocent hai
but one thought-to escape Ifi his escape
should cost him his lie He was an
ingenious man, quick to see an advan-
IA Re another would not see.
. TBut several years passed BEFORE he
saw any avenue of escape whatever
and then very desperate chance He
had been, graduated at a scientific
school and from there had taken a
position With manufacturers of ma
chinery In prison the officials were
glad to avail themselves OF his services
In the engine room, and on several oc-
casions he attracted their attention by
certain ingenious devices In the matter
Of repairing the machinery. In nnathe-
MATES he had taken prizes long before
he became a convict. For good be-
havIor as prisoner he had many priv
IIeges, and was allowed to have light
in his cell long after hours. i-.7l''
''One day Bassetta saw a means OF
escape from the engine room which he
had not noticed before, though he had
three years before. It In
yolved possible frecS5n and probable
Heath. It also involved a very nice /
calcuiution, on the. accu-
-aey OF TE4Iitsh life depended. IT vas
liter the neoneep5i6n OF his plan 'tirsit
lis keepers noticed that he svas 3burp- l
pg5the Ihidnlght96il aud9IaHing down
figures, The guards did
80 4 fJ,o- V,rt5OT1aV. Trrpa eoI-
.ulating Just when the broad belt that
an the machinery would stop after the
power had been turned on. He had
lotIced that IN the evening when the
men were ready to leave the engine
DOM the machinery was stopped. he
lad also noticed that the driving BELT
# the engine passed over its upper
Wheel near a window high above the
each of any one! Then he had learned |
hat from the window one could gain
roof from which he might reach the |
OF OF the wall and thence down out
Ide. One day St occurred to him to |
ide on the belt to the window and es-
ape.
"To do this he must mount tile belt at I
certain mOmenlt-thRt Is, on d point I
hat would stop at the prtntIS ~. He |
ould see the laeing6 IL the belt as it /
hlurrcd, Of coIfge and
or dnys, weeks, months, counted rev
buttons OF the belt, anda tntSht Ia his
ell made calculations. At last he fixed |
point where he could jump on The
eit . which icrIAlr vTeuId stop at the window.
Zone, aeYepi1S,- in rWipter when. r., the
ay;S 1tiefe short the 1conScts We're lined
~ ready TO oimarch away y Stfddenty |
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