The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-02

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This assembling and assurance on his
part were new phases of his character.
and dinner had been finished half an
hour before the deputy approached him
and said
Il have good memory for faces,
and | am sure have seen yours be-
fore
1T may be So was the careless re
ply, accompanied by Il smile
Haven't met you in the village of
Wadsworth?" naming the place where
the X. state prison was situated.
Il may have passed through the place
on a train. but am sure | never stop
ped there. 1t is possible that we have
met before while travelling"
The voice. the movement of the
mouth while speaking the look of the
eyes. everything about the man was
perfectly familiar to the officer, but he
suddenly decided to adopt a new line
of policy for awhile. He would meet
fincSse with finesse. The pair entered
into general conversation for two
hours. and then the deputy sent out
telegram asking the warden of the
state prison if Drayt)n had been par
doncd or had escaped. Two hours
later. rs he was nearing the end of the
journey. he received an answer read
ing
"Drayton is still with us and has just
been locked in his cell"
Here was another uuzzle, but it did
not take the astute official long to reach
conclusion. Drayton had claimed
thatthc felony had been committed by
some man resembling him. Here was
his prototype. his twin brother. While
he looked more like a respectable bust
ness man than Il thief. the eX-deputy
determined not to let him go without a
rigid examination.
1t happened that the two got off at
the same city. and they had scarcely
descended from the train before the
stranger was given in charge by the
official and taken to police station. 1t
was a high handed thing to do. and if
he was what he represented or seemed
TO be he could make trouble for the
other.
He seemed stunned at first over his
arrest and then grew indignant and
threatening. He gave a certain name
and claimed certain city as his resi-
dence, and for 4 time the police were
inclined to apologize and let him go. 1t
was only when the eXdeputy began to
question him about a certain date the
date of the robbery, that he tripped in
his answers and aroused new suspicion.
Few men have done for another what
the deputy did for Drayton. He re
manned with the stranger until he got
good grounds for his arrest on the old
charge He brought the cashier and
others on at his own expense and got
the authorities to eXtradite the man
and the courts to put him on trial and
summon Drayton from state prison.
When the two men finally stood to.
gether there were wonder and amaze
ment in the court. Their own moth
erS could not have told them apart. A
little detective work had mearthed a
bad record for the stranger, and. al
though he started out 10 make Il great
legal fight. he ended by confessing that
he was the guilty party and that Dray-
ton had served two years for a crime
he had not committed. The latter was
pardoned and restored to citizenship
and responsibility, while the guilty
party was sent to occupy his place in
prison, ana the judge who had read a
| moral lesson from the bench had some
thing more to say His conscience had
been troubling him for the way he
charged the jury against an innocent
man, and he sought to console it by adj
hitting that somewhere in the world
every man may find his prototype, but
that the law could not take cognizance
of the fact.