Evening journal., 1907-02-25
The Anarchist

1906. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicatel
John Cunningham had been gov
srnor of Dartmoor prison for thirteen
years, and during that long interval
lot a convict had succeeded In making
bis escape. The governor hattered
himself on this fact. He lived four
miles from the prison, and the less he
visited it the better things were run.
Governor Cunningham finally decid-
ed to write a book on criminology.
Chat was a perfectly natural thing,
iince he had so many specimens at
Iand. He meant that book to be
tandard and to contain matter to as
.onish the world. He was entirely ig-
lorant of his subject, but he went TO
work like a man who means business.
TO get his data he had to have prison
RS brought before him to be question
Il and to have their heads examined.
he governor had boasted more than
,uce that he could tell a predisposed
.iminal ten rods away.
one Of the prisoners called before
ie governor was James Broughton,
no had received a sentence Of five
mrs for embezzlement The family
Is a respectable one, and this was
o first onense for a hundred years
oughton himself had anything bu
.mlnal tendencies. He was well edu-
led. well appearing and was remark
for his intelligence. The governor
und in Broughton the acme for
lich he sought. He put him down a.
man who was born with the IN
nets Of a thief He did not credit
n with ordinary intelligence. He
md him a victim Of homicidal mania.
Broughton had entered prison de
.mlned to make his escape if it was
thin the possibilities. After a years
iod conduct he was named for the
,ricultural gang, the TRUSTEES who
owed the meadows and raised a
iare Of the fresh vegetables consumed
] the prison. He had friends outside
aid him in so far as furnishing him
suit Of citizens clothes and a small
um Of money. He had made up his
aind to 60 to South America, and he
must have several hundred dollars.
The fact that he knew not where to
raise the money prevented his escape
for months. 1t was not until after the
governor had made him a choice speci-
men OF criminology that brilliant idea
came to him. AS the agricultural gang
marched back to prison one evening
Broughton was missing, and the alarm
was given. He had found the suit. had
been met by friend with a horse and
buggy, and by the time the guards
were securing the country for him the
convict was at the governors house.
A rather queer thing had happened
to the governor ten years before. and
as the incident had been published It
was common property in prison and
ont. He had made a trip to Russia,
aided an anarchist without knowing
what the man was, aud after being
shut up in a fortress for a month he
had been given his liberty and escorted
to the frontier This humiliation ran
kled in his breast, and he was not
backward about saying TO freeman oI
convict that he would do most any
thing to get square with the Russian
government. He had been so outspo
ken that he had received a hint from
his own government 10 moderate his
speech. He took warning by il, but he
still chafed. The telephone called the
governor up to inform him that a con
vict had escaped. and while be was
fussng about it the card Of a stranger
was brought In. The name was thai
Of Russian, and the governor at once
thought of anarchists and nihilists anC
arbitrary measures and became hot
There was a confab lasting an hour
The Russian did not hesitate to conhd,
In the governor. He informed hin
that a plot was on foot to overturr
the government and raise a republic
on its ruins. He was asked to assis
in the conspiracy. He knew that sucl
action would make him amenable {,
the law, and yet he remembered tn,
dreary days and nights in that cell il
the fortress. He had never talked witt
more Intelligent man. He had neve
met with another foreigner who spokl
the English language so correctly.
The warning received by the grea
man was ringing in his ears. but b.
thought Of the miserable food. the we
straw and the manner In which he hal
been bounced out Of the czar's domin
ions and warned to stay out. The tele
phone gave him the particulars OF tn
convicts escape and inquired about OF
fering a reward. but he was too bus
TO attend 10 such trihes. He first sal
no, but as the Russian rose to leav
the house the governor brought out
bag containing $500 in gold and place
It on the table and turned his bac
and began TO hum the air Of a tune
The Russian tumbied TO the subscriI
ton and murmured his thanks. Wit
the gold he picked up one Of the gol
ernor's cards. An hour later a ira
] was bearing him to Liverpool He wa
stopped on the way and stopped agai
rs he went aboard a steamer for Sout
America. but that card Of the governC
carried him through.
The search for Broughton was tho
ough and long drawn out AS It wa
the first escape from Dartmoor unds
Gaysrnor cunnlnghsm's Eeign. he Wa