Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-15
The Anarchist

! copyright. 1906. by Mcclure Newspaper |
| Syndicate.l
John Cunningham had been gov
ernor of DartmoOr prison for thirteen
years, and during that long interval
not a convict had succeeded in making
his escape. The governor battered
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 decd-
ed to write book on criminoogy'
That was a perfectly natural thing,
since he had SO many specimens at
hand. He meant that book to be a |
standard and to contain matter to as |
tonish the world. He was entirely ig- |
norant of his subject, but he went to
work like a man who means business. |
To get his data he had to have prison |
ers brought before him to be question |
ed and to have their heads examined. |
The governor had boosted more than
once that he could tell predisposed
criminal ten rods away.
One of the prisoners called before
the governor was James Broughton,
who had received a sentence of five
years lot ellDeLLlGlDeul IIe
was respectable one. and this was
the first oifense for hundred years.
Brou-hton himself had anything but
criminal tendencies He was we'll edu-
| Gated well appearing and was remark
ed for his intelligence. The governor
found in BroughtOn the acme for
which he sought. He put him down as
/ man who was born with the In
stincts of a thief. He did not credit
him with ordinary intelligence He
found him a victim of homicidal mania.
Broughton had entered prison de-
termined to make his escape if it was
within the possibilities. After years
good conduct he was named for the
agricultural gang, the TRUSTEES who
moved the meadows and raised
share of the fresh vegetables consumed
in the prison He had friends outside
to aid him in so far as furnishing him
a suit of citizens clothes and small
sum of money. He had made up his
/ mind to 60 to South America. and he
| must have several hundred dollars.
i The fact that he knew not where to
i raise the money prevented his escape
for months. 1t was not until after the
governor had made him a choice speci-
II men of criminology that brilliant idea
Il came to him. AS the agricultural gang
III marched back to prison one evening
Broughton was missing, and the alarm
| was given He had found the suit. had
been met by a friend with horse and
| buggy, and by the time the guards
were securing the country for him the
convict was at the governors house.
1 A rather queer thing had happened
to the governor ten yeSrs before, and
as the incident had been published it
was common property in prison and
out He had made a trip to Russia,
aided an anarchist without knowing
what the man was, and after being
Shut up in fortress for a month he
had been given his liberty and escorted
to the frontier. This humiliation ran
killed. in his breast, and he was not
backward about saying to freeman or
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 hint from
his own government to moderate his
speech. He took warning by it, but he
still chafed. The telephone called the
governor up to inform him that a coil
III Wet had escaped, and while be was
fussing about it the card of stranger
was brought in. The name was that
of Russian, and the governor at once
III thought of anarchists and nihilists and
arbitrary measures and became hot
There was a confab lasting an hour
III The Russian did not hesitate to contide
Hill in the governor. He Informed hin,
that a plot was on foot to oveTturn
the government and raise republic
on it's ruins. He was asked to assist
In the conspiracy. He knew that such
action would make him amenable tC
the law, and yet he remembered the
dreary days and nights in that cell in
the fortress. He had never talked witt
a more intelligent man. He had never
met with another foreigner who spoke
the English language so correctly.
The warning received by the grea
man was ringing in his ears. but HI
thought of the miserable food the we
straw and the manner in which he ha,
III been bounced out of the cars domin
ions and warned to stay out The tele
phone gave him the particulars of tn
convicts escape and inquired about of
III fering a reward, but he was too bus.
III to attend to such trifles. He first salt
no, but as the Russian rose to leav
the house the governor brought out
bag containing $500 in gold and place,
1t on the table and turned his bacl
and began to hum the air Of tune
The Russian tumbled to the subscrir
ton and murmured his thanks. Wit
the gold he picked up one of the gov
ernor's cards. All hour later a trai