Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-16
|WhatCould He Do?

1 "uo lds nopo
 received any education. Tbera "
 but one manufactory of prominon.' vas
 the place where worked. a verv ,S !"
 one, employing several thousana -
 One day the concern shut down .~.
 was thrown out of employment rh
 was nothing for me to do but go sor,s
 where else to look for work. r,s,,'
 several cities. at last bringing m ,s
 Albany, N. Y.
 One night while walking on fl.
 street a man came up to me and sasS ing "I want you" slipped handcuffs ..
 my wrists. lie was joined by apotho.
 man, and the two took me to tho oi.' jail and locked me up fin n ceu
 learned later that they had mada charge of burglary against me n, course told them that was m cr,,.
 final, but what good did it doY Th., said they knew all about me and b.s
 been waiting for me to come hoct |. town. I had never been in Albany hA fore.
 When the case came up in eourt
 was tried for robblng, with others |. dwelling. A man took the yltnes, stand who, after looking at me, syor. that was one of gang who bos entered his house at night when tbs family was asleep. Hearing a noiss below, he had gone downstairs ana discovered the men putting his silver. ware in sacks. He had watched n. for some time without being seen and had had good look at me. He went back upstairs to concoct some method for the arrest of the gang, but they had gone before he could do so.
 The court assigned me an attorney but he was too well satisfied of my guilt to pay much attention to my case l might have made an effort to proys my identity by applying at the factory where I had worked. but my attorney said that to prove that man of the name I claimed had worked thers wouldn't do much good against hay ing been identified by the man who was robbed. had no money with which to fight for my liberty, so was sent to the penitentiary for ten years
 During my stay in prison of all the horrible things l suffered the most awful was that was enduring pun ishment which didn't belong to me If had been guilty l suppose would not have suffered snearly so much. tried to think of methods of getting my case taken up, but even if I bad had an education, with the advantages that education brings, what could l have done? It occurred to me that there had been fin Albany some erin. like me. The only hope l had was that some day they would get him and he would confess that he had commit. ted the robbery with which I was an astonishing piece of luck for me, and as l was q convicted man in pris. on 1t wasn't likely that even if heard of 1t could take advantage of 1t.
 l had been in the penitentlary about q year when one of the keepers spoke to me, evidently thinking 1 was some one else. l told him be was mistaken, but he paid no attention 10 me Then another official did the same thing. told him that he was the second man who had made the same mistake, but he paid no more attention to what said than the first. Some time after this one of these men came to me ons day and stared at me for some time Then l was told that one of the pris cners had been mistaken for me This prisoner was pointed out to me. and though l had several times seen him he was new convict-the likeness be tween us had not occurred 10 me. It's singular how other people see like nesses which we don't see ourselves But after awhile I noted that the mao was exactly my height and build, and bis face was shaped ruch like mine.
 found out thst he had been con victed for A crime th9, had been com mitted in Albany. Then l knew that he was the man the police had been looking for when they arrested me.
 A hope flashed within me that here was the means of regaining my free' dom. endeavored to interest the keepers in the matter, but did not sue ceed. The fact that this man looked like me didn't seem to stand for much with them against the fact that we were both convicts under the law. t would have required some one to oe vote great deal of attention to the case to work out my freedom. Ano who would do thnt except for payT " would have required many hnndreos of dollars to hire such a person, ana hadn't cent. l got chance to spesA to my tloubic one day and told him my story, asking him to help me. l sas by bis manner that he had been one !" the gang who had committed the pu bery for which I was convicted ne asked me what there would De h for him, and I saw at once that, tnouss tue means of my liberation were ~ hand. they would not be of any use '" me.
 I thjnk th,t having inc De3ns Witp