Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-06

nous fortunes by wrecking large prop critics thst they always have lawyer at their elbows to advise them that they shall keep within the law. It would have been well for James Max son had he done the same. The differ ence between Maxson and these men is that they are rogues putting them selves without the pale of the law, while Maxson was an honest man put ting himself in a position where the law was obliged 10 punish him.
 Maxson was a banker. young man not over thirty. with a lovely wife and two beautiful children. whom he adored. Without knowing that he was doing so he violated the national bank ing law and was sent to prison for ten years. The parting with his wife and children was narrowing beyond meas ure. He felt that to serve the whole of his term would break him down completely and he would not live to rejoin them. A number of very strong friends accompanied him to the prison doors, and all told him that if there was anything they could do for him to command them. Maxson begged them to assist him to escape. and they prom ised to do so.
 Two of them. Woodruff and Scmers. met the same evening at Mrs. Max sons house 10 form a plan on which to set the husband and father at liberty. It was agreed that Mrs. Maxson, who could easily gain access to the prison, should interest some of the officials there in her case and induce them either through sympathy or by bribery to assist her husband to get out of the penltentiary inclosure.
 The formation of a plan of escape made wonderful difference both to the prisoner and his family The easiest way to turn a child from dis appointment is to divert his mind with the promise of something to take the place of the object coveted The man is but the grown child. It was com paratively easy for Maxson 10 endure his captivity so long as his mind was occupied with and his hopes were cen tered on his escape.
 On her second visit to her husband she began to study the officials there with a view to selecting one or more of them to interest in her case. Max son. being much broken down in health at his entrance into the prison. sue ceeded in getting himself transferred 10 the hospital. There Mrs. MaxsOn while visiting him made the acquaint- ance of Thomas Boyle, a hospital ward en. a man with a kind disposition. She took pains to tell him the story of her husbands incarceration-how if be had managed certain financial transac- tions in a different way from what he did he would have been still a respect ct banker instead of a felon. Then she told him of the wreck of their hap py home, how their two little children were constantly asking when papa was coming back 10 them, of her own distress. In this way she won the mans sympathy. and finally by offer ing tO make him independent in case he would contrive to get her husband beyond the prison walls she captured him to her purpose.
 
 decided upon taking in an assistant A night watchman named Hunter had access to the main office room of the prison where was kept key that must be obtained or duplicated before there would be any hope of getting Maxs0n out of the prison building Boyle told Mrs. Maxson to endeavor to interest Hunter in the plan by offering him a large sum of money. She succeeded. and after she had done so Boyle com municated with Hunter, and they formed a plan together to get Max son out of the building and into the prison yard. There they were to assist him to scale the walls. and he was to be met by his friends on the other side
 The key required was to open Max sons cell. It hung on nail in the warden's safe. Hunter could get in there only when the garden was pres ent. To take the key from the nail and not return it immediately would have revealed the fact that Maxson was to be permitted to escape Hunters ob- ject was to secure an impression Of the key. from which duplicate could be made When he was ready to op- crate he rushed into the warden's of fee and tSid him he had heard some thing like a shot in the other end of the prison. The warden went to the door and listened. Hunter while the mans back was turned slipped the key he wanted from its nail and hung an- other in it's place. Then Hunter left tha office. saying that he would go and see If there was any trouble. When he returned he had a wax impression of the key and. watching his oppOrtu- nify. exchanged the real key for its substitute.
 Meanwhile Boyle had procured a ladder, which he had concealed in a convenient place to be used by Maxson in climbing the wall There was a second wall which the prisoner would need to climb. and Mrs. Maxson had arranged with his two friends. Wood ruff and Somers. to be outside this second wall at the time of the escape 10 throw a rope over for him to climb upon. He was to make known his presence by throwing a stone over the wall.
 There were sc many contingencies