The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-05-04
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) Well Planned
Escape
Liberty Came TO One Whom the
Law Imprisoned
By CARRlNGT0N FORD
. Copyright. i9lo. by American Press
Observation-Disclosures.
By DARLINGTON FORD

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II is said of men who make enor-
nous fortunes by wreeking large prop
critics that they always have n lawyer
1T their elbows to advise them that
they shall keep within the law. 1t
would have been we'll for James Max
son had he done the same. The differ
enee between MaXSon and these men
is that they are rogues putting them
selves without the pale of the law,
while Maxsen was an honest man put
ting himself in II position where the
law was obliged 10 punish him.
MaNSon WAS II banker, Il young man
not over thirty. with Il 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 WIS narrowing beyond meas
urc. 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 MI told him that If there
WAS anything they could do for him to
command them MaXSen begged them
10 assist him To escape, and they prom
ised TO do so
Two Of them, Woodruff and Somers,
met the same evening al Mrs. Max
sons house To form plan on which to
set the husband and father Mt liberty.
II WIS 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 ont of the
penitentiary Enclosure,
The formation of n plan Of escape
made II wonderful difference both to
the prisoner and his family The
easiest way TO turn II 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 1t was com
paratively easy for MaNson To endure
his captivity SO long rs 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 II view 10 selecting one or NOR,
Of them To interest In her ease. Max
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at his entrance into the prison, sue
eeeded In getting himself transferred
to the hospital. There Mrs Maxsol
while visiting him made the aequaint
anec of Thomas Boyle, II hospital ward
en-, n man with II kind disposition
She took pains TO tell him the story o
her husbands incarceration how IL h
had managed certain financial transac
tons In n different way from what h,
did he would have been still "A respect
ed banker instead of II felon TheI
she told him Of the wreck of their hap
py home, how their two little children
were constantly asking when pap;
was coming back 10 them of her owl
distress. In This WHY she won the
mans sympathy. and finally by offer
ing to make him independent in case
he would conlrive To gel her husband
hoyoud In. u,,son ,v,lIs vl,. c,n,ur.d
him To her purpose.
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decided upon taking in an assistant.
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access to the main Office room of the
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