The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-09
A PRISONERS
MESSAGE
BY ri. SANBORNE BROWNE
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.


that the seller, being willing to part
with the horse for such a low price,
must have stolen II. John was arrest.
ed, charged with the theft, convicted
and sentenced to serve Eve years In
Jail.
One day the jailer said to John:
81 shall see your wife tomorrow.
Have you any message for herr
YES" replied John; tell her to get
me out of this"
The jailer looked at his prisoner, sur
prised.
do you mean" he asked, that you
wish her TO intercede with the COVER
nor to pardon your
mo; l wish her TO tell me how TO
escape"
time with melancholy expression.
He considered that n man who would
send such message by one whose
business Il would be TO thwart any
plan that might be adopted must be
losing his mind
GAN right" he said, humoring the
poor man: "I'll give her your message"
The jailer went the next day TO the
town where the woman lived and, hav.
ing transacted the business he had to
do, went to see her.
"How is my poor husband" she
asked at once.
"Have you the courage to hear some
bad news?" inquired the jailer In lieu
of reply.
Eyes; tell me at once" she asked
eagerly.
"well. ] fear the confinement and
the attendant misfortunes have af-
fected his brain"
The woman was very much over
come by this and begged the jailer to
tell her what had brought him to such
conclusion, whereupon the latter
gave her her husbands message. As
soon as she heard II she set up such
n wall that many of the neighbors
rushed in 10 know what was the mat
ter. Mrs. Rounce told them that the
Imprisonment her husband was suf-
ferlng for an offense of which he was
had gone daft They advised her to
secure the services of lawyer to
have John brought before n commits
sion to determine the facts. If one of
unsound mind had been convicted an
injustice had been done which should
be righted. The prisoner had always
been much liked in the town. and a
great deal of sympathy was mani
Tested FOR him. When the jaler left
them he promised the wife that he
would observe her husband closely
and when he came again would bring
her another message is, If John
had any 10 send.
The next message the taller brought
Mrs. Bounce was: My jailer thinks
me insane, He never was more mis-
taken ip his life Wings are now
growing on my shoulders. BY the
first day of the month they viii be
fully grown, and then | shall fly up
the chimney and return TO you and
our children"
When Mrs. Bounce received this
message she walled louder than ever.
declaring that the cruel treatment her
husband was receiving he being in
generated in cell was making his
condition worse every day. The jaiier
assured her that her husband was not
in cell, but in room by himself. in
which there was nm old fashioned
large chimney giving fine ventilation,
But she refused to be comforted
As soon as the iailer had departed
Mrs Bounce went out and bought sew
cral ladders besides fifty feet OF stout
rope, and put them In her cellar On
the night of the last day Of the month
she hitchcd We family horse TO the
wagon, pm the ladders ana the rope
in 1t aud sci out tor the Jail. She
timed her starting TO reach her deSti
nation AT midnight uud, stopping II
short distance lrom the building that
stood 10y ltseII. shr carried the ladders
20 the wall 'nnr surrounded il Placing
one ladder against the wall. she mount
ed IT, and, selecting another that would
reach from the wall "a the roof of thp