The Calumet news., 1912-09-30

t eo"e 10 ring that warned
Jones that the night keeper r.u
dead to the world" When ,Ss
time came for this man 10 punch ~
gong at $3.50 a. m. the whole To.sae
was alive with the news OF Forshrsv'.
escape.
NO Trace OF Escaped Prisoners.
Nothing has been seen or baara
Wilson or OF Forsbrey. Probably The
police have followed the French crs
tom. "cherchez la femme" in trv,ns
10 locate their whereabouts. The girI
VINO smuggled the saws and acid ana
other things TO Forsbrey ia now IN
Catholic institution. Just who was
WILSON'S woman friend-and II ,s
more or less sure he had one-Is
not known. The escapes OF Whitson
and Forsbrey offer an absolute blank.
ness or trail In the world outside the
Iombs. The pictures OF these two
criminals have been published far and
wide. They are in every police sta.
tion. They have been studied by more
than 10000 men whose business II is
supposed to be to capture them. Their
habits, their haunts and their gener-
al characteristics are widely known
But they are no nearer being found.
apparently. than theS were immediate.
ly after they decamped.
Probably the most famous escans
from the Tombs was sharkeys, In
1872. Sharkey was locked up there
for the murder OF man named Dunn.
This, OF course, was In the old pris.
on. A woman named Maggie Jordan
was Sharkey's sweetheart, and, thanks
10 her influence and her money. she
visited him every day In his cell She
always came heavily veiled, and as
she passed the Ave different gatekeep-
ers that stood between Sharkey's cell
and the outer world she always had
pleasant word and S.. c. & s.tt for
each. Sometimes II was whisky.
sometimes a box OF cigars, and some.
| times an invitation to visit her house
up town and pass pleasant evening.
At any rate. Maggie Jordan con
tinued visiting Sharkey In his cell day
after day. She was permitted to spend
as long time as she wished In the
cell, the door being left unlocked. One
day after she had departed keeper
went to Sharkey's cell to pass the
time OF day with him and to ask II
there was anything he wanted. He
found Maggie Jordan there, dressed in
Sharkey's clothes. Sharkey himself
had donned Maggie Jordan's garments
and, heavily veiled, had walked out
past all the keepers.
shsrksy Proved UnsrstefuL
Sharkey's life was due to the full
measure of devotion that this woman
had given him. yet In the end he
showed himself base migrate She
had risked everything for him. She
had given him her money. her love
and had risked her liberty. After his
escape, 80 goes the story. he fed as
she had planned. He wandered here
and there on the face of the earth.
The police we're befogged. just as they
are now about Wilson and Forsbrey.
Maggie Jordan was arrested. OF
course. but afterward .she was re-
leased. She was heroic figure in the
eyes of lot of New Workers. There
is certain sentiment among men in
New York that is good deal like
that which prevails in Paris where
woman Is concerned There always is
something appealing in such an action
as that OF Maggie Jordan's,
After her release from prison Mag
gle Jordan wandered here and there.
The police watched her constantly.
There were spies among her servants,
even among her neighbors. Every
hour In the day some one was on the
watch to find some avenue OF COM
munisation that was open between
Maggie Jordan and Sharkey. But she
was as clever outside the Tombs as
she had been inside. She fooled them
all, and one day she disappeared.
The next thing heard of Maggie
Jordan she was in the Canary Islands,
and Sharkey was with her. She was
happy there for a time, but It was
only little while Sharkey was a
brute. He Ill treated her; he beat
her. He subjected her to every in
dignity. One day woman. broken
hearted. shabbily dressed, with very
little money. stepped of a steamer
that arrived in New York II was
Maggie Jordan, back from foreign
parts" Her romance was over.
But time heals the wounds Of the
mind as we'll as those OF the body.
Not many years after her return from
the Canary islands, where she had
left Sharkey, she was the same beau
tiful. fascinating bit OF femininity she
had been before she had known him
and before she had made fools Of the
keepers In the Tombs. She lived very
quietly, and one day she married one
,f the most popular actors in America
They we're loving, devoted couple for
nearly twenty years. He has been
lead these ten years or more. She is
living uptown now. silver.haired
widow whom few indeed ever suspect
o have been the Maggie Jordan who
woscore years ago, was the most
alked of woman In America.
Named for Gambler.
The recent police raid on pre-
urned professional gambling house In