The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-03-15

prison from the outside. | constantly and
closely guarded. All day long was vigorously
constrained to keep my room save that from
10 a. m. till noon and from 2:15 till Alb was
suffered to walk about tie interior of the fort
ress and talk to my fellow-prisoners. while for
hour morning and evening officer took
me for walk on the rampant to enjoy the
fresh air blowing the height
We'll, | was bored and | wrote to this ef-
feet 10 my people who communicated with my
excellent friends. Never shall l forget the
thrill / had when I got the first COM
munication telling me that my friends were
busy my behalf.
The surveillance was very strict. All my
letters were opened and read, those received
as well as those wrote. My books and news
papers were likewise opened and anything OF
a seditious nature was taken away. Often
when my luncheon or dinner arrived | found
the rolls had been cut into slices in they
might contain a file, and on some occasions
even. the fruit was sectioned by way of pre-
caution.
my friends had therefore to communicate
with me in secret, and this they accomplished
by the old trick Of invisible ink 1 used to
have my letters handed to me With the seal of
the envelope open and the letters themselves
contained nothing calculated to arouse alarm
But as soon as my warden had left me
used 10 ungum carefully the flaps of the en-.
velope and hold the inner side to the bars of
the great white.tiled stove standing in the
room. Then as the paper cracked and con-
lracted line or two of writing would appear
telling me how the plan progressed and what
my part was to be.
'T too was able to communicate with my
friends in this way but how / managed it is
still secret. I let them know that what
must have above all things else money
and some tools for removing certain obstacles
had noted as being likely to impede my prog
ress when the moment of my escape arrived
Once out of my CELL should have to open two
locked doors and then get through window
protected by stout iron bar solidly wedged
I'm masonry
From the window there drop which
was not too dangerous to jump, perhaps, but
the noise l should have made in alghting
the tagged courtyard beneath would certainly
have been heard by the sentries, so l had to
have material to make rope ladder.
"Ar these observations l passed to my
devoted friends very discreety and at rare
intervals.
Every day / received from Paris large
parcel OF newspapers and magazines. These
were opened in the governors quarters and
then sent in to me after they had been rough
" tied I'D again with the cord fastening them
II was this cord which attracted my attention
II was not the ordinary scrap or end OF string
with which such rolls OF newspapers are gen.
orally fastened but nice. new string, evidently
taken of a fresh ball / examined it carefully
and my heart gave great leap. The cord
waxed!
Every day brought its packet OF papers or
reviews wound up with the same strong twine
and one day found under the flap OF an en-
velope bill Just line to this effect, Gardez
hceilei' IKE ing)
The next - alton I had the word
.Reliure' (bindin., which had been written in
invisible ink in the envelope Of a letter from
home Ever since my arrival at Gatz had
received parcels of books from Paris once or
twice a week and this single word at once
suggested 10 me what was meant. My books
were 20 bring me something. too.
"One. two. three days passed, and on the
fourth my warder brought me box OF books.
There were several mathematical treatses for
being in the engineers. mathematics have al
ways been a strong point with me- some yellow
paper-bound novels and two three ponderous
tones OF history.
They were Frederic Massons works on
the great Napoleon. a favorite hobby of mine
There was Josephine Imperatrce ct Refine
and Josephine Repudiee' and one or two 9TH
ers With my penknife slit open the backs
Of the paperbound understanding Then
the mathematical books-same result, Mas