Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-05-16

ley's existence Love spun a single
Il RADIANT thread. The fact Is futile
now, for Charles Whaley, after two
years or stolen happiness, is serving
the f1rst days of q five-year sentence
In Sing Sing.
The burglary for which he is atom
ing was committed three years ago
Whaley, though arrested at the time,
escaped, and in new world, under a
new name, tried to live down his past
HE failed. Just as he was beginning
to take hope the unexpiated crime
found him.
He has a wife and two children. 1t
was their love which held him while
ne hid from Justice; 1t is their love he
leaves behind. When he energies from
prison it will be waiting, for the dis
covery that her husband is an escaped
criminal has not swerved the woman
to whom he owes redemption.
Everyone knows the story of Jean
Vatican, the -philanthropist of
Victor Hugo's most famous novel;
Charles Whaley is a Jean Vatican of
common life. For the time being he
has failed, but when release from
prison gives him new opportunities to
prove his reformation, there will be
plenty of well-wishers to give him
help.
1t was in 1910 that Charles Whaley
ran afoul of the law. With an accom-
plice named Richard Fitzsimmons he
robbed dry-goods store at Port Wash
.ngton, L. l. Fftzsimmons was SEN
fenced to one year in the county peni-
tertiary; vVhaley escaped while await
ing trial.
He was twenty-five years old at the
time The most of his life had been
spent on Long Island and the waters
about New York. He had been in
trouble a good deal of the time, but he
had never got into anything approach
ing in gravity his situation when he
found himself an escaped prisoner with
the possibility of recapture and a
heavy penitentiary sentence For a
time he worked as fireman on harbor
boat During much OF it he meditated.
His chief conclusion was that his
whole life had been a big mistake, and
that if he ever intended to repair 1t
the moment had come to begin. Just
a year after his escape he started on
the job.
Ut WAS a big one. When a man
l has spent nine years In piling up
varied and sundry misdemeanors
mt q
minute. In Greenport, L. l., there was
a girl who, two years before, had come
into Whaley's life for brief period
II had not meant much to Whaley, but
A. had meant a good deal to the girl
Whaley started his new life by going
to Greenport and marrying her. She
knew his real name. but in considera
zion of the remainder of the village
n was considered advisable for him to
settle there under new one-Frank
Lawrence. He got a job on one CT the
Sound oyster boats; turned into steady
EVERYDAY work and tried to forget the
past.
II was not so difficult. He had es
canned Imprisonment for year; per
bons he could do ii indefinitely He
5ecided that the district attorneys OF
6ca was satisfied with one victim
that II was willing, so far as he was
concerned. to lei bygones be bygones
His work on the oyster boat paid
rim $50 a month. Out OF this he. sup
oorted himself, his wife and a child
ne had always been an unwise drtnser;
With the advent OF new aspirations he
vave this up The love he had once
treated lightly came to be the mosi
Imnortant thing in this new. strange
,aIting career. He found his wife
believed in him; that she watched his
very step toward regeneration witt
az faith of an unfathomable love. He
rever told her he was an escaped pris
oner.
xxNDER these influences the OLD
Whaley became less and les'
Continent and Frank Lawrence. tbs
- man, continued to grow. he max
- one spectre-the gloomy know
Ssra Of bis everpresent danger.
- enough Each time his scnoonel
aa from the oyster beds ther'
las mingled with his Joy OF home =.
- tha fear that one OF the wait