Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-07

opportunity Co put it in use for others. He employed as many of the sturdy mountaineers as he could in road work. paying them good wages. He patched their cabins. provided medicines for their sick and blankets and stout clothes for the women and the chill dren
 The scattered families of these poor people looked up to him with mingled wonder and gratitude. When time rid them of their childllke timidity they came 10 know him and to love him.
 
 There is no statute of limitations for an escaped convict He is always legitimate quarry.
 Nearly ten years had passed since | James Montgomery was brought be- fore the desk of Inspector Ranscombe at police headquarters in Mulberry street There had been changes at headquarters in that time. The ad- ministration of the city was in other hands The police department had | gone through the throes of more than one shakeup. and there had been sev- | eral police commissioners. Ranscombe had been relieved of his important post as the chief of the city's little army of plain clothes men, but he had played the game of depart' ment politics well and had won his way back to the central office.
 On his return he found Detective ! q tionless. waiting for an assignment to a case. as usual The inspector knew bis value and had him promoted to the grade of captain He assigned Kearney to take charge of the homi eide squad The men under Kearney were the pick of the zoo and more de. tectlves of the department t.t Rearney started ont in hls new post | with a slate clean. save for one in scriptlon-the number GO1os. He felt ] that he was being cheated every day that the escaped convict enjoyed life outside of Sing Sings walls.
 Had Montgomery been a thief, a forger or a bigamist he could have i turned the matter over to his inspector as a case still pending But he had been convicted Of murder. and his case properly belonged In the homicide bureau.
 Gradually Kearney got the affairs of the bureau working to suit him, and he could pause and give some study to ,he Montgomery matter. His mind turned from the evil corners of the metropolis to the walled city up the i Hudson Time had changed the prison stafTs throughout the state. There was a new superintendent of prisons and a new warden at Sing Sing
 Kearney called mp the new warden and asked for an appointment the next time he came to the city. The warden was even then about to start for town. and he would drop fin at headquarters.
 Within two hours the guardian or Sing Sings population was seated be- side Kearney's desk.
 q gotta case" explained the detec- tive. that I'm anxious to clean up. Ten years ago 1 sent a young feller named Montgomery to Sing Sing for murder in the second He was put away for life. Five years ago, before you got On the job. he escaped. 4 crook named Hawkins, his cell mate, helped him to get out. want Flaw kins turned out, but l don't want hlm to know that I had anything to dO with it I'll have shadow put on him the moment he leaves prison, and lf he joins that young feller he helped set out I'm gonna get the 'lifer' and put him back where he belongs.
 After Hawkins fushes the bird for us and we get the real game then we can lay back and watch Hawkins. He'll go back to his old tricks. and coon we'll have him back where he be. longs"
 The warden nodded approval. a smile of admiration playing about his lips.
 ',The probation board is now in ses. sion," he said, with laugh We'll turn him out as an act of mercy and in the hope that he will reform and mako a good citizen"
 "I'li get a couple of shadows up there , in the morning" Kearney told him, The warden departed. and Kearney closed his desk and started for dnneI in his mothers little fat in OlveE street