Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-30
CHAPTER ~.

~ + tue men sentenced with James
Montgomery six were sent to
W Sing Sing, while the others
went to Clinton and Auburn.
The six Sing Sing men were manacled
in couples, but as Montgomery was
"lifer" additional precaution against
attempted escape was taken by hand
cutting him to a guard as well as to
his prison mate. There were three
links in the chain Of humanity and
steel
Montgomery found that the prisoner
locked to his right wrist was a heavy,
long armed man with the prognathous
jaw who had sworn heartily and bit
terly the morning of the lineup at po-
lice headquarters.
The six men and their guards piled
into an automobile van in front of the
Tombs on Center street. Above the
changing of the gong of the machine
and the heavy roar of vehicular traffic
as they were taken toward the Grand
Central station Montgomery could hear
the man beside him keeping up low
growl, as of beast dreaming of bat
tie. Had he known the length of this
mans sentence he might have envied
him, for he was to serve only fifteen
years. His offense was burglary.
They boarded train for Ossining at
the Grand Central station.
At Tarrytown, where the electric
zone ended, the train was delayed
while an engine was coupled to the
coaches. Here the tracks run ON the
very edge Of the Hudson, the river
splashing the ties during high winds
from the west.
Across the river Montgomery could
den in the trees. 1t was the village of
Nyack. Just over the skyline and be-
yond the last peaked roof was a cot
tage standing back from the broad au-
tomobile road which leads to Tuxedo.
Within that cottage was the little
mother with the faded eyes and the
heart that had turned to lead IN the
criminal courts building in New York.
His eyes peered hungrily through the
coach window. He had written to her
from the Tombs. 1t was brave letter
of determination to some day prove to
the world that he was innocent Of the
crime of which he had been convicted.
He advised her to cast about for a
boarder so that she could keep the
taxes paid on the home. His father
hn6 hpnn n Mason I'm aon1 ofo
and the Masons had helped her before.
i, They would help their dead brothers
widow again, he told her.
The boy pressed his forehead against
the window pane and feasted his eyes
for the last time on the heavily wood
ed farther shore.
One of the strongest swimmers among
the sturdy country boys about Nyack,
he had swum the river, a good three
and half miles, more than once and
this scene In all its simple loveliness
was old, and sweetly old, to his young
eyes.
The train paused at Scarborough and
was off again in less than a minute.
Suddenly the eyes of the boy at the
window encountered total darkness
and to his ears came the din of a rail-
road tunnel. The short tunnel was di-
rectly under the entrance to Sing Sing
prison. In a few seconds the train
cleared the tunnel and stopped at Os-
sining station.
A covered tumbril was ready to take
them up the steep road from the sta
ton to the highway running south and
to the prison. The team of horses
struggled upward, straining and pant
Ing, and, reaching the highway, stop
ped to blow. The convicted men had
few more precious moments in
which they could feast their eyes With
glimpses Of sky, river and hills
through the open front and rear of the
vehicle.
ITO Be ContlnuedI