The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-01

And, 1T ne can Stflke Dack De- cause of the superior strength of his opponent or the pressure of so- ciety, he will tuck the memory of the blow away in his mind and will
 then go about seeking ways and
 means to pay the striker for 1t. These ways and means are, nec-
 essarily, often devious and thus have fostered the impression that
 the criminal just naturally thinks croolledly. His ways and means may be devious but his thinking processes are the most direct among those of men. Take, for example, the case of Eddie Wander and Fife Sembler and Mart SembleR. Effie's ever loving husband and Eddie's best friend. It isn't happy story. Ef- fife Sembler was no Pollyanna, and neither Marty, her husband, nor Eddie Wander believed in Santa Claus. They didn't believe in any thing much because they were criminals. But Marty. had just been awakened from cherished delusion, a belief in the love of woman. It was this awakening that made this story.
 Marty was sitting in the crowded Centreville courtroom on Sentence Day when Judge Benjamin Lana han spoke from the bench.
 "The prisoner, Edward Wander, will stand up. The prisoner, Fife Semb bier will stand up."
 Marty leaned forward, his bright, beady little eyes twinkling at the handsome, cocky blonde man with the. bandaged hand, and the beau tiful emaciated woman with the hacking cough who rose at the Judges bidding
 "YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND
 GUILTY OF MURDER"
 Edward Wander" the judge said solemnly, you have been found guilty of the wanton murder of Keeper Jeremiah Wilson whom you slew in your successful attempt at escape from the State Peniten- tiary It is the sentence of this court that you be taken from your cell on October the fifteenth next and hanged by the neck until you are. dead And may God have mer- cy on your soul"
 Marty leaned back, watching the color ebb from Eddie Wander's face, and sucked in his breath in ecstacy Then he leaped forward again as the judge said:
 "Effie Sembler, you have been found guilty of aiding and abetting the escape of Edward Wander and the murder of Keeper Wilson. If justice were to be unadorned with mercy, you would be sentenced with your criminal associate to death on the gallows. But your sex and your unfortunate infatuatioD for this man and your ailing condi- ton seem to offer an extenuating circumstance. It is with these in mind that this court, therefore sentences you to fifteen years in the Woman's prison. Court is ad- journed."
 Marty got up with the rest of the crowd and hurried straight over to where Eddie was sitting, locked to a deputy's wrist.
 "Well, Eddie," he grinned, "so long. I hope you have nice trip. I don't think you'll get much chance to get away this. time. The Laws afraid of you"
 You dirty rat!" Eddie screamed jumping up. You lousy stool pig con! I'll kill you for ahis!"
 "No," Marty grinned. "You're wrong, Eddie. Your killin' days are over. But I'd like it if you thought of me once in while. You got a month to do it. Just month, Eddie, to think of me and how you made sap outta me. Just a month to live. And, Eddie, may be when you step on the old scaf- fold, you'll think that you didn't get away with double crossin' your best pal. I'll be thinkin' of you.