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to awererst of ti theed tofork. xio tig road, ibc/ut door-* resisted Eirod-were i foreded.workThepanysededking,teamicrosssitionreak-up to iwyer,ariUonce riff ofuponrer of■estedneighbors discard the sneaK inthety^Letter to the Troy Times,gavei useds, on ?nt of ir iu-en to DO tovhichr thewhengaveA Prison (lomuuec.The Chicago Evening' Post says:Every prison has Its romance, andthat of the Penitentiary at Kingston,Canada, is worth recounting. In 18-kJ, near Toronto^ the serving man of a Captain Kin near murdered his master to obtain a sum of money which was in the house. After killing him the wretch slew the housekeeper. He was arrested, and at his trial implicated a girl of fifteen, named Grace Marks, who was living in the house, as an accomplice, alleging that she knew of the murder of the master before that of the housekeeper took place. Her etory\ wasthat lie threatened her with death if she gave the alarm; but as she had beep on intimate terms with the murderer it was discredited. He was hanged and she was sentenced«lt;! Asx do,1 on lesta-identI °Fwit:Aansh o'very di ett, froiEoUBt:.and on eottfiiittlco, ui tlOUBO,er necdance i and wn Beady quince ALS'four uc ble, c\»earin;ubHcto the.Penitenliary for life.Almost thirty years have elapsed, and she is sill! a prisoner, no more a blooming girl, but jxn old woman, pale^sad, silent, prematurely gray.From time to time some newspapercorrespondent; visiting the institu*tion,.hegrs and publishes her story.There is talk of a petition for^erje-lease; people s.ty ’tis passing strange *tU pitiful, 11is wondrous pitiful, and then the matter dies away. Fycu if this woman were guilty, a lifetime of Imprisonment might be held to [)have condoned her crime, and she might be set free; to die. There would be little for h£r to do in this \ * later world. Whore she lived and ,hr^a' the cry of murder went up are now - wu acres of brick anil mortar and miles of dusty streets. Her klndretl are am;».• - ** A* i— lt;\rw1 lipp n IIHUfamiliar.♦ -----— AmIy ad jo for a I;formerALSncrv-B, iough u ALStdUtal?town.ALSPropeiAh 1and w|Iravin; tr abi Uftin, i pure hi! Iber p? puWrThlt;*\er ct no e:)i a »c «ijnon!-• ‘•ill lt;lr Ol t « f»a *i *The unmo “l,i‘nn*»jlviaiiia.M Cl,uThe origin of the name of the Stale I*' *'*
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Beaver Argus
Beaver, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Dec 06, 1871
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