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xes ted, ; ofnththepoare-PER900.!6 641 13 6 68 3 95 .0 763 31$ 30 !4 46 12^0 2, 25 $ 122 Si13 12 15 49 \3 S2!8 9414 10 (5 43giving in the Country, m the final page.A Prison Romance.—Every prison says the Chicago Mvenfog Past, lx#s its romance, and tbat of the Penitentiary at Kingston, Canada, iB worth recounting.—In 1842, near Toronto, the serving ipan ofa Oapfc. Kiaoear murdered his master toobtain a sum of money which was in hishouse. After killing him the wretch alsoslew the* housekeeper. He was arrested,and at his trial implicated a girl of fifteen,j named ©race Marks, who was living, inthe house, as an accomplice, alleging thatshe knew lt;of the murder of the .master be* fWd-tbafc of the housok$^pef tOok place.— Her story was jtlrat he tMr^atehed her,yfiff vdeatli if she gaye the alarm 5 but as stie had tien on intfmatp teynr murderer, ifc was discredited, lle’was banged and she sentenced to the Penitentiary 1 for life.Almost thirty years have elapsed, and she is stilly prisoner, nc^more a blooming girl, but an old woman; pale nud silent, prematurely’ gray. From time to time I some newspapey con'pspnndenj’, Msjtiiig the institution, hears and pablishes h*r story. There is talk of a petition for her release; people say, Mis strange, Mis passing strange* 'tie pitiful, Mis wondrous piti'j\ in-t of ; the'ap:Pre* rful, and then the matter dies away. Even Ac-Jif this woman were guilty, a lifetime of the. impiisonmeut might be held to havesatis-fied her Crime, $nd she might be.set free to die. There froutd be little else for, her to do in this later world. Where she lived and the cry of murder went up are now acres of brick and mortay and miles of dusty streets, Iler kindred are dead, her crime forgotten, and her Very existence and histdry are Unfamiliar.andlie tlt; uns{ will best bis ] wbaThebeerInnamWil0.1rowAikbigtpatrare,reco,An,.1tVculeg*yeafoUIaim3 re-tioa,3hioMi.Jali-*teso*oneUU* j fie undersigned hereby' tCndersMo his friends [een hie stoeere thanks for the very great kindness1 and stvnerosltv thev have manifest* d to him fovqueFelm tmgandheyou\vh(eveKWin 3Tiptog'agaSalandin t
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Delhi Delaware Gazette
Delhi, New York, US
Wed, Dec 06, 1871
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