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li? iMV * * ' ■ iX Prison Kontonce.Every prison lias its romance, and that of the Penitentiary at Kingston, Canada, is worth recounting, says the Chicago Post. In J»*2. lienr Toronto, Hie sowing mail of a Captain KirmefU murdered his master to obtain a sum of money which was in his house. After hilling him, the wretch also slew the housekeeper. He was arrested, and at his trial implicated a girl offifteen, named Grace Harks, was liv-\i\tr hi the bouse, us au aexonipnu\ lt;u IS i that rfic knew of the murder of her master be lore that of tlie bou^e-1 *££*!*«. Her story ™lt; tgg 1,0 Hirr-'itencd her with death it sue gave S‘danni but, asshe had been on intimate tonus with the murderer, itmlited. He was hanged and sentenced to the penitentiary foi life. \lmo*t thirtv vcars have passed, ami shots still a prisoner; uomore flb'0™T ing gir!, hut an old woman, pak,. ad, sUcnt prematurely gray. Fnunt.meto1 11 /tftriTOnnmiCllttI don’t eal Die; mone; ing to th“And nov feel tempme what; ply them live. Go, expressio—Mops! study for ness of si countries man win ing sprirlunihit*. know, if travels sculiar clout of AhednesiFox’s Idlongs to a fine slt; tender \ this exl happen' To be sisilent,prennumdv .time some newspaper coiax^iyndem, visiting the institution, hears and pui»lishe* her story. There is a talk of. .. ; ... ....1 iiaahV RfiV.lishrehcv story. lv ,a petition for iter release, people say His strange, His passing s rangc ti pitiful, His wondrous pituul, and Urn the matter dies away. Even if i»~ woman were guihy,11 lifetime of prisoinnent might be held to have y-Hoiled her crime, and she might1*- ot free to die. There would be ntUe kx for hertodoin tins later world. *T\ h«lt; she lived and the cry of murder went up, are now acres of brick andmort.u, ami miles of dusty streets. Her kindred are dead, S her crime forgotten and her verv oxistcuce suid histoiy an tmfmmliar/ To such a one a late mercy might be ehovnThe bison o right r( our nut though spot 11 Platte * c-o noli, u ’daslimovjibstove*appliaHouseover tl : onflowI The Gsou tbi at a ril’0 1101
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Greenville Advance
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 18, 1872
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