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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
7
A disheveled prisoner, Al Brock, escapes after blinding the sheriff with handcuffs on a snowbound station platform. Brock flees toward the river as a sleigh bearing Sheriff Peterson’s wife looms, prompting a tense chase and a race for freedom amid murmuring loafers and a fleeing train.
A desperate escape across ice ends with a rescue and a pardon. The sheriff’s wife persuades the lieutenant governor to grant a pardon for Al, the condemned man, as he collapses beside the sheriff’s recovering wife. Al sobs, overwhelmed by remorse and mercy.
Al Brock fights a treacherous river and his own outlaw past to save a woman clinging to life on shifting ice. As a catastrophic freshet and looming falls trap them, he struggles to free his chained wrist and decide whether to sacrifice himself or flee to freedom with her.
A striking incident on a continental railway features a young attractive Frenchwoman who lavishes care on her dog. At each stop the pet gets exercise and meals from a basket containing wraps shoes and a bow collar while the woman purchases mineral water pours it into a folding cup and the dog laps it up.
The passage extols beneficence as a pleasure that grows with use. It notes that helping the unfortunate creates attachment and that giving becomes a want for the giver, quoting Mme. Roland on the sweetness of gratitude and the charm of doing good.
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