I told him all about my case. He
assured me, after hearing all the circumstances, that if I should be
convicted and sentenced, he would surely pardon me in the course of
six or eight weeks. Trusting in this promise, I made no further
effort to escape though I could have done so easily any night; but
rather than run the risk of recapture, and a heavier sentence if I
should be convicted, I awaited the chances of the court, and looked
beyond for the clemency of the Governor.
Well, finally my case came up in the Supreme Court. It only occupied
a day, and the result was that I was sentenced for three years in
the State prison. I was remanded to jail, and five days from that
time I was taken from Montpelier to Windsor.
CHAPTER X.
PRISON-LIFE IN VERMONT.
ENTERING PRISON-THE SCYTHE SNATH BUSINESS-BLISTERED HANDS-I LEARN
NOTHING-THREAT TO KILL THE SHOP-KEEPER-LOCKSMITHING-OPEN
REBELLION-SIX WEEKS IN THE DUNGEON-ESCAPE OF A PRISONER-IN THE
DUNGEON AGAIN-THE MAD MAN, HALL-HE ATTEMPTS TO MURDER THE DEPUTY-I
SAVE MOREY'S LIFE-HOWLING IN THE BLACK HOLE-TAKING OFF HALL'S
IRONS-A GHASTLY SPECTACLE-A PRISON FUNERAL-I AM LET ALONE-BETTER
TREATMENT-THE FULL TERM OF MY IMPRISONMENT.
We arrived at Windsor and I was safely inside of the prison at three
o'clock in the afternoon. Warden Harlow met me with a joke, to the
effect that, had it not been for my handcuffs he should have taken
the officer who brought me, to be the prisoner, I was so much the
better dressed of the two.
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