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.E'r4sou Warden's Tale of llooanny Convict
No. 1,820. •
11• Was an Inotrensive.Appearing Man,
• but ise liad a 1101a Curious Milne/tee
Over 001cers, Prisoners, and Imola
-
mate ObJects--Noue of the Gang l'ore-
tnen. Would 'keep ilint—liven MS War-
den Snecumbed lIts :Magnetic Eye—
lie Was a Mesmerist awl All Were
Pleased at His rardon.
Convict No, 4,820 was down on the prison
register as Charles It. johnston, aged, 88
years, single,netive born, and by occupation
a public lecturer. He was a professor of
phrenology, a spiritualist, a mesmerist and
a queer, strange man. He had been sen-
tenced for fifteen years for assaulting a wom-
an, but it fleetly came about that even the
jury who brought in the verdict believed
him an innocent man. Indeed the woman
partly confessed that it was a put ina job to
blaekmail the man, and before he had served
two years she was in prison herself.
From the first day that No, 4,820 entered
the prison he exerted a peculiar influence
over officials and prisoner% alike. The latter
nicknamed him "The elystery," and the
title was well beetowed. He was a quiet,
gentle man, with a voice as soft as 4 wom-
an's, hue when he looked. you square in the
eyes you felt that he was a mystery with a
strange power behind him. He had large,
blue eyes, with long laches, and if you look-
ed into them for tett seconds you forgot
tvliere you were and felt confused.
There is very little sentiment to be found
in a prison, and yet the idea in most of
them is to control the prisoners entirely
by moral suasion. We looked upon No. 4,-
82,0 as a harmless man and one who could
ehartly be made use of LIS 0" trusty'," And
was given a place as a waiter to the dining
room. He did. his work quietly ad well,
as reported at the warden's office, bat at
the end of the week all the help in the
kitchen and dining room submitted a, pro-
test againt his being kept in his place. The
mien Alleged was the queer happenings for
the week. There were some twelve or four-
teen inen in the two departments and all
of them told the same general story.
Three or four of them haa felt a queer
feeling come over them and lost all
recolleotion of time or place. Cooking
utensils had been moved about without
the aid of burnen hands and eight solenudy
declared that a batch of bread, consisting
of fifty or more loaves just taken from the
oven, moved at least fifteen feet along a
tattle while all were looking,
enocseue Till; Tenons.
We laughed at their stories, but took
The Mystery" out of the dining toom and
put him in the tenor shop. He made no
objections, and after a couple of days the
man in charge of that department reported
that he was an adept with both Shears
aud 'needle, In the course of a week, bow.
ever, we had a different report. There were
seven or eight men in the shop, and every
one of them wanted No. 4,820 removed to
some other depertment
The foreman was a fres man and a very
intelligent one, and I could neither ridicule
nor oontradict him. Ile said thet several ef
hietmen had fallen asleep while at work,
while all ot them had aated etrangely eel
spoiled more or less work. Needleathread,
and pieces of cloth had. taken flight, and in
one instance a coat which \vita lying on the
table before Min suddeuly disappeared and
was found oa the floor twenty feet away, If
I had aot personally experieneed the fat
that No. 4,8e0 woe poseeaeod of a-el:ramp
power I should have laughed these stories to
scorn. But as it was I changed him to the
storeroom as an assistant te the official
there.
A curious thing lieppened when this
change was made. After breakfasb " The
Mystery was returned to his eel' to wait
for the transfer. The cells were three tiers
in height and thirty-two mils in a tier,
The mail had the first oell from the entrance
on the ground tier, and WWI in plain sight
of the officer having &largo of the oorridor.
The corridor was being cleanea as usnal,
and No. 4,820 was not looked ia. Ten
minute ts after the pritoner's arrival in the
corridor and two rninates atter the officer
had glanced at him the man was musing.
There was the cellewith the door wide open,
but it was empty. The officer was not
alarmed, as it would be impossible for the
man to get out of the corridor, but he was
surprised and mystified, and 'called up all
the men at work. Not one of them bad
seen him leave his cell. The stairway lead-
ing to the upper tiers was right there, and
the officer was sure No. 4,82) could not
have passed up.
A search was made, and he was tound
limited in the last eell on the upper tier.
There were six or seven men to affirm this,
and though I was skeptical it wouldn't have
been just to declare that their imaginations
had played them a trick. The official in
charge of the storeroom was a young ma,n
of strong character, and had heard nothing
whatever about the strange prisoner. The
assistant warden took No. 4,820 over there
'and turned him over with a few brief re.
marks. He was to act as an under clerk in
the office. The entrance and exit of the
storeroom were in the main yard within the
walls.
It was ab011t 10 o'clock when "The Mys-
tery" was left at the storeroom. An hour
later a report was made tn the assistant
-warden that a prisoner who did not belong
to the gang in the harness shop had entered
the place and disturbed thework men. Wile°
sent for he proved to be No 4,820. A visit
was at ono° made to the storeroom, and the
official in charge was found asleep in his
chair. it was more like a stupor than a
sleep, and he could not be aroused until
water had been thrown in his face and he
had been roughly pulled about. If hie
breath had smelled of whiskey I should
have said he was drunk. It was neon be
fore he recovered his wite, and then all the
•explanation he could make was:
"After Mr. Plieltis left I began • to clues '
bion the prisoner, and the instant his eyea
looked fairly into mine I felt very queerly.
I couldn't leek away from him, and the
longer I looked the more strangely I felt,
and alter a bit,' knew that I was going to
sleep. For heaven's sake don't ask me to
Loire him here I re tether resign than have
him about the effite a feu& clay 1".,
. An ettettaverXt •
While I bedet ed the officer't statement I
did not credit '‘The, -Mystery " with the
powers attributed to him. Abotte midafter-
noon I called him in to my private office
and rather roughly infornied hint that he
was .guilty of breaking the rules of the
prison. and must change his concluet or 1
should,put hinten a dark cell on bread and
water. He quietly replied, thatbe had One
his best to live up to the rules and should
continue to do so, and as he finished the
words our, eyes met. We -seemed to have
avoided °eel' other for the three or four
minutes ptevious to that, I felt sometinue
like an electric shock, and as I continued to
.look into his eyes I had a feeling of clizeit
ness, the room whirled round and round,
and it was a great relief to me when tny
eyes closed, andl reelized that, I was going
to sleep. I thought ielt the man's fingers
on my' temples' . hut I might , have been
mistaken a.boutthat. , I had arranged %Tall
the assistant warden to come into the room
in case the prisoner did net reappear in
fifteen minutes;
At the end of a quarter of an hour he en -
tared to findme sitting in my chair at the
desk in what imegied to be a deep sleep,
while No. 4,820 stood looking out of the
window on the opposite side cl the room.
It was ten minutes from the time he enter-
ed to my being fully aroused. I felt insult-
ed and indignant, but what could I say to
the prisoner? He had exercised a strange
power over me, but tilt was no fault of
his, After a talk with the prison
physician I sent the man to the
hospital to assist in waiting. , upon the
half-doeen, patients in the place. The idea
was that the doter might study him, At
the end of a fortnight it was demonstrated
that the doctor was about the only offloial
around the prison who could not be mes-
merized,' hypnotized, or.whatever yoe May
call it by No. 4,820. One or two of the
patients were soothed by his presenee, but
the others betrayedfright and distress. The
doctor was satiseed that the man had the
power of mesmerism to an almost unlimited
degrees but scoffed at the idea of his disap-
pearing from his cell as reiated. ID WAS
deoidecl that No. 4,820 was a dangerous men
and that the only safe place for hint was in
the hospital. .e'rout there he had no show
to melte. I gelled him to the office again,
and after admitting he exercitei 4 strange
power over Meat of US 1 added ;
"You were sent here to serve mat a see -
teem. I am responsible for your safe keep-
ing, and I will prevent your escape if I have
to (Main you to the floor of a solitary,
There Must be no further cases of incernerism
if yeti want a fair allow here."
wounine elm lemon.
He quietly promised to make as little
trouble as possible, and I noticed that he
avoided meeting illy eye. Thence on for
several weeks the doctor and others noted
the same thin". I have mentioned that the
doctor refused to believe in anything be.
trend the mesmeric part, but after awhile a
circumstance weltered to badly upset him.
One afternoon he at by an open window in
the hospital inspeoting a peckage of herbs
bronghe front the atoreretom. No. 4,$20
set beside the cot of a. patient ten feet,
"TA; doctor laid the package on the win-
dow sill when he tnrned his head for a, mo-
ment to speak to a nurse, and during that
minute the package was transferred to e
vacant chair ten feet away. Hespraug up
ani accused No, 4,890 of triekery, and the
only exeuse the man mule was that, he
couldn't help it. He was very pale and
evidently laboring under considerable men-
tal excitement, and he begged the doctor to
say ndthing to me of the incident It was
reported to me in e wam,and I
confessed that I was secretly pleased over
it For the next ton day e the doctor was
trying to figure out how that package
could be tralieferred from the window to
the °hair by natural causes, but he didn't
hit it in a way to even satisfy himself.
I am now going to tell you of a still
strattger incident, and one which somehow
got lute the papers and created no end of
disctissioa and considerable trouble. Our
prison was visited by e committee of three
doctors, selected by the state legislature as
sanitary inspectors of public buildings.
Nothing was said about 4,890 uutil they
sew him in the hospital, when one of the
three recognized him as a travelling profes-
eor of rnesmoriem. One oi them had beeri
mesmerized at one of his public exhibitions.
Meet of the incidents related above wore then
detailed to the visitors, and their curiosity
being aroused they were auxious for an ex-
hibition of the males mysterious power. I
sent for him and told hini what was want-
ed, and after some hesitetion he expressed
his willingness to comply. His mesmeric
powers were not questioned, but my visi-
tors wanted to see something like the eor-•
rider mystery.
After our noon lunch we entered the
west corrilor and sent all the cleaners out
and saw that every cell was tenantless and
the doom wide open. Including No. 4,820,
there were seveu of us present. This was
not the corridor where the other incident
had taken place, but -the cells were situ-
ated just the same. There was but one
stairway, and we took positions wIthin ten
feet of it, and some of us could alto look
down the corridor amd see every mill door
on each side. No. 4,820 was pale and
somewhat excited, and we all noticed that
his eyelids drooped as if he was sleepy. Be
stoon before us for a minute or two and.
then went down the corridor'asking us
not to follow for eve minutes. He entered
a:: ell half way down and closed the door
after him. At the end of fee minutes we
walked down there to find the cell empty.
On calling to No. 4,820 to show himself he
appeared from the upper cell exactly above.
AN =PLANATION.
There was a mystery about .it, and yet
there was not. Ono of our visitors and the
prison doctor were not "susceptible,"
while the other four et us were. The four
of ns were ready to make affidavit that the
prisoner did not leave the cell. We plainly
saw him enter. The two doctors were just
as euro that he did not enter it at all, but
simply closed the door ancl reterned and
mounted the stairway. They were no
doubt correct about this. As I told you,
the affair got into the papers, was taken up
by some overzealous members of the legis-
lature, and I narrowly escaped being bounc-
ed.
At this time we had about 500 prisoners
in the institution, and No. 4,820 gave us
more trouble than all the rest combined—
that is, no shop or department would have
him, and turnkeys, guards, watchmen' and
nearly all other officials were afraid ofhim.
Many of the prisoners threatened him with
violence, and such a row was raised of
nights that he had to be removed from the
corridor. As a matter of fact I had to fit
up a room for him and let him play the
gentleman. To have ,forced him upon his
fellow convicts would hotee been to put his
life in peril. As he had always declared.his
innocence I assisted him in various ways to
secure proofs, and atter he had been incar-
cerated about a year and a half he was par.
cloned by the gevernor.
it is next to impoesible to keep news from
'circulating through a prison. Imcame to be
known somewhere that No. 4,82D's can had
been reopened and later on that a pardon
had arrived, and the rejoicing came near
degenerating into a riot The prisoner was
to leave after canner. He stood in one of
the open windows ef the hospital as the
shoeshop gang came marching up. There
tvere forty-four men in the game, and all
egan yelling at him. Ile began making
passes with hia.hands and mumbling tiome
jargon, and the line was instantly and curi-
ously effected . The mar& was stopped,
every face turned up to his, and for half a
minute there wee dead silence. The guards
then drove the 'mesmerist away, and .the
gang continued its march to the dining room.
e
Wueu the convicts roae up After the meal
they demandecl to know if No, 4,820 had
been pardOned, When informee that he
had. been the whole crowd began cheering
and yelling, and it was flee minutes before
order could be restored.
It was always a, pleasant thing for me to
open the doors to & prisoner restored teethe
world, but I never felt so glad and relieved
as when "The Mystery' shook hands with
rne, whispered his thanks, and passed out
to be heard of no more.
What Men Barn,,„
It has been said that the world pays most
to them who kill, generals and great lords ,"
next most to those who' amuse, singers and
actors ; while those who preemie teach and
write for the papers come along somewhere
near the bottono of the list. Teere's a good
deal to bear out the theory. 'Marlborough,
for his victories, got the magnificent estate
of Blenheim and lots besides. Wellington
beaarne extremely wealthy. Napoleon's
generals Were rewarded with crowns. Von
Moltke was made rich, and might have had
emelt more money if he had coxed for it.
Sven little Lord Wolseley has made a heap
of money--seeond class wars.
The number of actors and singers who
have accumulated half a million, besides
living expensively, is quite large. Sir
Waiter Scott male 05 inuoh as, that by his
pen, M. Gunter has made neerly as ranch
by light-wei,glit novel', Mark Twain has
made mere than thet on his eopyrighte, mid
tome from investment, Bronson Howard
must soon reach the hAlf-million mark. Zola,
Sardou, aad perhaps Daudet long since
passed it
About the top notch of income for a, New
York law firm is $950,000 4 year, half of
which army go to the head man. Some firms
may rue retiree above this. Bat the most
responsible judgeships pay only from 83,000
to 88,000,
Ex -President Grevy of France, in the
lereyfus guano °me, received a fee of 8200,-
000. The Laekwar of Baroda paid $90,000
to Mr. Paterson as a fee. Sir Charles Rus-
sell once received $3,000 for three hours'
work.
Methodist preaehers, in seemly settled
distriets,frequently receive 8100 a year from
each of three churehes, preaehing three
times a day.
Pupil Mullets in British board schools
earn at firat two to four shillings a week.
A Mexican peon gots 20 tents, leeward; 4
Chinese or Indian coolie at home seven or
eight cents a day.
Hard work on the Mencliester Ship Cenal
paid Oile cents a day. Chahunekers nt
erailey Heath, And hobnail makers at
Bromsgrove, England, earn 82.00 to $9,50 a
week by working overtime, and live on
'bread and tea.
The wages of sia is death.
Dreadful Tragedy in France.
A Paris correspondent telegraphs e—
News reaehes us of o, terrible tragedy at the
Centrel Oobroi office at Dream A. el. Robert
filled the office of receiver -general there.
He was for some time snspected of embez-
zlemen t. An accountant Was sent to look into
his books. To destroy the evidence they
furnished Robert tried ou Monday last to
set fire to the central office. A report was,
nevertheless, drawn up against him, Feel-
ing he was lost he forsook his post, intone-
ing to commit auicide, at leatit so he said
in a letter thee he left behind. him. He
game as his reason a wish to save the honour
and property of his family, but yielding
to another impulse, eie came back to Droux
and wandered alI Saturday night near Ids
house. At five on Monday morning he re-
entered it, went to his wiles room, in which
she and her two ehildren wore sleeping,
kissed them fondly, and then, armed with
a revolver, fired et Madame Robert. She
jumped out of bed and ran to the win-
dow to cry for help. Robert firing at her
again lodged a ball in her head. Then
thinking her dead, be fired at one of the
children, a girl aged five. She fell wetted -
ed only, Ho next aimed at the boy, aged
seven, but he fled, and was not shot,
Robert then went downstairs to the cellar,
where he locked himself in and blew his
brains out. The two bullets aimed at
Madame Robert are both in her head.
Queer Things About Frogs.
A remareable thing aboutthese creatures
is that the larger part of the breathing is
done throegh the ekiu. In fact, it is said
that this supply of air is a necessary addi-
tion to that taken %by ordinary breathing,
as the latter does not supply suffloient air
to support life in a frog. Another peculiar
thing about the skin of a frog is itsis due,
absorption of water. This s due
of course, to the numberless minute pores
with which their skims is provided. It has
been 'proved that a frog can thus soak up
half of its weight of water in an hoar. The
soaking of water is what gives the frog's
skin, such a cold, clammy, aud uncanny
feeling when handled, and it explains a
strange thing. Though a bull -frog were
poked with a red-hot iron, it would not
feel it enough to move out of its tracks, for
the moisture on the skin forms a kind of
film of vapor between it and the iron, which
it takes time to heat through, and so the
frog would not feel pain front the hest.
Yet, if hot water is dropped epee, hint, he
will instantly jump froni pain, as this heat
at once serikes into the akin. A frog has
another safeguard ageinsb drying up—that
is, a kind of interior sack for storing water.
Like the camel, it thuskeeps a supply
which carries it over maey a dry place,
when it would otherwise lose all its mois-
ture and die. The water is as pure and
tasteless as that of any spring. —[St. Niche.
as.
eThen Baby wee sick, we aave her Make&
Vv -hen she was a Child, she cried for Oastoria.
When she became Miss,ehe clung to Castoria,
eaten she bad Children, she gave them Castorie;
rive men can easily hold down a lion,but
nine are required to hold a tiger.
• Who will not give some portion of his
ease, his blood, hie wealth, for others' good,
is a poor, frozen churl
There is no permanent love but that
which has duty for its eldest brother, so that
if one sleepa the other watehes,- and honor
is safe.
One direct value coining to the farmer
from good roads is that it brings the fann
nearer to market, in poiet of tint°. And
we all know that the value of land for /arm-
let, purposes depends largely upon this
point. If the fative value of your farm is
o cousideration, then lend your aid to the
matter of road improvement.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorial
A FEUIFUL PALL,
The Awful Deatiti of a Toronto
Lawyer.
Tumbleit Nioety reet to Ike ravement—
Spectators tiorrined at the OlatrafiStag
SUM.
One of the most *oohing and lamentable
accidents that ever occurred. in Toronto
happened Friday morning last, about twenty
minutes after 10 o'clock. At that time the
numerous business people in the vicinity of
the Freehold Loan Bailding, at the earner
of Adelaide and Victoria streets,were horri-
fied to see the body of a man come flying
downward through the air. It dashed head
downwards on the stone pavement and
bounded upward several feet, as if it had
been a bail. Then Way, prostrate and life-
less on the pwement, with blood and brains
scattered around for several yards. The
spectators gathered around, sick with the
horror of the terrible sight. A little inves-
tigation showed that the man who had come
to such a fearful and was
ME. JOS. II. FERGUSON", Q.0.,
who had an office on the fifth floor of itte
Freehold Loan and who became blind two
or three years ago from the effects of 4
severe Meese. Mr. Ferguson had fallen
from the win(low of ilia Mike, but exactly
how euch a frightful misfortume happened
is not and iiever can be known. He was
alone in Ins private room at the time, hav-
ing but a few minutes previously, parted
front his managing clerk, who bad, as has
been his wont eince Mr. Fergueon be-
caaoe afflicted with blindness, called for
him at the Arliugton, where deceased lived
with Mrs. Ferguson, and accompanied him
to his office. On reaching the building they
entered the elevator together. *One of elle
Ferguson's felleempastiongers in the lift aud
oue of the last of bis many friends to
exchange a word with him was Mr. G.U.S.
Lindsey, the well-known barrister, who
occupies an office on the k same elet as Mr.
Ferguson's was situated. Mr. Ferenson was
left at the door of his privatil efliee in the
customary =liner. A Inmate', two later
his young lady stenographer term' end
asked if he wished her to do any gk for bum
just then. He was then sitiume m hie table,
having already remove4 his het and coat.
He bede her good morning cheerfully enough
• and said he had no need just then of her
services. Timis young lady wee the last per
son to see Mr. Ferguson before he was seen
by the horromstrieken spectators hurling
downwards to his fearful death.
FACTS ABOCT TUE OFFICE.
There are two windows in the office
fronting on Adelaide street. Both were
probably three feet from the floor, and the
sashes bad been raised two feet or so. The
stone sills are broad, and (mite sufficient,
ordinarily, to prevent an accident It is
diffieult, to see how the catastrophe could
have occurred, mamas deceased, for some
reason, had been leaping far out of the
window and lest his balance. The most
reasonable and the commonly accepted the-
ory is that this is what happened, and that
Mr. Ferguson was leaning out of the window
to adjust the awniug which overhange it.
The morning snn was shining brightly into
the room, and while deceased Was blind to
all intents and purposes, he could tell light
from clarknesa, and, moreover, was always
hoping that his sight would be in a. measure
restore -I to him, and was therefore the more
eareful`to shield his eyes from anything
like a glare. It must be remembered, too,
that Mr. Ferensou had never seen the room
which he used as an office, heving moved
into it since his blindness, and, moreover,
that he had not that keen intuitive seine
of danger which often shields from harm
those who are blind from birth.
Death, of course, was instentameous. The
skull woe fractured in several places, the
neck broken end the body generally sus-
tained the most shacking iujuries. P. C.
Snyder took charge of the body and had it
conveyed at once into a vacent office in the
Freehold Loan building. Coroner Aikins
soon arrived on the scene; but meanwhile
the news of the terrible accident had spread
quickly through the main streets and many
hundreds of people came rushing to see and
bear just what hu.d hampened. Coroner
.Atkius counselled with the County Crown
Attorney, and later in the day it was de-
cided, after due inquiry into the circum-
stances, thatan inquest was not neceseary.
The deceased gentleman was born in Lon-
don, Canada, 47 years ago, was a son of the
late James Ferguson, Registrar of London,
and a cousin of Mr. Justice Fergusoa and
Hon. Senator Ferguson of Niagara Falls.
His mother is still living and resides with
Mr. Justice Ferguson, her nephew. Deceas-
ed studied law in London and begau prac-
tice there about 95 years ago. He then
removed to Toronto and became connected
with the firm of Blaine,Ferguson & Parkin-
son, in which he subsequently became a
partner. The firm name afterwards became
Ferguson & Ferguson, the seeond Ferguson
being his brother, a son-in-law of Mr. Justice
Burton, recently deceased. The firm chang-
ed again to Ferguson, Bain & Fergusomand
once more to Ferguson and O'Brien, under
which style it remained for a number of
years, and until very recently, when Mr.
Ferguson withdrew, and took himself the
offices in the Freehold Loan building, from
which yesterday's tragedy occurred. De-
ceased was reputed to be an exceedingly
wealthymare and was a very popular and
highly respected member of the bar, a
Queen's Counsel, and formerly a botcher of
the Law Society. The news of his death
and the manner thereof was quickly Mem-
heed through Oegoo-le Hall, and the Jeep -
est regret and sympathy was expressed by
professional men generally for his sudden
and awful end.
Deceased was married in 1886 to Mise
Lizzie McLean, of Toronto, daughter of
Mr. Thos. McLean, &lid gramdaughter of
the late Chief Jastice MeLetat. The bereav-
ed wife and mother were terribly shocked
when the news mune to them. The former
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McCaul St. She had been most assiduous
in her attentions to her husband since his
affliction, and they were seldom apart. Mr
Ferguson's blindness was the result of a
very serious attaek of grip three years ago,
which was renewed in an aggravated form
a year or so ago, when deceased was on the
continent, hoping to recover his 'health
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Lately Mr. Ferguson had complainer' fre
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