7 Wives 7 Prisons

could not save me. After a week’s trial the case went to the jury, and in four hours they returned a verdict of “guilty.”

My counsel instantly appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and, meanwhile I went back to jail where I remained three months more. A few days after I returned to jail a friend of mine managed to furnish me with files and saws, and I went industriously to work at the gratings of my window to saw my way out. I could work only at night,


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could not save me. After a week’s trial the case went to the jury, and in four hours they returned a verdict of “guilty.”

My counsel instantly appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and, meanwhile I went back to jail where I remained three months more. A few days after I returned to jail a friend of mine managed to furnish me with files and saws, and I went industriously to work at the gratings of my window to saw my way out. I could work only at night,


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