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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1916)
CLOVERDALE COURIE CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON. JULY J3. 1916 VOL. 11. (# (Refriebeb (Reformafton [C opyright by D oubleday, P age & Co.] G U A R D came to the prison shoe shop, where Jim my V a l e n t ine was assiduously stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front of fice. There the warden handed Jimmy his par don, which had been signed that morn ing by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind o f way. lie had served nearly ten months o f a four year sentence, lie had expected to stay only about tiiree months at the longest, When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Val entine had is received in the “ stir” it is hardly worth while to cut his hair. “ Now, Valentine.” said the warden, “ you’ll go out in the morning. Brace up and make a man o f yourself. You’re not a bad fellow at heart. Stop crack ing safes and live straight.” “ Me?” said Jimmy in surprise. “ W hy, I never cracked a safe iu my life.” “ Oh. no.” laughed the warden. “ O f course uot. L e t’s see, now. How was it you happened to get sent up on that Springfield job? Was it because you wouldn’t prove an alibi for fear o f compromising somebody in extremely high toned society? Or was it simply a case o f a mean old jury that bad it in for you? It’s always one or the other with you innocent victims.” “ Me?” said Jimmy, still blankly vir tuous. “ W hy, warden, 1 never was in Springfield in my life !" “ Take him back, Cronin," smiled the warden, “ and fix him up with outgo ing clothes. Unlock him at 7 in the morning, and let him come to the bull pen. Better think over my advice, Val entine.” A t a quarter past 7 on the next morning Jimmy stood in the warden’s outer office. lie had on a suit o f the villainously fitting, readymade clothes and a pair of the stiff, squeaky shoes that the state furnishes to its dis charged compulsory guests. The clerk handed him a railroad ticket and the five dollar bill with which the law expected him to reha bilitate himself into good citizenship and prosperity. The warden gave him a cigar and shook hands. Valentine, 9702, was chronicled on the books “ Pardoned by governor,” and Mr. James Valentine walked out into the sunshine. Disregarding the song o f the birds, the waving green trees and the smell of the flowers, Jimmy headed straight for a restaurant. There he tasted the first sweet joys o f liberty in the shape of a broiled chicken and a bottle of white wine, followed by a cigar a grade better than the one the warden had given him. From there he proceed ed leisurely to the depot. He tossed a quarter into the hat of a blind man sitting by the door and boarded his train. Three hours set him down in a little town near the state line. 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