Visit with ARNE HASSEL-GREN Headquarters for FISHERMEN HUNTERS TRAVELLERS MINERS ies e MIT \y VBS QQATUR YN E NEL. A NN OR) W OAY 8 \\ s \ \ QUESNEL, B.C. AWWA AWW HH] OMMWW a GOOD FISHING AND HUNTING > “Ideal Spot for a Vacation” NY ANY A 2 N AN AN In the Heart of the Cariboo HOME COMFORT AT MODERATE RATES No keeper had to keep his vigil for more than eight hours at a time. Tommy was kept awake for twenty-four hours every day for a week. Then they found it hard to shake him into consciousness. Finally Kelly said: “You're crazy, are you, Tommy? Insane, you say?” “Of course not! How dare you say that, you slave! Ill run you through with my sword!” “All right, Tommy, you win. To the insane ward with him,” Kelly said. They took him to the insane ward. There they strapped him into a strait jacket, that long-sleeved garment of stout canvas and leather belts and ropes that renders a man powerless to move, but leaves his mind free to germinate what fancies it will. Here in the padded cell the night-and-day torment of Tommy was kept up; no sleep for him. Tommy went on raving. Before planning, however, Tommy found he had to do a lot of studying. Joliet was a big place and every bit of it was well secured. Tommy’s ability as a student of prison conditions was well known by his keepers; and they saw to it that he did H. J. Gardner & Sons Ltd. "Everything for the Builder’ Five Trucks at Your Service QUESNEL, WILLIAMS LAKE and WELLS, B.C. "I the Heart of the Cariboo” MAPLE LEAF HOTEL MRS: L. A. MOXON, Proprietress LICENSED PREMISES Comfortable Rooms Cafe in Connection All Modern Conveniences WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. BOYDE’S HOTEL Rooms and Cafe FULLY LICENSED WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. WINTER EDITION not study too long in any one place. Per- haps they noticed that wherever he was, whether in his cell or in any of the work- shops, in the yard or working with the cleaning squad in the hospital or in the insane ward, Tommy always had the look of a man studying the lay of the land. If they did notice that it was because Tommy wanted them to. It served his purpose that he was constantly being trans- ferred from one partof the prison to another. The keepers thought they kept him from learning anything. They underestimated the keenness of the student. The constant transfers only helped him get the better acquainted with Joliet. It took him two years to come to a dis- couraging conclusion. That was that his only hope of escape was by way of the insane ward. It could hardly be called a hope unless he became truly mad. It would be worse than useless to try to play insane. Convicts used to try that in Joliet until Kelly discouraged them. First he would bring in a psychiatrist to put the supposed lunatic through every test designed by modern science. The convict who tried to put over insanity might simu- late the part to perfection; he could not hope to respond to psychiatric tests with the reflex actions of a genuinely deranged nervous system. If the doctor reported that a candi- date for the insane ward was faking Kelly personally attended to the punishment. These punishments made unofficial his- tory. The least informed convict knew better than to try to get into the insane ward while in his right senses. Tommy Dowd was far from ignorant on the subject. Weeks of this finally reduced Kelly’s nerves to rags. “Doctor, are you sure the man is not really bugs?” he demanded. ‘Not so sure,” though my tests still show nothing more than a highly nervous condi tion. But any man who would stand this punishment of his own free choice is either some kind of lunatic or is made of a different stuff than flesh.” “All right, I'll try a test of my own,” Kelly said. The strait-jacket was taken off Tommy. “Who are you?” he asked Tommy. “King Canute,” Tommy replied. “Where is your sword?” “You have it, you thieving varlet.” “All right, here it is!” Kelly had brought along a plumber’s port- able heating outfit. From its bed of glowing coal Kelly took out a soldering iron, its tip white hot. He held out the hot end of it. “King Canute, take your sword!” if Tommy should refuse to take the heated end of the iron he would thereby betray his sanity. He reached out and grasped the iron. Even Kelly recoiled with horror at the agony of Tommy’s seared flesh. Tommy was taken to the hospital for his hand, which was so badly burned that it would never recover its full use. He was kept in the hospital for weeks. Then he was returned to his cell. He refused to leave it for exercise and T. J. HODGSON Mail - Freight - Stage Line WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. LADIES’ AND MEN’S SUITS TO MEASURE BRYAN’S TAILOR SHOP CLEANING and PRESSING e WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. MACKENZIES LTD. Wholesale and Retail Merchants Squamish, Williams Lake, Quesnel and Wells, B. C. WITH COMPLIMENTS Cc. H. DODWELL & CO. (R. Beauchamp) NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE REAL ESTATE WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Page Sixty-five