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the office window so you can tell the one from
the other, and there is a window below the
window in the office so you can tell the one
from the other. Have the front to the south.
And this window in the place where I am won't
have a light in, it will be dark. Now you will
need a ladder to get over the wall into the yard
and then you will need a ladder to get up to the
window. Now there is a screen over the outside
of the window but it opens on hinges and you
can easy ‘open it. It hooks with a hook on the
inside. Now boys do work this up good on the
outside and we will beat them yet, or if you can't
help me I will die trying to get out myself.”

This was indeed a plan of desperation,
for how Stroebel could imagine that this
invasion of the gaol premises would pass
unnoticed is beyond comprehension. At-
tached to the letter was a rough sketch of
the gaol buildings and yard.

So with the details of a daring plan of
escape. committed to paper, Stroebel spent
New Year's eve on his cell bunk reflecting
on the future. His mouth organ was his
constant companion, and he lay by the hour
filling the stone cell with plaintive melodies
of the past.

On January 4th, he wrote another long
letter to his brother (again intercepted)
and this revealed a fresh plan. This time
“there is no risk at all to anyone.” He
counselled his brother to-buy a length of
thick rope, paint it white and throw it over
the high white-washed board fence which
was the outer wall around the gaol property.
It was not to be too long or it would lie
on the ground inside the gaol grounds and
be visible. A horse was to be tied outside
the gaol “so that I can eet out of town in
about one minute.” In this letter Stroebel
planned to rendezvous with his brother on
the waterfront. “Look for me” he instructed
“right away and look until you find me for
I won't have anything to eat until you find
me so don’t lose no time.”

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But despite his poor opinion of the watch-
fulness of his guards, it began to dawn upon
the youth that his plans had miscarried in
some way. Day by day the end came piti-
lessly near, and on the 12th of January he
passed his 21st birthday with his inseperable
companion—the mouth organ with which he
had charmed the youthful hearts of Sumas
City, the instrument which he had so often
played for the elderly Portugese he had so
foully done to death.

Day after day dragged on, and on the

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eve of his execution, seemingly unconcerned,
Stroebel played nostalgic ballads for the
edification of the guards.

Early on the morning of January 30th,
1894 the twenty-one year old murderer
limped to the scaffold with his spiritual
advisers, the Rev. Father Nicolaye and the
Rev. Father van Goethen, the Sheriff of
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cutioner pinioned his arms, Stroebel’s eyes
wandered over the whitewashed fence to
the trees and the sky he was gazing on for
the last time. He was asked if he had any-
thing to say, and in a firm voice he made his
last utterance:

“IT can only say this much. I am very
thankful to everyone for the kindness they
have shown me. No one need have any
fear but that you are hanging a guilty man.
I don’t hold no grudge against nobody. I
hope to meet you all in a better land and I

wish you all good bye. The reason I say
this is to free the jury’s conscience in think-
ing they've done anything wrong. The jury
have done their duty all through.”

And the lame youth from Sumas City
disappeared through the trap.

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