. The criminal classes, causes and cures. books and studies. At the age of fourteen, he enlisted in the regular some years after he left, his friends received no tid-ings of him. Finally his aunt, or foster-mother, receiveda letter from southern Kansas, which contained a draftfor fifty dollars, saying he had quit the army, and thatwhen he returned home he would have plenty of money. Xothing more was heard from him by his friends untilhe returned to the home of his aunt at Rainsboro, Ohio,in September, 1877. Then he seemed to have plenty ofmoney. Soon he entered into the mercantile bus
. The criminal classes, causes and cures. books and studies. At the age of fourteen, he enlisted in the regular some years after he left, his friends received no tid-ings of him. Finally his aunt, or foster-mother, receiveda letter from southern Kansas, which contained a draftfor fifty dollars, saying he had quit the army, and thatwhen he returned home he would have plenty of money. Xothing more was heard from him by his friends untilhe returned to the home of his aunt at Rainsboro, Ohio,in September, 1877. Then he seemed to have plenty ofmoney. Soon he entered into the mercantile business, and,apparently, was leading an honorable and successful he might or would have done had he not been dis-covered as one of the Texas desperadoes remains an openquestion. He, however, always declared that it was hispurpose to lead an upright life after his return to him, however, at a time when he was promising him-self quiet there came the thrilling echo of the words of]\Ioses, Be sure your sin will find you FERDINAND SEITZ, A prisoner in tlie Ohio Penitentiary for thirty-four years,by Governor Foster, March 2, 1S81. Pardoned C^-) Causes and Cures 37 X. Xo Othek Like This. Ferdinand Seitz—A Prisoner for Thirty-four Years—Strange Ef-fect of Drink—Thought He Killed a Snake—Taken to OhioPenitentiary from Cincinnati in a Wagon-—Pardoned by theGovernor—His Farewell to the Prison—His Subsequent Con-duct. In November, 1847, before transportation by railroadobtained between Cincinnati and Columbus, the sheriffof Hamilton County, Ohio, in a little old covered wagon,to which was attached one horse, drove from Cincinnatito Columbus, Ohio, having in charge one Ferdinand Seitz,who had been convicted of the murder of a man namedAdams, and sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary for was then a young man of about twenty-one been from his native land, Germany, but a shorttime, he could speak but little English. It was said, without con
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