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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 59, 28 July 1880, Page 2

A Clevbr EsoArs.— lt wilf fee rememv bered that Fomjn, the Kharkoff leader, created some sensation m 1878 by eseipiuj through a obimney, (f and the seventy epminals confined in' ' the' i*me room with j him won. ld doubtless hfwre got. clear alto, had not the ieofch— a'Very'itout^rakni— stuck at th,§j top ofjbbe shafijand soblock^dacljtjie jyaVfor the rest. vTo prevenfc J "i iaimilar^^ccurrenjie^ the G-overnoi* qf-Slbofsk Prison, m Mirisk-r^. so the Russian papers inform us — pjactd' Teionti Tcherenfctoff and Ira* Savanstetf in ' sepevate cells- depriving both of their-j bed," linen and superfluous clothiDg, for fear ithrjr* wou'd try and lower themJelves from iheii* third-storj flfindo'-ws to the ground. jTh» Nihilists, however, had hardly been inj pri- ; , son a ! forfcn'ighk ivhoii tbeigavernorone nioj.^ing found to l»"s chagrin that the birdij hadfloreo..; Aided: by/aCpoaketSMHfeßtbeyj ha|t made a laddder capable of being taken pieres, from the; tjodden floor of their Joells and the ironwork of their bedsteads, and at night, having;picke^d thj^lteks o^ bnth rjjoras they hnii descended to the? basementT" emerged by a !tr.ap on the courtyard, jtrfdA fixing the ladclei 1 ag*intt the wall, had clatnbewd o^er^rand,. Buccessfujl^ieffected jtheir. escape. ' .-.»-.. Comb prom A Bad Stqok. — In $he> spring of 1848 two Jbrothers, " Cody,"! and . a man namecTKeily were constantly stealing^, sheep from, a farmer named GJ-orman, :in the»---t mountain* . ; or the Co ! un6y ;;: 'Tipperary, their natiVe place. at last lay in* wnSush 'one night, iratching the sheep, and was not long when he saw the two Codys and Kellyjjalung tbret of them. He followedj arid th.ey seeing they were A&-1 teoted, and that it would b» hanging or trans-

porUtion, one of the Oodya ihoi; Gorman' Two days after the murder the three of them ■were arreittd on suspicion j but the GfejJra-c ment not having mfficient eride^ce to^on-" vict them, offered a reward and free pardon to any of the accomplice! who 'wojptld- turn Queen's evidence agaiftsj; the fpther^tiro. Kelly did so, and on his evidence the^.two Oodys were conyicted and hange^ivats*Pon; mcl gaol, Kelly was the-hangojan on^that 1 occasion, and, through some ment of his m adjusting the rope around one of the Codys neck, the blaclrcap got off Cody's head and on to Kellv'i Shoulder. -<^fr' v ßisret^ho-waß^nth«-*crowd^^ out to her brothers that it was Kelly, their .infftrmj^jwjjg jra^ their executioner-, At this n«wVCday^;&ygas' :^bia X^ v -Eelly^ ! mtl a was shonng him on jjb. tbe 7 drop, but was pSiii-. rented by thesherifE andVwarder on duty from cominittiijg afurthe* murder on Kellyi': This Kelly was r the father of the outlawed CCellyß.:.-He had to.fly tp^tirtraliaj' al well as many other informers at that time.' :