tells all about Mr. Delahunty, and I will prove that
I am right. Take that chapter, and at the same time the statement
of the chaplain, to any of the five governors that Mr. Delahunty
served under, and ask them which is right and which is wrong. Go
to his home county, ask those among whom he lived for nearly thirty
years and ask who is correct. He is right, however, where he says
that he felt that the only thing to do was to resign-for Governor
Aldrich felt so too. He says further that all his protests were received
as the vaporings of a sentimental old man. Where and when did he
protest? Never to Warden Delahunty. In order to give this man a perfectly
square deal before publishing this book, I sent him on the evening
of September the seventeenth, by registered mail, a letter which
I know that he received. In that I asked him five questions which
he never saw fit to answer.
When the warden was brutally murdered,