HONESTY AS A POLICY.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 50, 3 August 1908, Page 2

HONESTY AS A POLICY.

THE WARDER, HIS WIFE. AND THE PRISONER'S CAKE. Rather an original story comes from the criminal prison at Warsaw 7 . A bookkeeper named Schneider was awaiting his trial, being charged with fraud. As his health was bad his family sent him many little delicacies unknown in the prison fare, delicacies which, no doubt, the head warder shared with him. The other day among other things, a huge iced cake appeared. The warder's children were fond of cake, and so was his wife. They therefore determined to keep half of it for themselves.

The surprise was great w 7 hen, upon applying a knife to the dainty, it struck just below the icing and refused to go any further.

“It must be baked to a cinder,” said Mrs. Warder. But. her good man, suspecting that something worse thancareless baking was responsible for the cake's hardness, cut round the sides, and was rewarded by finding a revolver and even seven cartridges buried in the paste. When brought up before the authorities Schneider confessed that he to shoot his guardians and escape from prison before his trial.

“After all,” said the w 7 arder, pensively, when he told his story, “honesty is not always the best policy. If my wife had not cut into that cake I should have been a dead man by now, for I sleep hard.”—“Pal'l Mall Gazette.”