Show TWO YEARS IN JAIL FOR PRINCIPLE From the New York World D A Clarke is now a little old man who went to Ludlow street jail over he said two years ago for principle He steadfastly resisted all efforts of his family and friends to secure his release famly lease declaring that he was imprisoned wrongfully leae and that some time the county or somebody would have to pay a large sum In damages to him or his a heirs The old man is out of jail now The importunities ofhis wife and children child-ren became too strong and Saturday he yielded and went home Mr Clarke had been missed from his customary haunts in Harlem but his family had told all Inquirers that he was traveling abroad and none of his travelng acquaintances suspected that he was a suspectei quaintnces actually in jail I came out though when Mr Clarke was sumoned as a juror In the court of general sessions He wrote to Judge Marine asking to be excused from serving because it would be convenient if not Impossible Impossi-ble while he was in jail whie A reporter who visited him in jail learned Clarkes story and called later at the old mans house Mrs Clarke was very angry Has he dared to disgrace his family after all the efforts we have made to shield him she cried Then she summoned her children child-ren renYour fathers been talking ffne informed in-formed them What do you think of rus that Its awful they answered in cho Clarke was sent to jail by order of court he having refused to produce on the trial of a cause a paper which Lawyer Edward S Hatch of counsel had declared to be important Mr Hatch has offered many times to waive claim to the paper but Clarke has invariably in-variably said nay I is said that his hope of getting big damages was chimerical chi-merical and then his family found little difficulty freedom in inducing him to accept his |