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Show PRISONER GOES TO I CELL UNESCORTED SEWARD, Alaska. March 17 Emil Anderson ol Nushagak on Bristol bay. 1 holds the long distance record in Alas-1 ka for an "unescorted hike from court to cell." Anderson was convicted at I ValdeSj home of the court in this district, dis-trict, and traveled 50 miles alone to: Nushagak, where he served a thirty-day thirty-day sentence. He carried his own com-1 mitment papers and had served his time, been released and at home two months before word reached the court that he had obeyed orders Anderson's offense was that of using a knife in an argument at the Nushagak Nusha-gak cannery. Alter his arrest he was transported across Berinc sea, through Dnimak pass and northeast again lo Valdez for trial, a distance of nearly KtOO miles by water The testimony BhOwed that beyond a doubt he had cut his Opponent, but it also showed that I the opponent was the aggressor. Under these circumstances the jury recoil)-, mended extreme clemency. The court, took cognizance of the situation and, realizing that the man had already been in custod over two months, ordered or-dered that he return home and deliver himself to the deputy United States marshal and serve a sentence of thirty days, The last boat had sailed for Nusha-' gak, and Anderson considered the pos-sibility pos-sibility of getting a job on the railroad here and waiting till spring to go home and serve his sentence, but he had left many things undone at home, so be obtained a passage on a boat which landed him at lliamna. on the west side of Uook inlet. From lliamna he Btarted on the long overland journey across the upper end of the Alaska I peninsula. It was late fall and there were snow squalls and every possible inconvenience. For twenty days he waded and swam I streams and mushed over the hills in Arctic weather, eating sparingly of his fast decreasing pack, which he re-plenlshed re-plenlshed twice with dog salmon from natives. He finally reached Nushagak on October 27, where he at once gave himself up. served hi term and was released November 2a. according to the official return made to the clerk I of the court, which arrived in the win-ter win-ter mail via Cold bay. |