Show HIS OWN iw GUARI ON WAY TO JAIL david esaacson hopes in prison to invent something for government MAN OF MANY parts had premonition of fate a and n d feels he will still be of some use believes in upholding law atlanta ga david esaacson bowed by age and troubles poor as a church mouse inventor alchemist dreamer swindler on hla his way to the federal prison here boarded the steamship city of columbus at her pier in new york city searching out captain diehl of the steamer esaacson announced himself as aa a united states ot of aicer charged with taking a prisoner to atlanta and where la Is the prisoner asked captain diehl 1 I am the prisoner esaacson replied to the astonished captain 1 I am at once prisoner parole and my own guard for I 1 have given my word that I 1 will deliver myself esaacson sixty years old was convicted in the federal court in new york city of having used the united states malls mails to swindle many persons through a manufacturing company of which he was president esaacson was sentenced to imprisonment of a year and a day in the federal prison here and to pay a fine of passengers ignorant not knowing who he was esaac sons fellow passengers were delighted with him his conversation proved him a man of the world the seascapes sea he painted delighted the other voyagers landing at savannah esaacson dallied there a day or two then came here and relieved himself of his duty as a united states marshal he delivered himself to the warden of the jail esaacson said Al marshal arshal mccarthy is id one of the best of gods goas noblemen he said to me esaacson I 1 am going to let you take yourself to atlanta not because I 1 am partial t to 0 you for I 1 would do this for any man in whom I 1 had confidence but because your case has appealed very strongly to me such kindness from a man accustomed to handling prisoners penetrated the very core of my being esaacson claims to have rediscovered an art which the ancient etrus cans practiced that of enameling a 6 1 I am the prisoner pebble so that it resembles exactly a precious stone only an expert can detect a false stone ho he has not completed his experiments in this direction he flo added to the correspondent felt it was coming it was the saddest moment of my whole life the day I 1 left now new york I 1 never felt so crushed in spirit but I 1 am going to bear it philosophically for believe it or not this series of experiences was preordained pre ordained years ago I 1 had a premonition that certain events would occur in my life I 1 could almost see the future and discern their nature esaacson Esaac sou derided the accusation that ho had bled his dupes for A few thousand a few thousand he said of which I 1 have not a centime now old as I 1 am I 1 have not completed my work my honest work by a great deal he concluded while in atlanta I 1 shall continue that work pursue my discoveries and together with my painting I 1 shall keep busy some day and I 1 can see it as clearly as I 1 see the light now I 1 shall invent something that will be of use to the united states government in the enforcement of whose laws I 1 believe thoroughly my aly experience will be one that in years to come vall will bring some nene benefit fit and it if I 1 can devote my soft while in atlanta toward the invention vent lon of something that will be of service to uncle sam I 1 shall not count my time as having been spent in vain |