Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — A Letter in Blood. [ARTICLE]

A Letter in Blood.

chant’s office at Liverpool, England, some years ago: The cashier, while holdit up to the light to test its genuinepess, noticed some faint marks upon it, which, proved to be words scrawled in blood between the printed lines and upon the ilii—b Extraordinary pains were t%ken to decipher these al®*st obliterated characters, and the following sentence was made out : “If r fhp3,note should fall into the hands of ,J<JbA Dean, of Long Hill, near Carlisle, he will learn hefeby hi 3 brother is . languishing a prisoner in Algiers.” Mi*. Dean was promptly communicated with, and he applied to the British Government for assistance toobtain his brother’s release from captivity. The prisoner, who had traced the above sentence upon the note with a splinter of wood dipped in his own blood, had been a slave to the Dey or Mohammedan ruler of Algiers for eleven years, when his strange missive first attracted attention in a Liverpool counting-hpuse. His family and friends had long believed him dead. He was released and brought home to England, where, however, he did not long survive, his constitution having been irreparably injured by exposure, privations, and forced labor in the Dey’s galleys. ■ ”