Done in Prison

OUR HEADING FOR Gradus this month is the famous Meadows Engraving, one of the few relics showing the south end of the campus and including the east buildings. It was engraved in 1851 by Christian Meadows who was a notorious counterfeiter, known throughout Vermont. He created this valuable item while serving sentence in the Vermont State Prison in Windsor, having shrewdly contracted for the picture with prison authorities. Meadows is said to have been a dupe for "Bristol Bill," who was tried with Meadows and who attempted murder of the State's Attorney on the last day of trial—stabbed him in the neck, failed to kill him.