Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the intercession of a girl whom he once befriended, Valentine is pardoned from Sing Sing and begins life anew. After three years, having now become a bank official he is tracked by an enemy whose wish it is to get him back to prison on an old charge. Valentine succeeds in having himself believed an entirely different person when he is called upon to use his ability as a safe-breaker to release a child from the bank vault. This he does in a very intense scene, thus disclosing his identify. His enemy, however, wilfully allows him to escape...
...remained until 1862, engaged in the study of law. In 1863 he obtained a commission as a second lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry with which he served until the end of the war, rising in rank to brevet-major. For a period of nine months he was a prisoner at Libby prison...