escape. This was denied him, and he was recaptured in the
governor's bedroom. The prisons at Millbank, Chatham and
Gibraltar were all visited by Peace before his final release in
1872. At Chatham he is said to have taken part in a mutiny and
been flogged for his pains.

On his liberation from prison Peace rejoined his family in
Sheffield. He was now a husband and father. In 1859 he had
taken to wife a widow of the name of Hannah Ward. Mrs. Ward was
already the mother of a son, Willie. Shortly after her marriage
with Peace she gave birth to a daughter, and during his fourth
term of imprisonment presented him with a son. Peace never saw
this child, who died before his release. But, true to the family
custom, on his return from prison the untimely death of little
"John Charles" was commemorated by the printing of a funeral card
in his honour, bearing the following sanguine verses:

"Farewell, my dear son, by us all beloved,
Thou art gone to dwell in the mansions above.
In the bosom of Jesus Who sits on the throne
Thou art anxiously waiting to welcome us home."


Whether from a desire not to disappoint little John Charles, for
some reason or other the next two or three years of Peace's
career would seem to have been spent in an endeavour to earn an
honest living by picture framing, a trade in which Peace,
with that skill he displayed in whatever he turned his hand to,
was remarkably proficient. In Sheffield his children attended
the Sunday School. Though he never went to church himself, he