 One noted incident he took great interest in was the escape of Maryland State Penitentiary inmate, Joseph Holmes.When he received word that Holmes had escaped most would have expected him to believe along the lines that, “justice must prevail,” since he had spent many years as a Supreme Bench justice with that mentality.Instead he shocked the public with a quote from Shakespeare’s “Othello,” “I do perceive here a divided duty…” and continued to look at the prisoners escape as not a bad, but a good thing.