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Show j Beiadiatlng ITi Ovrn arorner. The recent death in Canada of Mrs, Sterling, mother of Charles M. Sterling, who was executed at Youngstown, O., for the murder of Lizzie Grombacher, has unveiled the facts concerning an incident in-cident that occurred shortly before his execution. His mother caino from Maxwell, Max-well, Can., and though he had left home when but a lad with maternal intuition she recognized him. When brought to his cell Sterling without the quiver of a muscle said: "Yon are mistaken, madam; I am not yonr son." She implored him to recognize her, but he refused, and she returned home half convinced that she was mistaken. To his counsel Sterling said: "She is my mother, but I could not break her heart by telling her that her eon would be hung. Keep it secret until she dies." Her death caused his attorney, W. S. Anderson, to break the seal of silence. "It was the most dramatic scene I ever witnessed," said Mr. Anderson. "I have seen all the tragedians of the past quarter quar-ter of a century, but none that compared to the scene on that occasion. The mother, every line in her faoe showing the most intense suffering, and her heart nearly broken, while tho son, knowing that the troth would kill her, stood like a statue, his face showing the pallor of death, assuring her that she was mistaken. mis-taken. . Such intensity of action waa never produced on any stage. It could not be." Cincinnati Enquirer. |