Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-26 | Page 1 | Days of Chivalry Have Not Gone By

DAYS OF CHIVALRY HAVE IT GONE 6! College Student Confessed to a Crime He Did Not .Commit. 9 ' , NEW YORK, Aug.- 25. As slmnpe a story as that constituting tho plot of, any novel will bo told to Gov. Hlgglns of New York by a I lewycr when ho endeavors to secure tho pardon par-don of a man who choge to serve a sentence of threo years' Imprisonment In Sing Sink prison for tho crimo of which ho was Inno- cent to shield tho name of a woman from scandal. scan-dal. Confessed, Though Innocent. Carl Flahcr-IIunscn, the lawyer, said today that he wauld at" once appeal for tha pardon of the prisoner, whose name ho would not ro-vcal, ro-vcal, at tho rcquost of tho woman whoso reputation repu-tation tho prisoner had saved at tho expenso of his own liberty. Tho woman, Mr. Fluhcr-Hansen Fluhcr-Hansen says, hud visited his ofTIco within a fow days, and said that hor husband had Just died, and that sho now wanted to do Justice to the prisoner. They rad bcin friends, and, moro than a yoar ago, when her husband ro- , turned unexpectedly, hu caught tho other running run-ning away. To savo her from scandal tho man confessed that ho. had broken into her homo to Htcal. whereupon ho was arrested and is now In Sing Slnir. Tho prisoner was a young college student who dlMippord from otlo of tho colleges when ho was arrested. Woman Paid for Her Folly. "I will not say whether !t was Harvard, Yalo or Princeton," paid tho lawyer. "To ono haj? over known what became- of him, as ho was trlod and sentenced under an nssumed numc. Tho woman In tho caso had also paid a penalty for her :r.dlscrcllon. as a servant who know of the affelr has collected $53,000 tn blackmail from her within a fow years. Sho Is a mmbcr of one of the best families of New York and her late husband owned several fac torles In New Jersey."