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Show EX-BANDIT AGAIN TO VISIT GIRL'S GRAVE NEW YORK. May 19. Young John Watson Hlldreth, who became a number num-ber In Auburn prison when 18 years old and emerged from Sing Sing a few days ago at the age of 23. has - gone West to begin Hying down his past. His future Is 4 strange chiaroscuro of hopefulness hope-fulness and sorrow sorrow over the death of the sweet-faced, devoted girl who patlentfy waited ten years for the boy train wrecxer to regain his freedom free-dom and make her his wife. She died on the eve of his release,, after displaying dis-playing such devotion as Is seldom recorded re-corded outside of romantic fiction. Prior to his release, Hlldreth had looked forward hopefully for more than a decade to seeing the original of the photograph of Cella Perrvn which adorned his narrow cell. , On putting Sing Sing- behind him last week he learned that his sweetheart was dead, and the first thing he did, was to visit the new grave In Rome, N. Y., where she Is burled. ' This pilgrimage performed, he went home with his father. J. Homer Hlldreth, Hll-dreth, one of the leading lawyers In the Bronx, who lives at No. 60s East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street. Neither his father nor he will divulge the locality In which the former convict con-vict will begin building a new career. According to those In the confidence of the family, the young. man will probably change his name. ' On his way West Hlldreth will again visit Rome and the grave of Ce!!. Pet-ryn. Pet-ryn. Following his arrest and during his trial she was constantly with him in court, and when he was Immured at Auburn, she visited him as frequently as the prison regulations permitted. For more than a year her visits attracted at-tracted extraordinary attention. Then the warden concluded that they would have to cease because of the depressing effect on young Hlldreth. The loyal girl began to grow disconsolate, until, her hopes starved and her spirit broken, brok-en, she became a victim of chronic melancholia. |