| Show I Living Work of a Dead Woman I By Sophie Irene Loeb During the week the governor pardoned pardoned pardoned par- par Charles and his brother- brother law in-law who were convicted of the crime of murder murder murder-a a story of dramatic Incidents that outrivals any case in New York and In fact the r united United States The tale has been told in the public prints how prints how a poor penniless farmhand farmhand farmhand farm farm- hand and father of three children was convicted of murdering his employer and housekeeper on the evidence of de detectives detectives detectives de- de obtained by alleged third degree methods and who after various various vari vari- ous trials and reprieves reprieves- was sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to did He was nearer the electric chair than any human being who has remained alive And now the governor declares he is innocent All AH the gruesome gruesome- details are well known and another man has has- hascon confessed confessed confessed con con- to the murder Hundreds of people are pleased at atthe atthe atthe the r announcement of this pardon And I could not help wishing that the woman who helped secure it were alive to receive the approbation that thatis is justly due her Per Perchance who Perchance who hance-who who knows she knows she Is looking down and smiling satisfied at it all and all and compensated for the energy and effort that led up to the present status of this remarkable case For Inez played her part and ant played it well in those last d days ys of her life to save this condemned m man I look back backon on that night when she returned to her little country place up the Hudson from pleading with the governor for the life of this man exhausted her errand unsuccessful I can hear that sad but courageous voice over the telephone telling me of the fruitlessness of the visit and the hopelessness of it all It was near midnight and I was ill Ul In bed from which I had helped direct activities In the interest of the unfortunate who was to die the next morning at Depression hung over us usall all the all the few people who had ha come cometo cometo cometo to discuss our failure to save him But in the words of Socrates In every despair a new hope is born And I cried across across' the telephone Is there no way Inez no way by which we can get a few tew hours' hours stay so that I. I too might goto the governor She answered quickly Yes there is a way A s supreme preme court justice I might grant a stay on our newly discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered evidence We Ve hadn't much at the time but it was a clue to the very man man who has now confessed I wondered what Judge I could call can at such an hour We hurriedly con con- I rang the telephone of Judge Guy After hearing of our plight he agreed to listen to our new evidence We began getting together all the papers at hand I rang Inez back and told her to hurry into a n. machine not wasting time to look up the address address address ad ad- dress of the judge but asked her to phone on arriving here The other lawyer Mr Kohn was miles mlles away on the Jersey coast I rang him and he too h hurried in an automobile The results of that eventful night are well known How in the wee small hours of the morning Judge Guy heard our party and granted the stay It sayed saved the life of the man within an hour of his execution I reflect on th the many days that I followed when she and I were at Sing Sing working on the case ase and her efforts to recall to the mind of all aU the incidents that might save him in a new trial And then came came- the great campaign for suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage in the interest of which she had worked so long They begged her to make a tour of the West in the great cause I I look back on the night previous to her leaving for the West I met mether mether mether her in lb the Law library where sn she was working on the case with our our- lawyers I can never forget that tone in which she urged me not to leave a stone unturned while she was wason wason wason on the trip Her lIer father every one she knew she enlisted in the cause And later in those last hours of her life she insisted on getting the latest news of I look back on the day when her remains came through New York to her fathers father's mountain home where she now rests Something moved me meto meto meto to telegraph th the governor and beg bega a commutation of life imprisonment for in her name I remember reading the telegram over the phone hone to our lawyers for approval That very night the governor commuted com corn muted the sentence of And many many incidents about her I could relate every one of which had something to do with the saving of I cannot refrain from payIng paying paying pay- pay Ing her this tribute my friend who worked with me so faith faithfully tully In not only saving the life of an Innocent person but in a cause that will wUl save sa many others Copyright 1918 1318 by the Press Publishing c Co the New York Evening World |
