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Show " PRISON TRANSFORMS MRS. KATE EDWARDS FROM SEMI BARBARITY TO CIVILIZATOI N. THESE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTO-GRAPHS SHOW THIS CLEARLY. Re-ad In p. Pa., Jan. f, Six years nzo "Katie" Edwards was the dirtiest, most Inhuman, drunken brute in the row of tumbled down homes; today biic is paying the penalty in Bourge ty Jail here but what a metarnor-pilosis metarnor-pilosis has taken place. Instead v.e see a neat, clean, sweet tempered mo- ' therly woman always buy and thf happiest she has ever been in he: llfo. This chance has taken place durins her six years in prison. Sne is charg ed with murder. Death warrants have been read to her so frequently that they cease to cause even dread In her heart. A a mattser of fact it is now very doubtful if she will ever be hanged "for the crime of which a Jury has said she was guilty. Once a gallows gal-lows was erected where she could seo it from her window. Then came tho reprieve. All the time during these years she has been changlne. Today she is tho niolel prisoner and friendly to all her associates. In fact it is said she has a remarkable influence for better bet-ter over the others. The change has been brought about by the force of many Influences outside out-side herself and within herself. The yars spent in jail are the only happy hap-py ones of her life. At the early age of 17 years the was married to John Edwards, a drunken quarryman. Both were without education and without principle. He beat her, ami choked her and madeher the beast she became. be-came. Five children were bom to them and they existed in a few rooms like so many animals. Then came the mysterious murder of her husband. hus-band. She was suspected and at last found guilty of his murder. A baby girl was born while she was in prison. The influence of this child was mark-on mark-on this former wild beast. She saw even in piison the better side of life. The world took on a new aspect. Gradually the hard lines of her face 6nftened. she was a different woman. Public sympathy was awakened and the pardon board Implored to set her free. At last 275.000 women of Ohio took It up with Governor Pennypacker. He refused to interfere but owing to some trouble with the pardon board he never set the day for her execution. So it stands. Governor Stuart shows no desire to set the dav and now there Is a prevailing pre-vailing feeling that if she committed the crime, she was surely insane at the lime. The most unusual and dramatic part regards the child born in prison. When the mother expected to be hanged she consented to part with the child. A body of ladles in one of the western states volunteered to see that the child had a home if the transfer was so arranged that the child could never be traced. Mrs. Emma Kantner of this city undertook un-dertook the transfer of the child. Sho was told to take the child to Broad-street Broad-street station in Philadelphia, and give It to a lady who should give her a slip of paper showing her authority. The transfer was made and today no person but the one receiving the child at Broad street knows its whereabouts. No doubt it is well taken care of in tome nice home. As this child of the prison grows ' into womanhood there will be no record to confront her and she will be much happier in tho new i home. |