Show prisoner sends pictures to mr and mrs wilson when president wilson reached washington after his W washington location a cation on the gulf coast lie ho found aA awaiting alting him two pencil portraits one of himself and the other of mrs lira winon wilson there va was as also a story the like of which he had not met ath with edery da day since lie he entered the W J bite house hou e con I 1 he pictures are the work oric of a con i let in sing sing prison and the stor is 13 th tint it of his we life both pic pictures tares and lapp stor ire eire 0 o much so t that lip t several cc ral philanthropists in now york cit which wab mas the scene in recent ears of the crime of which the pris oner was nas conNic convicted ted saw to it that the pictures were ere sent to the tt NN bite house and haie tried to implant mp larit a bit of 0 hope in the man behind the bars under one consideration was the story of tho the pictures and contents of the letter which them repealed by the philanthropists ano ana that was mas absolute secrecy as to the prisoners name nama and the details of his bis crime the conn convicts lets letter to the president in was as as follows to the president of the united states your excellency it is not a desire to present a work vork of art which prompts me to send you this picture for I 1 realize there must bo be many crudi ties owing to the fact that I 1 neier ne er took a drain drawing ing lesson in my life rather la Is it a token of highest regard arid and sincerest esteem u which ha haie e been engendered within one of bour our humblest admirers this picture and that of mrs wilson are the only ones I 1 have eier eer at tempted there were no mechanical aids just the naked ene ee all the work nork was done with ith an ordinary lead pencil and to it were ere devoted the leisure moments of three months it was executed in a cell whose dimensions are 32 3 by 7 bj b 6 feet the cell v was as illuminated by an 8 cand lepov power er lamp and the enlargement was nas made from a newspaper paper print which accompanies the pictures in view of these things it Is hoped the crudities shall be overlooked and each line and plane will to tho the respect and veneration in which the president Is held by an obscure aurig oung man so low ion down doin in the social scale respectful Respect full |