Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1927. THE EVEN “Seen in the Dusk.” HE governor rose and paced the room, glancing worriedly from time to time at his com panion. Finally he stopped before him. ‘Ot course, you know, judge, that this s a most unusual thing you are 1t is not often that the judge ces 4 man comes to me for his pardon.” The other nodded, but made no re- ply, and the go wr spok “It was remarked at the trial whenever possible your decisions seemed to favor the defense.” The judge sat silent a moment. “I tried to be fair and do my dut Perhaps my personal interest was ap- parent. “Then you had'a pe Would you mind tellin personal interest was?’ The judge hesitated a moment, then said gravely: “His mother is an old &nd very dear friend of mine. “Humph!” grunted his ellency, with some asperity. “Well, it seems to me that if she were mother worthy of so much consi she srought her son up differ ve not much pity f uth me what this judge’s arkened with something like anger, but he spoke mildly. “You don't know he: ernor. She is a very lovely lad Something in h other to glance at him sharpl slow flush mounted to the brow of the handsome, scholarly-looking man The governor's face soft- Sits the wind In that quarter I've often wondered, Tom, why never married again. You were voung when your wife died stand the lady is a widow now? The judge nodded, and after a si lence the governor went on. “I'd like to help you, Tom, but I don't just see how 1 can pardon a murderer just be- cause the judge who sentenced him is a friend of mine and in love with the boy's mother, If I am assuming too much, just correct me.” Judge Tracy sat silent a moment Henry. 1 don’t expect you 1 would not even expect you to o on these grounds, though it means a very great deal to me. T came here to tell you a story, and I feel that you will understand, for ‘who knows all, forgives all.’ “As you remember, my next to the driveway. it from the Hadley hom - thick and rather high privet hedge on either side of the drive. “One evening I was sitting alone In the dusk, as I love to do, looking out of the window at the home of the woman I have loved all my life. Tt was by lying trickery that John Had- ley stole her from me, and though I married ael, I think, made my wife happy during the short time <he lived, 1 am essentially a one-woman man. “Angry voices in the driveway roused me. It was geiting rathe: dark, but I thought I recognized one of the two men. I could not distir guish all the words, but one man seemed to be pleading, the other tan- talizing. Finally the smaller man struck the other, who jumped on him and bore him to the ground. The emaller man was underneath and the other was pomeling him, and I rushed out to interfere. Just as I reached the hedge, the under man’s groping fingers clutched a big stone. The next instant he fetched it down on the head of the other. It struck him behind the ear, and he slumped down horribly. “The other extricated himself, stood for a moment gazing in horror at his work, then crashed through the hedge into the Hadley yard. He had not seen me standing there in the dusk behind the hedge. “You will wonder that I did not pursue the murderer, or at least give the alarm. I did neither. A few minutes later I appeared at the club and managed to be seen at several places before I returned home. “When I reached my house detec- tives were busy looking for clews. They found the broken hedge, and their investigation led to the arrest of Young Hadley. “It developed at the trial that Mark Hadley had threatened the murdered man, who was a ‘snowbird,’ a dope peddler. He had caught him trying to pass heroin to litle Paul Hadley, and instead of turning him over to the police had given him a severe trounc- ing and openly vowed that if he ever caught him at it again he would kill him. “Little Paul, when questioned, ad- mitted that on the evening of the murder Mark had found him with some dope, had questioned him and learned that he had gotten it from “Dago Pete, as the man was called. At his trial Mark, while stoutly pro- festing his innocence, stubbornly maintained that he would have done it if some one had not beaten him to it. “That s all the evidence there was, circumstantial, but the jury brought in a verdict of first degree.” “But you! You saw the act and you know that the evidence was not all circumstantial. Of course, 1 under- stand your feelings, but you know that it was a just verdict. “Yes, 1 know that the evidence was not circumstantial, but, Henry, the murderer was not Mark Hadley.” The governor jumped to his feet. “not Hadley? Then why, in God's name—"" The judge raised his hand and it seemed fo the governor that his old friend fairly shriveled before . that murder was commit- y my own son!” For a few mo- ments there was silence in the room. Then the governor murmured, “Tam, old friend, I wish I could say some- thing adequate, something to make you realize my deep sympathy’—h: Voice trailed off and was still befo the look of misery in the other’s fa The judge shook his head slowl “You have placed me in a very di NG STORY “My son killed himself last week I had suspected him of using drues but could not detect him. was tantalizing him, holding out for an exorbitant price, when Gregory lost control of himself and him. I thought, but was not that T recognized him. have sworn to it, but, Henry, heart told me. When my son took h life he feft a letter for me in wh he told me of the agony of remorse he had suffered. You may read the letter.” He gave it to the other, who read it. When he had finished he looked up and his eyves were full of pity “Poor boy! Poor Tom!” He held out his hand and the other grasped it. “Thanks, Henry. It is better <o, and better that he first rid the world of that fiend who ruined him and many others. My son was not the murderer; it was the one who first induced him to meddle with that hell ish concoction. But you see now why k for the pardon of young Had- will see that he is fully It is not necessary that name be made public. I will give out a statement that guflty one made a dying i ind that for his family's i hheld. You unnot _criticize you. on!” He shuddered as he s own boy, the pride of for you. L fine, vigorous man. Would it be encroaching on_friendship to ask if the ‘lovely lady’ is—er—friendly? “I told her the whole story, Henry, and she underst married as soon as Mark is free. wre gol art where we should have started more than 20 ye: 0, and T pray immer of our lives may compensate for our disappointed youth.” And the governor grasped his friend’s hand with a_hearty “Amen.” THE END. (Copyright. 1927.) CHINESE WAR IN CHICAGO. Nationalist League Brawl with Toy Guns. CHICAGO, February 9 (P).—Chi- cago Chinese started a war of their own with toy weapons yesterday bout 100 members of the Chinese jonalist League engaged in a free- for-all fight over election of officers, arming themselves with toy weapons from a novelty shop. | Casualties included half a dozen | bruised heads, a score of bruised shins and 60 prisoners. 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