The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1905, Page 3

___ REGENERATION OF MURDERESS ‘BY PRISON LIFE i ’ Killed Husband, Began ‘New Life in Jail, CHANGE A MARVEL, From a Slattern She Has De- veloped Into a Pious Woman of Talent, HER BABY HER ONLY JOY Bot Must Soon Part from Little One Who Has Never Been Outside Prison Walls, 1 (Special to The Evening World.) ' READING, Pa,, Feb, 1.—It is now re- @arded as certain that Mra, Kate Bd- warms and ter accomplice, Samuel Grenson, will be hanged here on Feb. ¢or the murder of the woman's hus- Wand, John Edwards, on July 4 1901, ‘Thousands of peraons, who have taken @n active part in a movement to save Mrs, Edwards's life, are awaiting with @oncern Gov, Pennypacker's answer to @ plea for a reprieve, while the general pudlio shows deep Interest in this con- @emna woman, whose priton life has been hor regeneration, From « slattern of dull instinct she has developed as a ‘woman of intellect and no little refine- | dition mentally and morally has been marvellous, Expects to Die, Her mind now Is fixed entirely on her " fate. She hardly expects that she will be granted executive clemency, but she firmly believes that she will die a nat- 4 ‘ural death before the date set for her execution, Acting on this, she haa made all arrangements for her funeral] and burial, Her chief concern, however, Is her three-year-old daughter Alma, who was born in jail and has never been outside prison walls, Many well-known persons have offered to adopt the little one, but the mother has already arranged to heve her sent to @ home in the South, where she will be brought up in tg- norance of her birth and her mother’s fate, » Happy with Her Baby. Confined in a narrow coll, where all ts gloom, Mra, Edwards counts the flying minutes. Cooing at her feet and stum- Diing In the folds of te mother’s dress 4 her prison born child, Tear drops fall from a@ woman's eyes, bathing a baby's hair, Muffled sobs choke @ ‘woman's volce as it whispers, ‘My baby," | Born in humble ctroumstances, environ- ment was against Kate Hdwards, When @he married John Edwards her condition Was not tmproved, Edwards was a shiftless man, He spent his money for strong liquor, according to the evidence 4 of the trial, and Induced his wife and 4 children to participate In his revels, i Tt Is true that the circumstances of the crime of which she was convicted Ye were revolting. It 1s a fact that the ‘ Woman gave no evidence of womanly virtue and love—if the crime and evi- dence of her trial are accepted as proof, All that Js true, but it fs equally truth " ‘ that Mrs, Edwards, In prison, became 9 changed woman, hi Wholly Transformed, ¥ No moro striking {ilustration probably can be shown than the reforming and transforming influence of even a dark prison Ilfe than Is evident in the case of Mrs, Kate Edwards as sho appeared on July 4, 1901, on the day of the murder of her husband, and as she appears now with her baby, Alma, born in prison ten days after the erlme, Here Js the testimony of her counsel, } Mr, Lentz: “Since her Incarceration Mrs, Edwards has undergone a marvellous chango. Her Intet!fgence has been quickened and has grown wonderfully, From the dull, | dumb creature that her surroundings } had made her she has become a gentle woman, show!ng refinement and no Uttle talent, } "She has grown In health of mind and morals ik ne stunted plant that wae brought from darkness inty sun- Ught. In her nature taere are and always have been those clements of virtue which needed only the chane» to grow and ripen {nto goodly woman- hood,” Daughter a Missionary. i] Mrs, Edwards lias no one in the world + to care for except her prison:born child, Alma, who 18 her constant cellmate, Her four youngest children are in a home near Pittsburg, Her oldest “ daughter, Mary, 1s In a St, Louls In- stitution, undergoing training to be- come a foreign missionary, Mary Edwards Is now twenty-one years old, and was present on the Kate Edwards, Who]; ment. The change in her general con-| has been jonvict! ther, ‘When ‘th ye floors ‘asea “4 nd ji? very bay ing women became intereste/ in the gh and induced her to becoye & mis- onary, Greason, the accomplice J the con- demned womay, still maintans his in- tha’ if aa fi Mi Dvards, ro} irs, i, 5 that ah. "na elected her, Py ad viser, He hweltzer, her into chu! jem: when she was fou married her to Jo’ her senior, whe! Mra, Ey without un- leath of the nt it that in “Firmly, belie i wa but wi fis’ chosen the ‘tem for her funeral ymns to. be rendered id at tne grave, reach Itself; for 40) all be thy ever- lasting light, and the days of thy mourning Mall be ended,’ Bhe has fequested that three hymns be sung her funeral, The first. is “Jesus, Taver of My Soul,’ She has asked fordhis because 11 19 little Alma's favorite,And she wants the grand words of this noble hymn rendered at her Obsequigs because the little child Illed “Rogt of Agee" ts to be th 4 then khe ” beta. close with “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” Bh, has 10 told Attorney Lents, that she would like to be led in the cemetery connected with Muddy Geek, eformed Church, because "two of my children are puree there and I ‘want to lle beside th rs, rarda is now forty thet of age, welghs about 150 pounds, Is about 5 foet 6 inches in height, !s a perfect brunette and has fark hair and black eyes, Hor little daughter {8 the pic- ture of her mother, but olive in color, with raven-black halr, Angel of the Prison. law- Alma je just as happy as any otier Uttle girl, She ig full of life vend Is merry the whole day long. She cannot understand her mother should be 80 , and she wants to know many things wich cannot be explained, The child can speak Penneylyania German and English with equal flu- no and she ip ny as bright as one of her age who has been brought up amid tho most careful surroundings. Alina has never seen @ tree, a flower, a plot yy grass or the surrounding moun- tains; her tiny feet have patte: nly On cemented floors, her only vista has been the long, barred corridor, her only playmates the jafler and the prisoners. @ hag never seen a small child and she knows nothing of the great outside world, The small iron cot is dear to her, the rude lithographs on the white- washed walls are beautiful to her, The crime for which Mre, Edwards condemned was committed on the morning of July 4, 1901, of John Edwards, who was forty-elght years old, was ound in the bottom of a ten-foot deep cistern on his premises, iear Btouc! , fifteen miles from Reading, There was no water in the well, and when the man was taken out M% twas found that ‘his head and face had bean pagares ip @ jelly with & hammer, Edwards insleted that he fallen into the well, and that hia injuries ‘had ‘heen inflicted in that way, ‘Jhis was beyond reason. A bloody hammer and plece of carpet were found near the house, and neigh- bors reoal that Mrs, Edwards and her daughter Mary had been washing tha front porch, on which the husband and father was last seen asleep... The theory was that after a drunken bout some one, apparently Mrs, Edwards, had crept up behind him, wrapped the carpet rround ‘his head and then bat- tered his life out, Greagon was @rrested as an accom- plice in the murdtr and convicted with the woman and sentenced to die on the same day, although Mrw, Edwards's daughter maintains he had no connec- tlon with the erlme, ‘The effarta to eve Mra, Pdwards's years, the case duty was RHY life ace no nearer accomplishment than they have been during the Public ‘aroused bv petitions and letters, nothing has ibeen received tigburg to Indicate a favorable turn of affairs for the condemned, the condemned sald that he did not see interfere under any clroumstances; that Board for over two years, and that his HARDFIGHT TOSAVE MRS. ROGERS’S LIFE ‘ermont Woman Under Sentence to Die Friday Hopes for MONTPELIER, Vt., uy La ay A Ree . THE WORLD: WRDNESDAY pat ‘ ny eee Bore ue ee * i } EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1006, CLAS ah AAG ude id Khan ae ; HERE IS THE COW WITH CRUMPLED HORN, THAT TOSSED THE TRUST ALL TATTERED AND TORN, THAT ROBBED THE POOR PUBLIC ALL FORLORN— ME OF THE TRUST BUSTER (By T. BE Powers.) WAY In HARLEM, WHOSE LITTLE TRUST BUSTER WAS ROOSEVELT, 7 looking Ascutney Mountain, Fon the first tlme in days dhe breakfasted heartily and spoke cheerlly to the ma- ast a8 hree| een | but! Har- sentiment from » the Governce ow he could woman, a reprie had been before the Pardon! made jas| to execute the law, oe a Reprieve, Feb. 1,—There WINDSOR, Rogers awoke thie morning under the shadow of the gallows after the most refreshing sleep she has enjoyed since she was removed from have been few occasions on which popu- "gor and placed in the death cell, over- When shown coples of gewspapers con- | her husband, taining the plea of the woman's lawyer,| Tho annouye Oliver Lents, and others on behalf of Vt, friends, Has Hope Now. Feb, the main cor- lar interest in this city has been moro deeply stirred than it Is by to-day's Pending proceedings dn the case of Mrs, Mary Rogers, who is condemned to be hanged on Friday for the murder of ement that Gov, Bell, al- most at the’ last moment, had decidod to hear those who are working, to secure: for the condemned woman, night, aroused almost uni- versal speculation as to the outc Wo of the proceedings, the majurity apparent- ly belleving that the Governor would favor Mra, Roger: 1.—Mary tron, who has had her in personal charge alnce her committment, The change has been brought about through her belief that the confession or statement made yesterday to her mother, implicating Perham will serve to bring a stay and possibly a new trial Just outside her cell the old gallows, used thirteen yeans ago ‘to execute Bell, stands #0 close that she might almost touch it, She knows full woll it is thore, but she now bellevos it will be taken down unused, Her falth 1s pitiable, but It hay made her the strongest person in the corridor of death, Little Chance for Her, No one here sh Bu; her Ines, Oakes, who {8 the on! pt eiriclel the Governor's conference at tirat he had said that the so-called new evi- donee or the petitions now tn the hands of the Supreme Court Justices would “ ’ ei uk ee would be hanged Friday. | + Wwoce ot Bt, Franc Chaplatny Jonathan B, Faker and all others who are In a poston to jugs make the same prophecy, They say that nothing can mye Mary 1ugers now, Yet thid girl, she 4s but a girl in years and a child in mental growth, hopes and trusts that Wxegutiye elem- ercy will be extended to her, Sheriff Breaks Down, Sheriff Peck, who went to Montpeller yesterday with his deputies at the call of the Governor, js a broken mat Shortly before he took the train he an: nounced that he could not spring the fatal trap and designated Dar Lovell, a former Hish 6! nerves of stecl, to touch the Sheriff Peck 19 a brave mi fearless one, but the groat strain un- der which he has heen laboring for weeks has browgat on an old nervous disorder and to-day the atands a physl- cnl wreck, bont, old beyond his years and feeble to the point of tottering, The whole village {8 in fact, on the point of nervous hysteria, People meot ‘and pass each other as though a public calamity) overshadowed tho valley, The town Is gradually filling up with men from all over the Bate, Some are forced to come hore, but the majority ace driuwn by idle curiosity, Rev. Mather Delaney sald to-day that he had been in communication with a goolety oman at Washington who was willlng. to ask Prosident Roosevelt to intercede for Mrs, Rogers if he thought advisable, ‘Hoe ‘has written her to do @o, ut does not think the effort will amount to anythi ‘Who ithe woman Js he would not say, ‘but declared she was a personal friend of Mr, Roosevelt and had taken an {n- terest in the condemned woman since Christmas, —— FIGHTS TERM IN JAIL ON NOVEL GROUNDS. Duke, Convicted of Bargaining in Appointments to Police Force, Anserts Sentence Illegal, Several novel points were ralsed by Henry W, Unger tn an apelcatice, to Justice Leventritt, of the Su) 10 Uourt, to-day, for a certificate of rea~ gonable doubt of the legality of the conyiution of William Duke, who was gontenced to six months in the Peni- tontary for "making a corrupt bar Catholle Church! all for ihe SpPoLnteeny {3 ann BH, Futs- trick on the police fot Par, Unger conten gad that the test. mony of Emi. A, Bonner, an acknowl- edged accomplice, who is serving a song tence on the Island for hai" of- fone, corroborated only by the com» pla) Beat, John, Witepatrick, who awore he pald $600 to Dulwe, was not wufficient hh law, fa Fitzpatrick was imsolf an accomplice. “ was also contended that only one having offelal control of or dnfluence over the SCA bargained for’ could be nel Hable under tho law. Oe chaturen DAN A NM fohns' ‘opposed the anplication, Mustice Leviutritt seemed impressed by the angument, and reserved decision, JEROME SEIZES THREE GAMBLING OUTFITS. District-Attorney "Jerome played the host to three gamblars yosterday after~ d to-day he received as me- mentoon of his hospitality four van loads of gambling paraphernalia, ‘The men were George Coe, of No, 160 West Forty-third street; Pat Downey, of No, 108 West Forty-third streot, ani Jack Freeman, of No, 106 West Thirty- eighth street, All three had answered subpoenas, The latest Ui to Ape ater Attorney's — furnitu heals taro lay outs, cant tables, chips and stacks of cards, ft} under control, but mot until the SHE FEARED HIS HYPNOTIC EYE Mrs, Herbert, Judgment Debtor, Appéaled to Court to Exclude Brown from Room While She Was on the Witness Stand. —— There was quite a stir in Justice Marean's Special Term of the Bupreme Court In Brooklyn to-day when a well- dressed woman bustled up to the bench and eald { na tremulous voice: “Your Honor, may I speak to you A moment. 1 am being hypnotized. A man who Is suing me on @ note for $100 1a going to have me examined In supplementary prodeedings and while he 1s in tho room I will be completely n his power, Hie will comel me to an- Swer questions against my will, and I really am dreadfully frightened about it au” Justios Marean s#ked the woman to explain, and when sho had become calm eaid she was Mra, Fannie Her- bert, of No, 1857 De Kialb evenue, where she manufactured white goods, She declared she ‘had signed a note for $100 to W. A. Brown, of No, 88 De Kalb avenue, The woman Inelsted she had no fdea she hed why whe had signed the note, The Court then ordered the plaintift in the sult brought before him, and Mr, Brown came in, accompanied by his lawyer, a Mr, Newirth, The man 1g tall and of distinguished appéaranoe, Ho was handsomely dressed and his gray halr was in striking contrast to his ruddy cheeks and flashing black ey He tughed when told what the de- fendant in the case had said, He as- r lwerted he had loaned her $100 and re- colved her note ag security, She had repudiated the note, he sald, and he had gued and recovered judgment, But as the woman continued to express fear of his presence Justice Marean di- rected a court attendam to see that ho did not enter the examination moom, wyer Newirth and after all the parties to lhe action left the court, ———— MANDOLIN FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE. Three-Alarm Fire in The Bronx Troved Hard One to Fight, Fire in @ mandolin manufactory, owned by Angelo Manello, at No, 680 Bagle avenue, early to~lay became so threatening that after the first alarm ‘was sounded a second and then thin alarm followed, Because of the heavy condition of the streets tho engines were slow in getting to the blaze, When they did arrive the flames from the factory were mounting ae in the air, and valuable surrounding property was Unreatened, After a hard fight the fire wae act ‘Tht loss is est tory was destroyed, mated at $5,000, Salvation Army {nau Scheme to Feed School Puplis Who Otherwise Go Hungry. — ‘The Salvation Army bewan tok feed the little children of the same who are eent hungry to 90 5 ents who neglect them or to go 90 early to work that they no time to prepare breakfast | offepring, Commander Bye the army, proposes to open’ theme, school restaurants all over ne. 10 section of the city, Towisy fo boys were fed ob ® bountevua a coffee and yolle at No, 9 Cherny)s Provision had ‘been made ¢o bys 100 youngsters, but the oews new oharity had not reached #1 of the diaprict where the suff Greatest, In fact, when the street restaurant waa opened ololook there were no little hand, Capt. Ida Johnson wae in looked out on the bleak street for some drawn little face the stamp of hunger and waited until 8.20 o'clock when boys, the typical young of the stopped at the door and ously the welcoming sign; " Restaurant,” . Capt. Johnson saw directly #1 of the breakfasts had not the school districts and she 4 of her aides around te Public 14 to round up ‘all the youn would consent to be her the alde reached the efi achool-house he found seve! ca Urn bt i le gently urges invitation. to breakfasts, Wi h & of delight thirty-elght boys, @ ten years and some ony ve, | about him, But the Httle 8 Kaye hone of it. They turned w CY bag 8 one Lge it th with what Myra Kelly’ ] Miers onll “proud looks." No Boek or argument would Induce freely on coffee and rolls, \ Then, with shiny shen his howls, the alde mapol Cherry street, restaurant, through the door like a wind King and snort pot hake exer hone ah ‘hungry, ¥ Jated oases, and the edges petites were dulled tn the. ‘olfoment, Hf rad been Intended one taurants_at No. $ Carlisle abreety: No, 16 Fourth avenue to i will not be opened until however, and during the next other places syil} ha opened Third avenue, Lexington a) One Hundred and Twenty-itt Charles and Bleecker streets 160 West Twenty-ninth otreet, Mrs. Jennie W. ‘To’ dD School No, 14, on AS wh which thé thirty-elx! coralled to-day,, said th great deal of ‘ering amon children — attendiny y wa ey, aut to accept, of the bounty of the Army, di cr rr, 101 y Tile onitaren ‘ted, CLERGYMEN REY, W. N. DUNHAM, D. 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