The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1905, Page 12

Study of Woman Sentenced to Die on the Scaffold for the Murder a of Her Rival. ClaRA MORRIS has made a careful stady for The Evening World of the case of Anna Valentina, the Jersey murceress, "who is soon to be hanged tn Hackensack unless the Federal Courts dnterfere. Miss Morris distted the unfortanate woman tn her afl in prison, talked with her of her life and her crime and made some interesting observations. In her cwn powerful style she has told the story for The Bening World. It is a pathettc story, which has never been so adequately told before, and tt ought fo Win for the grim, gaunt, friendless woman, awaiting her death in the Hackensack fatl, a great deal of sympathy from people who before now have had but a superficial knowledge of her life and the ebents lead- tng ap fo her crime. BY CLARA MORRIS, { There is a certain attitude of mind that seems to be common to the ef murderers of to-day when they face a jury, They seem to argue: “Here I iy fm, accused of killing, If this jury says I am guilty I’ must give up my fife at scaffold or chair. But if I my very self say that I am guilty it Means 4 long and comfortable life in prison.” So he concludes that that fs better than no life, and changes his plea, It 1s not so very long ago since a well-dressed, well-mannered man, ‘who looked superior to his acknowledged profession of gambling, killed outright one and maimed several of his former associates—to be frank, he shot up the whoke establishment, and the ambulance doctor, being young and not well seasoned yet, had declared in @ rather faint voice that ttiq place “looked like a shambles or a battle fleld,” Fortunately for the chances of the defending lawyer, there had been some other and wilder firing—his client was not one to shoot wild, how ever—and ‘n a multiplicity of bullets he hoped to find safety for the ac- @used; and after a great fitting of cartridges to various builds of guns the lawyer passionately declared “he would be willing to wager his life on the assertion that no cartridge from his client's revolver had plerced the breast of the man now dead! Some other hand had aimed,” &&., &c, He Studied the Jury, ‘And the steely eyes of the accused, steadily, surely, read the faces ot the jury and understood so well that, in spite of the frantic remon- etrances and furious anger of his lawyer, he took the stand in his own behalf, Turning his chill, calm face toward the doubting twelve, his level glance holding them as in a vise, in even tones he sald: , “Gentlemen I am considered one of the expert shots of America; and ft was my bullet that killed Mr, X.— that night.” hy gle gasp of an iniividual, A thrill ran through every heart at such in- eredible boldness, while for the moinent it almost seemed that he had “dropped” his lawyer 4s well as his ex-pal, He, livid and helpless, saw his Ine of defense crumble into dust as steadily his client went on with his story. Of course he claimed self-defense as the motive of his shooting match, and though the claim was woefully thin it served, For, astute and keen, he neither bragged nor blustered, and the people, forgetting the pre- dudice caused by his culpably irregular life, saw only what they called the q eplendid courage und truthfifiness of the man—and set him free. ry A The whole thing simpiy proving that Mr, Jack Hamlin, of California, Introduced to us all by the lute Mr. Pret Harte, {s not dead, but living in our midst. 7 The Value of Courage. Courage—trutlfulness? Wihy it wos the very quintessence of the gambling spirit. Just as the accused man had many and many a time “bucked the tiger,” so with calm aye aud tense nerve he that day ‘bucked gt death,” and rest assured he never knew a greater moment than when he eat there—playing his lone hand, knowing his Ife was the stake. It 4 was like tossing up a coin while whispering: ‘‘Head—my freedom; tall— the chair!” Then, just the other ay, a young person whose brain had all gone wrong, who was quite irresponsible—so the wise men told us—for ths shocking crime ho had committed, yet was so strangely clear of mind as to be able to anticipate toe decision of his jury, and also craved permis- Bion to change his plea from inuocence to murder in the second degree, and, laughirg contentedly, has gone on his way to imprisonment for prac- tically a lifetime, And yet what has proved so agreeable a sauce for these ganders of | erime does not seem to be allowed to that poor, dull plumaged goose penned closely in jail—old Anna Valentina—who, the moment she emerged from | the blood-shedder's daze, sought out the authorities, confessed her crime and gave herself up. Think, please, what that meant, No Emotional Insanity for Her. No filght; no hiding; no stern chase pursuit; false scents and useless Journeys to and fro; no warrant; detective, &c.—not even a claim of emo- tional insanity set up; therefore no awe-inspiring fees to be paid to prom- inent alienists, Why, one would think the taxpayers of New Jersey would rise up and, caling her blessed for what she has saved them, would grant the poor forlorn woman the same grace shown to less deserving persons-- who first lie on oath, and then, whipped to it by terror, plead gullty, Of course, it must be all right; strictly legal and absolutely just—only— well sex is a handicap sometimes, and as a poor temale thing I can't seem to recognize that perfect equality that exists in the eye of the law. Bome day I may get educated up to full and respectful comprehension, and then such light badinage on criminal @scs as that indulged in Jersey Cily by a prominent public character, who spicily remarked of the Valentina yoman; “I hat a Dago worse than poison!—ah, let her hang!"—will not} geem to color public opinion or be at al reprehensible. Alone—always alone! at her marred window! Old, sad, her mind narrow, dark, uncultivated. No chambers there are filled with : bright pictures of past joys, friendships, travels, Her past is one hideous | ; memory; her future one horrible dread, and her present one long, secret agony of longing! % Shakespeare Drew Her Portrait. Ah, never doubt it! Read this: Mn the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." nd see the portrait of Anna Valentina projected hundreds of years ago by great Shakespeare's power; for by the will of God this woman was born with nature's black mark of ,ugliness set over against her person; and now, broken with work gaunt with want, hideous from exposure, grief and shame, she truly is a human toad of repellant ugliness—yet wears she the previous jewel of a love imperishable, tender, passionate, all-enduring, self- Jess! Such a love as drags the head to respectful bending, while yet It Dlurs the eye with pity! That the object of her devotion was vile and utterly unworthy does ot lessen the beauty of her loyalty, Such a sordid tragedy, The great amazon of & woman, with the strength of two ordinary men in her them gtalwart body, She had, too, a little money, You might smile mount, but 1* served to dazzle the imagination and turn to flame the @mMouldering avarice of Calluci, her countryman, So, craftily, after a long pok ahead, he laid his pans and started in to pay his show game by tell- Anna Valentina that he loved her, + he great unsought, lonely creature saw the new grim land blossom ‘Ploriously, @nd for mere lip service she gave a passion trust of gratitude, love unchangeable, And so she worked and worked, and answered ever: me—oh, yes—if not to-day—some » at the SLARA MORRIS TELL “MURDERESS AND ACTRESS WHO STUDIED HER. - Actress Makes for The Evening World a The startled {u-take of breath by all present might have been the sin- | sin-stained,| ° THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1908. S ANNA VALENTINA’S PATHETIC STORY aes 10 ( ae Clara Morris Wonders at Incongruities of the Law and Speculates as to Whether the State of New Jersey Will Lower Itself to a Level Where It Can Strangle Anna Valentina to Death. other day—when he not so poor—when we have house and he is padrone— oh, yes!" | Gave All She Had for Him, | A hard man; mean; malicious, with crafty, cruel eyes; he measured the great strength of the woman, bound to his service by her love, and de- | manded more of her. She knew his trade better than he did. He set her | to ect as boss over a gang of men, while yet she cooked and cleaned and | Made and mended as before. More and more she worked through the bit- ter, biting cold of winter and the killing heat of summer, with less, and ever less, of clothing and of food. For him the good goat’s-milk cheese, the Italian wine, the salad drenched with pure oil of olive, pungent with garlic and tarragon, For her the hunch of hard black bread and the sop of vinegar from the bottom of his empty bowl. Still, “If not to-day—another day’— and she made no complaint, for this brutal creature was as a@ god to her. Then came tho buying of the bit of Iand with Anna's money—gladly given, for surely, surely that was a long step taken toward that great day when she would be wife to Mike Callucl, Then came the monstrous cruelty of making her shoulder the hod and straln up ladders, bent double beneath her load of brick or mortar, The imagination sickens at the picture; yet this poor woman, living thus in open sin, was no outcast to her neighbors and country-people, , Densely ignorant of the conventionalities of the outer world, in Anna's unques- tioned loyalty and Callucl’s promise of Marriage, they saw a perfectly re- spectable relation—but they had fallen into the habit of calling her “Old Anna.” For ten under-fed years of unceasing over-strain at work had plowed the furrows that only twenty or thirty years should have left on Clara be | Morrls that sun-baked face. burden and no longer a woman, Alone in Sorrow and Agony. “Yes, she shut herself up—alone!” self up alone, with the agony of her discovery, that secret longing to sce a habe of hers in the arms of the one man this Never would she thrill to agony of bliss under the world held for her! Yes, she was changed, softness, all pliability had gone out of he muscles were rigid; she stumped heavily about, after the manner of the laboring man—and one or two women remember the time when Anna Valentina’ received the awful blow, when she learned she was a beast of touch of plundering litrle hands in her poor shrunken bosom! had come from the unnatural life Calluci had foreed upon her. epoke no word of binme. maternal love to the other, And then, almost at the end of endurance, the wonderful house—their house, built by this more wonderfnl woman; and her dream grew bright, in spite of the savage temper Mike was displaying, marry and she Would he the pudrone‘n wife, and have black dress, and— who knew, perhaps gold enrrings, too; and she—oh, she would love him— ‘a her husband, so!" Then came the Salza; and the sky blackened over Anna's head, tricious, sly, this Rosa had a young, empty face; a well-fed, smooth plump- ness of figure; a cheerful willingness to sell her smiles to the highest bidder, and a wellspring of malice that bubbled to the very lips of her, Her Caresses Grow Worthless. Calluci was old and ugly but he owned the house by right of treach- ery toward the woman who had earned it—so empty laughter greeted his ears and worthless caresses were lavished upon him, Anna had seen, and was brutally hurled from her only shelter, penniless, she worked andiworked for the broken food left by the family she served, with now and then a day's job elsewhere, soft thing—hid in the house she had bullt—and mocked her—reviled her— laughed at ner poverty—made loathly signs’—oh, it was maddening, but a certain rough dignity kept the sufferer silent. Then talse''—that they were Mike's jabies, | Not Gambling, Holds Court MONTGOMERY ALA JUNE In the case of G, A J. F, Hooper from CHICAGO, August the ¢ at E %—By the last of handing freight ‘ue tically to and from all the railroad terminals of that transact The company now has not gambling, ‘but a legitimate bual- | pace gos, Work on the hore te being ALT GNUGHIeeT EE eed CSE courte ed day and night, an added Impetus some properiy” as eecurlty for margins | ng been given by the teamaters’ jand an ort was mad 0 for 10 strike, A remarkable record In tunnel the mortgage, He contended that the| C™stt¥ction has been made in the last | Morteage was invalid much as more than flyo miles of un- | Blven to secure a gambling debt | passages having been fine Rushing Chicago's Tunnel. |Ladd Going to Japan, uicago Subway Company George 'T, and Education Soclety of Japan, ald in the development of t |in that country, |Five Inches of Snow Fell. Id cabe before I dnew, NEW HAVEN, Conn,, June %.—Prof. Japan, by special arrangement, nd, under the auspices of the Imperial system of education adjoining that of pect the place, thither yeatord Mra, Mra, Wilmer, ‘ June ay. Roosevelt ‘will She was gaunt and hard; all lfer joints had stiffened; her No doubt of that, she shut her- Alone—to say farewell to And But “He not know," she sald, and after that added “Soon they would “And that—white came the twins to Salza, and her jeering claim—probably These mites, held up at the win- > Important Forcign and Telegraphic News. « To Entertain Roosevelts, WASHINGTON, 9.—President to Ladd, of Yale University, | Roosevelt will leave Washington will go to Japan for one or two years|4ay for Rapidan, Virginia, ai the close of the war between Russia aln until Monday, Mrs, Roosevelt recently bought a country home there Dr, Joseph Wilmer, of this city, and the President will in- Mrs. Roosevelt went The President and be entertained by Mere- +: The Graphic Story of Grim, Gaunt Wo- man Given in Vigorous Style—A Tale Never Before Presented to the Public, CLARA MORRIS’S OBSERVATIONS ON THE CASE OF ANNA VALENTINA And yet what han proved so aureeable wuce for these wanders eem to be lowed to ed woose, penned closely in jafl—old Anna that poor, dull-plam Valentina, Of couray ft muat he all ri atrictly legal and absolutely Jast= only—well, sex fan handieny sometimes, and ann poor female thing T can’t seem to recountxe that perfect equality that exists in the eyes of the Invw. For him, Calluet, the good goat's milk cheene, the Itallan wine, the antad drenched with the pure ofl of the olive, pungent with warile and tarragen; tor her, the hunch of hard binck bread and a sop of vinegar from the bottom of hin empty howl, And that white, soft thing (the Salza girl) hid in the house she had bullt a ocked her, revil r, laughed at her poverty, made loathly slgns, Ob, it was mn Bt She confersed the orime, but perhaps ahe should have sald in the second degree, 1 wonder if that ina shibboleth—that “in the second degree.” I wonder if (he reat Sinte of New Jersey can afford to lower finelf to the level of ¢ poor, Ignorant, pa siIrlyen oren- nd, holding ite ermine carefully aside, strangle » woman der If those who hold this poor woman's spoiled remnant of 1 A their hands will not, in the memory of the May- ter’s tender plea for ‘the loaat of these” show pity on her woman- hood .. . I wonder, I wonder, dow as she passed, must have pierced that tormented heart, Still, Ine credible as it seems, old Anna hoped that her beloved wonld return, Finally the devil cruelty entered wholly into the woman in possession, She called old Anna up to her. That she meant to torture her was ey{- denced by her carrying a babe upon her arm; that she expected to arouse her to frenzy was evidenced by her holding a knife behind her skirts to be ready !f she made a threat or attempted to attack her. Mad from Agony—Then Murder. And so she jibed and insulted and browbeat, until the old woman went mad with the agony, and tore the knife away from ‘'the soft, venomous, white thing,” and struck and struck until the voice of a neighbor cried; ‘Anna! Anna! what are vou doing?” And slowly and stupidly she stammered: “I—I—I do not know;" an@ then she left the house of her great dream forever. Her love, having already cost her everthing on earth, had now cost her her soul! Yes, ehe confessed the crime, But perhaps she should have said: “In the escond degree.” I wonder if that is a shiboleth—''In the second de- gree?” I wonder if the great State of New Jersey can afford to lower {itself to the level of this poor, ignorant, passion-driven creature, and holding {ts ermine carefully aside straugle this woman to death, claiming all the time that the law does not mean yengeance—only punishment as a warning, And, oh, I wonder {f those who hold this poor woman's spoiled remnant of life in their hands wi}l not in the memory of the Master's tender plea for “the least of these’ show pity upon her womanhood and spare her the shameful indignities of the scaffold. I wonder—I wonder. this sha | KING ALFONSO FEEDS THE MONKEYS Given Nats to the Simians, then Biscuits to the Elephants in he London Zoo, N, Tune 9=—This was the lest ing Alfonso's stay in London. 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At! be the oldest Juatice in the country in| | WA the Legion of Honor with a le ¢ ti electric r on which Canaan, much farther south, the ther. active judicial service, observed. the or Secure an Ideal Place to Live tormen Forelen Miniator Deleasio, unde ndise will be carried forty|mometer felt to a few degrees above | ninetieth anniversary of his birth to- rAL ° M yi ath the level of the city’s) the freezing point and a sleet storm was | day, Judge Field holds court at Athol SEND POSTA whom it bestowed, Capt, Mott's [in progress for an nour, and Gardner several days each week, FOR CIRCULAR AND VIEWS uceessor, Capt. William S$. Gulgnard, o - ————___. ie a arctan OF Raé ‘| taken up hte | acquet, tn unlit | Polsoned by Ice Cream, EAST ELMHURST Getit First UN. NASHVILLE, TENN,, JUNE 9.-|§ ON PICTURESQUD FLUBIING BAY. of Ge f . H if T ATTRACTIVE TOWNSITE Tie Atnenlount aipateh ‘ } |Twentystwo guests of a local hotel |” Mn New YORK crTy. 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