Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-23
Eject or Kind Words.

Ia the life of Henry Wilson, the mur
derer, he relates the following to show
that although hardened in crime, he wal
not insensible or Indifferent to the effecl
of kind words: .a-
When be got in front of the house, we
saw what we took to be q man and his
wife, and three young women and boy,
eating supper. i proposed to Tom that
We should go in and warm, and sit down
by the stove few minutes, and / would
look over the chances little, and If
concluded that we conld not guard the
doors and windows sufficiently to prevent
the escape of any one, / would say:
Come, Tom, let's. be going;" but if /
should say, swell. Jack, are you readyY
he was to place himself between the
front windows, to guard them, and /
would guard the door, draw our revolt
vers, and demand surrender. / told
Tom not to shoot any one, unless it was
necessary to prevent their escape, and
we would tie them all-rob the house of
what we wanted, then kill them and set
FIRE to the house; andif any one should
comein while we were at work, We we're
going to shoot ehim as he should
come in at the door. Dare you do
this2" said / to Tom Yes, I dare do.
anything that you dare do, said Tom.
So | went to the door and knocked. The
man said "Come in" We went il and
asked to warm by the stove. He said.
Yes, you can warm" We sat and
warmed till they were nearly through
supper, and thought best to make the
attack before they got up from the table,
So got up to give Ten The signal, and
the man supposing I bad got up 70 90,
said, " Won't you stay and take some
supperY / hesitated a moment, and
then said, Yes, we will take supper'
with you" Che man looked as if he
thought ! accepted his Invitation to sup
per rather coolly but If he had known
what our Intentions we're, he would have
been perfectly satisfied with my answer,
for his kind inpitation at the moment
when was about 10 give the al .nal to
Tom, saved bis life and that of bis
family. aqsaa a1f9s
He also relates another incidence
whereby two lives were saved by the same
means-kind words:
UVou Sot 70 herkimer, lett the
railroad and took The carriage road,
and about mile from town, I saw q
man and woman in tie road before me
going the same way. ! thought would
pass them and gee how they looked and
It we'll dressed, would turn back, shoot
the man and rob him, and take the wo-
man over into the fields away from the
read and keep her coinpauy autil about
one o'clock, and then kill her, and ]
would have time to take care Of myself
before porniug. This was about ten
o'clock 10 the evening. So ! went on
and passed them, and saw they were we'll
dressed and walked very slow and appear
ed to be lovers Iwens on Just out of
sight Of them, and then stSytsd back,
took opt my revolver and cooked il, sqd
just as was going to shoot him be spoke
very pleasantly to me, "Good evening,
SIR" answered, - Good evening"" and
passed on. Since I have been writing
my history, several persona have said to
me, they heped would give good advice
in It. The best advice can give is,
"always treat stranger kindly, for you
don't know who or what be ia, nor do
you know how mueh good q kind act or
q civil word may do YoR.v