The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-06-19

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b tis Easisfa PeBiisnuafy sons two
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gencs aud amiaH.i,y soon m8da h.m
a general fav0fito. lle was at tho
limo Of biz commitment about eigh.
teen years old, q tsIl, wcll.iormed,
babGsomc young mao, Without a single
trace OF the usnal characleri3tics Of
T the criminal. The prison authorities
took a special interest 10 lis case but
he was exceedingly reticeut rs to his
history, excepting that he had fallen
into bad company. About a year
ago he began to show signs of the in
sidious complaint, consumption, which
numbers many victims 10 prison.
lie slowly wasted away, until two
or three weeks ago the physician in
charge, as he went through tie hos'
pital OF the institution, stopped mo-
ment before the cot of The patient
and said TO him gravely, that if he
had anything 10 say to any person on
earth he had better do so without
delay, ss lie had but short time to
live. The remark seemed to impress
the poor fellow deeply, for he shortly
alter asked for paper and pencil, and
obtaining them wrote: "The son whom
you have mouIned as dead is IN the
Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia"
He signed the brief note, and sank
back exhausted on his couch.
Being asked relative to the destis
nation of the note he had written, he
directed it to be addressed TO a lady
in a town in Massachusetts, which
was complied with. A few days after
wards gentleman applied to the
prison authorities for permission to
see the youth, and when brought into
his presence eyincud the strongest
emotion. He stated he was the father
OF the dying boy, and that the latters
mother being at the White Mountains
for her health, which is very delicate,
he, the father, had opened Il e note
sent fIom this city, and was very glad
he had done SO, as the declaration
contained in it would surely have
killed her. Their son had been cou>
sidered dead fer mere than two years.
Being wealthy, the parents had
given him q good education, and de-
signed him for professional life, but
when about sixteen years of age his
m.nd became somewhat affected by
the Influence OF sensational novels,
and he formed an Unsuitable desire to
roam through the Western wilds. He
ran away with two SOUS Of the mayor
OF the town, but was traced to the
place they had chosen for a tempo>
rary stay and brought home, but he
very soon afterwards again ran of,
and his parents had since heard moth
ing Of him, except report that he
had been killed, which they believed.
The sight of the boy stretched upon
a bed of death within the iorbidding
walls of a prison crushed the poor
fathers heart; but this only made his
opportunities the more effective, and
he succeeded in procuring his sons
pardon, with which he sped the prison,
and doubtless, anxious that even were
it the last hour his son should live, it
should be spent in pure free air, he
had him carried from the Institution
as above related. 1t was his inten-
ton should the son live until he could
be conveyed upon board steamship,
to have him takeD home In that way,
otherwise he would let him die at o
hotel. and then have the body taken
on rail to the home of his innocent
and happy boyhood.
The weight Of sorrow that awaited
the mother in either case can easily
be conceived. Whether the diving
young man revived sufficiently to en-
dure the sea trip, or whether lie died
at the hotel his father brought him to
we did not learn. The narrative is 0