Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-11
OUT OF THE SHADOW.

OUT OF THE SHADOW.
The Romantic Story of New York Girl
Her Conviction and Pardon.
Lizzie Jones, young, well educated
and pretty girl, some time since arrived
in New York city from her native place
in the interior of the State, where she
lived with her aged parents. She had
there fallen in love with young man Of
the neighborhood, who, after due court
ship, made proposal Of marriage, and
they were betrothed. But her father
opposed the match, and prohibited their
marriage, on the ground that her
afianced lover was addicted to liquor.
Her grief and despair were so violent
that her mind became affected, and the
once gay daughter of the household
turned melancholy, took on strange
ways, talkedand laughed whimsically, fell
into fits of abstraction, and was no more
herself. For the sake of her mind, and
in hope that change of scene and cir
cumstances would bring her out OF her
condition, her father sent her to New
York city to take up her stay with some
relatives. Anxious to earn her own live
ihood, she quickly found q place as
servant for wealthy family. She had
been there but a few days when she was
accused of stealing a gold watch, arrest
ed, taken to court, and sent to the peni-
tentiary. She was taken Ill after reach
ing Blackwell's island, had to be sent to
the hospital, and was there seized with
the smallpox. She had recovered, re-
turned to her quarters in the peniten.
tisry, and was employed in the women's
workroom, where she happened to come
under the eye of Mrs. Bigelow, wife OF
Hon. John Bigelow, secretary of State
of New York, who saw there was some
thing wrong with her, upon hearing
her screams and observing how she con-
dacted herself in her presence. After
making full inquiry into the young
woman's history, and learning. the cir
cumstances of the accusation against her,
Mrs. Bigelow determined to take up her
case and carry it to the governor as q
fit case for executive clemency. 1t has
required time, patience, and energy to
secure the pardon, but, nevertheless,
she obtained it. 90
At work among the women, old and
young, black and white, was Lizzie
Jones, whose comely face was deeply
pitted all over with smallpox from which
she has lately recovered. When the
matron was made aware Of the pardon
she spoke in the highest terms Of the
young woman, and Of her conduct in
prison, and expressed qualification over
her release. When Lizzie was called to
the desk and told of her fortune, she was
overcome with joyous emotion. She
laughed, kissed her fellow convicts, and
with delight, though her eyes
had the look of far away. In her prison
garb she passed through the women at
work in company with the matron to an
adjacent room, from which she soon re-
with gay little hat on her
head and cloak of blue wooden stuff
enveloping her person. 1t was evident
that she was the favorite of all her COM
panions, as she went from bench to
bench kissing and embracing her friends;
IS she stepped up to the desk to kiss
the matron ; as she gazed upon those
who had come to her relief and as she
fingered within the walls that had en-
compassed her shame. There was uni
versal joy over her luck among the con-
victs.
As the party landed in New York, the
Joy of the young girl knew no bounds.
SC Oh, I'm free9 I'm free |" she cried,
and soon the party were within the
beautiful mansion of q Quaker family,
where Lizzie's father had been asked to
await her arrival. "Father!" she cried
out amid her tears when she saw the
face of the venerable old man, and
The twain, sire and child, were over
come. The gray beard told his bene-
factress how he had swept every day
and every night" for the loss Of his
daughter, and how he would take her
back to his home in the country to live
always with her mother.
els this the court house where the
Judge is9" Lizzie had asked, as she as
,ended the steps of the Quaker mansion,
IN front of which was line of carriages
waiting for fashionable marriage which
was taking place in the church on the
opposite side of the street. Lizzie was
reassured of her safety but the mar
Rage was not that of herself with her
lover. ..
The patriarch and his daughter walked
away from the mansion through the
sunshine and left for the home Of her
in the interior of New York
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