The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-02
LIVES THAT ARE HOPELESS.
"WUY DONT THEY LET NE SEE MY
BIBY JUST ONCE MORE9"
Women who are Serving Life Sentences for
Murder" G cd has Forgiven Ne, hut Man
VIII Not "-'rhe Cnrgin-smith Tragedy.

F,pn ae De',oa ne Pros.
Over the grim stone walls OF the womcn's
ward at the Detroit House of Correction clam.
hors woodbine. and birds have cen there and
spartOws are rearing thsir young and chater-
Ing to each other all day long II j. ll,asH mt TO
see those cold wdls thus covered, and ygt one
signs ut the relnembrance THAT the ward holds
come Of the saddost hnaits in the world. Tho
other day' - our rrrorier entnred women =
u woman Some thirty years Of agr. WHO has
already served eleven years OF a Ie s'nten'e.
She and her husband were sent 70 Jackson Tor
life for attempting to poison his father, or
Lathcr for poisoning him with lnlcnl TO- XII.
The dose WIS not successfully administered,
and the victim was the witness who sent him to
prison. Three or four years ago tho husband
was pardpned out 10 tie, but ", ar ol liberty
revived him. and ne mastered the disrusc TINT
had brought him near deaths door. a year or
two ago he was married again. ana all turs9
facts are known TO the wife. who pa"os VI and
down the corridor, and weepingl u.ks:
Have ] net suffered enoughf Have not
She was transferred from Jackson two or
tmor years Ggo, AMI ~ present is an assista1t
ia her ward. Men have cons idercd the life s'n-
tenGc too severe ana ~ She hNs boon imuurtd
eleven long years, and her husband is frec her
fri"uis hav" hopes TINT She VIII be pArdoned
within another year. The torurcs of con-
science aud the pang- ~ sorrow have made her
look like one pl sixty years. ii art free tom or
row. she would shrink from the ruhlir like
frightened ch ild. aud the m 'rry shouts u happy
children would fall uIOn her sore heart ik,
codS on a coffin II WAS not so hard t. boar
uUIll 81" Difsul u nope. TOT NfNlr .htf lWe
WIS pale AMI re- 'luir, aud the il4ah 81 her "ycq
proved that h. lul l"i rmined 10 liv" ON. and
make no si-n WIN" whiting Ter death: Now
that there j. hope she tr-nlhles Ike lent whom
a strange sfrp -o' l- oI the stair. Hope and
dysItir fl he' li turn. anq she l. lA-t
wearing away ln' % cell H. On. II the cOsest
On 'ht corridor
sitting at meudnf tnie n, the head Of the
laundry rDom wR- Rosa -'hwristull. a woman
nov % y,ars o.i ~. VA e.onvicird o h ~.
nnni- Nlsuhing. 1hd the = htrhre was Tor ne.
Ten ipuE yours have violet away since the
prison dlHr ilr-t shut behind her. and che wi
not have t7 e'Hy ap iher ten. Cray haired and
trembling. She knows tuH, death Will soon come
t. soy her FREQ. There nre tears IN her oycs rs
she looks NJ. hut no ray of hopn flashes across
IS not hoping Tor a pardon. II one were
granted her she might not he ahls t. Mud ki,h
were numbered. 1t would give her iiborty and
sunshine and now scenes but what are those
p p wesn WORN w6a r !. I'm re- by r. a les
fore her pardon was a week oidf There y
more sympathy ior her beeause sh9 i 50 old.
she pleaded guilty when arraignci Tor trial.
and sh" neither defend ri nor protested. Ton
dr.nry dismal slow passing years have been
toll I'd or on Times sounding bolt. and
hor sentence 10 not enled-QnN nearer tho
last day. Her heart has boon pierced agnin and
aKnin by the Stngs ~ consfieLcc AMI many q
night, when decu silenc" reigncl thr0uenOpt
per' words:
Tn end MAY moi eomo tli- y, ar nor ngvt Dut
II is no. Cur away. some morning wa % h.r c.ll
10, tht.Wn nr"n sI' VIII s,,1n 'Y on
and then the word VII pass through III prison
that ..rau Una Is dead
Loss than year ago Julia Cargin WIS con .
tented wife and happv mother having an the
comforts OF 81 homo ul ~ ~ 81 DNNsc .nnc1 us
any other woman IN the lana Yesterday when
| our reporter saw her i'm the sewing room
at the House Of Correction. her 'n., was bag
gard her eyes sunkon, her hair turning gray
! doubled In n few hr # months. Snr came To-
| Nlchism with her husband 70 visit "a friend
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