San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-29

LOOK Ncty Oiooo III - s' ~:
tors day, you cannot see de bresi,
dentr But l say, must see him; L
have a message from deBurkee Dimes
and here is Meester Browns card, an
he told me not to dell you anything
else,' and I handed him your card.
He looked at it and told me to wait a
minute. Den he went away an den
l vas frightened. Pretty soon he
come back an he say You may see
de PRESIDENT an l went in to where
de PRESIDENT was. :,
TT was beeg, beeg high room' all
very gran and l vas awful fraid. he
President sat at beeg table covered
with bapers. He looked very cross;
he had a cigar in his mouth; and oh,
I vas very much afraid and wished l
hadn't come. Den l tink me OF me
boor husband and me children, an l
say, .Meester PRESIDENT, l have Pc
tition to you, an 1 handed de petition
to him. His face grew blacker and
blacker as he read it, an my heart
went way, way down in me. Den he
saw, 1T is no use-I can't do some
dings for you and he lay de petition
down on de table looking very cross.
did you read de writing on de
back, Meester president? Did you
see what Meester Brown wrote?" |
cried, wild my heart in me throat. DE
President he pick it up again an he
read de writin on de back an hees
face-oh' it grew so much lighter, an
he say.
"'Humph, if Brown will put dis
man to work on de Burkee Dimes, he
had better be dere dan in de state
prison'
"An' den he write little an he
handed de paper to me an he say,
Your husband is vree !! an [ cried an
said, Tank you, Meester PRESIDENT
an made curtsy an den l ran for
de train, an here | am an am SO
glad!'
Capital so far" "but dent let's
waste time-let's go and get your hus-
band.
So we ordered hack and started
for the county jail. Arrived there,
we found that Schwarz had been taken
to the state prison 40 miles away,
Just an hour and ahalf before. Well we
telegraph to the prison that he was a
free man, and went down to bring
him back in the next train. We
found our telegram had arrived just
too Schwarz had been taken to
the prison barber shop and had lost
his fine beard and his hair. But he
hadn't been behind the prison bars.
can't describe the meeting of Sch
war; and his wife. We all cried and
were very happy.
Well, brought that man back to
Burkee and gave him his old place on
the Times. gave notice to the en-
ployes that nothing was ever to be
said to him about the past, and that
whoever did so would be promptly
discharged. The next thing to do
was to keep the story out of the other
paper, the Burkee Republican. Now
the editor of the Republican had the
reputation of being q heartless man
who would never keep anything out
of print no matter what the circum-
stances were. 1 was not much ac-
quainted with him, except through
the editorial amenities" we threw at
each other daily in true western style.
So it was with some misgivings that
I called on him at his office. There
1 told him the whole story. When 1
got through he was wiping away the
tears and so was 1. He said nothing,
but summoned his local editor.
"Mr. Short" he said, when the
local editor appeared, you have heard
of this Schwarz case, suppose?"
Eyes, sir.
"Wen, sir, never refer to it in the
Republican in any way, under penalty
of instant discharge. Instruct your
reporters to the same effect.
very well sir. answered the local
editor, withdrawing,
returned to my Office in happy
state of mind. No mention was ever
made of the affair in any paper. We
all helped the man up as best we
could. There never wasa more faith
full worker, and to-day he holds res
ponsible position on the same paper
at large salary, while, if he hadn't
been pardoned he would still have
two or three years of prison life before
him, and the Lord only knows what
would have become OF his children.