News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-13
ROMANCE OF A PARDON.
sHREwD sUBTERFUGE TO HIDE THE
SHAME OF A MARRIED WOMAN.
RihInR the Jewel Case while His Paramour
Concealed Herself in n Closet and Sent
to Sing Sing Five Years for Burglary.

SHAME OF A MARRIED WOMAN.
RinInR the Jewel Case while His Paramou
| Concealed Herself in n Closet and Sen
| to Sing Sing Five Years for Burglary.
Some discussion has recently takel
place regarding a pardon which the
Governor of New York State has refused
to grant, says letter from Albany.
pardon which he granted some months
ago has never been published, nor die
he, as is usual with him, print the rea
sons. They would not now be allowed
to be given, if there was any probability
that the actual names concerned, as ever
the places where the incidents occurred
should be correctly given. The story i:
true romance, probably seldom
euualIed in the most emotional fiction
Early last spring a young man, named
for the present purposes Smith, was EN-
ployed as gardener by a very wealthy
gentleman, to be called for the present
purposes MIR. Jones, who lived we vii
say on the HUDSON, near New York. He
was discovered one afternoon by Mr..
Jones, on his unexpected return from
the city, in the very act of stealing from
Mrs. Jones's room, with some of hel
iewelry in his possession and her bureau
drawer opened and rifed. He was
seized and charged with burglary,
and, after vain endeavors to escape, adj
mitted his guilt and was imprisoned
Mrs. Jones was greatly distressed when
she heard of it, and begged hard that
he be not prosecuted, as he was great
favorite, being a youth of only nineteen,
of very handsome presence and rather
well educated. She pleaded so strong
" with Mr.. Jones thathe sought to hush
the matter up, but other servants had
been witnesses to the disturbance at his
detection, and they began to talk SC
freely of young Smiths guilt, that the
authorities compelled him to enter @
complaint. Smith was lodged in Jail,
had an early trial, promptly confessed
his gull and was sentenced to FIVE years
in Sing Sing. Mrs. Jones was SO over
come with grief that she was too sick
to attend the trial even to identify the
iewelry. After he had been in Sing Sing
few months, Smith was transferred, al
his own request, to Auburn.
A few months ago a lady, heavily
yelled, called to see the Governor and
was received by him at his public desk.
Without unwilling she said that she came
to see him about a pardon. He asked
her the particulars of the case, and she
stated that of young Smith, as above
narrated.
"On what grounds do you ask for a
pardon ?" said the Governor.
''He is innocent" she said, family.
"Can you prove that? Nothing more
i 10 Yoa,1o1 fbor YNroaf 70 fbof affant Pom
swered the Governor.
"Yes-I can prove it"
"Then I could possibly grant him a
1 could do. If your new evidence is
sufficient, that will be all you want.
What evidence have you?"
"He did not take the jewelry."
"If I remember rightly, he pleaded
guilty"
"But he is not guilty, Governor; in
deed he is not guilty"
'Are you relation of his ?"
eyes, sir" she replied, 81 am his sis
ter"
"Well, WE'LL" said the Governor,
somewhat blufly, "you see the District
Attorney, lay your evidence before him,
and on his sending it to me, l will con,
slider the application"
The lady fingered, and in trembling
voice and low tone said:
"Can not speak to you alone upon
the matter ?"
Somewhat perplexed the Governor
escorted her into an inner room, when
an astounding story was told him by a
beautiful woman in great mental an
guish. She, too, was guilty. She
loved the handsome gardener, and she
was the wife whose Jewels had been
stolen. Upon the verge of discovery
of their secret by the husband, no means
of egress for the young lover which
would not be seen and excite suspicion
if not be proof, she had hastily hidden
herself in a closet while he had broken
open the drawer of the bureau and seized
the Jewels just in time to give the
astonished husband wrong clue to the
meaning of his presence there. The
lady told her story ita- her- fsce- buried
in her hands and trembling violently.
"For all these MONTHS" she said at
last, getting down on her knees, che
has been suffering there for me and
1 can do nothing but beg for him."
1t was many moments before the
Governor could reply. He is an i'm
questionable man and this case of dis
tress moved him very much. Presently
he said:
MADAM, if your story is true it will
become my duty to pardon him as not
guilty of the crime for which he is
charged. But 1 must have absolute
proof that it is true, and [ must have
proof that You are the person you repre-
sent yourself to be-"
She made gesture.
"Wait q moment. / must also re-
quire him, if pardoned, to absent him
self from the country for at least the
rest of his term, and 1 must be con-
WINGED from him that he did act, as you
say, solely in order to save you.''
Some days later one of the Governors
personal staff was quietly stopping at
small hotel in the village near which
Mr.. Jones was living. In the afternoon
he was waited upon by Mr.. Jones in q
coupe, who, upon Introducing himself,
warmly invited the staff officer to dine
with him at his home. At the head of
the table sat queenly beauty-the
heroine of the mysterious visit to the
Governor. She was pale and aeitated
and managed with difficulty to act her
part as hostess.
A few weeks later yelled lady called
in closed coupe upon the Warden
of Auburn Prison. Without the inter-
change of word the Warden conducted
her to a small parlor, where she was
left entirely alone. In a moment the
door was opened, and young man clad
in an ordinary citizens suit entered the
No l.
door was closed as soon as he entered.
In a moment he recognized the figure
before him. He sprang forward.
'For Heavens sake" he said, "why
are you here? How reckless you are.
You may expose all the past. For your
own sake be careful. I do not care so
long as you are saved"
She fell fainting to the floor, and i'm
mediately afterward the Warden en-
tered.
"You have made mistake" said the
prisoner, with a heavy sigh, as he
walked back to his cell. 81 do not
know the lady. She is a visitor for some
one else."
Concealed behind a screen at one end
of the room We're two members of the
Governors staff, sent there to test the
true nobility of the convict's soul. Five
days afterward the prisoner was par
doned, conducted to a steamer and
shipped to Europe for five years. He
carried 81 900, which was given him by
the woman he had lost.
On the journal of the Executive
Chamber this pardon is entered ON
book that is never seen by the public.
Now 1t Is the Cologne Bottle.