Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-03-13
LIST RESPITED.
Governor stOckley stays His Sem
fence for Sc Years.


fence for Sc Years.
Austin Harrington, Esq one of the
oou usel for Lewis y. List, in response to q
morning, received the following reply at
p. IN:
DOVER, March IL, 'S4-Austin Harrington,
Esq; Sentence of Lewis F. List suspended
till second Friday in March, 1910. Will for
ward documents to sheriff.
WILLIAM +. CAUsEY,
Secretary Of State.
The frat ray of happiness which has
broken the gloom which has surrounded
the Lists since their imprisonment and
sentence tor the killing of George b.
Tay lor, WAS impaired by Mrs. Lewis F.
List, who Tuesday told her husband
that Governor Stcckley had respited him
tor term of years covering lis natural
life.
Directly after the message from Score
tary OF State Causey was received here,
Mrs. List was informed OF It's purport
She hastily proceeded to the railroad
station, and went to New Castle, reaching
the Jail it'll all possible speed. She was
soon at the wicker door OF her usband's
cell. and at once impaired the joyful
information that his exoellenoy had
spared his life.
Both prisoners we're almost overcome
by the news, and the three wept together
in gratitude aud thankfulness. The father,
who displays the more emotion of the two
occupants of the cell, expressed his
thankfulness in volumes of tears. The
son, 80 near to whom the shadow of
death fitted, was nable to speak for q
few moments, and seemed overwhelmed
At the governors humane act.
Both prisoners had been in deep
despair and the most harrassiug fear lest
the governor should decline to interfere
In the matter. They counted the
minutes as they passed, and began to
feel that the flight Of each one brought
the son nearer to the gallows and the
hangman's moose. At the first approach
of the wife they were in some doubt as
to the nature of her message, but, upon
aftsr-thought knew she would not come
with bad tidings, were quite prepared for
her announcement, which she made as
soon as she had regained her breath from
the speedy walk from the station to the
jail. She was 3 most welcome visitor,
aud with the prisoners mingled her tears,
undisturbed for some time.
The attorneys, Messrs. Austin Hsr
rington and Harry Sharpley, Esqs., WHO
labored 30 zealously to save the your
mans life, visited the prisoners later IN
the afternoon, and repeated the purpUft
OF the dispatoh received. Both men ex-
pressed their deep gratitude and thanh
tuness for the efforts which had 80 char
itsbly been exerted, and resulted in
sverting the death sentence Of tie
younger List which was to have been
executed on Friday.
The elder List referred to his past life,
aud held that those whom he had assisted
when he had means had maligned him
since he has been In Jail. This affected
him deeply.
The younger List is in bad health and
suffers greatly from an enlarg ,ment of the
heart. He is about 80 years OF age and
WAS in delicsts health when arrested
His prison life, it is said, ia rapidly de.
velopingh is eonsumptive tendencies, and
It is not probable that ne will live
many years. He yearns for a
breath of fresh air, and says he
would give everything he has in
the world tor 15 minutes in the Jail yard,
but this was not allowed him while under
sentence of death. They are confined in
cell together in the second tier, and
spend their time in reading or making
small articles of wood or marble.