Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-08

. panions, cripple, he avoided society. snt
was never seen from Saturday night unit
Monday morning and had not in three year
attended place of amusement. and devoted
mself to business in daylight and to study
/ .. night-what he studisdwas unknown SIS nc
/ .nversation would draw him out, and hi
book case was closed with panel doors and Sc
curely locked. And save his clothing and
books he had never INDUCED himself in 8
comfort or luxury. His efforts had paid the
most of his fathers debts, almost educated
his brother and sister, cleared up the NOR.
age on the home, and enabled the family to
a cripple for life, abandoned by everyone,
deprived of honor and character, hated BY
his mother, despised by his brother and sister,
his father almost dying, he was lying in Jail,
only asking that he be not removed until bis
! father grew better or died.
This was the history IS CLEANED it at street
corners, and the hotel, and 1 wondered how
with such feeling Of sympathy be was con-
victed or why pardon was not applied for,
and venturing to inquire, l was informed
that if pardoned he would be disgraced any
how and his earning would go to benefit the
same in gratis they had before, and he would
have more liberty in prison than he had en-
joJed for years, and that hatred for the bal
ance of the family was the moving cause of
his conviction, and that he could be pardoned
at any time, but none would be granted un-
til the promise was exacted that he would if
liberated, live in the future for himself. and
not as an automaton for the benefit of Others.
stayed in that town one year, and OBJ
tanned employment, ss clerk in the old store
of Henry and Son, forgetting for the time
my legal aspiration which passed into other
hands. TIE old man Henry ply sically grew
stronger. but was mental wreck, and used
to come back to the desk day after day and
! look ut Inc and say; "Enoch never stayed
away from his desk SO long before, he must
be sick, l will go and see."
The brother and sister, never came home
and the Free Masons supported the old folks
and Enoch seemed to be relieved to think his
father and mother were cared for and that
his father could not realize his disgrace.
The impresson on my mind was so firm
that years afterwards, after l returned north,
the image of Enoch Henry would come be-
fore me aud refuse to leave me, and l was
sometimes prompted to write letter and ask
for the sequel of, to me, this very mournful
and pathetic story.
CHAPTER III.
In 1881. a merchant in New York City,
who was An old schoolmate of mine, desired
me personally to go to Georgia and attend
the taking of some dispositions in case Il
some magnitude, and after was through l
concluded to return by another route and as
was sitting in the cars the conductor calls
out-the scene of my year in the South. and
home of Enoch Henry, forgetful of stop-over
tickets or anything else grabbed my gr
and bounded off Of tho train. and soon was
whirling to the "City Hotel" where after sup
per l enquired the way to --s law office.
being informed where it YVES l wendell my
way to it, and after chatting over the change
in the South and the town, l ventured to en-
quire after Enoch Henry.
The sequel was as follows; Three years af-
er had left, Enoch's sister ran away with
gambler, who had ruined her, and who had
never been heard of until month before my
visit, his brother was a confirmed inebriate,
his mother died from the disgrace Of the
daughter and son, neither of them had ever
visited her or corresponded with her after
Enoch's conviction, his father had died. but
prior to his death, had recovered his reason,
and made written confession to be published
after death, in which he stated that all the
crimes charged to Enoch were committed by
him. (the old man. and the money all used
to pay debts and family expenses and to send
the other children to school. and that his
cowardice prevented him from shielding
Enoch from punishment, and that he always
told Enoch the money came from an estate,
and cautioned him not to tell his mother or
anyone else; that when Enoch was arrested
he feigned stupifcation to avoid seeing him,
and that he never spoke to Enoch afterwards,
and that he bae suffered from remorse and
cowardice year by year snd was now glad
that he was dying, and could wipe out the
stain on Enoch's name.
After the old mans death the brother had |
endeavored to get the home, but as Enoch |
was alive and the sister unheard of he could
only get one-third and had mortaged bis
share. Enoch was psrdoned out. but re-
manned in prison from choice. as book
keeper, and had there died, and the property
descended to the other children, and the sis-
ter had just been heard from, and had sent
the deed for her share of Enoch's estate,
earned by him after his pardon; but the
brother had set up claim that she was dead,
and wanted the entire estate himself, but the
brother had died in drunken brawl but 8
day or TIVE before, and the court now declined
to make any order until the identity of the
sister was proved, and that the matter now
stood in that way.
l LEFT mex. morning and have never yet
been able to free myself from contemplating
The sacrifices made by Enoch Henry, and the
,nly rational conclusion can come to il that
he subject Of devoticn to his family and filisl
owe fr his father, he was . monomaniac.
Around his neck after death Was found .
mail leather sack, and in it was q piece OF
paper on which was writte,; 81 have not