The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21

IN.
When the woman was presented to the
mayor she trembliEgly laid letter on his
desk and said: Mr.. Mayor, if you will please
to read this, l think you will see that
great injustice has been done that you can
make right"
The mayor opened the letter without a
word. AS he read his brows contracted
and an expression of incredibly came over
his face This IS what he read:
"MR. MAYOR: have just this day learned
that my husband has been convicted of MUIR
der; and, as I understand the matter, I am h S
victim. I am too i'll to come in person to the
city, but the bearer VIII tell you where am
and will take you or an officer to me. She will
also explain my story and circumstances Re-
spectfully, LEoNORA BROwNLow."
"Who gave you this letter, madames"
asked the mayor, sharply.
"Mrs. Brownlow, SIR" she responded.
"She has been stopping at my house, oppo-
site Yonkers, for long time, and has been
very sick. She came unexpectedly one
night, or rather morning, for she had
walked almost all the way. We never see
the papers, and never knew what had hap
pened until heard some people in Yonkers
talking about the hanging of Il rich man as
would take place soor."
The mayor was puzzled. He did not be-
ieve the story at all, thinking it shrewd
invention of Brownlow's friends to gain
time After few minutes thought he
summoned the district attorney, and to-
gether they listened to the woman's story
ut is matter" said the district attorney,
THAT needs attention, at any rate. If it is a
scheme cOnc0cted in behalf of Brownlow by
his friends or Lawyer Parker, we must dis
cover who is responsible and bring him or
them to Justice
Then turning to the woman, who said her
name was Mary Donnelly he said
81 will have an officer accompany you to
your home"
Instead of sending an officer with the
woman, Mary DOnnelly, TO her house, she
was locked up in the House of Detention as
witness, and two officers were sent on the
errand without her. The poor woman pro-
tested in vain against this treatment at the
hands of the law. The district attorney and
the chief of police thought that the matter
was altogether too important to allow such
witness to escape over the borders into
another State. The officers, instead of 60
ing to YOnkerS to get at Mary Donnelly's
house, crossed the ferry into New Jersey,
and after short railroad ride engaged
carriage to take them TO shat point of the
palisades that overhangs the river near
Yonkers. There, after crossing private
grounds, they came to path down the
cliff made up of stone steps and patches of
wooden stairway that zigzagged hither and
yOn across the rocks until 1t reached the
bottom. There they were within a few
feet of the river, and short walk along
the banks brought them to a low white
house nesting against the rocks. Their
knock at the door was Immediately an
swered by no less Il person thar Mr. Henry
Parker. He was not surprised to see them,
and directed them at once into one of the
few small rooms of the house, where the of
fcers, TO their intense establishment, found
Mrs. Brownlow lying weak but conva-
lescent upon a couch.
The story of her flight and remarkable
disappearance was soon told. After her
quarrel with Mr. Brownlow upon the even
ing of the 18th she had gone to her room
IN desperate frame of mind 1t was her
intent to go away for a few days and COM
pei her hus band to sue for her pardon. She
looked through her letters and found three
from her old servant Mary Donnelly. One
of them, containing the womans address