The morning call., 1890-12-30
" WHAT WILL MOTHER SAY p
Sent to Heaven From the GalIows, but
One Thought Thrilled Him.

Sent to Heaven From the GalIows, but
One Thought Thrilled Him.
Two young men Killed q hotelkeeper.
1t was at Delaware Water Gap. He had
caught them stealing the money out of the
counter drawer. The two men were ar
rested aud were both sentenced to be hanged
at Stroudsburg. Pa. They escaped one
night from jail, and one Of them was never
heard of from that day to this. It is be-
lieved that he was lost in the swamps or the
wild woods, and that some day, when
nothing but fragments of his bones will
indicate that they were once the skeleton of
human being, what is left of will be found.
Il don't know why we killed Brodbead,
the hotel man," said the young fellow who.
unlike his companion, managed to es-
cape from the woods. ''We were hungry.
we were roaming. and when we got to that
MOTEL we saw our chance for good meal
or its worth" This was the way the Young
fellow spoke to me the night before he had
to die. I've not made up my mind yet
whether l should try to escape or not," he
went on. IF had bare chance. .'Td get
caught and / tell you frankly I've felt
worse since was pulled back here after get
ting little freedom than / did the day
was sentenced to be hanged"
Ihe prisoner had once been clerk 1t was
pretty well proved, in the employe of A, 7.
Stewart, in this city. He and his companion,
1t was sald, had been brought over from the
old country by the IN erchant prince, with
many 9th ers, at time when famine spread
des0lation over the land. at all events, no
one ever knew the real name OF the man
who was executed. Brooke, l believe was
the name his friend who was lost in the
wood had given.
!" II | could be freed to-day what would l
do: you remarked" he said to me the morn
lngof the execution, which took place in the
afternoon. lie was wonderfully bright
fellow. and when he spoke, no matter what
he said, he gave evidence that he had, be-
lore he became veritable tramp, been a
gentleman of education.
l would go down on my knees" he said
II knew was liberated, and thank heaven
Tor my deliverance. Then I'd take an oath
: never to go to bed without saving nv
prayers. nor leave my room In the morning
without doing the same thing. The man
WHO does that sincerely will never 90 TO
jail All, had followed her advice Ia not
be here to-day. She told me never to for
get to say my prayers. l did forget, ard
-:-do you hear that timber thrown on the
stone floor outside this cell-thar. the result
oftorgettlng all about what she told me-
the scaffofdt"
!, The young man threw back his head as he
thrust his hands through his hair aud
'ments. Who gave me that good advice?
You ask. The sweetest woman that ever
lived-my mother" Here he broke down.
but soon rallied, and then walking up to
where l stood ne exclaimed, as he put his
hands on my shoulders and looked at me
straight in the face: DO you know why
I'M not afraid to die now! It's because Pm
repentaiit and she is in heaven. believe
IN Gods mercy, and know will see her
once more. He burst into tears and added,
with a half cry, that l shall never forget as
long as live; "But my God what will she
say when she learns what has sent me from
this earthF',
a. Changing OF keys. swinging open of
doors and the appearance of a Clergyman
and the jailer made me recover from the
thrilling effect of this heart-rending cry. The
prisoner died that afternoon. Mother"
was the last word he uttered as the drop
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