Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-12

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 It was about two o'clock on the afternoon of the day that Mir. Parker went to Workers the last time that the mayor of New York City, sitting in his office overwhelmed with business, was told by the policeman who guarded the door that a wofhan wanted to see him.
 "What does she wantI' asked the mayor.
 II don't know, sir, but suppose it is some complaint about . policeman or health inspector. She's poorly dressed and has a letter in her hand"
 The mayor looked at hls correspondence and at his watch and said: "Well show her in"
 When the woman was presented to the mayor she tremblingly laid a letter on his desk and said: "Mr. Mayor, if you will please to read this, I think you will see that 8 great injustice has been done that you can make right"
 Tho mayor opened the letter without 8 Word. As he read his brows contracted and an expression of ipcreduhty came over his face. This Is what he read:
 MIR. MAYOR: Ihave just this day learned that my husband has been convicted of mur- der; and, as understand the matter, am his victim am too i'll to come in person to the city, hut the bearer will tell you where am, and will take yeu or an officer to me. She will also explain my story and circumstances. Re spectfully, LEoNORA BRowNLow.">
 "Who gave you this letter, madame" 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 fal ok d., would take place soon."
 The mayor was puzzled. He did not be- ieve the story at all, thinking 1t shrewd invention of Brownlow's friends to gain time. Alter a few minutes thought he summoned the district attorney, and to- gether they listened to the woman's story
 It is natter" said the district attorney, that needs attention, at any rate, If it is a scheme concocted in behalf of Brownlow by his friends or Lawyer Parker, We must dls- cover who IS responsible and bring him or them to justlce."
 l. Then turning to the woman, who said her name was Mary Donnelly, he said:
 "l 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 lahu "iVhouI her' 4ne poor woman pro tested in vain against thls treatment at the hands of the law. Thedistrict 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 go- ing to Yonkers to get at Mary Donnelly's house, crossed the ferry into New Jersey, and after short railroad ride engaged a carriage to take them to that point of the palisades that overhangs the river near Honkers. There, after crossing private grounds, they came to a path down the cliff made up of stone steps and patches of wooden stairway that zigzagged hither and yon across the rocks until it reached the