Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-01


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pock 10 . hatcher he had drawn better
platarss dow ~ evil and made crime
has study OF his life. Bat tAs day OF
rstribation AS fast closing In upon
ham, The murder Of Mario Dsisro wss
soon 10 be avenged, and before loag no
~osala realize shs Awtal Justice OF the
cd Mosaic law-~A lifs for life s.
And yes how poor . recomp~nss.
ptobhed Of Der life happiness when it
WAS iast seginhsng 70 assert itself. all
that the victims widow received In re-
turn Was she knowledge thar resribusion
had inALly overtas<en the one WHO had
robbed her Of her treasure.
And. compared 20 Vslasquex, what .
Fearful price had she paid To secars re-
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been spent: wasted. in fact ia running
70 earth nonstrosity who had 81 last
hallen into her hands through sheer ac-
siient Gas the greater part Of the world
would say, though there are those who
would see in such an accident the won
dcrful Vaccination OF an urrelenting
Ruler, who has said: Vengeance is
1nlne."
Never until now had velasquez re-
lfected on the possible results of the re-
lpalsive acts Of his life. His Immunity
from discovery had only tended to
harden bis soul aud he had ever been
prompted by one impulse ouiy--greed
,for weslth-which when acquired had
never brought him any genuine pleas
sure. He had never once stopped TO
stink Of the price his victims paid TO
satisfy his own insasiate desires. He
had been absorb bed In self and had lived
"a lilo In which none others shared Z
Iparl Bu, now that the hellish conceits
los his debssed mind could only spend
themselves en- four prison walls, he was
forced 10 thinl-
Leon velasquez, running riot az one
of the most active OF the DEVILS en-
missarieA had never paused TO think Of
the exactncss with which Gods mills
grind all. had never thought 1t worth
Ibis while 20 consider that those who es-
cape the mills the longest are in the
end ground more quickly and relent-
lessly. He Was in the mills now and
abs great stones were beginning to re-
lvoive; so closely, so surely increasing
ithe speed Of their revolutions every mo-
hssns never 70 cease grinding until she
xrist should be One ~ the finest powder.
HIS nights grew restless, sleep al
Snost forsook him. and the little
knzsches OF pspping which he did
eomesimss secure were only nsful
klumbers disturbed by horrible dreams
which brought 10 his mind In turn.
bike . moving panorama, tho scenes Of
flis devilish acts Bold ~ he had been
Through life. he nov shuddered under
ths shadow Of the gaHows, and 50 fear
full Was the mental torture that at times
hs wished thas the end might be speedy.
When the bolts shot into their SOCK
eta across his prison door all hope fed,
and be know full we'll that ne would.
after all these years of liberty. meet the
penalty OF MS greatest crime. From the
hour OF his arrest he had been moody.
ard entirely ceased TO speak to those
who approached him He neither ex-
dressed hope OF escape nos murmured
at his tate. Some I'm ned that the
aerribie visions Of . just punishment.
were perhaps the cause of his silence.
shough others svowed that he was only
sfseditAssag bold and hual plunge for
liberty. Be that As Is might. he per-
sisted I'm . mozoss resicence-
While ne fingered in prison Mrs. Do
1aro and bes friends were taking res,
from the inssnss exci temsnt az pretty
little Engiish watering place. trying In
vain 20 foraet for tine she final TRACE
dy Ia which they must take an import
ant part
done by the scenes De had witnessed.
HE made basried determination TO re-
surn 70 Ane~ics end never again assist
a. such exciting performances Tie ~
eeived SO severe = nervous shock that
all shs poetry Of bis soul wss crushed
ont and ne was compelled 40 postpone
forsn iudehnf.e period the writing Of an
ode 20 Father Thames. in which he had
avowed his isseHeas 81 putting q vast
amount Of ressarca labor and thought.
The world was thas robbed OF snosher
literary gen.
He vas sraa - biz word. and . week
after vsissqaez's Incarceration Mr.
Rlodger's little party Of friends x5com-
panied him - Fussoa station and babe
him God speed" on his journey bona
Ahsus 6vs weeks Iatsr Ms Delsro
Arusida and Percy returned 20 London
4, meet the ssnessean detectives. shc
had arrived with the sxtrsdision papers
Is required Bat short space ~ time 50
se~rtece ere arras xemenss for Velasqaez'.
pemovsl 70 California soil where sht
law reqni~-d that he should take bis
trsai fse tne crime Of murder Every
ho<gy concerned vas anxious - start ~
scon "a voss4ble. ard Is vas arranged
that shs vsseousr should b taken by
On. sane ssssme- ss she Others, and M
rne mate sny dsEsr 20 shis excepi
Arniis. Wien she heard che decision
he said: We must nos travel On the