Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-24
TALE OF A CONVICT'S BRIDE.
Burglar Days Pretty Wife Recites the
story of Her Woe.


story of Her Woe.
Thisi the story OF young wife who
suddenly Gnds out that the man whom
she loves is a thief; the story OF wife
who looks forward nine years to re-
union with him who was taken last week
to Sing Sing; whose tears, whose
prayers are all for him. "We'll both OF
us be young when he comes out" she
saws. "I'll stick by him. He's mine;
he's my husband. | married him for
better or worse The half OF the shame
I'll take. And well be together yet In
spite of the whole world
PERHAPS that sounds affected. But
anybody who heard her say these words
and noted how she tried TO hide her
tears could not have doubted the in
tensity and sincerity of her feeling
Perhaps TO some the fact that she is
illiterate, that she says folly" when
she means "follow," that she doesn't
hesitate to announce her intention 70
lie to her parents as TO the tate OF ner
husband. that she smokes cigarettes
and drinks beer, may destroy the pathos
OF the situation. 1t may even be that
it is untrue that she didn't
know he was a thief. But,
reduced to it's lowest terms, ii is the
story of a wife who loved her husband
and all at once finds him torn from her
for nine years. 1t is tragedy OF the
commonplace. One cannot reasonably
ask everyday life to produce a high
bred dame weeping over noble hus-
band condemned to Sing Sing.
She is the wife of the so-called oval
lace" the man who robbed fats and
made her think he played the races and
always won. One but green country
girl would ever have believed such an
inherently improbable tale. Wives are
opposed to gambling. They hate 1t
with every fibre of their nature-when
their husbands lose.
The mans name is not Wall ace. II
is DAILY. And his mother lives on Co.
lumbus avenue, il tossing on a sick-bed,
broken in body and mind, wailin g and
weeping for her first born, can be called
living. In the same Fat is the woman
who married DAILY, believing him TO be
the finest man that ever lived, and still
loving him, maintaining with every
word that she can utter that be was
treated shamefullY, put upon and scan
dalously abused. Not II she can help
it is she going to let her father and
mother know what his absence means.
Il am not going to tell you what my
fathers name Is or where he lives" she
cried. IF they find out where my hus-
band Is, why l can TX up a story for
them. They's lots Of folks gets into
trouble with the races, amt they?
Look at Webster"
When she told about her being mar
ried, part of the time she said IL was at
New Haven, and part Of the time she
said II was Hartford.
Now, look here, II wasn't at either
place, was it?" she was asked.
"WelI, you can just say Connecticut, v
was the reply.
She gave the reporter her photograph
never thinking that the photographers
address was on the bottom OF the card
and on the back, too.
"Ah," she said, ''that gives the whole
snap away, don't it?" Then she took a
shawl pin and scratched out the name
OF the LOHns IL was bub ApHtA
mind. LISA small town where nobody
would take the trouble TO figure out
New York police cases.
"Me fathers curse would follow me 70
me grave" said she, eff were 70 bring
disgrace on his name, for he wrote me
so. not knowing what trouble I was 60
ing to have. Land. l didn't know it,
either. I never knew what trouble was
before"
To this town in Connecticut came IN
May, 1891, a stone-cutter named DAILY.
He was introduced to a very pretty girl.
Her photograph shows that. He liked
her and she got so she ''kinder" liked
him. That was her shsmeiaced &C
count OF their counting. That is all she
would say of their moonlit walks and
talks together, Of the kiss at each part
ing. OF the longing for each other when
apart. They were engaged from june
till September. They quarrellsd once
and broke of the engagement. But
neither could get along without the
other. The whole world limped and
went peg-legged when they were apart
So in September they we're married in
the Catholic Church OF the town, and .
fine wedding they bad, according 70 the