Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-28
THE VEILED WOMAN.
4 MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS VISIT TO
SING SING Prison.


Her Appe&rapee. and Win her 1~se
e.,.r~., stand. and watches the Line q
ra..i.,a PRISONERS KNOW to No One
Stag sing PRISON has d mysterious WON
an Visitor hut that is nsss rcisarkanie,
.seaass sevs,, -eighths Of the visitors %
the essnvicts there are women. ihss ~
bav. burdens Of sorrow TO bear, bsas rafs4s
sf their own making, and they come ails
go. wear in and year cat. to see ieNest "iiss
" ituyn the world does net love ana h'ss ~.
behind bars rhe gray prison walls iiula
all that is siear in life 10 these moeisefs-
wives sweeJhesrss and sisters
MANY romance brought 10 a HaSic
climax by the uaersiless ksnd OF the ~"
+ suggested by these untlring sisA'vss,
Even the ubiquitous haekmeh wh" liiAsee
the Sing Sing railway station SEEM !" ~
preciate This, for when these unhappy eii.s
aiiyht from the trains aud lock uIieasily
an5 eli consciously about the drivers real,
Ire int,litiyely the nature of their erf'na
ana treat them with iofePnce rarely
met with in their class. They approach
respectfully, aud in sabdned tones say kind-
ly, 40 the prison madam or his"
this way 10 the prison.
Aiout one visitor only is there any niys-
terry Others give their names and 20 70
see some cOg,viet who is known to the Keep
ers This one goes veiled, and no enc
knows who il is she goes u see.
A tall, 1.-THE. graceful woman. Httired
all ia black and wearing heavy BLACK
veil, occupied the seat in u ear directly III
front uf and opposite that occupied by
World reporter one saturday recently
She WA, uneasy and restless. though moi
obstr,,sjveIv 80 She carried herself with
the fiue reserve Of woman OF hretsihe
accustomed To do just such things Some
time. she would look anXiously about me
ear. as if in fear OF being recognized,
though with BIER veil recognition, even by
an intimate friend would clearly have
been impossible.
An old time hacknan at the Sing sing
station approached her as she alishted-
She got into his ramshackle conveyance as
if she had been in it before. and 1t ratified
up the hill and over the stohy road along
the bluff To the prison few hundred Narus
in advance of the equally noisy convey
ance of The World man.
IL WIS the hour ut which the convicts-
having finished their evening meal IN the
great feeding hali--it would raise the
ghost of Brillat Savariu to call it dining
roum--march in lockstep to their cells
I..,.fr sir Fl,4 IhEV
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