Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-19
HARRIS Han A LOVE.
saia to Have Been Engaged. to . Cir,
While Ia the shadow of Death

AOAANUAlS. SoAAylC W. AluIIIS was UuC
hero ola romance while he was await
ing death in the Tombs prison. A
girl who met him by chance one Sum
day in one of the gloomy corridors,
fell in love with him, visited him
daily and fondly awaited the moment
of his release, when she expected that
he would marry her. Her devotion
to him was as great as his mothers,
and she is believed to be "the young
woman dressed in deep mourning"
who accompanied Carlyle Harris
cousin, e. M. Hill, alias Edward Nor
rill, from New York to Albany and
attended the funeral of the executed
criminal. At the tombs the girl
called ferself "Carrie JONES'" That
was not her real name.
Nina Van Zandt's mad marriage to
August Spies, who was n of the con-
denmed Chicago anarchists, was not
nearly as peculiar as 'Carrie Jones'"
in~fatuation for the convicted murder
er. Miss Van Zandt was not prom
ised in marriage to any man when she
fascinated the anarchist leader and
married him in his cell beneath the
very shadow of the gallows. Yet the
girl who offered herself in marriage
Ito Harris deliberately broke an en-
'agemcnt of marriage with a worthy
nd estimable young man in order to
Jecomc the aflancei bride of a man
Who had been indicted for stealthily
administering poison to his school,
,irl wife, so that she died. Her only
excuse was that in him she had found
her affinity.
AS nearly as any n about the
Tombs can remember, the grucsomc
love affair began early in December.
1881. Carrie Jones had visited the
gloomy old prison with a band of
young women and a few young men,
who had volunteered to cheer the liz
mates by singing songs to the accom-
panimcnt of a small organ. Miss
Jones was apparently fascinated by
the handsome, plausible s%oft-voiced
young prisoner. She fingered longer
than any of her companions, and Har-
ris' prOtestat.Uns of innocence aroused
her to enthusiasm in his behalf. She
returned to the Tombs with the band
of hymn singers on the following Sun
day. Somehow, with the help of that
diplomacy which only women UNDER
stand, she managed to enjoy 10 min
uteS of conversation with Harris
alone.
Shrewd and clever as he was, it did
not take him long to discover that she
was infatuated with him. When she
asked whether lie would see her if She
called some time before the next Sun
day, he answered that he would be
charmed to receive her as best he
could amid his poor, wretched sur
roundings.
ssMiss Jones" called on the con-
denmed wife p%oisoner the next day.
She no longer wore the diamond set
in a strip of gold that marked her as
the aflianced bride of another man.
She had told her promised husband
very plainly that she could never
marry him, because she loved anoth-
er. When Harris was removed from
the upper tier of cells down to the
condemned row in the tombs, she be-
gan to call upon him every day.
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Whether she proposed marriage to
him, OF whether he. with unbounded
faith in his good fortune, asked her
to be his wife, is a secret which now
rests in her keeping alone. But it is
certain the pair became engaged to be
married.
Carrie Jones paid her last visit to
Harris after Recorder Smythe had re-
fused to grant him a new trial. Pris-
on discipline forbade him seeing any
stranger after that, and, under the
rules, Miss Jones was a stranger. Up
TO the last moment she never lost
hope that Harris life would be spared.
She was n of the hardest workers in
bringing forward new evidence to help
him to a new trial.
Have You Heard:
That one of the hard things to bear
in life is suspense?
That to learn how to wait is some
times the secret of success?
That often you only exhaust your.
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