Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-11
SOMETHING WAS HELD BACK.

SOMETHING WAS HELD BACK.
Harris Said to Have Written Another State
ment.
Allan Harris. brother of Carlyle Harris. yes
terday at Albany expressed the opinion that his
brother prepared a longer and more detailed
statement than that published yesterday morn
ing. but that it contained things that the prison
authorities desired to suppress. Yesterday
morning he got at the department Of state
prisons the original manuscript Of the last
statement written by his brother. He then
visited Pardon Clerk Joyce at the executive
chamber and took away with him the petition
left with the governor by VIM. F. Howe asking
for clemency for Harris.
He said:
my mother read the statement in the
papers this morning and was very much sur
prised at the brevity OF 1t. CARLYLE showed
her great mass of matter when she made her
last visit and told her he would not trouble her
to read 1t then, but would request the warden
to give 1t to her after his death. This state
ment must have been written later. when he
was told that his other statement could not 60
out to the world
When the envelope containing the alleged
statement, as given out to the press, was re-
ceived at the prison superintendent Office it
was very bulky. The clerk explains this by
saying that the regular papers filed after each
execution were in it. But that is not true, be-
cause the papers are never filed inside of a
week. the result Of the autopsy having to be
added before it is mailed by the warden.
1t Is a curious fact that the papers were taken
up and shown to Gov Flower before the copies
for the press were made. 1t is safe TO assert
that several papers written by Harris will never
see the light of day. Mrs. Harris and her son
left for Mortified by the afternoon train.
A RoMANCE IN THE .'ToMBs"
The New York Herald prints the following:
Carlyle W. Harris the hero Of a romance
while he was awaiting death in the Tombs
prison.
girl who met him by chance one Sunday
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 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.
NJ. Hill, alias Edward Morrill," from New
York to Albany, and attended the funeral of
the executed criminal. At the "Tombs" the
girl called herself Carrie Jones'" That was
not her real name.
Nina Van Zandts mad marriage to August
Spies, one of the condemned Chicago anar-
chists, was not nearly peculiar" as Carrie
Jones'" infatuation for the convicted murderer.
Miss Van Zandt was not promised 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 to Harris deliber-
ately broke an engagement Of marriage with a
worthy and estimable young man in order to
become the afhanced bride OF man who had
been indicted for stealthily administering
poison to his school-girl-wife so that she died
Her only that in him she had fnu nd
her affinity.
WHEN THE AFFAIR BEGAN.
As nearly as any about the Tombs can
remember, the gruesome love affair began some
time early in December. 1891. Carrie Jones"
had visited the gloomy old prison with band
of young women and few young men who
had volunteered to cheer the inmates by sing
ing hymns to the accompaniment of a small
organ. Miss Jones was apparently fascinated
by the handsome, plausible, soft-voiced young
prisoner.
She fingered longer than any Of her COM
panions and Harris protestations of innocence
aroused her to enthusiasm in his behalf. She
returned to the Tombs with the band OF singers
on the following Sunday. Somehow with the
help Of that diplomacy which only women I'M
derstand. she managed to enjoy ten minutes Ut
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 he would
see her if she called some time before the
next Sunday, he answered that he would be
charmed to receive her as best he could amid
his poor. wretched surroundings.
Miss Jones" called on the condemned wife
poisoner the next day. She no longer wore the
diamond set in strip of gold that marked her
as the affianced bride of another man. She had
told her promised husband very plainly that
she could never marry him because she loved
another.
BELIEVED IN HARRIS INNOCENCE.
Perhaps the strangest part Of Carrie Jones' ~
strange love for Harris was her blind belief in
his innocence. She attended nearly every day
Of his trial. She heard most Of the evidence
upon which twelve unprecedented jurymen
founded their verdict of guilty OF murder in
the first degree. yet she only chung to Harris all
the firmer. When he removed from the
upper tier Of cells down to the condemned
| row" in the Tombs she began to call upon him
| every day.
They talked in whispers for hours. Whether
she proposed marriage to him or whether he,
| with unbounded faith in his good fortune.
asked her to be his wife is secret which now
rests in her keeping alone. But it is certain
that the pair became engaged to be married.
Mrs. Harris frequently saw her son in the
counsel room" Of the prison during Warden
Osborne's administration. Carrie Jones" had
! it is said, the same privilege occasionally. But
when Warden Fallon took charge of the city
prison, he changed all that. Harris was never
| taken to the counsel room" except to consul
with his counsel From this time the lover
| met in the corridor Of condemned row" WHERE
they were still happy in each others company
HER APPEARANCE.
| Those who have seen the girl scores Of time
| describe her as Of more than medium height
slender form and medium complexion. He
skin was not especially dark but her hair, the!
say, was of raven blackness. Above the tenn
Piles there we're a few strands Of white among
the black locks, those premature marks Of age
that occasionally fall upon the heads Of younl
women. Her age somewhere between
wenty-three and twenty. seven. She had ap
parently enjoyed good surroundings all her life
| She was intellectual without priggishness, ant
her manners were refined and charming. In
| the presence Of Harris, however, all reserve
forsook her. She seemed to forget all abou
the presence Of strangers. Carrie Jones'
paid her last visit to Harris after Recorder
| Smyth had refused to grant him a new trial.
| Prison discipline forbade his seeing any
| stranger after that, and under the rules 'Miss
Jones' was stranger. Up to the last moment
| she never lost hope that Harris life would be
| saved. She was one Of the hardest workers in
| bringing forward new evidence to help him to