Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-23
HARRIS AT SING SING
The Condemned Man Taken
 There This Morning.
sANDwIcH-MAN GETTING sIaNERs

The Last Day in the Tombs Was a Busy onS-Much Time Spent on a Statement Not for Publication His Mothers Visit Many Letters Coming In.
 NEW YORK, Ma. 2s.-Carlyle Harris was removed from | Tombs and taken to Sing Sing on an early train to avoid the crowd. There he will be kept in solitary confinement until that morning in the sec ond week of May when he will be led to the fatal electric chair, unless Governor Flower in the meantime shall have com muted his sentence.
 Mrs. Harris called on her son not long after noon yesterday, and for an hour the two talked together in low tones. At last when they arose Mrs. Harris threw her arms around his neck and wept.
 Good by, my boy" she said, batting him as if he were still little fellow. She said she would see him again this morning. She did not know it was the last time she would see him in the Tombs.
 Harris busted himself writing for long say what he had written, except that it was a memorandum forehis counsel. He received a group of reporters at o'clock. He was pale and complained of neuralgia. Nevertheless he was a1 polite as usual
 ''Will you kindly publish tomorrow" he asked, "the statement that a large number of persons. some known and more unknown to me, have sent me messages of sympathy, small amounts of money, books and food. I have not had time or strength to acknowledge these many kind nesses individually"
 Harris remarked that he received 50 let ters . day from persons who desire that their names be affixed to the petition to Gov Flower for clemency.
 II am thankful" said the condemned man, mot on account of any hope on my part, but for the esympathy the letters show"
 It was Q busy day for the clerks in Howe & Hummers office handing petition blanks to people who wanted to circulate them clemency for Harris. One young man said he was q student in the College of Physi- clans and Surgeons. This is the college where Harris studied medicine two years. An unksmpt old fellow with gray hair and Q struggling gray mustache got bunch of petition blanks at noon. He rushed up to Canal street, disappeared in cellar and came up presently wearing @ sandwich" of signs urging people to write their names on the Harris petition. He stood at the corner of Canal street and Broadway and soon drew Q tremendous crowd. Men signed by the score. Some held the blanks on his back while they wrote their names. Others signed on his arm.
 Presently tho crowd blocked Broadway and the police drove the old fellow away. He returned in Q few minutes and jammed the street again. Then he was "fanned" off tho sidewalk by an active bluecoat.
 Petitions were extensively circulated during the day in all sorts of places. Clerk Ira Miller said at 6o'clock that five hundred men had called for petition blanks at Howe & Hummel's office.
 Many letters have been sent to the news papers. Here is an extract from one: s "I think if Harris is executed the judg- rnent of God will be visited on those who gro responsible for tho deed. I believe he is an innocent man.
 A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE"
 A most remarkable one is the effusion of Brooklyn crank.
 I wish you'll be kind enough to pub fish and inform Mir Dilworth Choate and Mr. Wellman that they shall leave the State of N. Y. within 5 days otherwise they'll knifed dead sure because they know pretty well that MT Carlyle W Harris he is not guilty of Murder and to day he stand convicted for such crime of course Harris die by electricity and Wellman and Choate die by a secret knife under an oath.
 Signed
 GA picture of knife thrust intoa heart. )
 Sure hand at itl
 Hundreds of letters are being received by Howe 6 Hummel and by Mrs Harris from people who express their belief in liar ris's Innocence. They are from. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and a dozen other States, from people who say they have followed tho case and who believe Harris should have new trial on the evil denco he produced.
 ac No less than three possible clews are now being looked up outside of this city which Harris friends hope may result in new de- yelopments in time to place them before the Governor.
 70 The statement Harris wrote is not for immediate publication. if at all. He has insisted, all along, that there were matters connected with the case which he would never mako known, although his lawyers knew them and, because of them were con vtnced of his innocence. 1t is possible that he was putting in writing, for future pres ervation and possible verificati on, certain statements not yet brought into the case.