The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-05-19

Orv y WSrehy ycung Wan tn Engage
Herself to Hsr "Afnniiy''-Over Year
~ tfsiiine sna Ccoing which was rads-
~ Ter. ainss~d BY tnse Dessh shock
NEW YORK. May la--1he Herald
prints the following.
Carlyle w. Harris was the hero ~
romance while he was awaiting death
in the Tombs prison
A girl who met him by chance one
Sunday in one Of tfSe gloomy corridors
fell i'm lore with him. visited him daily
and fondly awaited the moment Of mis-
| release. when she expected that he
would marry her. Her devotion 10 him
was as great as his mothers, and
she il believed to be the young
woman dressed in deep mourning
who accompanied Carlyle Harris con-
sin. T.. VI. Hill. alias Edward Morrill,"
from New York 10 Albany and attend
ed the funeral Of the executed criminal
AT the Tombs the girl called herself
Carrie Brun." That was not her real
| name
Nina Van Zandt's mad marriage To
| August Spies. who was one Of the con-
demned Chicago anarchists. was
not nearly as peculiar as
Carrie Bruins" infatuation for
the convicted murderer. Miss Van
Zandt was not promised in mar
riage to any other 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 deliberately broke an engage
ment of marriage with worthy and
estimable young man in order TO be-
come the affianced bride of man who
had been indicted for stealthily admin
istcring poison to his schoolgirl wife.
SO that she died. Her only excuse was
that in him She had found her affinity.
AS nearly as anyone about the
Tombs can remember. the grue>ome
love affair began some time early in
December. 1891. Carrie Brun" had Wis
tied the gloomy old prison with n band
Of young women and a few men who
had volunteered TO cheer the inmates
by singing hymns. to the accompani-
ment Of a small organ. Miss Brun'
was apparently fascinated by tho
handsome. plausible. soft : voiced
young prisoner. She fingered longer
than any of her companions and
Harris protestations OF innocence
his behalf She returned to the Tombs
. with band Of hymn-singers on the
. following sunday. Somehow. with the
!, help of that diplomacy which only
women understand. She managed to
enjoy ten minutes of conversation with
Harris alone. Shrewd and clever as he
: was. il did not take him long TO dis
cover that she was infatuated with
him. When she asked whether he
would see her il she could come some
time before the next Sunday. he an
swcred that he would be charmed "a
receive her as best he could amid his
!, poor. wretchcd surroundings"
Miss Brun" called on the con
demned wife-poisoner the next day
She no longer wore the diamond set in
= a strip Of gold that marked her as the
= alta need bride of another man. Sh'
: had told her promised husband yer,
plainly that She could never marry hin
y J, because she loved another.
= When Harris was removed from thu
- upper tier of cells down IL the ''con
- denned row. in the Tombs. she begal
to call upon him every day. The.
talked in whispers for hours. Whethe
she proposed marriage to him. o
whether he. with unbounded faith ii
- his good fortune. asked her to be Ia
\, wife. is secret which now rests II
!. her keeping alone. But it is certaii
that the pair became engaged to b
married
a. Mrs. Harris frequently saw her sol
~ in the council room Of the prso
o. during Warden Osborne's administra
IL ton. Carrie Brun had. it is believe,
a. the same privilege occasionally. Blu
We when Warden Eallon took charge 9
ey the prison he changed all that lIarri
or was never taken to the council room.
~ except to consult with his counse
ot From this time the lovers met in tn
ut corridor of condemned row. wher
al they were still happy in each other
- company.
nd Those who have seen the girl score
an Of times describe her as Of more tina
nf- medium height slender form. mediul
I'D complexion and raven-black hal
by slip htly. but prematurely. tinged wit
l." gray. Her age was somewhere bctwee
~ % and ~ She had apparently enjoys
III good surroundings all her lif
irt She was intellectual without pri
at gishness. and her manners we
refined and charming. In u
re- presence of Harris. however. a
he reserve forsook her. She seem'
en- to forget all about the presence
ms strangers. Carrie Brun' paid =
Ter last visit on Harris after Record
IN Smythe had refused TO grant him
ir. new trial Prison discipline forba
The his seeking any stranger after thu
Sc, and under the rules Miss Brun' "
er, stranger.
Up to the last moment she never L
the hope that Harris life would be save
est She was one Of the hardest workers
in bringing forward the evidences to b
~ him to "A new trial
B.d Bargain.
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