Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-15
The strange cl.e Of IIemInswAy.

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EK.Statc Treasurer Hemingway, Of
Mississippi, has been trying Tor four
yesrs TO work out moe, awkward and
difficult problem. Ho has kept every
cell Ia his brain substance tuEEing ami
every oonvolutlon in iis gay matter
active In trying t0 make clear 10 his
consciousness Iust how hu, au innocent
mau who never dciraudei mis- state or
any one else " cent, should be
locked up In prison, a convicted en-.
btSzleE True, there were awkward
facts against him which wotu sklIfully
used NJ his trial ny the Prosecution aud
his gullt-lacts which hr freely
remove the reasonable doubt o.,
his quit from his own mind. Some.
nov, a. he sat tn the court room anu
listened 20 the evidence anu the pleas
II seemed clear enough that the man
on trial must DO guilty as chafgei In
the indiclmont-un.il ho remembered
who the man on trial was aud knew
that ne knew that man 10 be Innocent.
IL was proved on the trial that lie,
Hemingway, was state treasurer vi
Mississippi, aud Ia that capacity had
~ his charge several hundreds VI
th0usAnda Ut dollars Ia state funds.
IL was further proved that when hi.
Term expired and he was called upon
10 turn those funis over 10 his success.
sOr, his vaults were empty sud tho
states money goue. SUI further
II was proved, and no admit.
ted II In his testimony that
uouody but himself hai access
TO the vaults, anu no one elso know tue
combination 10 thrtHirH IA which tho
stolen money was kept. His books
were correct, ami they, too, proved tue
shortage aud Hemingway's fespousl'
biliiy Tor 30. Win AL this mass OF
evidence before ~, what could tue jury
DO but bring Ia vtfiict VI guilty.
while the only mau Ia the courthouse
who dissuutrd rom this verdict, be-.
cause he know better, was Huming.
way. There was n lingering hope 10
the MUD OF tue Judge, who knew
Hemingway aud had loved aud res.
ptcted him, that There was Bomu hoT.
rlblU mistake somewhere, because, OF
one reason, the missing money
could not he traced 10 the con.
victud ox.ifeasufef, not penny VI a..
ho had made no Increase Ia bis OK.
peudilures, had not speculatud, nor
developed any bad habir. Everybody
gave warm toslimOnial- 10 hls cnat-
Hcier, anu % Justify them he gave
every dollar he was known 10 possess
freely Rnd willingly u tho state "
make good Ia loss All these tningH
weighed with the lu igo, who made
the sentence he pronounced as light n
was consistent with what seemed the
enoTmity ot hls Old friends OilenHe--
fiyn years IN state prison.
-Four OF these i've years are nearly
gone, aud tho problem which has
turned Hemiugway's hair gray, aud
well.ulgh exhausted his brain power,
Ii finally s0lvvi. How thu clew was
found We DO not know, bur found II
was and followed, aud now all Mla'is'
sippi knows that jury anu Judge and
public piniOn were wTongaud homing
way right IN his persistent assertion Ot
luis innocence. Instead VI being the
rObber he was robbed, almost before
HE eyes. When he swOru Ou his trial
that he alone had access 10 tho vaults
aud knew the combination 90 the
safes which held the state funds, no
dii not know that this knowledge had
been stolen u m him anu that the
thieves were stealing the money he
had sworn 10 guard, Now he knows
that this was the case, sud No does the
gtaud July which Indicted him, the
district attorney Whl prosecuted him,
the petit Jury which convicted him,
aud the Judge who sentenced him All
these, with thousands Of citizens oil
over the state, are asking the governor
to pardon him, and soon he will be- a
fee man, NJ he might have been all
the time mai he be3u M vi lilant In the
execution VI hll trust rs no Is honest,
lie has paid n heavy penalty Tor his
Gatelotsuess.