The evening world., 1894-06-05
INNOCENT, YET A PRISONER.
HEMINGWAY SUFFERED FOR An
OTHERS CRIME.
Convicted of n Theft which He
Never Committed.

Ex-Stats Treasurer Hemingway, Of
Mississippi. has been trying for four
years to work out q most awkward and
dificult problem, says the Springfield
Republican. He has kept every cell in
his brain substance buzztng and every
convolution In its gray matter active in
trying TO make clear to his conscience
Just how he. an innocent man. who never
defrauded his State or any one else of a
cent, should be locked up in prison. a
convicted embezzler.
True. there were awkward facts against
him which were skilfully used at his
trial by the prosecution M which con-
WINGED the Jury Of his guilt-facts which
he really admitted. but which did not re-
move the reasonable doubt Of his guilt
from his own mind. Somehow. Is he sat
In the courtroom and listened to the
enough that the man 90 trial must be
until he remembered who the man on
trial was and knew that he knew that
1t was proved on the trial that he.
sissippf. and in that capacity had in his
dollars in State funds II was further
proved that when his term expired and
he was called upon to turn those funds
over to his successor. his vaults were
empty and the States money gone.
Still further 1t was proved. and he ad-
mitted II in his testimony, that nobody
but himself had access to the vaults. and
safes in which the stolen money was
kept. His books were correct. and they.
too, proved the shortage and Heming-
ways responsibility for 1t.
With all this mass Of evidence before
II. what could the Jury, do but bring in a
the courthouse who %dissented from the
Hemingway. There was lingering
hope in the mind of the Judge, who knew
Hemingway and loved n respected him,
that there was some horrible mistake
missing money could not be traced to the
convicted ex-Treasurer-not a penny Of
II. He had made no increase In his ex-
penditures. had not speculated nor de-
Everybody gave warm. testimonials to
~. character. and to Justify them he
: :s.s t sssfy s aad wi HI Ts' to en tSs STATE to e0 to
make good 1t. loss. All these things
weighed with h Judge. who made the
sentence he pronounced wSn as Ugh, as was
nifty Of his old friends offense-ive
years in State prison.
-Four Of these iye years are nearly
fE FEM ana shs R aslS gray yA,s n has sei iprnsS
exhausted his brain power is fna1y
solved.
How the clue was found we do not know,
but found II was n followed. and now
all. Mississippi knows that jury and
Judge n public opinion were wrong
n Hemingway right In his persistent
assertion of his innocence.
Instead OF being the robber, he was
robbed. almost before his eyes. When
he swore on his trial that he alone had
access to the vaults and knew the com.
binaton to the safes which held the
State funds, he did not know that this
knowledge had been stolen from him
and that the thieves were stealing the
none ne had sworn to guard.
Now he knows that this was the case
and 30 does the Grand Jury which In
dicted him, the D~istrict-Attorney who
prosecuted him, the petit jury which con,
vtcted him and the Judge who sentenced
him All these. with thousands OF citi
zens all over the State. are asking this
Governor TO pardon him, and soon he
will be a free man. as he might hav.
been all the time had he been as vigilanr
In III execution of his trust as he Il
honest. He has paid a heavy penalty
for his carelessness.