Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-13
HE |S SET FREE BUT ID DIE
A Tragedy Involving the Ruin of
 Two Young Lives.
TIE KILLING OF MRS. GOOLTZ
sibla's Part h it-A Story that Begins With Two Lovers Hopes and Ends With
 aFamily's Despair.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
 UnaN,i-..a cot in the consumptive ward of st Lukes hospital lies young man who has been rescued twice from death on the gallows and only lately has been freed from that living death, Imprisonment for lifo. His freedom came in the form of full, rnecr titional pardon, granted by Governor Merton.
 Six years ago the Gil,lin case was quite celebrated, and the story of the sad littlo family that had come to such unntterable woe was well known. Tho young father, then only e5 years old, had come to this country when n boy of II to mako for tune for his sweetheart, slip of girl at n parish school in Ireland. He went straight to Worcester, Mass, and got em- ployment in wire mill He rosc from grade to grade until he was employed in the oifice wncro he proved a clever ac- countant. He staid there until a few months before the tragedy of his life be- gan. Meanwhile his sweetheart decided to omigrato. She arrived in Worcester and went into the service of family, with whom she remained six years. At the end eof that time the boy and girl had each saved n little money, and they decided to II employers went with them to the little home where they set up housekeeping. They were much happier when son was born, and they grew ambitious. They came to New York to live, expecting to make moro money.
 s Tho best recommendations from his old employers could not procure work for the man in those dull timcs Their small funds vanished Mrs Giblin fell ill Day after day the husband tramped New York and Brooklyn seeking employment. aa One night Giblin went into a bakers shop to buy food for his family. He ten dered almost his last note in payment. ? Tho girl clerk said it was a bad bill. Gib- lin replied that then he could not take his Z purchases, as he had not any change to F pay for them, and, pockcting the bill, he started to go. Tho girl called him back, saying she would show it to the people next door, as she was not quite certain that tho bill was bad. She returned pres ently, followed by the keeper of tho ad- joining shop, Valentine Goeltz, brother of the baker. Goeltz announced that ho would not return the bill to Giblin. Gib- lin insisted that his money be restored and stoutly maintained that 1t was no counter felt finally threatening to call a police fnan.
 re The altercation attracted half dozen persons. There was a scene of violence. A pistol was drawn by one of Giblins antag- onists. Giblin knocked it to the floor, he and Nicholas GoeltZ falling upon it in the scuflle. Giblin, the under man, felt. lis hand against the pistol as they struggled there. He was slight of frame and weak from fasting The sight of one eye had been destroyed years before, and blood from d wound on his forehead was tric- Fling over the other. His fingers clutched tho revolver, and ho fired several random shots. Tho last shot struck Madeline Goeltz, wife of the man struggling with him. and inflicted a wound from which she died the next day. She was standing in the background watching tho fray. Giblin never saw her until he was taken into her presence for identification just be- fore her death.
 e On the way to the station house, in the {. courtroom of Jefferson market, before the court of oyer and terminer, before the court of appeals, at the reference before Bernard J. Douras, through all the weeks and months and years which have elapsed since his one tragic act Giblin has always told this one tale.
 Giblin was sentenced to be hanged on
 
 most of the days near the spot where her husband was passing what she believed were the last moments of his life. There were two children in her arms, for girl had been born seven months after its ia ther was imprisoned. Then eame a mes sage from Governor Hill: "No man shall be railroaded to the gallows while 1 am governor of New York. Sixty days re- prieye."
 This was tho second time Giblin had stood close to death and been drawn back.
 During the 60 days tho reference was i had When they were almost ended, the referee had not completed his report. Again Giblin heard the builders erecting the gal lows, and again the dcathwatch was set At tho eleventh hour another respite came, and 80 days more were given him. Then, for the third time, Giblin was placed in the death ward, and for the third time the deathwatch began. It was tho morning of what would have been his last day on earth when the news of the communication of the sentence arrived. A week later Gib lin was taken to Sing Sing.
 Mrs. Giblin, slight, delicate creature with dark, sorrowful eyes and wonderfully soft heavy hair, was very pretty once, but she was only mournful little ghost of her former self when, turning away from the prison, she took up the burden of her desolatc life, saying with pathetic bravery "I have my two children to support and Charlcy's pardon to work for.
 She worked for both as long as she lived.
 The pardon was granted but Mrs. Glib lin died last February. The physician who attended her said:
 "wc can call her malady consumption, but this woman is dying of a broken heart.
 During the seven years of her tribula- q tions she had q benefactrcss and friend 1 who wore the white cross and worked "in 2 his namc." When dying Katie Giblin said ,i to her benefactress
 s 5"Promise me to try for Charley's par don."
 \. e"But he is i'll, and the prison doctor says there is no hope. If ho is released after you are gone, will it not be worse for him than to remain?'
 "No; promise me, entreat you," plead ed tho dying woman My husband is an innocent man, and cannot rest if my chiIdren's father is to die in prison. Prom .iso--promise.
 The promise was given. Mrs. Berry fulfilled it faithfully. She saw the district