The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-03
DID NOT LIKE IL
CLYDE MATTOX NOT STUCK ON
GROWERS GOOD HEARTEDNESS.
He Suggests that He was Hoping for Com
pIete Pardon from His Majestical Fat
ness of tho Whitehouse-Mrs. Hatch,
Too. was Greatly Surprised and Thought
Grover Used Her Son in Rather a Harsh
Manner-In the Meantime Clyde has
Lost One LING and the Other is Failing
Him Fast.

Leavenworth, Oct 1.-The remarks OF
President Cleveland with reference to
the communication of the sentence Of
Clyde MattoX are considered very harsh
and brutal by many people, and espec-
tally by the hundreds here who signed
the petitions asking for Mattox's per-
don. 1t will be remembered that long
kilograms We're sent from Gray Gables
telling how President Cleveland treated
Mrs. Hatch with great kindness, how
deeply he was moved with her sorrow
and how his big heart was touched"
Only a few days ago he sent out COM
munication about the case TO comfort
q loving mother
The true Cleveland "great hearted
ness and mothers comfort" cropped
out in the endorsement on the commu-
tation sent out yesterday.
SAD NEWS FOR MRS. HATCH.
Mrs. Sarah E. Hatch, mother of Clyde
Mattox, did not receive a word from the
president and all she knows about the
commute ton of her sons sentence is
what she read in the evening papers.
She was greatly disappointed with the
news and is nearly heartbroken. She
was called on at the National hotel
last evening and was found to be in
bitter tears. She said when asked if
she expected anything different.
II expected my son TO get a reprieve
to five years in prison. 1 had hundreds
Of letters from prominent people of the
west and the longest and finest petit
tons ever presented 10 president ask
Ing for pardon. I was treated with
kindness and consideration by Presi-
dent Cleveland when 1 visited him at
Gray Gables. I do not believe he wrote
the Endorsement on the Communication
peperS sent out today. If he did, he is
a devil in human form What is said
is unjust and unfair, and more bitter
than ever a prosecuting attorney used
against my son in his trials.
Il would rather have followed him
to the grave than had such structures
put Oh him by a president. Two pre-
tended friends proved false and l know
, that prominent official who smiled to
my face, betrayed what was told him
and recently wrote a letter against
Clyde.
Five Republican senator's have
promised to get him pardon when
new president comes in, but ii will be
of no use, as he is nearly dead with
consumption and won't live six months
One OF his lungs is now gone.
Il have worked day and night for
six years and spent my entire fortune
and can't do any more.
Clyde is my only living child and his
father, DR.. MattoX, died when he was
three years old. He was a good boy
and never had any trouble until we
went 10 the Territory. l have only one
favor to ask and that is that he be put
IN the Fort Leavenworth prison"
A TALK WITH MATTOX.
The news that his death sentence had
been committed to life Imprisonment,
was first told Clyde MattoX by a re-
porter. He showed no excitement but
seemed relieved. The time for his exc
cution was set for October IL, and was
only ten days off. During the last few
days he has been quite uneasy.
He said that he thought his friends
asked too much when they requested
an absolute pardon for him, He ex-
pected to get about five years and
was disappointed. He said that he did
not kill John Mullins, colored, the
crime he was convicted of, but that
Mullins was bad man and was a fu-
Sitive from justice. He said that he
bore a good reputation and had sent in
affidavits from persons he worked for
in Texas stating that he had a good
character. On account of this he was
greatly surprised at what the president
said about him. He said that one of his
lungs was entirely gone, the doctors
told him, and that he was in the last
stages of consumption. MattoX is about
five feet, eight inches tall and does not
weigh much over a hundred pounds.
He looks very bad.