Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-03

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1854
Q. GIsMA g. q NE NIGHT pistol
::as, PEW MseN shot was heard,
| SIN .liYIM osy'SNsharp in the frosty
| W\sSS1M " G)air, and the n
NJ ( HSaSs@ throughout the
| II k.'.'> town was spread
| vi ~ the news that Joe
ris. In the town, a toadstool that came
up after rain, on an Arkansas prairie,
l was nursing newspaper venture, and
eager to get the facts ran to the hotel
where the dead man lay upon the bar
room floor. The facts Were few. There
had been q quarrel, Mayhem had be-
came enraged, snatched out his pistol
and fired. That was all. remember
the young man as he sat in a room un-
der arrest, weeping over his crime. He
was handsome chap, graceful, dark
eyes, curly hair; and MS turned away
heard a man remark: Hes mighty
purity, but they'll hang him."
At the trial it was brought out that
Morris had snatched from Mayhem q
photograph of girl and had made an
insulting remark concerning it. But
even among most gallant men the
crime of speaking i'll of a picture did
not merit violent death, so Mayhem
was sentenced to q term Of 10 years
in the penitentiary, a concession on
the part of the prosecution.
Well, two years later l was working
on newspaper in Little Rock, when
into the office there came one day II
most beautiful woman. She was tall,
with wonderful Titan hair and with
eyes that recited poetry. I got out
OF my chair, half believing that I was
in dream, and invited her to sit down.
She smiled as she took the chair, and
1t was all I could do to keep from
dancing jig. did not ask her what
she wanted. Why, if she had wanted
the earth she might have had 1t.
"You know Joe Mayhew?" she said.
Joe Mayhew?" 1t had been SO long
that I had but dim recollection OF
him.
Eyes, Mayhem who killed a man In
this state two years ago. lie was sen.
fenced to the penitentiary for IS years.
ooh, yes, remember him."
well" with a sweet SMILEY, che ant
were TO have been married, but he
got into trouble. We lived in the same
here-and you know the rest. Jus
before they took him to prison to en-
ter upon his awful term, he wrote
me that he was going to Australia an,
that might never see him again, bu
not long ago heard that he had killet
man for insulting my picture ant
that he was in the penitentiary; SO
told my mother, and his mother, too
that was going over into Kentucll,
to teach school; and then came OF
down here to get him out of prison
for know he didn't mean to kill tn
man, for there never was kinde
heart than Joe's, and want you t
go with me to the state house to Sc
the governor. And know the go,
ernor will pardon him when he hear
It what a good boy he always was an
N how I love him Come on and let Il
y. so now, and then we'll go to the prise
10 and get him; and you shall see us mai
4. RED"
Ell was not now disposed to dance jig
8. was sorrow-smitten. Her beauty, he
4. simple faith, her love for the convie
moved me deeply. She was smiling an
m her eyes were glorious. could nc
tell her that the governor was stern TN
VI hard of heart; could not explain the
my paper had severely criticised him fe
~ too free use of the par6oning power
n, I could not throw iced water on tt
warm and trusting heart. Invent wit
her.
The governor would not listen to ht
IN story. II can do nothing for you,"