Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-11-14
MRS. CASTLE SET AT LIBERTY
Pardoned by English Authorities
and Taken From Prison.

i London, Nov. 10.-Mrs. Walter Castle
of San Francisco sentenced at Clerken-
! we'll sessions Friday last to three months
! imprisonment without hard labor, after
| having pleaded guilty by advice of he,
counsel to the charge of shopliftins. was
released from Wormwood Scrubbs prison
today on medical grounds, by order of
| the home secretary. Sir Matthew White
Ridley, commissioner of prisoners. it APP
| pears, directed the medical board to in
| quire into and report upon the health OF
Mrs. Castle, whose condition was cauS-
! irS anxiety to the prison authorities.
She was watched day and night by spe-
cial attendants in the infirmary and was
shown every attention possible. Tho
| commissioners, after receiving the port
of the medical board on the state OF Mrs.
Castles health communicated with the
home secretary. who promptly ordered
her release from prison. and that she be
placed in care of her husband, who has
undertaken to take her back to the Unit
ed States with the least possible delay
Mr.. Castle called at the home office at
IL o'clock and was informed that his
wife would be released at l o'clock Ac-
companied by a nurse he entered a car
riage and drove to Norwood Scrubs
prison, where he arrived at 12:45 p. m.
The jaiers ushered him into the waiting
room, and after a brief delay Deputy
Northy granted the unusual permission
Tor the carriage to enter the gates and
drive to the door of the hospital prison.
Mrs. Castle Is Quite Ill.
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went to the door. A few moments later
Mrs Castle, dressed in deep black was
almost carried out of the hospital by the
female attendants. She was deathly pale
and her face was tear-stained. She APP
peared to be on the verge of collapse
and sank fainting into her husbands
arms. He tenderly embraced and tried
to console her. The nurse enveloped Mrs
Castles face in a heavy veil, wrapped her
up in shawl, and assisted her to the
carriage, where her head fell on her hus-
bands shoulder and she sobbed hyster-
ically. AS the carriage passed out of
the prison gates the driver applied The
whip and drove rapidly away.
Mr. Castle Is Grateful
While Mr.. Castle was in waiting in
the room of the prison he was interview
ed by reporter of the Associated Press.
He said:
Il feel 20 years younger and as though
the nightmare of the past month had
vanished. My wife was informed last
night that | would be here for her to-
day. She was utterly Frustrated yester-
day. | shall Immediately retire to the
country, place my wife under doctors
care, and endeavor to restore her health
in order to permit her speedy return to
America. l desire especially to thank
the Associated Press for it's kindness to
me and mine for the manner in which
it has placed the matter before the Amer
lean newspapers"
Bernard Abrahams, of counsel for the
Castles, received the following from the
home office last evening:
The prisoner Ella Castle will be re
leased on account of her mental and
physical conditions, and other circum
stances. DTGBY, Under Secretary"
A Wire From Bayard.
Washington Nov. 10.--Ambassado"
Bayard today cabled Secretary Olney as
follows:
mistress Castle released. Leaves for
America in her husbands custody"