The San Francisco call., 1896-05-16
WANTS HIS PAPA
TO CONE HOME,
Little Blazer Hill Visits
His Condemned
Father.
MAY SOON BE ENDED.
Knows Nothing of the Fearful
Tragedy Enacted Last
January.
QUERIES THAT ARE PAINFUL.
The Child's Request to See His Father
May Some Day Be
Denied.
QUERIES THAT ARE PAINFUL.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,
Cos Rrnadwav May Il

SOS Broadway, May 10.
Little Blazer Hill was taken TO the
County Jail to-day to see his father. Some
day he will want to go to see his papa, but
his baby wish will not be gratifed. His
father viii not be there, but the child will
never know, unless some cruel tongue
shall tell it, why his visits to the County
Jail terminated. Little Blazer is young
enough yet TO grow out of the knowledge
of those visits, although at present they
are indescribably sweet to the condemned
man and his little one.
Blazer is motherless. On a beautiful
evening last January his father and
mother met after an absence OF several
months. They left Mrs. Hills lodgings
and walked toward the car at Twelfth and
kirkham streets. Neither of them reached
it. Half an hour later Blazers mother
was in the Morgue and his father was in
the City Prison charged with murder.
The quarrel, the firing OF the shots, the
trial and the sentence of death are Incl
dents that have occupied the attention OF
Alameda County people for several
months, but the final chapter is now ap-
preaching, and unless judicial clemency
is exercised little Blazer will soon be a
whole orphan.
When Blazer is taken to the corridor,
where his father is permitted to prone
made during the day, the other prisoners
suddenly become interested in each other.
They withdraw from the bench where the
unhappy man and his child stand leave
him to his Joy and anguish undisturbed.
Hill is heavily built powerful man. He
was for years the hero of the "rooteTs" on
the baseball diamond and he has a heart
1t is true that in a fit of jealousy he
committed crime for which the law de-
mands his life, but that is not known TO
little Blazer. The child prattles on and
tells his father of his doings, and his
likes and dislIkes. Blazer is inquis1tive,
TOO. He asks questions, and there is one
query that is like striking a KIN ife into the
fathers heart. Blazer asks it often, not
only OF mis- father, but of those with whom
he lives.
Papa" said Blazer this afternoon as
Jailer White smiled at the little one and
brushed his eye with his hand, 'why don't
you come home with me?' That is the
question to answer which is a harder task
for the father than to give up his life. He
leads Blazer aside and talks to him about
other things; but the boy is persistent and
his intuition grows each day-he is be-
tween and years old-and the day will
surely come when he will demand an
answer, and then. But perhaps he will
not have the opportunity TO do so.
One day Blazer took little rubber ball
to the jail with him. The many prints of
fingers on IL showed that the child prizes
II highly. 1t was gift to him last Christ
mas-just two weeks before he last saw
his mother. The little ball recalls to the
fathers mind the last letter ever written
by the child's mother.
1t was written on New Years day and
was received by Hill just before he left
Portland for Oakland. In it is this para
graph:
Talk about Christmas, mine was Just
as bad as yours. l cried nearly ali day.
and have cried so much of late that l am
nearly dead with the headache. 1 got
box from Edith and she sent me a box
with handkerchiefs in it and a pretty
hairpin box and Blazer rubber ball and
two books and you tie with a pretty
little pin in it. l will send it. Blazer got
book and pointed bib and a pretty
dress and 81 from home, and Lottie gave
him cane with sleigh bells on it and a
train of cars and two horses to pull it.
That is all we got. Well, l must close
with happy New Year to you from us
both and kiss and a hug to you.n
Hill is given every privilege consisten
with discipline, but his hopes are not very
buoyant and he has expressed desire
that it may all END soon.