San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-17

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In this instance for once the dame
speaks uniformly to the credit of her
subject
AT the end of five years Sessions was
found in Oregon, leading a respectable
life, in fairly prosperous circumstances,
and recently married, it was said, to
young lady of good family. He was
brought back to Carson and reincarcer-
ated. He took it very hard, as was to
be expected, and said some bitter things
about its being useless for man to try
to live a decent life. When the circum.
stances became known, the demand for
his pardon was universal. People gen.
orally expressed the opinion that those
who had been the cause of returning
him to prison were overofficious in their
zeal for justice and had much better
leave we'll enough alone In due time
the pardoning board met. Sessions
friends felt confident of his release; but,
| to make assurance doubly sure, his
young wife had followed him from Ore
gon, and, establishing herself at hotel
in Carson the week before the crisis,
besieged the powers that be with ap-
peals for mercy. She was pretty, trim
little body, modest in appearance, and
always plainly though handsomely and
becomingly attired.
She was overwhelmed with grief and
anxiety for her husband, but chung to
him with wifely devotion that elected
the sympathy and admiration of all who
witnessed it. Many of the ladies inter
ested themselves in her, and she repaid
them with fearful gratitude, but it was
to the five members of the pardoning
board that she addressed herself most
earnestly. Her coaxing. almost caress-
ing, manner, the childish innocence of
her upturned, pleading eyes, the uncon-
scious clasp of her white hands over the
coat sleeve as she entreated-all, all
were irresistible. True, Sessions case
was bad one. Participant in crime
that merited 20 years in the first place,
his offense aggravated by breaking out
of his place of confinement, an accessory
if not a principal in the death of two
of those who opposed his escape-these
were grim facts against him, but his
good conduct during five years of free
dom and his young wife's eloquence
seemed arguments potent enough to turn
the scale to mercy. 1t was ON the latter
that his attorney principally relied and
had but little doubt of the effect when
he should introduce Mrs. Sessions in
person to plead her husbands cause be.
fore the assembled board.
The fateful Monday arrived, and the
board met Sessions case was not
reached the first day, but came first ON
the list for the next Mrs. Sessions,
who had seemed, as was very natural,
in a state of nervous expectancy all day,
went back to the hotel and to her room
Immediately upon the adjournment of
the board A few moments after the
bellboy was summoned, who soon APP
peared in the office with something very
like grin ON his countenance and or
dered:
"Claret punch for room IA. Mrs. Ses-
sions wants something to brace up ON.
An hour later one of the sympathiz
ing ladies called and was told that Mrs.
Sessions was lying down with head
ache and begged to be excused. At 6
o'clock Mrs Sessions came down to din
ner and seemed to be very much un-
strung. Her face was flushed, as if with
weeping, and when addressed she
seemed inclined to be hysterical.
Her husbands attorney, who had a
few moments conversation with her at
the foot of the stairs before she went
up to her room again, looked somewhat
grave and perplexed as he passed ON in.
to the office. At about 10 o'clock, when
the office was full of loungers sitting
around the stove, exchanging yarns and
"reminiscences, mostly relating to Grim
inals, and suggested by the events of
the day, the call bell rang violently.
The bellboy being absent for the mo-
ment, it was not answered. Almost i'm
mediately the summons was repeated
with increased violence. Still moment
more and an apparition appeared in the
doorway which at once arrested the at
tention of everybody. 1t was Mrs. Ses-
sions, in the most reckless of dishabilles,
unsteady of gait, thick of speech, who,
holding to the door casing with one
hand and gesticulating with the other,
poured out torrent of abuse and pro-
family upon the devoted heads of the
clerk, the bellboy, the proprietor, the
architect who planned and the con-
tractor who built the establishment,
their female ancestors, and, in fact,
everybody nearly or remotely connect.
ed with the concern.
Having somewhat exhausted her volu-
bility in this direction, she paused a
moment for new matter. Her rowing
eye now took note of the assembled
crowd, among whom were many of the
legal fraternity and a couple of mem
bers of the board. Advancing into the
room, she opened her batteries, and
singing out Sessions attorney and the
two honored members of the board
directed upon them such broadside of
select, forcible and original epithets as
surpassed all the efforts in that line to
which most of her auditory had ever