The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-24

+ Eays. and now and then a joviai laugh
echoed through the long corridors On
the streets bets were offered and taken as
tn whether crasmer would hang
Down below. in the murderer's cell. sat
craemsr alone. He was not laughing
He Was making no bets. BY the calendar
of justice he had little more than fifty
hours TO spend on earth. People who
have looked upon his unchsuging coum-
have looked In through the bars OF his
cell and said .craemer does not realize
that he 10 so near to death. to an isno-
mInious death"
an soosh. Dreamer was reckoning the
flight of the hours more carefully than
the computer of interest In q Venetian
! h.nk: bat In sooth also he believed each
succeeding hour would bring him good
news from Olympia.
Neos and ssHl No News.
Noon came and went and stili there
was no news The shadows outside the
great building. playing hide and seek with
the Intermittent clouds. stood stralehs on
the hrigh, grsensward underneath the
condemned mans windows. school chill
dren passed, taking their brief recess.
They were iighthearted and free. Craze
mer sat In his cell. alone.
lie had not much longer to wait. The
siyery .snkie Of telephone bel. sounded
In eae of the big blocks down town.
.raemsr. far np on the hill could not
hear It. 1t might have been but the
casual cali OF a perfunatory> patron. i'm
patient at central for moments de-
lay. II was Olympia. The subtle e.ectrie
current bore message OF life to Craze
mer. His attorneys FASTENED up the hill
to tell him the good news. He received
them as men who were confirming what
he already knew.
Meanwhila there was bulletin in the
Post Iut-lligsncer window. Thousands OF
nsopl. read Is they passed and
thought with varying emotions OF Crae~
mer in hi. cell on the hill Most of them
had never seen him. and their opinion
10 his guilt or Innocence was but the gen
cFai consensus CT mankind as !. Sums up
the testimony In the annals of the criminal
world As they passed on down the busy
s.dewa ias there was A comment or Two:
lie ought to have been hung II am
| glad he escaped" than ca 10 business.
a few minutes later a Post lnteiligen-
/ ser reporter stood tn crsemeFs CELL
through The courtesy OF Sheriff Meyer and
/ Jsilsr Erisman. Craemer rose from his
I chair. recognizing In his y.stor man
! with when he Rad oBse talked long aud
! oonaaenilaisy during the darkest hour, 90
! his trial II, was cieanly shaver ard his
| tlcrtv nBStache WAS trim as II IL Rad
( Jus' rar finishing touches Of a metro
! poltaa barber Tits f.eas dssss and his uu.
| covered head wish she hair thrown back
| franl his rather fu.l forehead. save him a
| certain air Of jaun;y iasoucianoe Ry mis-
! side sat his wsfe who bad been fa'}heil
ana loyal to him during hls three years
.. ana half 81 Jeopardy Win shsm VAS
I Pastor hnapps % The German Evangsl-
teal church. whe wss among th= ars; %
/ er-r RS congratulations 10 ,'raemer on
! h.s escape from death Mrs Crsetner VISA
/ ~ her way fe pay her daily visit 80 her
! hssb.sd when she hears the coed news
/ that his sentence hal hen cognmslesl.
! sD1 she reached the jail ouly a Vf;ls s--
I hind the attorneys
i ssJa.t 4. said"
Wei" said Crsemse. AZ Sc rose eoly-
en;,y fyasa his seat an8 stretched sat MS
/ nana ''ysu see L IS tust "a SAD Feel
+ TX goods we.l az coasss : am feeling