The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-09
HERE'S A ROMANCE.
a Noble Mexican, unjus,iy Imprlsoneds
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KANSAS CITY, No., Feb. s.---A scion
OF a noble Mexican family larguishing
unknown In the Kansas state penlten-s
tiary for six years. for murder done! In
self-defense: his pardon, after three
years Of untlring efforts on the part OF
the nlatron OF that institution, H ana !
their final marriage by Justice OF the
peace, eliminating In a revelation OF his
Identity. are the chapters in q most res
marleable story OF real life made public
here to-day. H y,
The principals are Prescillana CorpIo,3
whose late father. Presc!llana Corpio.
was millionaire and ex-postmastec
general OF Mexico. and Mrs. Matte U.l
PEBBLES, Of Dispatch. Kas., a widow.
The story Is most Interesting. In the
early eighties. a young Mexican who Z
gave his name as Camille Lopez. came /
TO Kansas City with q bunch Of cattle
from Guanajuato, Mexico, his home.
He was handsome, dashing fellow
who dressed we'll and spent money free-s
He went to Wichita, Kas., and made q
living as a street vender. II
One night, after IN unusually good
days business he was lured Into a re-
sort by a Mrs. Sam Dodson. Dodson
soon arrived on the scene and began
making trouble fon the Mexican. Mrs.
Dodson claimed in court later that Dod-i
son was demanding an explanation Of
the Me1ican's conduct and the Mexican
said that Dodson and his wife had tried
to rob him. At any rate, Lopez stabbed
Dodson to death with a long bladed
knife. Lopez could not talk English
and he did not know how to go about
making a defense. The court assigned
convicted Of murder. Judge Christo.
pher Reed sentenced him to, thirty years
in the penitentiary. The general opin-
ion was that the sentence was unjust,
but Lopez had neither influence nor
money with which to secure new trial.
At the penitent!ary Lopez learned to
talk English fluently. He worked at the
tailor trade, but was sent into the liz
brarye frequently, and there met and !
became acquainted with the imatron.
Mrs. Matte U. PEBBLES. The matronS
became interested in the good looking
Mexican and. as they afterwards work
ed together, she drew from, him his
story. i
Feeling positive that Lopez was limos
cent, Mrs. PEBBLES set about to prove so
to the governor. She visited Wichita
and gathered facts to show that the ]
killing Of Dodson was done In self
defense. Then she obtained the sigma,
lures of prominent persons for his res
lease. 1t was three years ago this
month that Mrs. PEBBLES began to inter-
est herself in his behalf. and on Janus
ary 10 Of this year he was pardoned by
Governor Lecdy. .
In the Meantime, Mrs. Matte. PEBBLES
had left the penitentiary and was liv.S
ing with grandson and daughter near
Dispatch, kas. Both OF the children
have recently married and for n time
she has been living alone. When Lopez
was freed he wrote her long letter.
It resulted In bringing Mrs. PEBBLES to
Kansas City Sunday morning, and iits
was given out to-day that they were
married by Judge Ebert, in a room Id
the .Breevort house, second-class hos
tel. Then followed the revelation OF the
mans identity.
The groom Is short and slender. Ho
has delicate features, long straight
black hair and piercing black eyes.
The marriage license places his age at
Al years, and that OF the bride at 46.S +
She Is rather tall Her face is round
and full, while her dark brown hair liz Z
fiecked with gray. The couple have
started for Mexico on their honeymoon
to visit Corplo's family. n z N F3