The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-10

tress and later treated me with much kind
ness and consideration, allowing my friends
to visit me- bring me flowers and fruits
and showing me such kindnesses as made
my prison life entirely different from what
had always conceived such life to be.
One very interesting feature pertaining
to the trial. from my standpoint, is the
fact that in selecting a jury my counsel
and myself were very careful to select men
with personally pure lives and unexcept-
ionaI domestic lives. I wanted men who
appreciated womankind, who honored
home life, and who were typical domestic
citizens. I believed that such men would
appreciate the crime that had been COM
mitted against my husband, my children
and myself than men who had more lax
views, or were more lax in their practises
in those regards.
OF course, I approached the trial with
some trepidation, the parties representing
the State seemed to be bitter and vindict-
i've against me Public opinion, as 1
thought, condemned me. l believed that
the great mass of the people thought I
had committed the crime with which I was
charged, but after the trial commenced 1
began 10 see that many persons were in
terested in my behalf, or rather sympa-
thized with me. I began to feel that the
coldness and disdain with which I had
been treated before my arrest and impris-
onment was relenting. and no one can ever
know the encouragement which my bleed
ing heart received by these many evidences
of sympathy and good wishes during my
trial OF course, the days Of the trial were
anxious ones, nevertheless.
Since my acquittal. on the 2Sth Of April
thousands Of people have congratulated
me and rejoiced with me and scarcely q
newspaper account has criticised the YER
dict, for which I am profoundly grateful.
I have not however, been invited to church
since my acquittal. No minister Of the
gospel has invited me to mis- church, and
no sister has extended her hand and said:
Come and sit in my pew and will help
you in the right way"
During my incarceration one minister,
the Rev Dr. Manchester, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Of
which President Mckinley is a member,
called upon me twice while was in prison,
prayed with me and furnished me, in a
very kind way. fl with some excellent read
ing matter, which I greatly appreciated
and which greatly benefited me. 1 do not
find any fault with those who have here
tofore or who may hereafter slight me or
pass me by My heart is too full of graft
tude for the breaking of the day, for lib
erty, for the parting of the clouds, for sun
shine and for heavens smiles, to complain
of any one, and toward those who prose-
cuted me, and even those who prosecuted
me, bear no malice.
But L refer to some of these things as
conditions Of society. Conditions which
confront US, and am led to remark:
"Why, oh, why should society excuse the
one and condemn the other?'
Prior to my acquittal, I was too busy
with the aIl-absorbing topic Of my trial to
make any plans for the future, and I do
not know, with any deffniteness, what
course I shall pursue, further than that 1
may attempt to lecture to a limited ex-
tent.
To what extent will depend upon the de-
gree of success with which 1 meet. I
have had numerous, earnest and lattering
offers, and if the public interest justifies
may continue for some time in that field,
feeling that if I can be of any use to HUI
mainly, and particularly to womankind
thereby, it will be my duty so to do.
shall endeavor to follow the leadings of
Providence and the advice of those friends
who have piloted me through my recent
troubles and who have expressed and man.
ifested an interest in my future. I hope to
be able to procure sufficient means to aid
in educating my sons, Newton and How
ard. And shall sincerely endeavor to dis
appoint none in my future life, except my
enemies.
(Signed) ANNA E. GEORGE