Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-22
HER LAST NIGHT.
Ever Effort Made to Give Her Conn
fort and Courage.

fort and Courage.
Sing Sing, y. Y, March 20-Yesterday
at noon Warden Sage decided to again
notify Mrs. Place of the day Of her exc
cution, and to tell her that she must be
ready. She had been so hopeful that she
would be spared until Gov. Roosevelt ar
nounced his decision not to interfere With
the course of justice, that the warden
felt it would be simply mercy to warn
her of what she must undergo.
Mrs. Place met him in her quiet way,
and he said: Il have come, Mrs. Place, so
that there will be no mistake, so that
there NAV be no misunderstanding, and
to explain to you that you are to be ready
OIL Monday morning at II O'Clock"
The woman looked at him and said,
simply: 4 will De ready; l will put my
trust in God"
After he left her, Mrs Place cried a
little but bore up wonderfully we'll. She
had understood, she said, that she must
die.
Yesterday Mrs. Place still occupied the
room she had tenanted since the day she
was brought here. 1t is the room in
which Marie Barbarie, the Italian girl,
spent her prison days on the top floor of
the old building that served in years past
as hospital
All that mind could suggest to give
Mrs Place comfort and courage the
warden and his wife and his daughters
have done, Mrs. Sage having been with
her several times each day. Sunday af-
ternoon the warden's wife spent an hour
reading to the condemned woman from
the Scriptures, and Mrs. Place herself
occupied an hour or two in reading tracts
that had been sent to her.
Matron With Her ALI Night.
In the evening, Rev DIR. Cole of Yon-
kers came to her. After his departure,
Mrs Place had no consolation but her
Bible She promised that she would bear
up we'll, and indeed, though suffering
keenly. she maintained her calmness
With her, in her room all night, was
Mrs. Cathryn Coltray, one of the ma
irons. All night last night she sat be-
side her in chair and never for a mo-
ment did she trust the condemned Wom-
an to herself. Mrs. Place got up sew
eral times and looked from her window
at the storm that was bowling across
the Hudson. Her attendant went with
her; and 50 the cheerless, dreadful night
passed
Mrs. Places restless night the matron,
Mrs. Coltray, reported this morning, had
changed her but little. She had prayed
a number of times during the long hours
slept now and then, had watched out
from the window and early this morning
she rose without regret.
Mrs. Place left letters for several per-
sons and made requests of Rev. DR.. Cole
and Mrs. Sage The latter is asked to
attend to some personal and private af-
fairs. The former received a letter from
Mrs. Place in which she told simply that
she believed that she had been forgiven
for her sins. and would die with full
faith III the hereafter. Yesterday she
made the statement to her spiritual adj
wiser that she wanted forgiveness for
everyone and freely forgave Others
One of the friends who is here to give
comfort to Mrs. Place is Mrs Meury, a
mission worker in Brooklyn. She was
with her yesterday and for some hours
during the night. She brought tracts for
the disconsolate woman and helped her