Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-04
VERY SILLY WOMEN
WHO HANG AROUND CAGES OF
 CRIMINALS.
Love Letters Received by Marderers One Man Averages Sixty a Month Daughter Of Chicago Muiionaire Re- comes Hypnotized. V

Daughter or Chicago Millionaire Be
 comes Hypnotized.
 Vacher, who was recently sentenced to death in France. has been the re- cipient of quite quantity of loving messages from women of all ranks of society, and it is stated that one lady very well known ia Parisian fashion able circles has indited several af fectionate letters to the felon breath Ing pity and sympathy for him. thoug ! it is hard to understand how So cal lous wretch can have excited yes tige Of cemmiseration even in the most kind-hearted. says Tid-Bits. Before the trial a young miliiner wrote Va cher to the effect that she would like to become his wife should he be al lowed to live, she adding that she would wait patiently for him through out the duration of any sentence of imprisonment which he might under go. The writer of ths letter vas a young and gentle girl.
 Mrs. Maybrick has received innumec- able letters of sympathy. and at the time of her trial was deluged with of fers of marriage from all sorts and conditions of men. h her case the offers in question are perhaps not so remarkable, because a very large num- Der Of people believe her to be lnno- cent.
 A monster who had committed a se- ries Of murders in Chicago was duly sentenced to the extreme penalty Of the law. and during the interval be- tween the sentence and the execution he received daily long letter from a young lady, who proved to be the daughter of a well known millionaire. The letters were most affeetionate, and numberless kisses were conveyed to the convict by means Of the tfme-hon- ored Crosses" The prisoner received the communications with cynical con tempt.
 America would seem the paradise Of wrongdoers so far as love letters can go toward constituting an earthly Eden, for a man on trial for several daring burglaries in the city of st. Louis. Mo. received daily baskets Of flowers from an extremely pretty girl. who actually had the temerity to hand the loving tokens to the prisoner in the dock Nor was this all, for each basket contained in addition to the floral offerings q tiny note of love and encouragement. couched in the most endearing terms.
 Women have been known to iudite poems to criminals Rhe have enlisted their affections. and the writer is as- sured that the following verse formed part of letter addressed by a Brls- tol lady to a notorious bigamist, who had married several women, spent their money and then callousIy de- serted them. After sympathizing with the prisoner in prose the lady dropped into indifferent poetry:
 By some strange power. thou win
 neth woman's heart,
 And love once gtYeth can no more de-
 part
 But though the world may hold thee
 base and vile
 I shall aye love thee and on thee smile. Though scorned by all, for me thou'IJ
 ever shine,
 And whilst I live I'm ever, ever thine
 On St. Valentines day, some years ago. the officials at a large north of England prison were surprised to find in the letter box a large envelope ad- dressed to one of the convicts and con taining beautiful valentine which had evidently cost considerable sum. The token was duly handed to the confined gentleman, who. however, expressed intense amazement at the same, de- claring that he could not tell who had sent him the token.
 A certain criminal, who some fifteen years ago paid the penalty of his crimes on the scaffold. was in the habit of boasting in his lighter moments of the number of loving epistles he had received from the fair sex. many of whom had fallen in love with him while in the dock. He averred that on one occasion he had received no fewer than sixty such communications in month. one-t third of this number conn ins from the same person.
 Tanning wonsn.
 Doubtless the female punster. a guest at a dinner party where a bishop was present, recalled to the prelate Doctor Holmes remark: People that make puns are like wanton boys that put eoppers on the railroad tracks" The Baltimore Sun tells tho story. By the way" said the woman, do you know that there are times when t is dangerous to enter an Episcopal church?' What is that, madam?'