Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-15

Daughter of Chicago Millionaire Be
 comes Hypnotized. v
 Vacher, who was recently sentenced to death in France, has been the re- cipient of quite a quantity of loving messages from women of all ranks of society, and it Is stated that one lady very well known in Parisian fashion able circles has indited several af, feetionate letters to the felon breath ing pity and sympathy for him, though it is hard to understand how so cal- lous a wretch can have excited yes tige of commiseration even in the most kind-hearted, says Tid-Bits. Before the trial young milliner 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 the letter was young and gentle girl.
 Mrs. Maybriek has received innumer- able letters of sympathy, and at the time of her trial was deluged with of ters of marriage from all sorts and conditions of men. In her case the offers in question are perhaps not so remarkable, because a very large num- Der of people believe her to be inno- cent.
 A monster who had committed a se- rles 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 well known millionaire. The letters were most affeetionate. and numberless kisses were conveyed to the convict by means of the time-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 a tiny note of love and encouragement, eouched in the most endearing terms
 Women have been known to indite poems to criminals who have enlisted their affections, and the writer is as- sured that the following verse formed part of letter addressed by a Bris- tol lady to a notorious bigamist, who had married several women. spent their money and then callously 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 giveth can no more de-
 part
 But though the world may hold thee
 base and vile
 shall aye love thee and on thee smile. scorned by all, for me thou1t
 ever shine,
 And whilst l live I'm ever. ever thine"
 On St. Valentines oay, some years ago, the officials at a large north of England prison were surprised to find In the letter box Q large envelope ad- dressed to one of the convicts and con- aiming beautiful valentine which had evidently cost a considerable sum The .oken was duly handed to the confined who, however expressed intense amazement at the same, de- 'laring that he could not tell who had sent him the token.
 A certain criminal, who some fifteen lears ago paid the penalty of his ,rimes on the seaffold, was in the habit )f boasting in his lighter moments of he number of loving epistles he had 'eceived from the fair sex, many of whom had fallen in love with him while in the dock. He averred that on me occasion he had received no fewer han sixty such communications in a nonth. one-third of this number com ng from the same person.