Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-04

One Man Averages Sixty 8 Month
 Daughter of Chicago Millionaire Be-
 comes Hypnotized. V
 Vacher, who was recently sentenced zp death in France, has been the re- zeipient of quite a quantity of loving messages from women of all ranks of sDeiety, and it is stated that one lady very well known in Partisan fashion 1able circles has indited several af fectionate letters to the felon breath Ing pity and sympathy for him, though it is hard to understand how so cal 1Ous a wretch can have excited a yes Ns4ige of eommiseration even In the most t&ind-hearted, says Tid-Bits. Before fhe trial a young milliner wrote Va scher to the effect that she would like 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. Maybrick has received innumer- able letters of sympathy, and at the time of her trial was deluged with of Iers of marriage from all sorts and conditions of men. In her case the xoners in question are perhaps not so remarkable, because very large num- Der of people believe her to be inno7 cent.
 "A monster who had committed a se- ! T<es of murders h Chicago was duly ' Htenced to the extreme penalty of the law, and during the interval be- tween the sentence and the execution he. received daily long letter from young lady, who proved to be the daughter of well known millionaire. The letters were most affectionate, and numberless kisses were conveyed to the convict by means of the time-hon- sored 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 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 adoral offerings tiny note of love and Encouragement, couehed in the most endearing terms.
 Women have been known to indite poems to criminals 7ho have enlisted their affections, and the writer is as- sured that the following verse formed part of a letter addressed by a Bris- tol lady to notorious bigamist, who had married several women, spent their money and then eallously de- serted them. After sympathzing with the prisoner in prose the lady dropped into indifferent poetry:
 By some strange power, thou win
 meth 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.
 
 ever shine,
 And whilst live I'm ever. ever thine."
 On St. Valentines 0ay, some years ago, the officials at large north of England prison were surprised to find in the letter box a large envelope ad- dressed to one of the eonvicts and con- , taining beautiful valentine which had exydently cost a 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 a month, one-third of this number com inS from the same person.
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 At Parkersburg, w. Va, Pierre Du- quesne, who died in Paris some months ago, left an estate of $5,00O, 900, and a bequest to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad of $100,000 and & certificate of honor The bequest Was given to the company for haV- ing the best line between Cincinnati and Washington, track equipment. time of run and lighting of cars be- ing the points considered. Duquesne inYentad the air brake and sold the