Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-06-08
VERY SILLY WOMEN
WHO HANG AROUND CAGES OF
CRIMINALS.
LoWs Letters Received by Murdcrcrs-
cne Man Averages Sixty Month
Daughter of 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 1t Is stated that one lady
very well known In Partisan fashion
able circles has indited several af-
fectionate letters to the felon breath
ing pity and sympathy for him, though
1t is hard to understand how SO cal
lous a wretch can have excited a ves-
tige Of commiseration even in the most
kind-hearted. says Tid-Bits. Before
the trial a 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 q
young and gentle girl.
Mrs. Maybrick has received innumcr-
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. In her case the
offers in question are perhaps not so
remarkable, because a very large num-
ber OF people believe her to be inno-
cent.
A monster who had committed Sc
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 a 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-
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 tiny note of love and
encouragement. couched 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 a 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
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.
Though scorned by all. for me thou'lt
ever shine,
And whilst live I'm ever. ever thine"
On st. Valentines aay. some years
ago, the officials at large north OF
England prison were surprised to find
In the letter box large envelope ad-
dressed to one of the convicts and con-
tanning beautiful valentine which had
evidently cost n considerable sum. The
token was duly handed to the confined
gentleman, who. however, expressed
intense amazement at the same, de-
clarlng 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 n
month. one-third of this number COM
ing from the same person.
Value of Chccrfulness.