Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-08

comes Uypnotized.
 Facherl who was recently sentenced to death in France, has been the re- cipient os 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 feetioaate 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 q yes tige of commiseration even in the most kind hearted. says Tid-Bits. Before the trial young milIineF 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 Ol imprisonment which he might under 90 The writer of the letter was young and gentle gil
 Mrs. Maybriek has received 1nnumer- able letters of sympathy and at the time of her trial was deluged with or- fefs of marriage from all sorts and conditions of men. In her case the offers in question are perhaps not SC remarkable. because a very large num- Der Of people believe her to be tnno- cent.
 4 monster who had committed a se- ries of murders ip 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 affeetionate, and number1ess 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 eouehed in the most endearing terms.
 T4rsr,a. E,4., I,o94 7=z f==zs4z poems to criminals aho 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 notorious bigamist. who had married several women. spent their money and then callously de- serted them. Alter sympathiziug with the prisoner fn 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 thea
 base and vile
 I shall aye love thee and on thee smile Though scorned by all. for me thoult
 ever shine,
 And whilst l live I'm ever. ever thine .
 On St. Valentines uay, 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 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 seaffold. 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 Do fewer than sixty such communications in month, one-third of this number com ins from the same person.
 A Colony of Outlaws
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