The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-10
VERY SILLY WOMEN
WHO HANG AROUND CAGES OF
CRIMINALS.
Love Letters Received by Murderers-
One Man Averages Sixty q Month
Daughter of a Chicago Ml1IiOnaire Be-
comes H~ypnotized. v

comes Hypnotized. v
Vacher, who was recently sentenced
% death in France, has been the re-
:ipient of quite a quantity of loving
messages from women of all n OF
society, and it is stated that n lady
very we'll known in Partisan fashion
able circles has indited several af-
f~ectionate letters to the felon breath
ing pity and sympathy for him, though
1t is hard to understand how so cal
tous a wretch can have excited a YES
tige Of commiseration wen in the most
k~ind-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 a
young and gentle girl.
Mrs. Maybrick has received innumer-
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-
Der Of people believe her to be limo
cent.
A monster who had committed a Sc
lies of murders in Chicago was duly
sentenced to the extreme penalty Of
The law, and during the interval be-
:ween the sentence and the execution
ne received daily a long letter from a
Young lady, who proved to be the
laughter of a well known millionaire.
.Che letters were most affectionate, and
aumberless kisses were conveyed to,
The convict by means of the time-hon-
pred Crosses" The prisoner received
die communications with cynical con-
:empt.
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
aowers from an extremely pretty girl,
who actually had the temerity to hand
he 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, 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-
toll lady to a notorious bigamist, who
had married several women, spent
their money and then %callously de-
serted them. After sy%mpathizing 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
I shall aye love thee and on thee smile.
Though scorned by all, for me thou'lt
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 tt one of the convicts and con-
aiming a beautiful valentine which had
evidently cost a considerable sum. The
oxen 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 Boosting 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 or
one occasion he had received no fewer
than sixty such communications in {
month, cne-third of this number com
ing from the same person.