The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-12
Pathetic Appeal Of Abe Majors
Mother.
WRITES TO SALT LAKERS
ASKS THEM TO HELP CRIMINAL
OUT.
Judge o. w. Powers and Mrs. En-
incline B. Wells Receive Epistles
From Mrs. L. G. Wagner of Oak
land, Cal, Asking Them to Inter
cede For Abe-Wants Him Home.


Mrs L. G. Wagner of S63 Clay street,
Oakland, Cal, has recently written to
Mrs. Emmelie B. Wells and Judge o.
w. Powers. asking them to insercede
in behalf of her son, Abe Majors, who
stands convicted of numbering Captain
Brown of the Ogden police force Mrs.
wagner does not seek intervention for
her son on the ground that he is inno-
cent, but pleads, as only a mother can
plead, that her boy be spared from the
doom now staring him in the face.
Judge Powers declares that the letter
written TO him was one OF the most
soul-stirring and sympathetic he had
ever received or read in his life, and
While he would be pleased to represent
Majors in the supreme court as a mat
Ter of charity, he feels that he will be
compelled to decline, though on what
grounds he did not care TO state. The
judge will, however, answer Mrs. Wag-
ener's letter, and it goes without say
ing that he viii offer her such consola-
ton as he is able to give.
Letter to Mrs. Wells.
The letter to Mrs. Wells was written
on the -5th of this month, and is quite
lengthy. 1t starts out, with an express
sion of hope that Mrs. Wells. will for
give and sympathize with sick and
anxious mother after which she speaks
OF her son as follows:
He was always a dear. good boy to
me; and from the age of 10 he earned
all the money that went for our sup
port. When l think of what he has
been to me, and then think OF him be-
hind those dark prison walls it nearly
breaks my heart. If you are a mother
you will understand how l feel, and
how anxious l am; and how this uncer-
tafnty is eating out my heart. Can you
not understand how l try every pos
sible means to help him."
She then asks Mrs. Wells to see Judge
Powers and ask him to help her boy;
to try and induce him to assist Majors
attorney, declaring that if she did,
words would not express the love and
gratitude that 1 would feel for you
Stands By Her Boy.
The letter goes on to state that a
Mrs. Seeger of Brigham City had taken
a great interest in her son, and tells
how much she had done to, comfort
him. Further on Mrs. Wagner says:
Many people blame me for standing
by nv boy, but what motcer could be
so cruel as to abandon her boy in his
trouble, leaving him to struggle alone.
with no one TO help and encourage him,
ana RAISE MIN up ana lS1O MIN lnl>OuSH
the straight gate. Because straight
is the gate and narrow is the way that
leads to life; few there are that find
it, So said the Good Shepherd to his
disciples. If mother would not stay
by her child, through all the stormy
paths in life. and try in every possible
Wv to raise him uD and lead him to
the straight gate. who would ?"
After telling that one of the elders
of the Mormon church had called upon
her several times, and that his visits
had been a great source of comfort to
her, the heartbroken woman closes her
letter as follows:
Il have two little boys with me de-
pending on me for living, and as each
day goes by I feel my health failing
more and more. On, how ! need that
darling boy out therel
IF you do not think it is asking too
much of you, would like very, very
much to hear from YOU and at as early
a date as possible If you would be so
kind as to visit my darling boy, you
will understand why it is l love him
so. If you would do so you would find
that your visit would be appreciated by
both him and myself. l know that
you are am entire stranger to me- but
not to our Heavenly Father