Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-05
PLEADED FOR HER BOY
Waterloo Woman Walked TO Des
Moines to Beg Her Sons
Release.
Boy Is in the Industrial School
and Her Effort Was
Vain.
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Strong Affection Displayed by
Criminals..Iowa's Excellent
Prison Schools.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, July "a few days ago
there appeared at the office of Governor
Shaw woman who was footsore and
weary and said she had Travelled on foot
and alone from Waterloo to Eldora and
on to Des Moines for ',le purpose of APP
pealing to the governor for a pardon for
her son. who is an inmate of the indus
trial school al Eldora. She did not get
the satisfaction she desired. and thereby
hangs a tale. When she was in E,ldora
SIZE was the subject of an article in an
Eldora newspaper, which is most
likely to send out into the
state wrong impressions on the way jus
tice is administered in Iowa. and an arr
ticle which was most unfair TO the man
egement of the institution and to ths
courts of the state. The story as told
follows:
She alleges that short time ago she
was approached by a prominent society
lady of Waterloo who asked her If She
cared to have her eldest sou sent away
To school whore he might work and se-
cure an education She said she would
be pleased With such an arrangement,
and was advised by this lady to see a
certain judge who could get the boy in
/ school. She called upon the judge and
being somewhat dazeG and ignorant of
the ways of our courts and judges she
gave the written consent to the Judge to
send her boy to school. She soon found
out however that her boy had been sent
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n,athe, rhaeri,ad q, s,,a oa.,.Y.,
sred an insult ana ,,;srraoa a, ,a,.;,,a
her son i,nnrisopea. Il, ,.ha, - s,,,
p,s-,, ,..as nana; i..,,u,1rion the moor
woman trudeed to Eldorn an cars and
on foot as hes, she could. and entering
the Office of the SUPERINTENDENT begged
Mr.. Miles to discharge her boy and all
how him to 20 home The good fi-natllred
Mr.. Miles accustomed TO such en-
treaties, explained to the woman that he
he had no authority to turn her boy
over to her, and in her anxious desira
and with a mothers love the moor old
lady has started 10 walk to Des NIoines.
to visit the state to beg Governor Sha ~.
10 pardon her son and give him back to
her with his liberty''
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she told substantiall, tba sa,s s+ar,.
hsre Rn, he,, SON vii rsr,a;r =, ~. :,
dustriai slho.,l Il t,5,5,ra so,. ,i,,,s
The yove,,or bos - ,,,et s,,,l
many fines IN yaar i, .'r.,',. =,
and shall h. done C;o,arror sh,,,.; 49, ,,,is
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control to show that il was a case where
non-interterence was right. This record
shows that, so far as can be ascertained
easily, the woman is notoriously bad
character. that she drinks whisky and
swears and teaches her children to steal.
that she has two sons Who are idlers at
home and sspnd their time fishing, that
the boy in question Is a bad one. that he
was properly sent to the school and
ought TO be- there. and that it was done
IN order that he might be saved from
the life into which the wicked mother
was leading him. There has been con-
siderable correspondence in reference to
the boy. and the woman has written and
told her story of alleged deception be-
fore. Yet she deceived some persons at
Eldora and is capable of deceiving 9th
ers as to the case. She Went from the
governors office stornlng and ravins.
iaut the statement in The Eldora Enter
prise, going out to the state uncontra- :
ldicted, is an injustice 70 the courts a,
Waterloo. TO the Waterloo people. to the
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