The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-07-27
FOR HEARTS DO Ak

A dispatch from Denver tells a SAD
story of the death of Bridget Logue
from a stroke of paralysis due to a
broken heart-broken becaue Of de-
spair, dark, deep, despair for her boy,
says the San Jose Mercury. That boy
John. her pride and hope, fell into
bad company, and now, convicted OF
assault faces a long term in the peni-
tertiary.
A week ago the mother vent to the
court house to attend the trial of her
son. She testified how he had always
been a good boy to her, and how she
had done her best to bring him up in
the right way. She went to the court
with e hope and full expectations
OF bringing her boy home with her
and believed ne would reform and
never go in bad company again.
But the evidence was such that the
jury found him guilty of a foul crime.
He was taken back to the county jail
u await the passing Of sentence
Meanwhile the poor mother, with
heart dying within her, went back
alone to her lonely little cottage home
That night she was seized with her
old complaint. and, sinking rapidly,
asked only that she might again see
the boy for whom she had toiled anC
from whom she had expected so much.
He was allowed to go home and see
her. But when he entered the room
he could not look his mother in the
face, and she saw that all her hope
and trust had been in vain. Her heart
was smitten with a disease that the
doctors could not touch and she died
the next day.
Since then the boy has been lying on
his little cot in the Jail cell, weeping
bitterly because he knows only toe
well the real cause of his mothers
death. His heart is soft. He is only
a lad. And all he ear say as he .les
there and moans %piteously is Poor
mother. poor, dear mother! She was
always good to me, and | know that
she believed in me. She knew that
was not guilty. l told her l was not
guilty, and she is the only one who
DcIIeved me-"
The court has not yet pronounced
sentence on the boy; hat will be de.
ferred till after the funeral, which hi
will be allowed to attend; then ht
must face penitentiary life for sever
al years.
A sadder story than this we have
not read in a long time. Whether the
boy was not actually guilty Of tn
crime for which he is 10 be committee
to prison. but was merely in the com,
pany of those who were the rea
culprits, as his own words Of agony
seem TO indicate, or whether, as hi:
actions when he went to see his moth
er, and her Interpretation of those
action, would indicate he was guilty
of the crime, and guilty also OF the
greater crime of disappointing hi
good mothers hopes and breaking hel
heart, we have no means of knowing
But there the pitiful tale stands, witt
its woe and despair, and 1t points a
stern lesson on the evils of bad com.
pany.
That lad had the advantages of q
mothers love and careful training
Her trust was reposed in him. Even
when every one else disbelieved hi;
protestations of innocence, she be-
lieved him-as what fond mother doe;
not? He had a fair start in life. Blu;
he went wrong, through evil compan-
icDships. His life is now blighted
and the chances are against his i'm
provement, unless as is mo- improb,
able in this boys case, the death oi
his mother proves such a salutary
lesson TO him as he shall take tC
heart. while there's life there:
hope" and this boy seems to still have
a tender heart. 1t is to be hoped thai
penitentiary life will not have the ef'