Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-01-04
HER LOVE
SAVES HIM
Governor Miguel A. 0tero Gives
a Broken Hearted Mother
Her Chastened Son.
MADE FREE At DUSK
Boy Picks Up Thresd Of Life Who're
It Was Broken Nearly Three
Years Ago.

Walter, l have come to say good
by"
"Ah, mother, would rather go back
with you"
i would you, boy? That is what
have come for l have come to take
you home"
Il With glad cry wrung from his
starved heart big, manly, Walter Wade
threw his arms around Mrs. I. L.
Brackett, the faithful mother who had
left her cozy home at Ration to spend
her New Year day with her son within
prison walls.
Both of them wept
"You must take those of" she al
most whispered as she touched his
prison garb with caress.
He looked up little ashamed. He
knew she did not doubt him, did not
blame him, but he had forgotten the
clothes. They were his work clothes.
In another five minutes he would have
been feeding a stream of coal to the
gaping hungry boilers. Every night for
two and half years he had fed their
always consuming mouths. Now he
was free. He would walk about in the
day. He would feel the sun. He
would do just as he pleased all the
day and the night. 1t was like dream
come true
Then he remembered. 1t was his
mother who did it and she was there
waiting-waiting to take him home!
Again he threw his arms about her. He
is big man twenty-seven years of
age and nearly six feet tall. Those
who looked on knew this, but to the
mother he was just her boy who had
needed her and whom she had saved,
and to him she was just mother"
In little while they had sped from
the penitentiary, no longer his prison.
to the city in warm cab and were in
Mrs Vests comfortable dining room
telling the story of the days work over
and over again.
First the Governor just handed me
pardon blank, the sort that the jury
men, the lawyers and judges all have
to sign," Mrs. Bracket said, "and my
heart sunk for that would take so long.
Besides might never succeed, and I
wanted him now tried to explain to
the Governor that Walter never
meant to do it, that he was just trying
to shoot brick out of the mans hand
before the man crushed the skull of his
friend. There were two of the others
fighting Walters friend when he found
them that night at Ration. Walter had
just closed his restaurant and was
coming home. His friend would have
been beaten to death by the men II he
hadn't happened by just when he did
for they had him down. Just as Walter
fired his pistol the man with the up
lifted brick turned his head and the
bullet struck his cheek. He died with
out telling his name and no one ever
found out who he was. He and the
man with him were strangers to each
other and were partly drunk.
"That is what I wanted to tell the
Governor, but cried so couldn't talk.
'"Then Mrs. West began to talk and
she told him all wanted to ant more
besides. l never could have made 1t 4
all clear without Mrs. West. Cover
nor Otero believed in her and before
We knew what was happening he had
telephoned the warden that was
coming for my boy. Then Mrs. West
and cried and believe the Governor
did. 1t just took him minute to
sign that pardon and Judge w. j. Mills.
the chief justice countersigned 1t right
then and there. Mrs. West simply had
to go to the penitentiary with me
and she actually sent Associate Justice
McFie home to start supper for the
boys at her house."
How did you get that?" some one
asked pointing to Walter Wade's right
leg which is artificial.
Horse fell on him four years ago."
his mother answered " him. Il
thought that was the worst which
could befall him, but law. law!"
Today Mrs. Bracket and Walter
Wade will leave Santa Fe for Ration.
Mrs. Brackets husband is merchant
there and Walter Wade will resume
his restaurant business. He has the
reputation OF being fine cook and
willing worker.
Il think am leaving the peniten-
tiary with the good will Of men and
officers" he said. "No penitentiary Is
a fit place for man, but II this thing
had to be, then could not have picked
out better prison than this In all the
world"
Wade's sentence was for ten years.