Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26
SAVED WIPES NAME
Boy Went to Sing Sing Rather
 Than Betray His Friend.
gOW SHE WANTS HIM PARDONED.
Paid Servant SsG,O0O to Keep Secret of Her Indiscretions From Her Husband, Whose Death Per-
 mits Her to Speak.

OI 1er HEush AhSA
 Husband, Whose Death Per-
 mits Her to Speak.
 NEW YORK, Aug. o6.--A most re markabe story of young man going to Sing Sing to save young wife from disgrace was made public by Carl Fischer Hansen of 346 Broadway.
 A year or so ago this student disap. peared from his classes and neither his fellow students nor professors knew what had become of him. As a mat ter of fact, he was then under arrest on the charge of burglary. He is now serving the second of a three years sentence for that crime. He is really innocent, but he consented to confess his guilt rather than let the woman suffer.
 She has not, however escaped the consequences. A former servant has in her possession knowledge of her secret and has blackmaied her out of $S6,000 in the last year. The young wife is now at Narragansett Pier.
 Hast Wednesday, said Mir. Fischer Hansen, "a very handsome widow came down to my office and asked to be shown into the library, where no one but myself would see her, and then told me the following extraordinary story. l cannot tell you her name, but you would certainly know it if did. She does not belong to the smart set, but comes from one of the best of the old families of New York and her late husband, though living in Manhattan, owned several large factories in Jersey. She is very handsome and does not look more than twenty-fv though she probably Is, and has child.
 "She told me that young man had been frequent visitor at her house, and her husband was very jealous. There was nothing wrong between them, she declares most emphatically, but her husbands suspicious could not be allayed One night her husband came home when the young man was there and the latter tried to escape. Her husband threatened to cause trouble, and to save the lady the young man stated that he was there to steal. He was arrested, indicted and sen tenced.
 'The lady is now a widow and wishes to save the young man from the dis grace and punishment under which he is suffering and came to ask me to try to get a pardon from Governor Higgins"
 Asked for more details of the story, the lawyer declared it was impossible to give them.
 "The lady" he said, twas very much agitated. 1 really am not very sure of them in my own mind, as was ex- ceedingly busy when she called and could not give them my full attention. She was really on the verge of a nerv- ous breakdown, and 1t is necessary to | be very cautious in these matters, as so many curious confessions are made without any foundation whatever. "She Is coming back to see me on Monday with written statement, and then 1 shall be able to speak more cer- tainly about the matter. Why. she could not even tell me whether there had been trial or the boy had plead ed guilty. She says he is in Sing Sing: but, then, everybody says every prls- oner is in Sing Sing. 1 must look up the records and then go 10 Sing Sing before am sure of my ground"
 You call the prisoner boyY' 1 Well, he Is not very old. It is GU rious coincidence that a student disap- peared from one of the colleges just at the time he was tried-no. won't tell you whether 1t was Harvard, Yale or Princeton no one has ever known what became of him. The lady tells me he Is the young man in question. He was tried under an assumed name. and no one in the prison knows his identity. He Is of the same social rank as the widow. but you would not know his name"
 twill there be a new trialT'
 "There may be on the grofnd of new evidence. The governor is in Europe just now. and must be more sure of my facts before I act One has to be very cautious in these matters.
 "when I have seen the boy and had 1 the lady's statement shall know bet ter what to think of it. But the worst of the matter is that the lady has been subjected to very heavy blackmail. and she declares she has never had nights sleep since When tell you she has had to pay no less than ss6.Oo0 to some old servant of hers who knew some thing about the facts you will under stand how serious the business is.'