Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-09-02
SAVED WTFE'S NAME
Boy Went to Sing Sing Rather
Than Betray His Friend.
EOW SHE WANTS HIN PARDONED.
Paid Servant $4,000 to Keep Secret
of Her Indiscretions From Her
Husband, whose Death Per-
mits Her to Speak.


mits Her to Speak.
NEW YORK, Aug. ga most re-
fnarkable story Of young man going
to Sing Sing to save young wife from
disgrace was made public by Carl
Fischer-H 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 mat
ter of fact, he was then under arrest
on the charge of burglary. He is now
serving the second of 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 backmailed her out of
$4,000 in the last year. The young
wife is now at Narragansett Pier.
Last Wednesday" said Mr.. Fischer
Hansen, "a very handsome widow
fame 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.
/ cannot tell you her name, but you
would certainly know it if did. She
foes 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 i'll Jersey.
She is very handsome and does not
look more than twenty five, though she
probably is, and has child.
''She told me that a 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
fenced.
1.-THE lady is now 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 pardon from Governor
Higgins"
Asked for more details of the story,
the lawyer declared it was impossible
to give them.
1.-THE lady," he said, twas very much
egitated. l really am not very sure of
them in my own mind, as l was ex-
reedingly busy when she called and
eould not give them my full attention.
She was really on the verge of nerv7
BUS breakdown, and it is necessary to
be very cautious in these matters, as
20 many curious confessions are made
without any foundation whatever
She is coming back to see me on
Monday with written statement, and
then l shall be able TO speak more GER
tainly about the matter. Why, she
could not even tell me whether there
had been a trial or the boy had plead
ed guilty. She says he is in Sing Sing;
but. then, everybody says every pris-
oner is in Sing Sing. | must look up
the records and then so to Sing Sing
before am sure Of my ground"
"You call the prisoner a boy?'
well, he is not very old. 1t is a Gu
~
peared from one of the colleges just at
the time he was tried-no, l won't tell
you whether it was Harvard, Yale or
PrincetOn-and 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"
'Will there be a new trialg
There may be on the ground of new
evidence. The governor is in Europe
Just now, and l must be more sure of
my facts before l act. One has to be
very cautious in these matters.
'When l have seen the boy and had
the lady's statement l shall know bet
ter what to think of ii. But the worst
of the matter is that the lady has been
subjected to very heavy blackmail, and
she declares she has never had n nights
sleep since. When l tell you she has
had to pay no less than $4,000 to some
old servant of hers who knew some
thing about the facts you will under
stand how serious the business is"
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