The Washington times., 1905-01-29

when her baby was still very young she
must leave 1t in chair alone while she
worked. Happily this baby went early
to its death. Left thus for a moment,
il fell and struck its head The doctor
said It was better dead, it would have
been an idiot. So even a. child.s love
vas denied the woman. From relative
10 relative the homeless couple wan
dered; here treated kindly, there with
contempt Here encouraged, there
frowned upon
Made Wanderer OF Woman.
It is claimed that the gypsy blood OF
her father and grandmother made q
wan6e-er Of the woman But it was
Marcus Rogers himself who, after a
| months hard struggle IN the employ OF
| Henry Breese, decided that the q cents
rendered him in final settlement was
| too little, and that his relatives
wouldn't let him go On working for
such wages This was the Henry
| Breese who testified strongly against
the woman at her trial He did not tell
OF the 81 cents that day It is said o.
the same Henry Breese that he turne
his own son adrift from his home fos
refusing 10 slaughter a calf on z Sun
day.
/ In the January sunshine upon the
valleys within the mountain, I can see
as in the flicker Of moving picture
the figure of a homeless woman, with
toiI-hardened hands and with heart
deadened with adversely I see her in
the open, hoeiEg potatoes: see her IN
The house, dressing the wound on his
back; day after day I see her tending
the man 1 see her hungry and cold,
dragging herself on foot across the
country TO her mothers poor home, al
ready filled with misery I see the
man following her, and I see the couple
making their way back to Bennington
on the earnings OF he.- young sister
who has driven some ones cows morn
ing and evening for days TO get the
money. I see the man going again to
I his relatives and the woman 70 work
out I see him forever hanging about
the kitchen door. and I see her hand
ing out her wages. as her mother did
!. before her. to the gypsy-bloode6 father
sanity and OF crime.
i Friendless and Shelteriess.
2 I see a day when. friendless and
: shelterless, she drifts under the roof
where evil unspeakabie awaits her.
7 see men. cruel and constituencies, I'M
: peIling an irresponsible creature toward
J, the brink Of the abyss 1 see her totter-
ing there. The next is darkness.
Strange that the people Of Bennington
: should not have suspected the mental
unbalsnce that so often IS yelled by q
+ senbIance OF cunning. The cunning OF
the insane mother who coaxes her chill
dren to eat the poisoned candy, or sends
: them out to play with loving kisses
while she prepares herself for death.
. Strange that they did not recognize this
\ inherited unhalance, heightened by the
fact that she was to become a mother
Strange that they did not remember
U how she went about, proclai1ing him
lost" the very next day, so that they
should ring the fire alarm; whereas q
sane criminal would have waited. know
h / ing how much less likelihood there was
| OF discovery Of the crime after a few
> days Strange that long months after,
the intelligent people who packed the
= courtroom at the trial should not have
:, noted the Inconsistencies OF the miser-
. able Perhams uncorrobora1ed testi-
:, rnony- The night was very dark. and
:, yet he saw the twftching Of the mans
: face from his post behind a tree.
; Strange that the youth too weak
minded to DO held guilty of killing :
. man for a sum of money. should be
= capable Of giving testimony on which
: a human life depended Strange that
: the woman's cry of God knows what
= story that Perham has told'' should Be
q twisted into My God, Perham has told
q the whole story Strange that the truth
{ OF barbacous parentage, Of nsurderous
u prenatal influence, of neglect, Of de-
basing inteIEperance, of inherited In
sanity should have been willfuliy sup
~ pressed Srangest OF all that the par
rot-lke accomplishments exhibited b
, the woman after two years and a half o!
kindeSt instruction in prison should d
: taken 10 indicate an intelligence tina!
4. never was her portion. and by all laws
"a | of nature and OF science could never
be her portion though she was taught
S' and tended for half q century,
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