Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-21
OPPOSED TO PAZ ION
OF AL" SCnISSLER
HOME TOWN PEOPLE OF
REUL'S AGAINST RELEASE.
Parents of Slain Man Tdlk-LdW-
yer Says Boy Was Liked BY ALL
Trial d Fair One-WiIl Appear
Before GOvGrnOr-MOther and
Father Speak of Terrible Affair.
CFrom Fridays DailyD

CFrom Fridays Daily)
The following from Watertown ap-
peared in the last evenings issue OF
the Milwaukee Journal:
''Oh, wish that they could let my
poor boy rest, moaned Mrs. John
Ruel, mother Of F. William Ruel, for
whose murder Gal" Schissler is now
serving a twenty year sentence in
Waupun.
"All this talk of a pardon TOR his
murderer only recalls the terrible fate
of my Willie, which has bro ken up
our home and has given US sorrow SO
bitter that it seems as if we could
not bear it. He was our youngest,
and every time the papers bring this
matter up live over again those aw-
full days. He was home lad. No
one who knew him would speak a
hard word of him. He was careful
of his companions, and | know that if
he had known the Miss Desmond to
whom he was introduced that last day
in Milwaukee, was a married woman,
he would never have accompanied the
party which drove her home in a
hack.
''That day he telephoned me if it
would be all right for him to remain
in Milwaukee and come home early in
the morning / had always been
afraid of his trips to the city. | told
him that he was too trusting and that
some injury might befall him, but he
said, "Why, ma, | would never hurt
anyone, and who would injure him
it was the only time, | think-and
told him to stay if he wanted to. He
said he had met friends who wanted
him to stay for the theater that night.
The horror of what happened will
never leave me. -
TAKEN WITH THEATER.
He was always taken with the
theater and with theatrical affairs. -
said Mr.. Ruel ''t'rom little boy
he was always playing theater.
Nothing will give our boy back to US,
but | believe firmly that lesson to
others and for the welfare of society,
the man who shot him down without
a word of warning, ard whom the
judge sentenced to the limit of the
law, should serve more than four years
in prison for the offense.
cit will lack five months of being
four years when his pardon is asked
in January, said Mrs. Ruel.
"'Here in Watertown, where our
son was known and respected by
everyone, you will not find people
ready to see his murderer pardoned.
| doubt if Mr.. McGovern, the man
who prosecuted him, will ask that he
be released before he has served a
sixth of his sentence. [ have greatly
misjudged him if he will sign any ap-
peal for Schissler's release at this
time
Mr.. Ruel, who is well along in
years, is a wagon-maker by trade,
and has recently completed comfort
able home on one of the pleasant resi-
dent streets of Watertown. In the
parlor is a group of photographs of
his youngest son taken just before his
untimely end. They were intended
for Christmas present to his parents.
OPPOSED PARDON.
When the subject of Schissler S
pardon was broached to Nicholas
Thauer, attorney, the face of Mrs.
Thauer, the murdered mans sister,
changed instantly, and she too ex-
pressed the wish that they might be
permitted to forget for time, if pos
slble, the terrible occurrence which
had aged her parents before their
time and darkened the lives of all of
them.
'Why should they turn his mur-
derer loose upon the world and har-
row up our feelings afresh?' she
said.
q would not object to Schissler' 5
pardon if he had served onehalf of
the minimum time which he would be
compelled to serve after his allow
ance for good behavior had been de-
ducted,' said Mr.. Thauer. 'Schlss-
Ter was given the limit Of the law by
Judge Brace, after as fair a trial
and charge as any man ever had. The
Judge weighed all of the facts pre-
sented in the case. and yet ever since
Schissler has been in Waupun the talk
of pardon for him has been periodic.
With his good behavior allowance off,
he would have to serve about thirteen
and half years out of the twenty
five.
WILL GO. BEFORE GOVERNOR.
81 shall be in Madison on the day
this petition for his pardon will come
up before the governor. and | shall
most certainly ask to be heard in op-
position to it. Furthermore, Willie