The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-14

4 mourning .NNGdL44lS II MA4OM . va -
She could not have been more than
ltwenty-hve years old, and, though still
possessing beauty, 1t had been married
evidently by suffering. When we were
I alone she asked me:
edo you remember man you were
appointed some years ago to defend on
Ia charge of entering a gentlenan's
house and stealing lady's watch?"
perfectly"
Would you know him by his pic
ture?"
She drew from shopping bag she
carried on her arm photograph and
held it up before me.
THAT'S the man. said.
.supposing that can furnish proof
81 his innocence. Could you secure his
Greedom?"
"onIy by inducing die governor to
pardon him"
She then gave me the facts in the
case which took down in legal form
and that afternoon I went by train to
the capital and having obtained an in
| terview with the governor, said to him:
Seven yenrs ago Howard Read met
and won Jeanette Pftman- They
were both very young and since Read
had his way to make he Went west for
the purpose At parting the two plight
L
! troth, not to be broken even after one
or the other died. For two years they
correspondent and ut the end of that
| time Miss Pitman wrote her lover that
ner father and mother were bringing
10 bear upon her q pressure to force her
to marry Il rich old man. Soon after
that she wrote that she had yielded
Read ut once took n train and start
ed for the east. This the parents of
Miss Pitman knew he would do and
had all the arrangements for the we'd
ling made before they permitted the
letter announcing the fact to go through
the. mails. Indeed their daughter was
married the day it was mailed. Read,
crazed by his misfortune, Went to the
new home OF the girl he had lost re-
solved to see her. not stopping to think
Of the futility or the probable conse-
uuencas of such course. The young
wife was weak enough to see him.
While they were together the hus-
bands step was heard without. For n
moment it looked as II the lady would
be irrevocahly compromised, but she
was saved by the presence Of mind OF
Howard Read, whom the old man had
never seen. SnatchinE her watch Read
told the wife to leave the room by one
door a moment before the husband en-
watch belonging to the lady of the
aouse, made no resistance and was ar
rested, giving the name of Alfred
Stark.
''The lady (NIrs. Bostwick) was pros
trnted. She gave as n reason nat
ural terror at burglar having been
>auSht in the house. When she was
:old that the man would be sent
10 prison for n term of years her
aerves seemed to collapse entirely, and
her husband could only reassure her
by promising not to prosecute the bur
glar, He did not prosecute. The
state did it in his place, but this he
lid not tell his wife, and she supposed
ner lover had gone free.
"Clarence Bostwick lived FIVE years
after his marriage. At his death his
widow, who had completely lost track
of Howard Read, began an investiga-
ton as to his whereabouts. To her
surprise she found that n short time
after her meeting with him man had
been sent to prison for robbing her
husband Securing the name and adj
lress of the attorney who had had
Charge of the case. she came at once
20 me.
Armed with Mrs. Bostwick's ntii-
lnvit. 1 had no difficulty in securing
pardon for Howard Read. alias Alfred
stark, aud having autographed the lady
TO meet ne ut my Office the next morn
Ing l started for home. When i told
Ger. of my success she swooncd from
the sudden unloosing OF the nerve
springs that had Kept heT mn. In half
an hour we were on train for the
prison and by noon drove up to the Of
Hce of the warden.
II would have permitted the young
widow TO bear the PARDON 20 the pr!s-
oner alone, but the warden went with
her. and I therefore went also. /
shall never forget the expression Of /
the prisoners fnco when he saw
the bars the woman to save
whose good name he had sacrificed
himself or the succession of illuminn-
lions of his countenance as he read the
evidence of his freedom and noticed
the widows emblem.
"The lovers We're not much longer
Mrs Bostwlek was very
rich and Read had put away some
thing before his misfortune. They
went abroad and were married long
before the expiration Of the 'conven-
6onal year OF mourning.
ROBERT @. BELL.