Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-22
THE EVER FAITHFUL WOMAN


say Il WAS Mrs Seton who got g. Au
gustus to give up the details Of anothe
million dollar bond swindlo that wal
planned and as a result ~ which setoi
had his sentence considerably tighten
ed
In that same gang was Kid Murray
as The police knew him, and Col 7. e
| i. COlmey Of Nevada, sir. az be liked
| 10 be called in the newspapers.
| "seton's wife stood by him through
| n an. Every day she was at the Tomb'
| or ln court She did everything she
| could for him. You'd see her every
! dag VITA her little boy
when the women have youngsters
us a pretty hard job for them 20 ex.
plain matters. You know KID Is al
wfya nquisitiyc. and wants TO know
what bis POP Is doing In that big place
with The solemn faced black ROBBED men
on the bench. Inc laxative lawyers
the ~ silent mon In the jury box and
the curious crowd i1 long straight
backed benches. Great explanation.
arc Fixed ~. -
II remember one woman who had
two fine Kids a handsome boy and a
pretty girl They were bright young
stera ana figured that something was
wrong ! was standing close by when
inc mother said 90 them.
Papa he's 20 sit there (at the pris-
oncrs' table, 10 see tina; everything
goes on all right Ne Is " charge. He
must see that those two men who are
talking tthe opposin. lawyers don't
make any trouble. This won't last
very long children. and papa will be
back with US
Il wonder what she told them when
papa went away-he had been a bank
cashier-jor forgery, not to come back
for 10 years
There's that young lawyer Alder
dice. Remember how his young wife
never missed a day of the trial and
testified for him?
After his conviction he got a certif-
cate OF reasonable doubt and he Is
sun IN the Tombs. She's there all the
time, and ] suppose shcll be al his
side, fighting for him, until the whole
thing Is over. It's the way With the
women.
only 20 back several months. when
we had Thomas Parmalee Wickes, the
author Of the Lewis Jarvis letters,
here. A slender. sweet faced woman IN !
black was at his side every day from |
the time Of his arrest to his conviction |
"she was the first to greet him In the |
and the las, TO say goodby al
night. I'll never forget the last day OF |
the trial when Rand, calling upon the |
Jury for a conviction. which he got, |
pictured how hard II was for him to |
prosecute a member OF his own profess
sion and then demendade that Wickes, |
because OF birth, breeding and environ
ment. should get no mercy. That black |
gowned little woman sat through II all, |
but how II must have hurt, and she |
showed It. That was Wickes' wife.
"she kissed him. pressed his hand |
and whispered words Of encourage
ment as he went of 10 serve his sem
tence. Now he has been pardoned and |
he has promised to go TO Alaska, never
to come back. I'm told she has gone
with him, and | don't doubt II.
III | had the time | could tell you |
OF similar cases. How about |
the men when their wives are In trou-
Bile? That's not so easy.
II didn't see that the husband OF the
Terranova girl was so worried about
her. Nan Patterson had a husband, /
didn't she? He wasn't around much.
ITS true that they had separated,
and he remarked her after she was
released. OF course women are nos
10 often In trouble az men. That may \
be the reason II isn't so noticeable"