The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-20
I'm Ottawa County Jail He Medi-
tates Over His Misdeeds.
For First Time Since Arrest He
Shows Signs Of PenitOnce.
WIFE FORGIVES HIM.
He Is Overcome by Loving Mes
sage From His Wronged Wife.
She Places Blame for Minister'S
Downfall on the Girl.

Ottawa, Kan, Sept. 2o.-The Rev.
| Wallace M. Stuckey. in jail here upon
| a charge of enticing from home a
| girl member of his conservation.
bowed his head and made the first
payment of bitter tears upon his debt
| of sorrow for sin. 1t was the first
time he had weDt since his arrest
tears trickled between the outspread
fingers that covered his face. and
his shoulders heaved with sobs
1t was a message of tender love
and trust and loyalty from his
wronged wife that brought his col
lapse.
From her home in Williamsburg
she had called up friend in Ottawa,
and told him to go to the jail and see
her husband and tell him that she
and their children would be there
today to see him, and that she had
forgiven him and would stand by
him, no matter what happened.
The clergyman had a look of utter
grating.
Tears When He Heard Wife's Message
at have a message from your
wife, the friend said, and then told
him. The prisoner hung his head. as
he stood clinging with one hand to
cot, sat down upon it and his face
dropped to his hands After awhile
he said, brokenly:
ST thank you. I think you know
II cannot say anything now"
The friend said that Mrs. Stuckey
was weeping as she sent the message
over the telephone. 1t was:
Tell him that 1 and the children
will be there Monday to see him. And
I am not coming to give him a
give and forget and to stand by him
always in all his troubles. He can
not do anything that would make me
forsake him, and when he is in
trouble he needs me most"
Miss Lorena Sutherland, forgiven
by her family for her escapade with
her pastor, is in her own home help
ing to nurse her sick father
There is one who withholds for
giveness. That one is the wife of
Mr.. Stuckey. Her voice shaken with
sobs she said:
No Forgiveness for the Girl.
"It's too bad to let the girl come |
home while my husband has to stay |
in jail. She is too brazen. She |
comes back here when she knows she
more guilty of the two. She has
caused suffering that cannot be told |
in words
Lorena Sutherland was not locked |
awaiting her in the sheriff's home |
when she reached here. AS the girl /
went in at the door her mother ran
to meet her. Not word was spoken |
as they rushed together and fell into
each others arms. The girl hid her
face on her mothers breast and the
mother bent down and kissed her
neck and patted her shoulder, while |
both wept.
Then they went upstairs together
and talked it over.
A half hour later Lorena was eat
ing a luncheon from a box she
with her on the train. She |
,rumbled a piece of cake in her
fingers and picked the currants out
and ate them, letting the crumbs
1rop into the box.
Girl Was Anxious to See Her Father.
I'm just anxious now to see papa
md get his forgiveness, too" she said.
The motor car of NJ. r. Getchell,
mayor of Williamsburg, was awaiting
Ter at the door. She and her mother
.ot into it and an hour later she was
t the gate of the home where she was
orn- She was the first out, and she
i'd not stop a moment. She ran into
he house. The mayor said that as he
eft he heard her sobbing in her faith
RS arms.
Mr. Stuckey denies that he wronged