The Washington times., 1909-10-24
(ContInued Lon Fourth -

gan to cry:
Hang the murderessy'
A trolley gong changed its warning; a
fOrewarned motorman put on speed, and
to the jeers Of her former defenders,
Rae Alderman Krauss left Hartford
City-perhaps forever.
She feigned insanity when the doors
of the Indiana State women's prison
shut behind her, She grew hysterical
as she laid aside her handsome tailor
made suit and donned the bIue-checked
cheviot that brands its wearer a life
time prisoner. She wept and Taved by
turns; she cried out that f1ends seeking
her life hung around the window of her
cell; she beat against steel bars and
asked to die. Then when a matron told
her that such things must not be-she
Gained and began the monotony OF
Ipenitentiary existence.
Worked In Prison
As Laundress and Seamstress.
/ For few weeks she remained IN the
/ laundry, as all the newcomers do.
/ Then she was given a needle and thread,
a piece Of cloth, and told to sew. She
/ has been sewing, day in and day out,
! for near two thousand days.
/ Once. IN the earlier stages of her con-
flnement she dropped just a word to a
prison official. Il am expitiating the
crime of another" she said.
That was aIl-for five years. It is not
the way of prison guards TO be inquisi-
! tive. It was not the way of Mrs. Krauss
/ to talk. Her time had not come.
We shall have TO dismiss In a par
/ agraph these lingering years Of her
/ shut-in existence. It is not a pleasant
/ one that I saw: A FIVE by twelve cell,
neat as a pin, clean, a bit Of brio
| a-brac here and therefor Rae Ander-
man Krauss always loved the beauti-
ful-a canary riTd in the corner, her
/ only companion, single chair, a SIN
/ gle barred window, heavy steel door
with its iron bolt and its massive lock.
Just a bit beyond, in the rear, a
glimpse Of greensward, a few trees.
and a world of which she knows she
| is not a part.
Two years here. after that first spell
OF hysteria, Rae Alderman KTauss
| spent in patient waiting. The man
without, she says. had promised to
/ get her a pardon when these had rolled
/ around. Then they were TO go off to-
! gether-she and he-where they were
unknown and forget the past. Once
a month, as often as the rules allowed,
| he came and spent few minutes Oft
en- he brought some little ornament
and 1t took its place in her humble
, prison home. Il was the one bright
| spot through the days OF waiting.
Evades Question
About Her Pardon.
What about my pardon, Will?' she
/ says she asked him one day. Perhaps
/ he evaded the question; the woman de-
/ cIares he did.
when can I get out, WHIP" she
! asked a month later. Perhaps he look
| ed nettled then; she says he did.
/ Thus II continU ed until three years
/ had rolled around. Then his visits
ceased. When next he came It was
TO obtain her signature to a deed He
was rebuffed. this man of the world
/ without, by this woman Of the dreary
world within.
Recently there came another to her
| cell dOor-an officer with a paper and
its legal stamp Of authority. Your
/ husband has sued for divorce" was
| the message IL brought 10 her.
/ II was all a dream then, she unused.
The last friend had turned his back.
] the hope Of the freedom she craved
/ died within her breast; in its place
came the ranking thought that he,
| selfish he. wanted a freedom all his
own.
| She was scorned. She saw 1t all now
/ It had been a. hoax; these walls were
not 10 shut her in for two years but
forever. Why had she believed? why
had she trusted? Why had she SUI
fered unappreciated?
Tears Fall
/ On Her Convict Suit
These were the thoughts that came
20 the woman-as she sat and sewed and
] the tears fell on her convict suit Of
/ bIue-checked cheviot
] She was guilty in a way She did no.
deny that But did she deserve to suf-
/ fer and die aIone2 What Of Lawyer
/ Hindman, he who had said: IT wash
/ my hands Of IL forever" Would he
! come now and help her fight for her
name and for her marriage ties2
He came and this, stripped Of It's
/ legal verbiage, is the paper tha- was
( filed to answer the divorce plea Of VIII
/ liam r. Krauss and asked that the plea
be denied, because:
THAT after William r. Krauss, the
Icross-defendant, had murdered his
/ daughter by administering TO her
/ sJTychnlne. that through threats, per
suasion long Importantly and false pre-
/ lenses and false promises, that she
Mrs. Krauss. was cajoled. misled and
Ioverpersuaded into making an alleged
/ confession that ii was she who had
committed the crime. That such cor
! fession had been made upon the prom
Use and assurance Of her husband that
he had arranged with the prosecuting
attoruav and the then presiding Judge
Of this judicial circuit that IN the event
1 she should assume all responsibility for
the commission Of the crime. thereby
avoiding the necessity for a trial. that
| at the end Of two years she would re
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