The Washington times., 1909-07-18

felt the blows. reeled az he must have
and they led me dazed to my room
where l prayed all night knowing that
Jimmie was in trouble. The message
came next day. Once when Jimmie was
boy he cut his hand most severely 1
was in the dentists chair at the time,
several blocks away. 1 suddenly felt
that something had happened to the
child and rushing home found him
bleeding desperately from the wound.
You cannot separate a mother from the
boy she loves
A rather strange fataliay seems to
have pursued the Sutton family. IS the
mother talked, a younger son. Redando,
lay in the West Point Hospital. victim
Of hazing. Mrs Sutton's brother,
Charles A. Brandt, was assassiHated in
St. Louis by three men ten years ago.
Lieutenant Sutton paternal grandfath-
er was los. at sea in 1872, going DOWN
on the Alaskan shore cruiser, George S
Wright, from which not a soul was
saved Other distant relatives died sud
den deaths at sea and the mother was
opposed to a naval career sor her son.
Tie elder Mr.. Sutton, now a railroad Of
fetal, refused an appointment to West
Point in early manhood.
Young Sutton came Of fighting stock.
HIS maternal grandparents went ACROSS
the plains N 81. locating in what Is
now oregon. Their fellow travellers we're
killed BY Indians on the trail M.
/ Brandt was the hero Of many dasper-
ate encounter then and througa the
next few succeeding years. The pres
ent Mrs. Sutton spent many a night
VIXEN a child guarded IN the block-house
at Fort Vancouver, while her father and
4 other men fought the redskins without
The Suttons are prominent In Ore
eon. They have an elegant. but now
! practically deserted home, in Portland
and there Jimmie Sutton was neigh
/ borhood favorite ia his early manhood
J senator Bourne was Instrumental in OBJ
tanning a rehearing OF the dead lie item
ants case and Senator Bourne was one
I Of the first statesmen and lawyers TO
congratulate the mother on her wonder
| full fight Since THAT time many Others
more OF less familiar with her strug-
| giles, have Joined in tie deserved chorus
OF approval Messages and letters have
arrived in scores since she returned TO
washington and since it began general
lv known that the Navy department
had granted her plea
Feared That Mother
MAY Suffer Breakdown
The daughter fears that Mrs. Sutton
| will surfer a physical breakdown after II
is All over. She herself doesn't seem to
care.
..Tve never. been so well in my life,
she told me. Maybe its the excitement
maybe this unknown force OF which
have told YOU. Anyway. shalt be on
hand. II God is willing. strOng and ready
/ for the ordeal After that Il doesn
seem to matter particularly
As she talked she fingered some OF the
kindergarten scrap books of the dead
lieutenant They were filled with me
cbanIcaI drawings and neat little bits Of
art work
He was raving these 70 show to hii
children" s'le said, with a queer, sac
smile. "'He was d wonderfully sys'e
matte, painstaIdng boy, Jimmie was
And the best of all he was mother
boy He was my companion. l coult
have spared almost anyone alse better.
On the wall hung one OF Jinmei
poems in his own handwriting. He wa
wont to say that they we're crude bu
that he found pleasure ina writing them
The mother has framed one Of the be5
called .'Revsrie" tt doesn't read Tx,
the poem Of a soon-to-be suicide.
He wrote for some magazine silt
said. but ne never would tell even In
under what name his verses appeared
His sister is the same way She has
nom de plume that 1 hac never beef
able to discover"