Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-05

conference would do something to aid
these helpless women" he added.
Franklin w. Fort, who is counsel for
Mrs, Snead, said that he knew nothing
of the appeal. Samuel Kalisch was in
Jersey City today. He is counsel for
Mrs. Wardlaw. At his office it was
said that the typewriter appeal was
not from hat office.
1t is plain that the women did not fix
up the appeal. There are no type
writer's at the county Jail.
Following are the letters which have
stirred the conference:
We are tie daughters OF an daine
Methodist minister, who preached the
when he was nearly so, with a life record
of stainless purity and integrity.
We beg TO lay before you our appeal for
your prayers and for Christian ympathy,
because of the most extraordinary and
phenomenal injury that has been done to
US. One of us taught. upwards of fifty
years in one New York city school. and
was finally retired on a life pension of 500
a year. because of the mental weakness of
old age. Another one of us headed FOR
many years Soul College, of Tennessee.
not far from Chattanooga. We are the
gianddaughters of a Revolutionary soldier
and nieces of the late Albert Gallatin
Goodall, long president of the American
IbdHhllOlS oOlupduH, VI Ia I1IOduNdS, NV
York city.
We are innocent of any wrongdoing. but
are languishing with illness. being incar-
ccrated at New and Wilsey street. We
mistake. We ask You to obtain a pass
from the office of the prosecutor of the
Court House and bring or send spiritual
administration to MS in great affiiction, re-
me mbering the scriptural saying: II was
sick and in prison, and We visited Me-"
The prosecutor, we believe, is e~rroneously
have been informed that two New York
Insurance companies that We're involved in
legislative bribery are behind this alta tx
upon us, although We are not beneticiaries.
under any policy whatsoever, or in any
company whatever.
We have been Informed that the prose-
cutor is Il Christians, and we invoke.
through you, his and your Christian and
of undeserved incarceration.
There is Il thorough and innocent expla-
nation for every understanding under
which the prosecutor or his staff may be
Iaboring. We do ask YOU and the confer
ence to give us your prayers for a speedy
deliverance from Incarceration and for
personal religious ADMINISTRATION.
We have hundreds of letters from Meth
odist ministers and bishops expressing
faith in our innocence. Among them we
have letters from Bishop Haas; ron
Rishop w. \. Gambler, of Georgia, and
from bishop Joseph S. Fey. of Texas, who
has known us throughout our entire lives
as conscientious school teachers. God
only knows when the lightning stroke of
affection may fall upon you, or upon any
one absolutely innocent.
The great philanthropic reform move
men for alternating human suffering in
cludes, We believe your powerful help
for us innocent. aged women in affection.
God grant that YOU may be the good
Samaritan 10 us-sick by your wayside.
Please let us hear from YOU.
DAUGHTERS OF THE REV. JOHN b.
WARDLAW.
New and Wilsey streets.
Bishop Keys letter follows:
| am a minister of the Gospel, Methodist.
NV soul is stirred with sympathy for the
Wardlaw ladies', who are now overwhelmed
with calamity.
I have known the family Intimately for
more than iifty years Their father. the
Rev. Jobn Il. Wardlaw. was an eminent
minister IN the Methodist Church. 7 was
acquainted with him Ia the work for many,
many yeais. No letter man ever lived;
no more elegant family. His daughters are
among the most cultured and refined ladies'