The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-03-22
FREE AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS
Has Gone to Old Home in Spartan
burg County Left Children Small
VIII Find Them Grown.
News and Courier.

News and Courier.
Columbia, March 17.-Fannae Car
) son left this afternoon at 1 O'Clock
for her fathers home, fifteen miles
from Spartanburg. The official par
bon. signed by Governor N. f. An
el and by Secretary of State R. NJ.
TcCown, with the big seal Of the
tate of South Carolina, was recelv-
at the penitentiary shortly before
on today. and word was sent to
prisoner that she might come to
the office and wait for the carriage
to take her to the union station.
Shortly before l o'clock the car
riage pulled out from the peniter-
tiarv bearing Fanr:e Carson toward
freedom.
All morning Fannie Carson was
busy getting ready to leave the prls-
on. She got together her things,
packed them away in her trunk and
. bade her fellow women prisoners
goodbye. Them she came to the Of
fee room. Attired in a black suit
with black hat all new, she sat in
the sergeant's Office, and spoke free
" to the captain Of the guard, tie
sergeant and a newspaper man.
se ho Erap
"Just how do you ieel = she was
asked.
"Well, I can't just say hsw do
feel. I am glad to get out OF IRIS
on. You know I haven't been out
side yet, so I don't know how it feels
yet to be free"
Fannie Carson came to the penl-
tertiary nearly fifteen years ago. She
remembers the day that she hrst
came to the prison il November,
1895. eyes, I have been here uear-
" fifteen years." she said tolay.
':lt would be fifteen years on next
J Nov ember 4. I viii feel almost As
sad about going home now as ! dit
about coming here.
sThink of it; when l left my two
chi;a. en- they were very snau. Now
they are grown up
Fannie Carson has a sro|n up
Daughter and also a son who IS mar
ried. The daughter also is married
4sYou KNOW said Fannie Carson
this morning, ~ am grandmother
now. Ny daughters baby is about
four months old"
A Baby Brother.
s'Haven't you also a very young
brother?'' prompted one of, the Of
fcials.
sOh, yes, my fathers youngest
child is only about two months oid' :.
Her father has been twice married,
Fannie Carson's mother having died
sixteen years ago. Mrs. Carson has
three brothers in Atlanta, one single
sister and one married sister.
"Where are you going when you
leave today?" asked the sergeant,
kindly.
sI am going home to my father.
I think they will all come to the sta
ton to meet me. I will have 70
drive bv the home of my son before
We reach my fathers farm, which IS
four miles further down the road.
Yes. I have seem my father, he came
twice every year to see me. And L
have seen my son and daughter sew
eral times since I have been here One
Of nv brothers, though, I haven It
seen in over fifteen years, nearly a
year before I came here. l have
seen the others here in Columbia.
The last time one of them was here
was September before last"
Owns Two Hundred Acres.
Fannie Carson leaves the prison
we'll off. She said today that she
owns UWO NlQuISu dCiOS VI Ae1N1 AA-
Suartanburg county. She says that
she is going to live with her father
for the present, "but,' she added,
''I guess I will stay first with one
and then with another. / will be
moving around among my people. L
expect to 60 to Atlanta IN few
months and stay there for awhile.
Nv married sister is there, and you
know my brothers are there, too."
Ordinarily, when a prisoner IS IN.
terviewed at the State prison one OF
the main questions asked is "Why
did YOU kill that man., or words to
it his case. But today Fannie Car
son was not asked any questions
touching the murder of her husband.
She was spared this ordeal. And
there is nothing more that she could
4o11 Cbo told oil on tho Stan}d at the