Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-07-14
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GALLOWS
/. WOMAN MOANS ALL NIGHT
Slayer Of Brutal Husband Doesn't
Know Of Prayers Of Mercy.
She Thinks Of Death.

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% FIVE PERSONS WHO HAVE o
o NO TIES TO BIND THEM AL 0
o READY HAVE OFFERED TO 0
o DIE IN HER STEAD If THE 8
. LAW WILL SPARE MRS. AN o
o GELiNA NAPoLlTANo TO o
0 HERcHlLDREN. THEY ARE: o
IL s. B. Whitney, railroad man of o
o Clinton, III. .aE ... o
o Or. Alexander Aalto of Ashtabu- 0
20 la, o. 7T o
% Dr.. II. S. Tanner, the Original o
o 4o-day faster," of Los Angeles, 0
Cal. .~z O
Patrick S. FaiIon, British sub o
Q ject, living in Chicago, III. 0
Q miss or Mrs.) Elmie eritton of Q
Spring Valley, Wis. 0
o o o 0, o o o o X
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, July 13.-1n
a grimy, ill-lighted prison cell, Mrs.
Angelina Napolitano waits to become
a mother. Within ten days she ex.
poets her fifth child to be born to her
In a remote corner of the Jail, the
gallows that has claimed it's victims
in the name of the inexorab1e law
waits to kill the mother as soon as
the new born babe may be torn from
her bosom.
In the outside world ,horrored al
the thought, hundreds of thousands
of men and women are clam9rins
that the law shall not DE satisfied in
its, greed, demanding that Aug 9 shal
pass without this woman dropping tt
death through the nav of this great
gallows beast.
Slew to Save Honor.
For Angelina Napolitano, though
she slew her husband. the father O
her unborn babe, killed rather thar
yield to his beastly demand that sh'
sell herself and lay the purchas'
price Of honor at his feet.
In Ottawa, Ont, Minister of Jus
tice Aylesworth, whose recommends
ton to Earl Grey, governor genera
of the Dominion Of Canada, will doom
this mother to die felon's death o
send her free into the world t
mother the children that have alread
been born and the child that is sti
to be born, is deluged daily with pe
titons demanding her pardon. Fro1
every province of Canada, from ever
4 state in the American union, from tn
kingdoms over the sea, men and W,
men are writing, pleading that thi
woman's death shall not add bs
Of shame to Canada's fair escutcheol
The world mas not been SO stirre
since Mrs. Mary Rogers was doome
to die in Vermont and governo
whose heart was as adamant as til
granite in his native mountains, r
fused to save her.
Easter Sunday Fatal Day.
1t was on Easter Sunday--April
that she slew her beast of a hu
band, but so quick is English justie
that she already would have died O
the gallows had England been vii
ing to kill two persons with the sam
moose. For Mrs. Napolitano is 500
: to become mother, to bring into tn
world child by the man who woul
have sold her honor.
The meek little Italian woman
( she speaks little, English-does nc
complain. But often in the night tn
death watch, those grim matrons VIII
4 watch her every move, hear her moa
the names of her four children an
Z gasp broken prayers for the chill
, lshat is to be hers for a few brie
days.
I Only 20 Years Old.
The little woman-she cannot b
/ called pretty-is only 2S. Twelv
years ago she married Pietro Napt
litano in Italy. Ten years ago h
brought his child wife to America
i They lived in New york's teemin
4 little Italy for seven years. Thre
4 years ago they went to Thessalor
Ont, and lived on farm OF Fietro'
i brother. Two years ago they came t
4 the 500 and were swallowed up Il
another little Italy