The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-19
INNOCENT, JAILED 20 YEARS
MAN HE LAUGHED At POINTED
HIN OVT As MURDERER.
Andy TOth Didnt Know Engllsh and Was
Quickly Convicted -His Accuser Con.
fesscd as Tie Lay Dying Moving
scene when the Old Man Il Freed.

PIrTsIrRG March is-I.ittle Praying
Andy 10th this morning left the Western
Penitentiary. where he had been un Justly
confined for almost twenty years. a free
man.
He was convicted twenty years ago
OF numbering Michael Quinn. He has
just been proved innocent
In 1891 the man Quinn was killed by a
fellow workman in the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works 10th could hardly under.
stand English then. He was arrested
with five Others
A Number Of Austrians and Huns were
summoned TO pick out the guilty man
One Of them stumbled over cuspidor
and 10th laughed. The Austrian Jared
up and pointed out 10th as the murderer
The others sheeplike also pointed at 10th
10th was quicklv convicted and sen
fenced Last December the man who
pointed out 10th died in Austria. and dying
confessed. The confession reached Gov
Tener last month
An investigation was made II showed
that 10th had left the Mill an hour be-
fore the murder was done
During those twenty years he had NJ 70
tered very few words except in PRAYER
This morning ont in the open. with free
air about him and free wind blow ing
against his bent form. he became loaua-
cious. and it was all that an interpreter
and his -four sons could do to translate
and make coherent his expressions Of
Joy and delight az leaving his prison
He is still a vigorous. healthy man. de-
spite his 81 years He has but little Of
servitude show in his prison walk" his
sunken eyes and lined face.
The scene with his sons brought tears
to the eyes of even the prison officials
around them.
Without a word Andy kissed his sons
again and again, stroking their faces and
hands and holding them close TO his heart
Then he spoke:
oh my dear sons"
He grasped Attorney Edward B. Goeh-
rings hands and pressed them tightly
murmuring words Of gratitude in mixed
Hungarian and English
Escorted by his sons. Mr.. Goehring. a
squad Of newspaper reporters and a
crowd of cheering residents OF Woods
Run. ANDY slowly made his way to the
street car On his way over to the city
he talked without stop. He referred
often TO his rosary
That is worth more To me than a million
dollars" he said more than once.
Il am free because of nv prayers
I prayed all the time to God and the
blessed Virgin, and they put it into men 8
hearts to find out my innocence sud set
me free
Il did not mind being in prison so
much but always prayed TO be cleared
Of the charge of numbering Michael
Quinn
Il hold no hard feelings against Mullen
the man who told lie about me and |
hold nothing against the men who put
me in prison. though they did wrong
Il don't expect the State 10 give ME
anything for my wrongful Imprisonment
hut think that Allegheny county was
10 blame
"All the men who convicted me who
knew that they We're doing wrong will
receive their punishment some time.
God doesn't forget about people He
didn't forget about me.
want now to see my wife above every
thing else. II is twenty eight years
since | have seen her. 1t was twenty
eight years last month since came from
Europe to this country"