El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-25
MRS. CONVERSE IS
HERE TO SAVE SON
Will Not Plead With Diaz
But Will Seek Legal
Method of Rescue.

Mrs. G. H.Converse has come to FL
Paso to make an effort to secure the
release of her son, Lawrence, from the
federal Jail in Juarez, where he and
Edward Blatt are held on charge OF
sedition-
She will not go down on her knees
70 Diaz, she will not even go to Mexico
City, but what she will do she said Fri
day night: I cannot say just what L
shall do, what course I Will pursue. I
Will discuss it first with Mr.. Edwards,
the American consul. Then 1 viii Sc
cure the best lawyer 1 can and in a
legal way will use my every effort to
secure my boys release from prison.
Poor Lawrence I would rather that
ne, were dead than that this should
happen. Ever isince he was a baby
have seen him IN such trouble as this,
I have seen him in Jail in my Dreams
have worried about him day and night
SO that there has been no peace for
me. He would say do not worry,
mamma, but 1 did worry. I could not
help it,"
There were tears in this good wo-
mans eyes, tears in her voice as she
mother who had known the CALLING sor-
row Of having a son in trouble.
Always Wanted to BE Soldier.
Yes" she replied TO a question,
Lawrence always wanted to be a
soldier. He wanted to join the national
guard but I would not let him. Then
1 yielded TO an extent and sent him to
Harvard Military school in Los An
geles for six months. He was hollow
eyed and hollow chested and l thought
ii might benefit him. 1t 9il him a
world Of good and he was much health
Ter afterWard. He never was an IN
structor there, the papers stated that
wrong. He was a student only six
months.
His father left home four weeks
ago and went to Illinois and 1 am ex-
pecting to hear from him. I tele-
graphed him to Lewiston, Ill, and he
may come down. I hope he will Law
renee was UP in Spokane He had been
employed as stenographer for the SUI
perintendent OF the Spokane and Sc
attic divisions of the Northern Pacific,
but the strain on his eyes, writing
while or the train proved too great
and they weakened. He gave it up and
went to work in the office Of the o. K.
& n. at Spokane. He left there and
came down here two weeks ago. He
had worked at Guaymas once and I
expect that he thought he might find
employment in a railroad office here,
but he did not and then. then I got
letter from him stating that he had
Joined the insurrectos. He wrote me
that he was not violating any neu-
trality laws anS I do not think he was
doing anything wrong at the time ne
was arrested.
Mother LeEe Strong.
Here the mother Iowa was shown
and again when Mrs. Converse asked:
Have they sent my boy any food to-
day? Have they cared for him?n
When assured that the American
consul had done this she was pleased.
She did not smile. for her heart has
been heavy Her eyes were red with
the bitter tears of sorrow and at times
they showed in the corners. though
never once did a tear drop triekle down
her face.
Mrs. Converse is womanly woman,
a motherly mother. Her hair is tinged
with gray and the sigh, not sob, in
her voice as she speaks slowly ano ee-
liberately, shows that it is not age
alone that has caused those gray hairs
She has drunk of the bitter cup of
sorrow She has worried about her
boy. feared for him and is now going
to fight for him.
It was long and weary journey
from Los Angeles and she came alone,
all alone in those ears by herself, but
there we're friends newly made ac-
quaintances at the union station who
took to her. They perhaps saw the
sorrow written upon that brow within
the depths of her deep gray eyes,
knew that she was somebody's mother
and they took her to the hotel She is
stopping at the Sheldon