The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-20
.ERR|NG EE i SENT
. TOSTATE' SPR|SON
0rSOn Domestic Gets In
definite Sentence
WILL SPEND FROM TWO TO TEN
YEARS IN PENITENTIARY-
BROKE HER PAROLE AND
FLED--SHERIFF BRAMAN CAP
TURES HER AFTER LONG
CHASE.

It's a hard thing to send
woman to the Penitentiary but, at
the same time we see no other way.
When you were paroled last Fall in
the care of Mr. Simpson, good citi-
zen of Preston, we told you we would
do so if you didn't keep your parole.
You promised the Court to go there
and behave yourself properly. In
stead of staying there you jumped
out of the window and went to York
state. You came back and have
been as bad as you could be. While
we feel sorry you did these things we
must make an example of you. We
gave you a fair trial and hoped you
would profit by it, and stay with Mr..
Simpson and become a good citizen
of that community. We propose to
sentence you to the Penitentiary.
The sentence of the Court is that
you pay the costs of prosecution; a
fine of 800; and undergo an indefi-
mite imprisonment in the Eastern
Penitentiary of not less than two nor
more than ten years at separate and
solitary confinement.
1t was an erring woman that fac
ed Judge Alonzo T. Searle Friday
afternoon, and learned to her sorrow,
that the way of the transgressor is
hard. More sinned against than
SHINING is Ella Simpson, the 20-year-
old domestic of Orson, who will have
time to repent of her misdeeds in the
solitary confines of the State Prison,
where she will shortly be taken to
join her former companion and chum
in the county jail, Mrs. Leona Lord.
When the Court asked Ella what
oh 10 hnrcn1f ch n
swered not a word, but hung her
head in shame; toyed with her hand
kerchief, and looked like the woman
taken before her accusers in the
| days when the Savior of mankind
trod the earth. Tears trickled down
her cheeks. Only by strong effort
did she keep herself from giving way
to strong crying and tears.
Ella is woman with a shady past.
BY her own confession there are
dark passages in her life's history.
Burglary was there, and fornication
too, and both, again and again.
Miss Simpson, it will be remem-
bered, pleaded guilty September "a,
1910, to the crime of burglary. The
| Judge suspended sentence and per-
mitted her to go on parole, condi-
toned on her good behavior. She
did not conduct herself as a good
woman should, and upon the COM :
plant of her parole officer, the dii
trict attorney was forced to issue /
capias for her recommitment to thu
county jail Y,
Sheriff M. Lee Braman was sent to
take her last Thursday morning,
and she led him a merry dance be-
fore he finally captured her. When
the Sheriff got to Orson he found the
fair culprit had three days start of
him, some one having told her that
the officers of the law were after her.
She got up at 4 o'clock one morn
ing and left Silsby's hotel where she
was employed. The sheriff learned
that she had gone to the home of her
father, John Simpson, who lives 2 "a
miles out of Orson. Hiring a livery
team, he and another man started
out in pursuit.
When they came to her father s
house, they found every door in the
building locked. Even the windows
were nailed down, and there were
no signs of life to be seen anywhere
about the premises. Going to the
front door, which was padlocked,
the sheriff worked with the staple
until he finally effected an entrance
Three times he searched the house
from garret to cellar. An unearthly
stiffness brooded about the place
Almost discouraged, the Sheriff final
ly found light. Down into the eel
lar he went again. Under the cellar
door he saw a dark object. Reach
ing over his hand came in contact
with warm body, and 10, his quarry
was freed.
The Sheriff pulled Ella from heI
hiding-place and forced her to &C
along with him back to Silsby's hote,
where they had dinner. When asked
what she was doing in the deserted
house she replied that she was trying
to clean up the house.
Past the age of sixteen, wher
women are no longer admitted to the
Reformatory, the Judge was forced
3 reluctantly, to send her to States
g Prison. Praise is for them that dC
we'll, but for the evil-doers, their re
! ward, in this life, and maybe in the
= next, is punishment.