The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-12-05
fAnvvN PATRICK
LAWYER WALKS FROM SING SING
PRISON AFTER YEARS SPENT
UNLEk D1ArH SENTENCE.
HIS FAITHFUL WIFE WAITING
Wife Who Helped Fight Case from
Court to Court. and Appealed to
Every Governor, Prepared Thanks
giving Dinner for Him.

New York, Nov. Believing AL
bert T. Patrick innocent OF the mur-
der of William Marsh Rice in 1900
for which he was serving a life sen
tence in Sing Sing Prison, after escsp-
ing the electric chair by Gov Hig-
Eins's Intervention. Gov. Dix granted
the convicted lawyer a full pardon.
His release was delayed many hours
because the pardon from Gov. Dix,
which was to have been delivered a.
the prison by special messenger,
was put in the mail by mistake and
went astTay. Patrick as he quit the
prison in which he had spent eleven
years following his conviction of the
murder of the Texas millionaire, in
this city, seemed to be in good health
His face had rudy glow. and show,
ed no traces of his long confinement.
His eyes were clear and he wore
the steel-rimmed spectacles which he
adopted soon after he went to the
death cell. He was said to be fifteen
pounds heavier than when he was CON
Victed, and. though his badness had
increased, there we're no gray hairs
in his head He wore the black suit
and black shoes provided by the State
for released prisoners, a low-turned-
down collar and a fur-lined overcoat
belonging 10 his friend. A. r. Barker
Of Peekskil. who waited in his auto
mobile outside the prison to take
Patrick to his home in Harlem
AS the iron gate OF the prison
closed behind Patrick. he came slowly
uD the steps to freedom, his face
showing no emotion At the head of
the steps he paused to shake hands
with the newspaper reporters who
awaited him there. Below him the
prison keepers gathered to watch his
departure.
Il don't think I care to make
statement" he said. 81 have spent
more than eleven years in prison, and
] realize that in my long incarcera-
ton | must have lost my perspective
as to what has been going on in the
world. Judgment dictates that | re
gain that perspective before ! decide
upon my future plans. ] expect al
ways to continue to fight for my vindl-
cation, and to fight TO clear my name
of the unjust stigma which has rested
upon it. | don't feel animosity toward
any one My philosophy prevents
that All ! can say now is that | am
going back TO my wife, who is i'll"
With the release of Patrick began
the long-deferred honeymoon with the
brave-hearted little woman who mar
ried him ten years ago when he was
about to be taken from the Tombs
after his sentence to the electric
chair
In the apartment ready for him at
No. $50 Nlaremont avenue, Patrick,
after a dizzy automobile ride from
Ossining, sat down to a THANKSGIVING
dinner with Mrs Patrick, Thomas
Maher a convict released a year ago
by Governor Dix, who worked hard
after gaining his freedom to get the
lawyer out Of prison; Henry Barber,
merchant Of Peekskill, mentor Of
Maher; George Mothersell, messenger
in Governor DiX's Office, and a woman
chum of Mrs Patrick
A joyous reunion it was for the law
Yer who for years stood in the shadow
Of the electric chair Patrick, shut
ting himself from the world, saying
he had no word to offer until he had
''regained his perspective" abandon
ing himself to a feast sweetened by
the breath Of freedom 50 unexpected
" given him