The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-03-23
TEARS WON DAUGHTERS
TO FATHERS HOME

KANSAS CITY, Mar. 23.-'The bes
engineer on the road"
That is what they said of j. H. Cad
den from end to end of the Union Faci
fic lines. For twenty-five years the.
said that of gladden. and four years ag'
he was called before a meeting in con
vention hall of railroad men from owe
all the country and introduced as 'Th'
best engineer in America"
In the twenty-five years that hi
fic he made many a record. Five years
ago he made the worlds record fol
speed when he pulled a special train Of
officials of the road from Denver tC
Kansas City. Another worlds record
he held was for stopping his train in
the quickest time without injury to the
equipment. He was known as man
of wonderful courage and daring COM
bined and leavened with caution and
good judgment, and he never had a
wreck.
Then He Lost His Nerve.
But twenty-five years is a long time
for a man to be under the strain that
comes to the engineer of a fast pas
senger train. And one night two years
ago, as his enginee hustled though the
blackness of the night, the thing that
all engineers dread, and that comes to
all of them sooner or later, came to
gladden..
His nerve left him. Instead of the
man of nerves as cold as the steel
handle of his throttle, he covered in
his cab shaken with fear and strange
The sight of a danger
signal frightened him so that he pulled
the throttle wide open and ran by
them at breakneck speed.
His superior officers knew what had
happened to gladden. when they heard
of this and they took him from his
engine and retired him on a pension
of $42.50 a month.
Lived in the Past.
After that he sat in his cottage in
Kansas City, Kas, and talked of his
record" He had earned between $3.50
and $500 month as engineer Now he
had to take two aged spinster d. ess-
makers as boarders to help make the
living for himself and his two daugh
ters, Pearl, IA and Ella, II years old.
gradually the two spinsters edged their
way into the affections of the old
man; they became the housekeepers
and the two daughters were neglected,
while the old engineer with the broken
nerve sat in the corner and lived in
he past.
Last week the two daughters and
some of their relatives caused gladden.
o be hailed before Judge Sims in the
ect. The case was heard yesterday.
A Tale of Neglect.
First the daughters told how the
wo spinsters half starved them and
made them do without necessary cloth |
ng and how their father did not ap-
ear to care. Other witnesses told |
/ all the old engineer sat listless, as
he did not care, with dreamy look !
I his eyes. And then an aunt of his
iris said, in giving her testimony:
even when he was working he did
OF care for his family
gladden. leaped to his feet and ex-
loded with:
DADS Tears SOftened Them.
1T isn't true; it isn't true 1 was
Ie best engineer in the service, any
lie will tell you that Go and ask
rs then because | made good money.
ut l can't do that now as | did then
my nerve is gone"
The old man began to weep.
81 would care for my girls better if
could, but my nerve is gone and l
mt work. he sobbed.
Then a pair of arms went around his
oulders and a voice said tenderly:
Don't cry, pappy! It's all right
wv
Left the Courtroom Happy.
1t was Pearl, his younger daughter,
e one the witnesses said had been
e chief sufferer by his neglect. She
as crying and so was her sister. All
ought of prosecution was driven
ON their minds.
The trial was over.