New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
FEW WITNESS DEPARTURE
Former Cell Mate in Sing Sing,
First to Greet Him, Brings
Him to New York in an
Automobile for THAT
Thanksgiving Dinner"
FUTURE PLANS UNDECIDED
Silent on Prospect Of Returning to
Practice of Law, and for a Few
Days Is Content to Submit
to Care of His
Friends.


Friends.
Albert T. Patrick walked from tho
outer door Of Sirg Sing prison at 1926
o'clock yesterday afternoon, pardoned
and free man, after twelve years in
prison.
His loyal wife, who has carried or
with him his ten-year fight for free
dom. had the privilege of being the one
to give him the first news of the I9r-
don. She saw him on Wednesday af-
ternoop and told hin. then that Coy
ernor Dix would sign the pardon
Wednesday night and he would be
freed from prison on Thanksgiving
Day Then she returned to their home,
at No. $50 Claremont avenue, where
she awaited his arrival yesterday
Because Of a whole series of mis-
takes and accidents, however. the par
don did not arrive at Sing Sing until
o'clock Yesterday afternoon. II was
delivered into Patricks hands at BIZ.
A clerk i'm the executive offices at Al
bany put the letter from the Governor
TO Warden Kennedy into a mail pouch
instead Of giving it to the Governors
messenger, Frank Motherwell.
Pardon Arrives Hours Late.
The mail from Albany should have
, Of 81 I'D
morning, but because Of another mis-
take Postmaster Mabie, at Peekskii,
sent down 10y the early train an Os-
siring pouch which did not have tn
Governors letter I'm il, and it was not
until after Postmaster John McNally.
at Ossinius, had looked in vain for th"
pardon letter in the a. m. the 10 a. ui.
and the 1920 p. IN. mails that he de
cided something had been oyerlookci
and asked Mable by telephone 70 trace
his Albany mail.
Mabie found the Governors letter
land sent il down on a train arriving az
Ossining shortly before O'Clock, and
McNally personally delivered the en-
.
The necessary formalities Of Pat
Tricks farewell 10 Sing Sing prison
occupied a little more taan an hour, So
tbat il was not until 4:20 p. m. that
he WAS finally outside the walls that
had held him for more than ten years
The sun smiled Oh his departure from
the rim of the Palisades, after gray
and snowy day
To those who knew the lawyer before
the beginning of his prison life he
seemed 70 have grown somewhat stout
or He bore no prison pal!or with him
into the world, probably because OF the
fact that for the last year he has not
only been employed in the hospital de-
nartment of the prison, but has also BY
reason of his duties been privileged to
eIeep I'm the hospital dormitory.
Mo Trace Of Gray in Hair
The fringe of hair that surrounds MS
haIdness was just as dark as when ne
entered prison. His worries mad eVi-
dertIv not touched him with the shsht-
est tinge of gray, and he wore the
s,,ro familiar steel ribbed eyeglasses
IN which he appeared ten years ago
Ae he left the prison he was clothed III
tho dark blue serge supplied 10 out
going prisoners, and he wore the Shoe'
apd derby hat likewise given by the
etata tn prisoners at the end ~ S''A
terms
Two friends, one of whom had been
his cellmate for three years, and Moth-
orwell. the Governors messenger were
waiting for him with small car I'D
r which the party of four made the run
"a. New York In one hour and seven
tcen minutes. Thomas Maher, the man
who had been Patrick's cellmate' nae
/ big fur coat for the pardoned lawyer
, and Frank Baker, storekeeper OF
pooLskil and Maher's brother-in-laW,
had been waiting In the wardens once
from $50 o'clock yesterday morning.
r Raker had brought his automobile, and
, when Patrick wasCfinally released after
day of procrastination Baker drove
t the party to New York.
Maher was TeledSeu o"o Se"' u.s.
: YESTERDAY. under communication of his
I ten-year sentence for forgery, granted
by Governor Dix. He has been work.
ing for the last year, under the direc-
tion Of John II. Milliken. OF st. Louis.
Patrick's brother-in-law. to obtain the
} lawyers freedom.
Baker and Maher, expecting that tho
= pardon would he delivered by Mother
a we'll as soon as the prison day began
1 yesterday, had planned to drive Patrick
b to New York carly yesterday morning.
and were apparently more worried by
the successive delays that the day
brought forth than was Patrick him.
! self. Daniel Hickey, secretary to War