The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-29
Married Him in the Tombs To
show Her Faith in His
Innocence
WEEPS AS NEWS COMES
TO HER OVER PHONE
Risked Her Life in Long Fight
To Bring About Husbands
Freedom


phone rang In apartment No. In the
springfield. No. 1870 Claremont-ave., at
half past s o'clock In the evening. A
photographed. cleareyed woman OF
middle-age rose to answer IL.
Hello" she said softly, yes, mn
sderstand. You are my husbands law
yer. What? He has been freed.
Freed! Freed" she repeated the
word with rising infection. s"ThanK
God and my heartfelt thanks TO you
and the Medico-Legal society ana
everyone who helped In the great
fight"
Then the woman who married Al
bert 7. Patrick In the Tombs In order
TO show her faith IN him and who has
been by his own words the brightest
guiding star In his life In the wear
ing years during which he has been
in prison; the woman who has rtsked
her life to obtain evidence to free her
husband, not only because she loved
him, but because she knew he was
innocent, gave way TO tears for q mo-
ment or two.
For q moment she allowed the tears
70 low unchecked, then silently she
sank to her knees In player.
81 am too happy to weep" she said
later over the telephone TO New
York American reporter. Mr.. Pat
rick's lawyer has just told me not to
talk, but / cannot help expressing my
delight at the action OF Gov. Dix, who
has indicated the fair name OF New
York state.
Beyond this should prefer not TO
talk. II seems to me that 1t would
be wrong both to Gov. Dix and TO Mr..
Patrick
Pardon Comes AZ Surprise.
Everything has come SO suddenly
that I am In somewhat OF whirl
have been hoping and hoping for this
executive action lately. / visited Mr.
Patrick at the prison today and was
in Ossining until late this after
noon. But when left neither Mr..
Patrick nor | had any Idea he was
Ito be pardoned."
but the public IL Interested In
YOU" Mrs Patrick was reminded.
you must even give new photo
graph Of yourself"
Mrs. Patrick laughed girlishly. 1T
IL true those old pictures OF me are
horrid," she said. "rll tell you what
| I'll do. I'll give you my latest Pho
tograph, taken some time ago, now
ever, II youth agree not to interview
me further"
The reporter consented and went to
the Springfield apartments where ne
was met by a friend Of Mrs. Patrick
with the photograph.
while | am almost delirious al the
thoughtao OF welcoming free husband
once more. dread the morbid
crowds" said Mrs, Patrick. But now
that I am to have my husband back
nothing matters. At last, thank God,
have really something to be happy |
for. must thank the people, for IT
was really the letters from the plain
people that caused Governor Dix TO
pardon my husband"
His Children Are West.
Patrick's two children, now In the
late teens, are said TO be out west at
present. These are children by his
first wife. He was a widower wnen
he came to New York short time be
fore the murder OF Rice and boarded
with Mrs. Annie NJ. Francis. Mrs.
Francis testified on his behalf at the
trial They had already grown to
love each other, and before Patrick
became legally dead" he married
Mrs. Francis In the Tombs. She said
she married him both to show her
faith In him and to be allowed to visit
him In Sing Sing as his wife.
Mrs. Patrick has been living at the
Claremont-ave. apartment as Mrs.
"Adele M. f. Patrick, widow" She
always told her friends she should
consider herself q widow until he-
husband was freed.
Mrs. Patrick has been interchangeable
in her Efforts to secure her husbands
release Only two years ago, In the
fall OF 1910, when II was determined
10 make a new fight on medico-legal
grounds, and the aid OF George Francis
O'Neill, a brilliant young New YorE
attorney, was enlisted, Mrs. Patrick
iourneyed TO Texas TO get affidavits.
She returned with affldavits that in
yolve prominent persons In Houston
with what she considered the "cou-
spiracy'' TO keep her husband In jail
Rice. the murdered man; Patrick, the
condemned, and Charles +. Jones, the
sinister valet, were all Texans.
Believes Plotters shot.
Mrs. Patrick, following certain
clues, engaged ]. Il. Brockman, a
prominent criminal lawyer, Of Hous-
on, to secure some affiadvits for her.
Prockman was shot dead one night In
October, 1910, and Mrs. Patrick declar-
ed that he told her neither her life nor
Ills would be worth the snuff OF a
candle were II known they were Sc
curing evidence in favor OF her hus-
band. Brockman went heavily armed.
she says. and she believes he was
killed because he traced the trail OF
the Rice millions little too far
Mrs. Patrick had nothing to say last
- -. ell -. NrU I'D
murderer Jones. II Ia believed, how
ever. that the central figure in this
most amazing case recently died from
ha vool,opant diaease ~ which he was