The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-18
mother SAYS HOHL WAS
A Good BOY BUT THAT
Police HOUNDED HIM
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capped from that Jail on Easter morn
ing. L never saw him afterwards. -
Mother Says He Was Good Boy
Here the mother love came out again.
He was good boy" she said in
low voice as she wept into her hand
! kerchief, land he was always doing
some kind act when he was little
boy. He shared with his boy com
panions. And they say l wrote to Ber-
tha in Cincinnati, saying | had seen
Frank last week.
Z" hope if she has letter of thai
kind that she will show it, and it will
not be my handwriting. No, indeed. /
have not seen him. | wish [ could have
seen him just once more before they
killed him. The last time [ saw him
he came to the door here in an automo-
bile and said; Mother, good bye. They
got me again, and | must co. and that
was the last / saw of him.
'Oh, how they bounded my, boy"
walled the mother; "they could never
let him alone after he got out of the
Huntingdon refoTmatOry. Once when he
had good place at the railroad yards,
his boss took sick, and when the new
boss took charge he sent my boy of
because he had been in Huntingdon.
Then he got place in Bethehem but
he lost that when the men were laid
off, and then he went to Williamsport.
lie wrote me 10 come and live VITA
him, and said he wanted me around the
house just so he could see his mothers
/ face and the voice was broken with
emotion.
Says Son Was Hounded
They say that Frank was here to
see me, but that is not true. 1t was
my son-in-law who was to see me, from
Uniontown. He has an automobile.
and he came to bring me a present |
have three daughters, two of them
married, and one i'll school in Phila-
delphia, and they were all good chit.
dren,-good to me,-but Frank was
my only boy, and oh, how he loved his
mother, and the little woman's voice
was choked with sobs as she stopped
to wipe the tears away.
My husband was a railroad brake
man until he lost both legs in rail
road accident, and then he was a lamp
cleaner at the Union Station, and he
was good husband, and strict with
the children. For fourteen years
!
station. 1t is not true that Frank sent
me money. He never had any. Why,
when he robbed that bank in Altoona
he was down and out. lie said to me:
Mother, | had had nothing to eat for
three days and Bertha (his wife) WA.
lying sick in her room. / was passiny
the bank and saw the money. and an
the impulse of the moment / went in
and shot it up and robbed it. | was
desperate. lie was not bad bov at
heart, said the mother, making excuse
Tor the wayward one, "and if thev had
let hlm alone and not bounded him he
would still be here with me. But now
he IS dead, and that is the end.n
Hohl Befriended Straw Dogs
II can get pass,'' continued the
houher, IL Will bring my boy back
nome to bury him. That is ali / can
90 now. | want to show that believed
in him, for ! know that If he had been
gwen chance he would have been n
different man. But they bounded him
-thoy bounded him, =" and at the mem.
ory of what she considered her son 5
wrongs there was a light IN the moth.
er's eye, a bitter look in the face.
They say he was a cruel man,
said the woman, "but that was not so.
NO boy can be kind to animals and be
cruel man, and he was continually
bringing stray forlorn looking cats and
dogs to the house to feed them, so that
ms father threatened to punish him if
he did not stop it. No boy who does
that can be cruel
lie brought half.starved street
walt to the house one day, and we fed
and clothed him, and that was the
beginning of my boy IS downfall The
boy we cared for was bad one. and
Frank learned from him what led to
his downfall
Yes,' and here she reverted to her
son S career in Harrisburg, "the police
were always after him. He had a nice
place at garage on Tenth street and
was thought of very highly, but then
the police bounded him. Twice he was
fined for not having light on his au-
tomobile in the early evening, and once
they arrested him for speeding; but it
was spite work, as | was afterward
told by those who knew.
Says Her Letters Were Opened
when he got a little money togeth-
or he bought motorboat, intending to
carry pleasure parties up and down the
river and he was doing well, until one
night his boat was stolen and used to
carry away some goods that had been
stolen, and he was arrested and sent
to the penitentiary.
''He only had but three months to
serve of his parole when the constant
hunting by the police discouraged him,
and he made up his mind that he could
not live here | wanted him to stay,
but he said it was no use. He could
not stand it, and he would come here
and cry like child. | did all ] could
to persuade him to stay home, but he
said he could no longer stand the con.
stant bounding.
''Then he came TO say goodbye, and
that was the last / saw of my boy In
Harrisburg. ! have never heard from
him from that day to this. They
thought I knew where he was and thew
opened my letters to see if they were
from him, but they were not No, I
never heard from my hoy again, and
now | will 90 out West and bring him
back-dead, and she broke down with
IL