Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-20
CONVICT FREED UPON
WEDDING GIRL IS IN
HUMBLE ILLINOIS HOME
Shouts With Joy as He Clasps
Tiny Figure of Child in
Cradle.
SAYS BABY WON FIGHT
Wife Declares Sympathy for Offspring
Responsible for Mercy to Kinney,
and Kinney Talks.
By United Press Staff Correspondent

By United Press Staff Correspondent.
Sand Ridge, ILL.,, March 20.-A stall
wart man, his face only slightly touched
by prison pallor, entered rough log
house not far from the banks of the
Mississippi river early today, and with
a shout of joy clasped tiny figure that
lay sleeping peacefully in cheaply
built cradle.
Baby Vallie, whose chubby features
have become known to countless thous-
ands of newspaper readers throughout
America had met his father, Charles
Kimsey, for the first time since he was
monthold infant. Kimsey, who until
yesterday was Convict A915 at the
Southern Illinois penitentiary at Che.-
ter, turned to his wife, Cora, with
chuckle of glee and gently returned Val
lie to his little bed.
"Baby is sick now" she whispered,
"but he will be all right when he
knows he has his daddy"
Mother Dangerously Ill.
Back from Chester, where Kimsey
yesterday afternoon married the girl he
had wronged and received commuta-
ton of his 30 year prison sentence, that
set him free, the reunited couple today
were in seclusion. Kimsey's aged moth
er lies in one room of the little cottage
too weak to speak to her son, but pray
ing that she may live a few days long
er.
A simple, yet intensely dramatic we'd
ding in the warden S parlor at the CheI-
ter penitentiary made Charles KimseY
and Cora Calvert man and wife. And
then an engraved document, bearing q
golden seal, was put in Kimsey's hands.
1t was the official acknowledgement of
the great state of Illinois that Baby
Valle has the best claims upon Charles
Kimsey s love and service.
shyly Greets Girl.
1t was a little after noon yesterday
when Convict ABS walked into the par
lor where the bride.to.be had been wait
ing all night. He had only heard q
moment before of the commutation Of
his sentence.
Shyly he went up to the pale CIR
mother, who rose with a happy but EN-
barrassed smile.
"Cora" he cried, and in moment
the couple were closed in each other :
arms. Then, "and-our boyH"
Cora s eyes grew grave when she tol(
how baby allie, all the time the people
were voting for him throughout the lam
in movement to set his papa free, hat
lain i'll in bed, almost at the point o
death from pneumonia
"But he is better now" she said
cit will make him well, think, whe'
, his daddy tells him to come to him. F"
7 Strange Bridal Party.
a The marriage was brief ceremony
performed by Prison Chaplain j. R. Nc
Duffy, in the presence Of Cora's rela
tives and the prison authorities. A fey
, moments later the strange little brida
y party left the prison, Charles Kimse
! with his bride on his arm.
= There never was a stranger honey
q moon trip than that which Bah
!. vallie's mamma and papa took It wa
% late at night when they reached Grim'
by Junction. Then they took mi,
night carriage ride of fifteen miles, oyc
snow clogged roads reaching the Kin
zey farm house at an early mornin
hour today.
: 81 am going to make a farmer out ,
him-a real man." Kinney exclaimc
y today, while baby vallie slept in an a,
joining room.
d Farmers Life Is Best.
"You might say" ho added, "thi
first learned about the world al
about life when ! was shut up aw'
from It there in prison had the tin
a to think about it and met men fro
IS. all classes from city and country III
ne farmer life is the most free and hap
.,s and useful.
NJ. "yalley will be brought mp on o
iis own farm to be a farmer. He will
ni 70 an agricultural college too If Co
-ly and 1 can arrange II and when lea
our few acres to him | will leave it