The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-30
ALASKA STORY OF LOVE ANDF|NAL .
 TRAGEDY

a new trial. The former Fairbanksar was convicted about two years ago o murder and was sentenced to life i'm | prisonment. She has been a model prisoner, and Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth, of the Volunteers of America has interested herself in the case Mrs. James says there are two womer in Alaska who might be able to render her considerable assistance in her fight for liberty. These two women are 1 Mabel Moore and Mrs. Y. Myers known as Texas Rose" Neither oi the women is now in Fairbanks. but both are in Alaska.
 Her Story
 | With the four walls of a cheerless prison shutting her of from the world fin which she reveled and loved. Mabel Page James, one of the most popular women In Fairbanks in the early days of this camp, is pining her life away. She was convicted of murder, cold blooded murder, and unless some new and substantial evidence can be pro- cured that will throw over her prison garb the cloak of reasonable doubt, she will die without the comfort and solace of friends, without the sustain ing arm of her husband to rest upon.
 The Mabel Page You Knew.
 In the days when the lights burned brightly, when the tables were run ming, and wine, women, mirth and laughter was the order of the day, Mabel Page came to Fairbanks. She came over the trail from Valdez with Edwin Marston, at that time the owner of the Fairbanks block. Mabel was Jewess. She was about five feet seven inches tall, a brunette, with a well rounded figure. The most notice able thing about her was her eyes; large, brown orbs that told a story all their own. If you had ever seen Mabel Page you could never forget her. Vi vacious, full of life, a good fellow in every sense of the word, she soon had host of friends.
 On the eighteenth of October, 1904, she was married to William James, the first discovery of gold on Fair banks creek. To his claim on 8 be- low, Fairbanks creek, James took his bride. Will all the genuine pleasure of person who saw only the happier side of the world. Mabel James en- tered upon her new duties. Her kind ness, her sunny nature, her winning smile soon made her the most popular woman on the creek. She was one ray of sunshine during the long winter months that never failed to warm the heart of the struggling pioneer. Her home was the most beloved place on | the creek. Here men came worn out after days labor to bask in the sun shine of her smile, to hear her witty talk, to read a story of love, human love, in her wonderful eyes.
 The Call of the Blood.
 For over four years she managed the messhouse of her husband. Mabel James played no small part in the de. velopment of the creek her husband discovered. She was happy, loyal wife, but the time came when she longed to See her old mother in their little home in Melrose, Massachusetts. Throughout the years that she had been away from home. Mabel James had been q steady contributor to the support of her mother. Iditarod had just been struck, so she decided to go outside that way. From Fairbanks she went to the lower river, from there to her home In Melrose. Fairbanks has never seen her since 1909, but there are many here who will De sorry to learn of her later life.
 Tho Power of Gold.
 From Iditarod all the way across the continent Mabel James travelled to see that happy mother. She communicate ed regularly with her husband. After she had spent some time with her par ent the lure of the north and the desire to see her husband called her. She answered that call as full of the hap piness and the love of life as she had always been.
 In San Francisco she met the man for whose death she Is paying the dearest price that she can pay: for life Imprisonment Is worse than death itself to one who enjoyed her liberty as Mabel James enjoyed hers.
 The man she met was wealthy. He owned string of the finest horses that were ever seen in California. In Mabel Page James he saw All that was