New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-22
Friends at Cooper Union
Relate Good Deeds Of
Dead SuffragiSt
WORKED TO SAVE
STIELOW FROM CHAIR
Jas. w. Osborne and Sen
ator Thompson Among
the Many Speakers

The deed, OF Inez Milholland Boisse-
vain were told at Cooper Union last
night. when her friends held a me-
mortal service.
There were many speakers, men and
women, who had worked with her IN
many causes for social betterment,
from Alice Barrows Fernandez, who
described the way she talked suffrage
at Vassar, to Senator George W.
Thompson and James w. Osborne, who
told the story OF her last great fight,
TO save the life OF Stielow.
Strange, isr't IT," said Senator
Thompson, that her last words, al
most, were for that condemned muir
derer, and her great dream was to see
the world at peace again? To-day, the
murderer lives and we are all talking
peace as a practical issue.
"Maybe-perhaps-I don't know
but it seems as If she had been called
side. and that she is helping now 10
bring these things about"
Ii was James W. Osborne, with whom
Mrs. Boissevain was associated in the
practice OF law, who told for the first
time in public the dramatic story OF
the saving of Stlelow.
Fight TO Save Stielow
"No one with a mind beyond that
Of an OK" he said, could believe that
Stielow had committed that murder,
but arrayed against him was q great
system of evidence. He was dressed
for his death, though every keeper in
the prison shrank with horror from
the thought Of sending him TO the
chair. The only possible chance lay
in getting a stay from the Supreme
Court, and that seemed impossible
That poor girl, however, stayed UP
literally all night, drawing up papers
to present to the judges. She travelled
from her home in Croton by auto
mobile after midnight in order 70 bring
them to New York, and she got the
stay of. execution. If any one person
was responsible for saving Stielow, 1t
was Mrs. Boissevain."
even on her deathbed she did not
think of herself, or even Of leaving
those dear to her. IL was Stlelow who
occupied her thoughts. 'Stielow must
be saved she said. Here am laid up
way out West and can't do anything
some one must nelp MIN.
There were no smiles on any faces
as Mr.. Osborne stopped impressively:
81 believe" he said steadily, that
that dying voice was heard. The night
Governor Whitman heard OF her death
he signed Stielow's pardon"
Spirit to Live, Say Speakers
Miss Anne Martin, who was with Mrs
Boissevain in her last journey over the
Rocky Mountains, and Dudley Field Ma
lone. who saw her in California Just be
fore her collapse, paid their tribute tc
her brilliant personality. Max East
man, Allen Benson, Rose Schneidermar
and Crystal Eastman testified in Other
ways that the spirit Of the girl they al
loved would not be allowed TO die.
This was as her family desired th'
meeting TO be. and Mrs. John Milhol-
land and Miss Vida Milholland from
an inconspicuous place in the side OF
the hall smiled at their friends on the
platform when IL was over.
The audience was mixture of Coop
er Union-many OF them humble peo.
pie Of the East Side who had heard
inez Mulholland speak from that plat
form many times-and the suffrage
world, with which she was intimate.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch was there
So were Miss Helen Todd, Mrs. Charles
Beard, and Miss Florence Harmon, MISS
Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Walston Hill
Brown, and Mrs. Herbert Carpenter.