The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-28
FROM PRISION CELL COMES STORY
REPLETE WITH HUMAN INTEREST

From out of u cell in a ma old prison
has come the story of a girl--a girl
young and pretty and loving life. who
so loved her mother that uncomplain-
ngly and with closed lips, she allowed
a life sentence to be imposed upon her
for a crime committed by this parent
And for seventeen years, or until Il
short time after the death of the mother.
this devoted and sacrificing daughter
looked upon the world and the freedom
she loved through the heavy bars of a
prison cell.
And what is almost as wonderful as
the story is that throughout all of these
seventeen hard, gray years Of prison
life and its hardships the young woman
never once lost hope that the time would
come when her innocence would be es.
tablished and the locked doors would
open for her. And because of this ever
lasting hope that she would be freed
the inmates of the prison and the at
tendants grew to call her Carrie the
Hopeful"
Born of poor parents who had scarce
ly enough to feed and clothe her even
in her infancy, Carrie knew only labor
and hardships from the days of her
baby hood, and when girls of more well.
TODD fathers and mothers were happily
vending their way to school, Carrie
was striving to earn enough to keep her
body and soul together. At twelve years
Of age, because she could earn enough
TO keep n few rags on her body and
a few crusts of bread, She was merry
in the thought that she was doing well
At the time when most girls are Just
completing their school life. Carrie mar.
ried a decent sort Of a young chap who
earned sufficient TO make life happy for
them both. Two joyful years these two
young things billed and coOed in their
modest little nest.
And to drown their happiness came
the bahy-a gurgling little bit Of JOY.
BUSINESS that turned her mothers happy
world into paradise.
Swinging steadily on for months the
pendulum of happiness one day stopped
short and swung backward into the
awful depths of sorrow, despair and
tragedy turning in day the happy
home into q vertable hell.
1t was the same old story of wom-
ans black art and a mans weakness.
one day from a hospital came young
mother with her baby in her arms
two homeless ones begging shelter in
Carries little home. With the generos-
ity of those who have known what it is
to be thrown upon the world Carrie
opened wide the door and bade them
come in. Gradually the love of the hus.
band for Carrie came to center upon
the stranger within his gates, forget.
ting in his new infatuation the happy
years with Carrie and the baby
Soon the story became neighborhood
property and over backyard fences the
scandal Travelled and wonderment was
not so great when one day the woman, |
the interloper was found dead with a
bullet in her heart
The ueghbors felt that il was iustfi- /!
able, when the news sent abroad and |
merely shrugged their shoulders when I
it was told that the young wife was
found in the home with revolver be. /
side her on the table, one shell of which |
had been exploded.
To all it was perfectly obvious that
in a fit of insane jealousy Carrie had .
taken the life of the woman who had !
won from her the husband she adored.
After her arrest and all through the
trial Carrie feebly maintained her in.
nocence but circumstantial evidence as
well as the provocation for the murder
was against her, and the jury returned
q verdict Of guilty only the judge who
tried the case was in doubt-he felt
that the whole tale had not been told
and instinct told him that She was not
the murderess the public and the jury
had decided she was.
With the sentence of Imprisonment:
FOR life, Carrie entered her cell with
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