The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
By JOHN BRADLEY

Mary Wade. crushed beneath the weight of mental and physical tor lures to which she has been subject. months, yesterday fell beneath the weight of her cross, and shrieking and moaning was carried from the bravely during all the trying days of the trial of her young husband for the murder of George B. Mott.
 in ward aS of s rss 4osp5a zhs ef crushed and fallen, praying over and over for strength to stand Up under the crushing blows being rained upon her faithful soul; declaring over and over that her husband did not do the terrible things with which he is charged; pleading for her babies ant begging to be taken to her husband.
 Weakened by the days of torment which have been hers since the first dreadful day when her husband was bound over in the city court until her soul could no longer stand up under the strain; when her stout heart could no longer sustain her and after five months of terrifying nights and days - days and nights when that fount of women's relief. tears. seem ed to have dried up forever; when endurance was no longer a. possible thing, she fell screaming, hysterical. fainting--but in that most awful hour she has experienced tears came-a scalding, burning flood of tears: tears that gave her wracked soul relief and saved her reason. It has been five months since Mary Wade shed tear.
 Somehow, it seems to me that most all the real heroines have been Marys, and they, too, trod their way to Cal vary and suffered and perished in soul and heart until that fount of tears broke loose and flowed it's blessed, healing way down scalding cheeks.
 But how cruel it all seems. For when Mary Wade fell under her cross there was no Simon to take it up and if rH for her tO the Dl2 cC of her crucifiXion- She must aga-n take up her cross and. stagger or under its weight, a prayer in her heart but with hope almost gone. She must go on and on during these 1as remaining hours, bearing it alone Y and whatever the judgment of the hus' band may. be, Mary Wade will not be must bear it all to the end. alone
 There are those. who fly to hel side with all the human sympath. that is possible to give, but how lit tie that seems when compared tH what has been taken away from her when compared to what has beer done to her by the one who should have been her Simon, always.
 It was a terrible thing yesterday that final collapsing of this little wo man who has stood up like a req soldier under the most trying ordea have ever seen a woman endure. was a terrifying thing when he shrieks rang through the courtroom It was a heartrending thing in tn extreme when her pitiful wall start led the throng. It was the despair ing cry of a broken, but faithful hear when she cried out in her misery a lhe attorney traced step by step, tn movements of her husband up to tn moment when the blow was struc which ended the life of the man Not
 "Oh, my dear; my dearI" What
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 And when the deputies and nurs carried her shrieking, fighting, pro testing from the room, her cries were
 "Oh no, no, no. He didn't. he didn' he didn't"
 ~ Mary Wade must go on She ha her babies to live for. They wi help hexto grow stronger; their chile