The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-03
By John w. Kane

You hope they'll know of your good qua1ities-all people have good in them-and in trying to have them know You sometimes overplay the part. Some people you fool entirely. others you can't fool at all-and some are uncertain about it. The >act is you actually injure your own through fit with understanding are always inclined to resolve the doubt against you, rather than in your favor. That's all, Jack-you may go."
 I Decidci To Try Hard.
 I went back to my cell and began preparations for moving to the low CT floor. My thoughts were di- vided between Violet and her friend ship for me, along with a hope that she might never be called to ac- counts and on the other hand what the sheriff had said
 l determined to try hard to cor rect the defect, if defect it was. that lhe had pointed out-and all of that with a view to keeping on in what seemed to me to be the best way.
 trust that the reader will not feel any harshness toward Violet Grey. What she attempted to do for nre sprang from the sar%N kind of impulse that might prompt per sonal risk in some less reprehensible matter. She would have risked her ! life for me, not because of an in fatuation or that she had been un- | duly influenced by me; but simply ! because, as she told me many times she felt l had too much good in me and was so we'll worth saving be- cause l might balance the account that then stood so enormously against me.
 Violet Grey would have risked her life to save me from execution just as she would have done likewise had l been in the hands of an enemy in war and about to sit before firing squad. In the latter case her con duct might have been commendable; in the former because I had trans- sressed the law, helping me would have been also transgression. hope, however, that the reader may be willing to give her all benefit of doubt-just as the reader would de- sire a like benefit of doubt if her or she should ever chance to overstep the bounds of convention or the statu- tory law. For the present there will be nothing more to say about Miss Grey, though another reference to her will be found as this narrative draws to a close.
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 On that lower tier to which I was moved following the upheaval due to the saws, l found condition generally much worse. The corridor was all most crowded whep all the inmates were out of their cells exercising and the air was not so pure. More rub berneck" visitors-those conducted through the place by an nfficer-were encountered down there. and from f tp e. nd = ceive permission to talk with me.
 On March 22 I.was taken into court and upon motion of my attorneys a continuance until April was granted. For my part l should have liked for the trial to go on then, but the law yers contended-which l now know is true-that the longer a defendant in such case can keep from going to trial, the cooler the populace will grow which naturally is better for 1 the accused.
 During those two months in the county jail prior to my second ap- | pearance in the superior court I had exchanged quite 0 few letters with my mother and sisters in Missouri my father did not write, yet sane toned their writing me. Letters had also been coming to me from old schoolmates.
 
 reader understand what task it was to answer most of those letters. | Now and then correspondent would manifest a goodly measure of broad mindedness, and to him l could write freely, feeling certain he would un- derstand. Most of the writers, how ever, were persons who had never directly or indirectly, not even in thought, come in touch with such a situation as mine, and to write to | them became trying task. And while, in way l would feel glad at hearing from former friends, be- cause of the undesirable part of an SWering those communications would find myself anXiously await ing the trial and it's outcome, for l felt that after that l should not be expected to attend to so much cor l respondence.
 The Trial Begins.
 That day of trial. April f. 1904. was bright. The weather continued clear not only throughout the first