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IGRACE MAESThIHr ft1 Iti V-fc A N'/f HKK*fArrtAL roi if«■*HomeIgentleman connected with ih« Hamilbo has been visiting lb# Km#•ton fYnitentiary, write* M-Mbtiof th# I m*Hit ft-aiArkftbY p*r* 0 Wi!hin it* walA,to crovfailure Ilarge ftipftM-idea lt;dmnwn sentiment in relifli Slici ------^! g*rd to her release*. wInch He have oftenaft(i white n dadour feu!171.ifun*il HoHliOWthlegt*hie U•e mla v mgt theuntilfiniteMrf*A.Irre the'hristp centf onet theI# theghouttj« toot iie( tiOlIHlieor hisir* tff lt;tn-f thermptnth#is m-lier.iin#urselvw* eipressedV—hi hi tl oilITM« I'ASft Of 1,1411 MASS'who «m mmlc.nced for life, many reamfor concealment of murder. and onestandartArt* noturnmcfipti! *u a is*which has heretofore engaged a sh.vr*- ofpublic Attention, is one that d#*#rvlt;u fartitular mention The case in which shein thfI,s iflia*was implii a Led is very briefly is follow**! f.»r rwmiIt ii W!About tW years ago a Captain Kim»***r.resoling in the m »ghU»rh«**i *d Toronto,had secured • large stun of money , whichwaspromptly placed in safa keeping infill amicircum*preventyet thetWed* I Toronto, hut which the servant man *lt;Jp necpuitKeed to he still ui the captain * jm#ss**m;*m«j aka occurred to him that hythe captain he would secure it. , The capdsrmy utain, living in a somewhat retire*I place, was induced hy the servant inau MeIte rmott to go to the stable to mo a saddleclasseh icily Iwhich had Imen injured, and there shothim. The girl, (Irace Mark, then 16 ye*m*t•f eg#, was threatened hy him, and told,avordmg hi her story, that if she did notaid hum in killing the heuitlioeiwr, andmg awft grse of nueitly J suit whigo, andhut ihlt;»m keeping »e* rut his murder of the * aje tairi he would kill Jier also Hhe states that he struck the hofiaeke*! wr withate on the head, and afterwards strangledher Ui death with a halter and cast heiandown cellar Fearing death, she promisedto oofi ces I the murder and did sh. tin tin*scaffold, as well at the trial, Mclfenxn^t asserted that sho had induced liuu to helpher to kill the captain and housekeeper,andthese pfip tarter fnl ethiFthii.itmanirfwailicas ii«ipart in Cland, as- prrifCIIHwfu* Archut she protested that she did nothad never aided him. That a young gtrl,of fifteen, should, after seeing her employ-er killed in cold hhiod an*l having herown life threatened, conceal the murderi« ipute prohshle and natural ; but shelias suffered prison life now for a period of #3 years on the liHh of Xoremlier, during the whole of which j/eriod, 1 am informed by the Warden, she has never been punmhed, and not a single instance of niuidbnduct inr failure to jnu-form her duty lias ever IftNjn reported, and she still persists in the same story as when first mrarlt;«rAted. Hlic is alio one of the most mdustnffdrt* Itheiy aphut tinhi* • * 111Lad upnac hecagacityglgalitU'are aIIdocs noone w hi#!»' »*, I ons and skillful of all the convicts, andstill lives with the hope that the day mayyel n.tne when a humane government will favorably consider the subject of her freedom, tkat she may once more behold the sight of ,heaven as a free woman, andmingle in the society of thoae who apprc eiate the gladness of an all wuw t’reuh»r I understand that the matter is likelythem Iiabsencewfiy sueup a* ahave I**lt; plant ufor cunfrum wIt w«uilt;H *« | receive tlie consideration of the fiovcrnmcnt, and I may he permitted to e\pr* asthe opitoti that ample inatice )ta,^ beenmeted to her, and a prolonged incarcera*»r not Itheir s#icountrytheir prHlSt) ofht«rit ther thetien can certainly not forward the interestsof herself or of justice.Y achtiuir.ft hie HU]tain prot h i isc w Iat the* ifamountt finir i»w
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Kingston Daily British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Fri, Oct 06, 1871
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