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IdjiFi-J-HAiisife ssssssmmmmmmmmrmmmmvBBesmmwmmt mmPHH "P! - -vmmvy vw "ymm w " i I chance in life. And I pray for you, too, because you have been so- goo to me. "I wonder and wonder what the jury will do to me. If they will find me guilty and if I wHl be sent to Joliet. Oh, what agony I -go through. The lonesomeness and this solitary confinement almost kill me. "But it is teaching me to see the good side of life. I can appreciate freedom if I ever get it. I wonder how long I will stay here before I am indicted. Some fellows have been here 90 days. When my trial comes up, will you be there? "Oh, I wish that I could get out on parole to you. I would go to vwork, stay off the streets and make a good man of myself. Please let me know what you think will be done to me or what you think will become of me. "I feel like a little boy. I cry some times when I get thinking of my fa ther and mother and, of my sister. I lost one of my dearest and best friends wb.en she died., "EveTy letter and visit I get makes me sohappy. It makes me so glad to hear or see some friends. How is the weather outside? Is it warm, now? "I never will cease to remember your kindnesses, never. The books you brought me are very nice and I can read and keep my mind on the stories. If I ever have a chance I would do anything I could for you. It takes soine one to go through what I have to understand. "I will be glad when I see you with my own eyes next Friday. Why wouldn't they let you see me Tues day? They took me out of the old jail and put me in the new jail, but still it is miserable. "I know and feel I will get a chance when my trial comes, so I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and some day I will repay you. Hope I will see you soon and thank you for the books and the nice food." The little woman who gave me the letters will follow the case to the end, ,but the law moves relentlessly on; considering not eyen the temptation " of hunger, but .only the crime, and that is the thing boys forget when they are tempted, WILSON TO CONSIDER APPEAL IN IRONWORKERS' INTEREST Elijah N. Zoline, attorney for the convicted ironworkers, yesterday ap pealed to President Wilson to pardon the men. He submitted documentary evidence to prove that the men were not given a fair bearing in the sensa tional dynamite trial at Indianapolis. At the end of Attorney Zoline's speech the president promised to give the appeal earnest,. thought. Zoline was accompanied by Sena tors Lewis of Illinois and Lane of Oregon and Reps. Gallagher, Gor man, Graham, O'Hair and Buchanan, of Illinois, Nolan of California, Kit-tefier-and Crosser of Ohio. In asking the pardons Attorney Zc line said that the men had been con victed after an unfair trial. He in sisted that the record showed that Judge Anderson permitted much mat-, ter to go before the jury which should have been ruled out and that he also gave District Attorney Miller an un warranted latitude in presenting his case. The president then promised that the Department of Justice would make a careful investigation and that he would consider the application on 4ts merits. Zoline explained that inasmuch as the United States-Supreme Court has confirmed the; conviction there would be no way of the accused men re maining out of prison while their cases were being considered unless the attorney general applies to the federal circuit court at Chicago to stay the original mandate.. He asked" that the president direct this be done," but the president made no promise. o o NO TIME Many a man is on such good terms with himself that he hasn't time to' ber pleasant to anyone else v ' '" l i wjt. i3 . -; ;-?. - 3&r X