Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1857 — One of the Women. [ARTICLE]

One of the Women.

Pnv* the Baltimore jinicriertn, dp-; scribing a visit to the penitentiary :, j At the outside of the gate stood a j fTTunrly rfresSed woman, youthfuland quite handsome, talking withn prisjoner through tbe barsf, with one of| the guards standing along side, it lining against rule to allow the prisoners to have any. private con- ; versation with any one who may visit them. Their hands wore cla.-.p- j ed through the bars ; and all the j evidence of earnest affection was; evinced by both parties. -There hding but little work for the prisoners now, they were allowed to prolong the interview for upwards of an ! hour, and would probably have re-1 mained much longer if permitted to do so. On inquiry, it was ascertained that the prisoner was then serving a term of several years for : attempting the life of his wife, having cut her throat and inflicted sev- J eral severe stabs in her breast, from the effect's of which life was for a 1 long time ! band fled, hut he was arrested, tried i and convicted »n the testimony of his wife ; and the interesting female ; outside of the gate, was the forgiv- ; ing wife, who visits him regularly to {condole with him and to comfort ; him, doubtlessffull of regret that she ■ did not exert herself to prevent his incarceration.