resting upon that hope. The papers were full of statements that Governor Curtin would pardon the boy. One day Governor Curtin met Mr. George H. Stuart, the noted philanthropist, on the street, and said: “Stuart, you know this boy who is sentenced to death. He is entertaining a hope that I am going to pardon him, and I can’t do it. Now, go and tell him.” Mr. Stuart afterward told me that it was the hardest duty he had ever performed, but it was an act of mercy. When he entered the cell the prisoner