A Wronged Woman.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 182, 9 August 1901, Page 3

A Wronged Woman.

Poughkeepsie, U.S., June 14. Elizabeth Doyle, a young married woman of this city, is to be released as soon as possible from the House of Refuge for Women at Hudson, N.Y., after an incarceration of five years for a crime which she did not commit. Her mother, Mrs Mary Jackson, went to Chief of Police McCabe to-day and told him how she had ioarnEd of her daughter’s innocence. Elizabeth Doyle is the wife of a truckman of this city, and in 1896, when Mrs Mary O'Brien, of Union-street, lost a i valuable ring, Mrs Doyle was arrested on suspicion. She was convicted on circumstantial evidence and was sentenced to the \ House of Refuge for five years by Recorder Casper L. Odell. In the meantime Edmund Doyle, the father of the convicted woman’s husband, had confessed on his deathbed that the ring had been stolen by his granddaughter, Maggie Allen. This was two years ago, and Doyle’s widow kept the secret until she told her granddaughter’s crime to Mrs Jackson to-day. Soon after Maggie Allen herself had been sent to the House of Refuge in Rochester she wrote to her grandfather telling him that Elizabeth Doyle was innocent.

“It was me that stole the ring,” she wrote. “ I want Elizabeth set free.”

Her grandfather kept this information to himself until within a few hours of his death, two years ago. The ring in the meantime had been sent to Chicago, but Mrs Jackson wrote and had it returned to Mrs O’Brien. The term of Elizabeth Doyle would have expired in about two months.