Excerpt from The Life Story of Sarah M. Victor for Sixty Years: Convicted of Murdering Her Brother, Sentenced to Be Hung, Had Sentence Commuted, Passed Nineteen Years in Prison, Yet Is Innocent
I looked for contradictions, and found none; I fancied evasions, and had them explained in a moment, without time for thought; and as the days went on, a sense Of the awfulness - I can use no other word - Of the wrong that had been suf fered grew into fullness in my mind. Before the book was half written my work became a pleas ure, from the fact that I felt certain beyond the possibility Of doubt that I was telling the true experience Of a kind, truthful woman, who had suffered from a form and degree Of inhumanity that ought never again to disgrace the annals Of a city or state.
I am aware that in giving words to this story Of another it has been impossible to avoid leaving many traces Of the personality Of the writer, but I wish to assure the public that not an assertion or statement made'by Mrs. Victor has been changed in meaning, and nothing been given false coloring by me. The story is emphatically that Of Mrs. Victor, while the wording alone is mine. All mat ter accredited to others will speak for itself.