Silent Before The Jury Returning No Word To The Judge When He Asked Me If I Had Aught To Say Against The Sentence, Only Shaking My Head. What Could I Say To People Who Thought That A Woman Of Thirty-Five Was At Fault When Her Lover Of Nineteen Killed Her Husband? Even Though She Had Said To Him Over And Over, "Go Away, Elmer, Go Far Away, I Have Maddened Your Brain With The Gift Of My Body: You Will Do Some Terrible Thing." And Just As I Feared, He Killed My Husband; With Which I Had Nothing To Do, Before God Silent For Thirty Years In Prison And The Iron Gates Of Joliet Swung As The Gray And Silent Trusties Carried Me Out In A Coffin.