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Show THE MURDERER. . -1 The criminal statistics for the new year bid fair j to outnumber those of past years. The work of the midnight assassin and robber is no longer directed to bank and railroad robberies. The honest workman, work-man, who has to work long hours to support a large family is exposed to the assaults of the vicious and rowdy elements that are provling around like beasts of prey in large cities. The murder in our city on Wednesday night teaches an object lesson. The two street car employes were honest, industrious industri-ous men. They had large families depending on their daily earnings. Ten dollars would exceed the amount known to every, person that they. ever, ha ye in their possession. The murderous thug, who knows all this, and will sacrifice such lives, is so morally depraved as to have lost every human hu-man instinct. To guard against infectious diseases every sanitary- precautions is taken; to protect the lives of the people from wild beasts, such animals are either killed outright 'or securely caged; but the moral leper, who cunningly plots to rob, and arms himself with deadly weapons weap-ons to kill honest men for a few dollars, is worse than any plague, and more to be dreaded than any wild beast. Yet through maudlin sentiment such j inhuman beings arc harbored or secreted from ! the law. There aro.no palliating circumstances connected con-nected with the murder of Wednesday night. The murderer, like a wild beast, should be hunted down, he should be encaged and society protected from his bold, murderous intentions in the future. As it is there is no safeguard for the public, and hon-. hon-. est men who are obliged to be at their post at night are liable to be killed for a few dollars. The victims cf these depraved thugs may have public sympathy, and bo assisted by generous and well disposed per-, tons, but no amount of sympathy or charity can ever fill the vacant chair in the family circle. If the murderer had no accomplice, is'it possible that without , a hat he escaped the attention of every-person every-person since the foul crime was committed; For him there should be no sympathy. To harbor or j secrete him is a crime against society. I |