Show TJIE KILLING of Miss Von I Behren in Cincinnati a few days ago has almost passed from the public mind and the person by whom the fatal bullet which terminated her earthly career was fired has been relieved from all odium If Mr Fraynein whose troupe Miss Behren was playing had been a train dispatcher on a railrord or a switchman switch-man and by his negligence had caused the death of the unfortunate un-fortunate young woman the chances are he would have been held over to answer a criminal charge But Mr Frayne was starring in Si Slocum and Miss Behren played apart a-part in which she held an apple on her head while Mr Frayne shot tl rough it The time in question he missed the apple and sent the ball into the head of the young woman causing her death in fifteen minutes It is difficult to see why Mr Frayne is not as culpable as the man whose negligence results in the death of an innocent party A train dispatcher dis-patcher though he might be overworked over-worked is a subject of public vengeance ven-geance ifby an omission injury results re-sults to a person The actor because be-cause he is overcome with grief is the recipient of public sympathy The one intends no harm dreams of none j the other understands that the life of a human being depends on his skill and his unerring unerr-ing aim as a shot If he is faulty in either respect the chances are that fatal results will follow Yet as a matter of pecuniary advantage he deliberately risks a life on two of the most uncertain things in life in which there is not even what one could call a reasonable hope of escape es-cape It is a queer world which holds the one culpable and freely exonerates the other whereas justice jus-tice would seem to hold both equally guilty and the man who takes such chances is the greater of the two offenders |