Salt Lake Herald | 1891-12-06 | Page 1 | Cranks

Cranks Sp eeial to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Dee 5The Herald says Can we not walk the streets or ply the usual business of the day in the metropolis without being liable at any time to be made a target for a crazy bullet or be turned into a spouting human volcano from some diabolical arrangement in explosive gelatine gela-tine Is it a capital offense to be rich or famous Must millionaires be guarded like the Russian Czar and preachers elo quent not go abroad on Fifth avenue on a peaceful Sunday unless they bo armed in a coat of maiH I certainly begins to look so The lover of Mary Anderson a murderer mur-derer tho lunatic adorer of Mrs Alexander Alexan-der heiress to tho Craoker millions seeking seek-ing to do her bodily harm because sho wouldnt respond to his wild passion Dr John Hall three times fired on Inspector Byrnes threatened and yesterday the awful tragedy which sent three human souls to death and tore the main perpetra jtor to nauseous shreds of flesh and bone mid blood though it failed to harm the in fended victim This is the history of a few short months and there aro other instances of the epidemic of insanity which has broken out in this great seething city We are too careless too good natured I means that we are going at too last apace a-pace in the wild race for money I means that cranks should be run down put away the moment that they first disclose dis-close themselves not waiting until they have slaughtered somebody Dn JOHN HALL was threatened before by the madman Roth He felt I pity for him and tore the letter up Russel Sago has been threatened threat-ened so many times that the threats lost their terrors for him After yesterdays lesson let it be the duty of every citizen who receives a threatening letter to hand it over to Inspector Byrnes and let the writer be run down and put where tho straight jackets crow