Show NATURE iWAS KIND And poor Mrs HANNAH B gounnvoirrn died in har cell at the Tombs prison New York yesterday morning It may seem to some a cruel question ask and yet we ask if to die was not the very best thing she could do Her story was a sad one as are the stories of all women who repent their sins when there is nothing else for them to do and then try to regain their characters char-acters by turning havoc and doing something some-thing desperate When her paramour grew tired of her and ceased his attentions Mrs SotrrnwoKTn shot the wretch to death He deserved his fate as do all men who are killed for deliberatelydebauching women and only his personal friends and I those who were like him mourned his taking off but it is hard to find justification for the woman who shot him All the time that JT she sustained unlawful relations toward him she new that he had a wife and familj and there is no reason to think that if he had gone on giving her caresses and monej she would have voluntarily broken with him though she was wronging his wife far more than he wronged his mistress when he deserted the latter Wrecked as to her reputation broken in health haYing gained the ugliest ppssible notoriety and being liable to life imprisonment if not tend t-end her career on the scaffold nature was I kind to her and it is not heartless to say so L It would be pleasant to know that the career of poor unfortunate Mrs SOUTH t TVOUTII would have its effect in warning T warn-ing others of her sex against walking walk-ing in the path which she trod But this need not be expected There will continue to be scoundrels among men villains who have no other regard for female virtue and purity than a desire to destroy them and there will be vain and weak women to fall easy victims to the lusts of men Incidents of this kind are lessons not well enough heeded and they are soon forgotten by the vicious and bj the weak |