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Show Romance and Reality. In Victor tlugo's . romance of "Notre Dame" there occurs a hriiling description of a icene that ensues ufier Q lasimado hits hurled Claude Frollo from the great tower. The miserable priest has cauyht held of some projections a few feet from the top. He can by no pos ,-ibility draw himself up, and his fall is therelore only a question of time. An abyss of 120 feet deep yawns below him, wnile above, leaning over the parapet and gazing over his victim W:th impassive malignity, is the aveng ins hunchback. By stretching forth his hand he could save his enemy from his impending fate; but Qua.-imado calmly rests his chin on hi palm-, and with eyes fatened on Claude Pro'lo's despariiiK face, wails for him to be come exhausied and then fall. The situation is one of the mo.-t awful and impressive that can be imagined, and the reader willintdy believes that only in fiction can such an incident be possible. And yet a very similar scene occured in real life, near Boston, this week, the difference consisting in the circumsance that whereas the implacable hunch-buch hunch-buch is depicted as revenging the Wrongs of ti e being dearest to him on earth, his Boston im tator seems to have had no motive for his crime ex eept sheer cruelty. Furtner inves'iga lion may modify this aspect of the affair, af-fair, but as at present related, no incentive in-centive whatever is apparei.t save tha whicn might be derived trom a brutal disposition It seems that as the city niarslial of Charlestowu was crossi, g City Point Biidge, accompanied by patrolman, hewis accosted by some boys, who said that a friend of theirs had ju t been drowned. The otiieers procured grappling irons, drageed th water in the spot ptftuted out, and soon succeeded in recovering the body of a youth about eleven years ol age, named Eastman, the only sou of one of the oiEcials of the state f rison, The body was quite inanimate when found, and while efforts were being made to restore life, the companions of the dead child narrated the circumstances circum-stances of his death. ' They declared that a man named Edward Connors, whom they pointed cut, and who, while they were tell ng their story was quietly stacking lumber on an adjoining adjoin-ing w arf in full view, had seized and thpwn young Eastman into the water. Some ol them appealed to him piteous-ly piteous-ly to save tlie boy : as he could not swim; but the inhuman wretch, deaf to - their intmaties, cooly watched the struggling child until he had sunk 'or the third time, and then, saying it was too late to save Li u, returned calmly to his work. e recollect in the annals of crime scnrcaly any parallel par-allel to this. Plunder, vengeance, sudden and furious passion, have furnished fur-nished occasion for homicides innumerable; innumer-able; but the deliberate drowning of a fellow creature by way of diversion, or for purposes of mere speculative curiosity, cu-riosity, has had, we believe, unless it be in Dahomey, or some similar community, com-munity, no recorded precedent The murderer has been held to hail in $5,000 bonds for manslaughter. N. Y. istar, July 1. |