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Show THE EX-PBIEST MURDERER. Thu case of Blugius J'istorius, the Catholio ex-priest of Pennsylvania, is remarkable in mut;) respects. Last year risiorms was n sidmg with hia brother on a tann ntur Norrislown, when hediscoveiKi a neigh tor farmer trespassing upon tin- grounds. lir ii'g an excitable man, i'-h-nit u-n-n; thought, and certainly with no premeditation, pre-meditation, he Blew the trespasser. The crime could hardly be termed wilful murder, some of the chief elements ele-ments to that aot being wanting, i The prosecution, therefore, ofieied to accept a plea of murder in the second sec-ond degree. Thiif, however, the ex-priest ex-priest stubbornly refused to make, and he was tried and convicted of j murder in the first degree, and sentenced sen-tenced to be executed. Despite his protest to the contrary his counsel sought a new tri il, but failing in this appealed from the judgment though Tistorius waa persistent in hia demands de-mands that the execution proceed. IIb severely berated bis attorneys for tin ir efforts to save his life, and went eo far as to write to Governor Hart nnft and President Hayes, urging them to interfere between his counsel and he carrying out of the court's ctjt- iii-'e. Toe appeal waa dismissed last wt-ek and the murder"'- nrderpd to be executed. Maw ;.-0 of the paper- a-e i uerfering in his behalf, or ruber i.. s.cure a commuta-j Loii of the sontence, against the I expressed and evidently earnest wiehes of tho crir.iintl f:,.- .V -w York Herald argues that as the deed was unpreranditntcd, the man killed ; nevr havl'ig been seen by Piatorius until a few minutes before he el ot him; as the prosecution was ready to accept a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree, tho death penally "mitht very justly be chanced to such imprisonment as would have been imposed bad the plea bscu made.", Pistorius, though eccentric, is said to be perfectly sane except at periods when hid ungovernable passion leads him tu the commission of acts with out regard to the consequences. It I was in one of these fits of rage that ;be murderrd the farmer. If there is such a thing as "temporary insanity," this is certainly a clear case, and despite the determination of PiBtorius to nave the terrible death carried Idu', the authorities would be justified in interfering to prevent the execu j tion, she same as in the case of any other insane person sentenced to 'death. |