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Show - , p Tin tunii wiw- 'i ' The cllrtchn of late Iirto worn ;' a blood tinted hue that la alarming whon seriously considered Bo ninny Instances of cruel and preTlously unusual un-usual murder coming to cloio together j !' emtio that the crime wave previously t spoken of In theto columns It no incru ' I figment of the Imagination tut n sober J and serious roallly Men kill their ' I tjW children, their wives, then themselves, t 7 one or more, but as often Mother J i wise, all, boya kill their sweethearts, 1 J young men their fiancees, then them ' 8 t selves, all eolmr to show that what ii 'l KB oucoregardedas the chief Incentive to f ; murder In auch oases lealousj Is no v lougcr In the coroioslllou, else why i !5 after destroying the cauae of tbatde I i Touring passion do thoy ao frequently t t,i destroy themselves? It la a lorinof In if aanlty that mutt be Infuctloui, Juit j Ijl as aomo other fatal diseases an ' V I The Nkw b referred to tho worte than M maudlin aymiathy bcitowed urou tfl the doubla ntsasaln, abortionist sum all rouud Tllisln C'arlylo W. liar I rls, yesterday. This may beproierly K. H termed a dlseaso coguato to the other f but existing under aoinewhat different condition! It iljurlahet anl takis I I j root In the larger towus and tho cities .. A where there It a mixed population anj I f a oonilderablu perientaju of Idlirs ' who lire by their .wlta or thilrundli I coveratle crimes In suoh a com ' J inuulty Iso Vork and Chicago being conspicuous examples ayni" j , pithy fjr u oarlctu.l viola i i ( tor of law Is a matter of courno, j lit nd the viler the crime tho greater the fit degree of sympathy. Lven In cities ' I whtrethls i ropdulty la not exhlbltel j ' ' to ao great an extent, the difference , ' hetwuen urban and rural communltlis I In auch respeot Is most marked In i-is tho latter, a murder Is generally the ' j came of the most Intenaa exoltumont, -',j Indlgua'lon ruus liljh, every man I )i becomes a detective and a noacoofllcer, I. J and If the culprit Is cajtured I j before "cooling time" sets In, 1 It Is quite frequently the case that tho I courts and oMlcera except the coroner and bis Jury are never troubled with i ! It at all This Is wrong, too, and not 4 1 to be defended, It Is mentioned to show l ' the contrast betweon a densu pojula. S tlon where crlmo easily beoomes con flC f taglous, and a sparse one where naturo ., and natural Inatlnita tiavo a chance to 1 It was thought that the electrical intthod of death adopted In Itew York stato would have tho j 1 t effect of detorrlng capital cllunsrt to some extent, It Is a more terrible I ordeal than hanging uvea though death be Initantaueous, but it does not j( On the contrary such crimes have In- i creased, at least the oonvlctlona are ' mors numerous When Harris took I his place In a condemned cell at Ulng . Blng there was but one more lift ) vacant, and as he liu aomo six weeks k. of life left It only requlria a very slight T Increase In tho ierceutago of 1m j mediate over recent convlctloua to , have tho condemned de artment filled i before he bids the world good bye. Ono or two aro now on trial In New lork city It would be a strango commentary 1 on tho 1 mplro atate's ghastly uxperl meut If thu result ahould rove to be , that the numbor of cells In which , , murderers awaiting tho diath penalty aro I laced has to be Increased! et auch a thing seems Inevitable now, custom and familiarity, which wuru nought to be preclude 1 through ro-, ro-, vision In tbo law excluding reporters, but were not, that jrovlslon Itlug a j,' , dea 1 letter from the beginning, havo , Uad tho usual i fleet u on the criminal Iclum, and tlectrocutloii Is no more dreaded now than thu lbbet used to be, not ao much apparently, though tho crime wave Is rrspouslble for a lull share of tho Increase |
