Show I c r I Pity for Criminals o GREY n An outburst t of sympathy from rom feminine greeted G Gerald Chapman when he was sentenced se d to death The ot of the Nevada murderer by lethal gas the tho other day brou brought ht a flood ot of letters of t from weB Intentioned women 1 any criminal however er atrocious his crime can depend upon the pit pity and of a certain group of emotional women who have lost sight sla-ht ot of the crime and Its effect on society Jt It Is en rEported that one unbalanced woman In suicide the tho day after Chapmans Chapman's death because the event elIt preyed on her mind The warden ot of a a. state once told me that lets coO soon learn that this sympathy can be played upon to gain In theIr ends They write pathetic letters to women who have visited the ri- ri eon and reap a harvest In gifts Itts and fo dand women's Interference even brings s a parole lo for tor a n- n nuta num who Is n a menace to society Now r that women vote governors must listen ten to feminine o pinIon opinion wh who who-n. a a. pardon is being considered I have no quarrel with tender heartEd n oes It relieve the needy and brightens the world I In n many ways Rut But applied to those hardened crim- crim m ali whom hom has found it necessary to conine con con- t ine for tor Its Ite own safety It wo works ks Governor Miriam Ferguson or of Texas pardoned a pd paroled nearly early 1500 convicts In ono one year It Is Isaid s aid fald there were turned loose ott on the state many fi ot t the dangerous outlaws wa of of th the st. P Perhaps every case tully fully dc ernd clemency Or It Itay m mo ay be a prime example of oC a woman In o causing wholesale trouble Wonton Women In private life liCe can an and do sway the courts I In n man many cases h by their tendency to make n a hero of ofer e er very man who has a rob Fob story to tell on the stand Women at large are not qualified to judge the m merits or of an any crIminal case a e because they cannot g ain comp te knowledge ot of the facts Women j jt who vito hear the testimony are aro not Inclined tl t o maudlin sympathy ml It Is the great reat body hOdy ot of women wo- wo m men outside who do the meddling J has been mans nian great grent charge a women It seems a pity that she sheI cannot I rove ro herself free freo front from It at least In In- Inthe the theof matter o of f crime antI her Ier em s are better spent In rearing children will avoid crime than In sending white roses a and nd cup to murderers or circulating petitions peti- peti d ons to the release of highwaymen o A |