Show A A PENAL COLONY NEEDED From all accounts Cummings and Rose Rose a a arose rose by br any other name would be sweeter whom sweeter whom the police took in on Friday are a very precious pair Both young both sturdy and strong both thieves and thugs and willing to be murderers both willing to to enter the best society and afraid of nothing but honest wor work worl Both oth human birds of prey pre cormorants dressed as s peacocks they are about the most int interesting resting pair that th the season season season sea sea- son ha has thus far produced produce And each is a living proof that our count county ought to have havea a penal colony on some seine island far out to sea Suppose a few years in a penitentiary only to be turned out again to prey upon the public what compensation compensation compensation or safety is there in that 1 A penal colony where they would have t to work or starve is the place for such men as as they The fhe ancients sent such I men mel to the galleys wl where ere chained to their benches they worked at the oars until they were worn out or until whelmed in storm or battle We have no galleys but we have battleships and they have to be fed with coal Hov would it do to weld a ball jail and chain to such men as Cummings and Rose Roseand Roseand Roseand and Alex Majors l and Sullivan and have them feed the furnaces of a battleship as long as as they had iad any strength Our penitentiary with its board oard and clothes and abundant leisure is not much of ofa a terror to evil doers wh why not try more drastic remedies on s such ch men as these who in th this s country country coun coun- try with all its freedom and opportunities deliberately deliberately deliberately choose to become the enemies of mankind 1 |