Show i. i 1 i WANTED TO BE HANGED ii f. f IN PUBLIC PARK 1 A Chicago murderer who was hanged hanged han han- ged one fine morning recently recently kept kept that city the newspaper readers of a entertained during the last week of his life with his denunciations of capi capital capital cap cap- r i ital 11 punishment One day he sug- sug ge ed that they publicly hang him himin 1 in Grant Park which is the lake lakefront lakefront front adjacent to the business section section sec sec- sec sec- i tion and its teeming millions He said that hundreds of thousands would see him swing and arid that the of capital punishment i I would be too mu much h for ninety five per cent of them f of the effect i He lie forgot to speak on those hundreds ds of thousands if they had all aU witnessed the fearful spectacle when he walked into a resta restaurant restaurant rest rest- a aurant rant and shot the proprietor dead inor nor of the the to th the people jn n the dining room room when the murdered murder murder- ed mans man's blood was spattered over their tables We rather imagine that i those diners thought ht pretty well of capital punishment at that particular y 7 and wish wished d that they could pull the rope Thus it is with all They forget about their victims whose joyous joyous joy joy- ous lives they have blotted out of or the wives and mothers others and children whom they have stricken with grief They think ony ORY of 01 their own miserable miserable miserable miser miser- able selves selves selves-of of the terrible thing itis it itis is for the law Jaw to take a life that had hadj j no compunction in blotting out another another another an an- other l life e. e Perhaps capital punishment should be abolished in the promotion of a greater civilization but certainly there are two sides to the question |